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We are delighted to invite you to the California Progressive Alliance 2024 Convention!

This will be our first in-person convention back since the COVID-19 pandemic, and we are excited to announce that for the first time ever, the CPA convention will take place in Southern California at the Los Angeles Trade-Technical College! This year’s theme is Movement Building & Organizing Sustainable Power in California. As with past conventions, we will come together to develop, build and strengthen avenues in political and social spaces that help us work for a better future for ourselves and for the next Seven Generations.

Earlier this year, we worked hard to announce a series of candidate endorsements. Our endorsements spanned different parties because we choose to recognize that many people are doing their part to move us in the right direction, and different people utilize different avenues. For some people, that looks like trying to bring the Democratic Party to the left, or at least try to prevent it from doing further damage. For others, it looks like running as a member of the Green Party or the Peace and Freedom Party. Still others choose other routes to build political power.

At CPA, we are not in the business of telling people where to engage in their struggle for our collective liberation. Instead, when people run for office and claim to uphold progressive ideals, we ask: Is this candidate corporate free? Do they support single payer healthcare, climate policies, and labor rights? Do they connect to and represent their community? These are the ideals that have always guided the California Progressive Alliance. It is with these ideals in mind that we announce the California Progressive Alliance 2024 Convention.

We are excited to bring you a full day program that will include speakers, special guests, pertinent topics, panels, 8 separate breakout workshops (choose 2), the presentation of the 2024 Gayle McLaughlin Award, breakfast and lunch (included in the cost of the ticket), music, movement building, and just spending time with new people and old friends building community.

General Admission: $40 Student Admission: $20

Limited Hardship Waivers available!

Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite.

For our July meeting we will be reading The Path to a Livable Future: A New Politics to Fight Climate Change, Racism, and the Next Pandemic by  Stan Cox (Amazon, City Lights).

An urgent call for the political transformation needed to address the common causes of climate change, COVID-19, and racism.

“ . . . some big titles will address emergencies that have outlived Trump. The Path to a Livable Future by Stan Cox, explores the connections among the many crises of the past year and a half.”—Dorany Pineda, Los Angeles Times

2020 was a year defined by crisis. For decades, scientists have been sounding the alarm about the urgency of addressing climate change, but it took COVID-19 to demonstrate clearly that the future of human life on Earth is interconnected and at risk. While the virus quickly spread across the globe, extreme weather events compounded the suffering and economic catastrophe. In the U.S., public demonstrations of outrage over the murder of George Floyd expanded to include a growing awareness of the pandemic’s disproportionate impact on communities of color. In cities around the world, people took to the streets to protest racial inequity in all of its forms.

In The Path to a Livable Future, Stan Cox makes plain the connections between the multiple crises facing us today, and provides an inspired vision for how to resolve them. With a deeply informed, clear to-do list, Cox shows us how we can work together to address the climate emergency, white supremacy, and our vulnerability to future pandemics all at once. Our future depends on it.

Strike Debt Bay Area hosts this non-technical book group discussion monthly on new and radical economic thinking. Previous readings have included (in chronological order) Doughnut Economics, Limits, Banking on the People, Capital and Its Discontents, How to Be an Anti-Capitalist in the 21st Century, The Deficit Myth,  Revenge Capitalism, the Edge of Chaos blog symposium , Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons, The Optimist’s Telescope, Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism, Exploring Degrowth, The Origin of Wealth, Mine!, The Dawn of Everything  A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, Beyond Money, Less is More,  Cannibal Capitalism,  Debt, the First 5000 Years , Poverty, By America, End Times, Jackson Rising Redux , The Feminist Subversion of the Economy, How Infrastructure Works, Inside the Systems that Shape our World, Wealth Supremacy and The Persuaders.

The Wachowskis’ neo-noir dystopian political thriller sci-fi classic feels more relevant today than ever. Though it concerns the underground rebellion against Nordic supremacy and neo-fascist totalitarianism in an alternate futuristic Britain, it sure seems a lot like 2024 America.

In a future British dystopian society, a shadowy freedom fighter, known only by the alias of “V”, plots to overthrow the tyrannical government – with the help of a young woman.