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The CPUC is voting Thursday on a plan that might keep the dirty Aliso Canyon gas storage facility indefinitely open.
Please join us at the CPUC hearing for a rally and to make public comment demanding they delay the proceeding until March rather than approve the process that would keep Aliso Canyon open. Residents of Aliso have been dealing with the serious public health repercussions of the blowout and fighting to shut it down since 2015. They need our support!
For a quick update on Aliso Canyon, see Sammy Roth’s recent editorial in the LAT, “Gavin Newsom’s failure to close Aliso Canyon is hurting us all.”
RSVP here to help Shut Aliso Down!
Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite. All are welcome.
For our November meeting we will be reading the first seven chapters of “Breaking Together” by Jem Bendell (Amazon, free download .epub). For our December meeting we will finish the book.
The collapse of modern societies has begun. That is the conclusion of two years of research by the interdisciplinary team behind Breaking Together. How did it come to this? Because monetary systems caused us to harm each other & nature to such an extent it broke the foundations of our societies. So what should we do? This book describes people allowing the full pain of our predicament to liberate them into living more courageously & creatively. They demonstrate we can be breaking together, not apart, in this era of collapse. Jem Bendell argues that reclaiming our freedoms is essential to soften the fall & regenerate the natural world. Escaping the efforts of panicking elites, we can advance an ecolibertarian agenda for both politics & practical action in a broken world.
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, The Persuaders, The Path to a Livable Future, Solidarity and Mutual Aid.
Sunday Morning Marxist Forum
The opinions expressed in our Sunday morning programs are those of the speakers only and do not necessarily represent any consensus by the members of ICSS. Our general practice is to allot at least half of the time to comradely discussion of the issues including as many voices as practical
Speaker: Harpal Brar
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Modern war is a product of imperialism and cannot be eliminated without destroying imperialism. The most important thing is the policy that the parties that led to that war were pursuing and will pursue after the end of the war. We are not opposed to all wars. There are just and unjust wars. We support just wars like the war against imperialism by the oppressed nations, the wars of the bourgeoisie against feudalism, the wars of the proletariat against the bourgeoisie and the wars of socialist countries against imperialist countries. Revisionist distortions on the question of war and the role of opportunism will be discussed in the context of the ongoing wars in the Middle East and in Ukraine.
Harpal Brar was a founding member of Communist Party of Great Britain Marxist-Leninist, known by its acronym: CPGB-ML. CPGB-ML was formed in 2004, after some of its members split from Socialist Labor Party, which itself was a party that split from the Labor Party (UK). The CPGB-ML opposes Trotskyism, social democracy, democratic socialism and all forms of revisionism. In 1995, Harpal Brar published a book titled “Social Democracy: ‘The Enemy Within’.”
CPGB-ML opposes opportunism in the working-class movement and works for the establishment of socialism in Britain. At the eighth congress of the CPGB-ML in September 2018, Brar announced that he would step down as chairman of the party, to be replaced by Ella Rule.
He has written a number of books and articles:
- Socialism with Chinese Characteristics (2020) � Latest
- Perestroika: The Complete Collapse of Revisionism (1992)
- Revisionism and the Demise of the USSR
- Trotskyism or Leninism? (1993)
- Social Democracy: The Enemy Within (1995)
- NATO’s Predatory War Against Yugoslavia
- Imperialism and War
- Imperialism � the Eve of the Social Revolution of the Proletariat
- Chimurenga! The Liberation Struggle in Zimbabwe
- Imperialism � Decadent, Parasitic, Moribund Capitalism
- Bourgeois Nationalism or Proletarian Internationalism?
- The 1926 British General Strike
- Inquilab Zindabad, India’s Liberation Struggle (2014)
Right now thousands of acres are burning in one of America’s largest cities. 30,000 people have evacuated their homes. Meanwhile, oil CEOs and their politicians celebrate their ever increasing wealth.
This cycle must stop. Our generation must force a new path forward. Join this call to find your place in the fight alongside us.
Want to learn more about Sunrise before the call? Watch here: smvmt.org/welcomevideos
Speaker: Mehmet Bayram
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The Middle East is in another turmoil as borders, governments, and alliances change daily, sometimes even in hours. Unable to solve its crisis, imperialism attacks all previously drawn borders, gobbling up even the most benign or harmless enclaves, marching to its targets: Iran, Russia, and ultimately, China.
While Turkey is trying to grapple with rising workers, women, and people’s resistance to its traditional fascism and unprecedented corruption, an unyielding Kurdish challenge creates insurmountable cracks in its structure. Changing policy and tactics daily, contradicting the position it held only a few hours ago, flip-flopping continuously, Turkey is trying to navigate uncharted waters in Syria and thus fails miserably as its fascist state with corruption and subservience to imperialism, finds the only way forward is with more blood, torture, war, and fascist aggression by curbing whatever fake freedom crumbs it may have had internally.
Mehmet Bayram is a member of the ICSS program committee and is a journalist, author, and translator, and is currently working on a book project to document the memoirs of the leftists who lived through the open fascist September 12, 1980, military coup in Turkiye.
Ana Falastini (Arabic for I am Palestinian), takes audiences through a journey introducing the Palestinian diaspora community in Vancouver, Canada. The film series features interviews with three generations of displaced Palestinians, telling their stories of resistance. It is composed of six episodes, with each episode diving into how the characters use aspects of the Palestinian culture to stay connected to their heritage and roots.
Brought to you by Healthcare Workers for Palestine and the Palestinian Feminist Collective, this event will fundraise for Prosthetics for Palestine.
Jill Stein is a Harvard-educated doctor, a pioneering environmental health advocate, and an organizer for people, planet, and peace. She was the Green Party’s Presidential candidate in 2024, as well as in 2012 and 2016. She has helped win victories in campaign finance reform, racially-just redistricting, and the clean-up of incinerators, coal plants, and other toxic threats.
Jill has received several awards for health and environmental protection, including Clean Water Action’s “Not in Anyone’s Backyard” Award, the “Children’s Health Hero” Award, and the Toxic Action Center’s Citizen Award. She also served on the board of directors for Physicians for Social Responsibility.
Green Sundays are a series of free public programs & discussions on topics “du jour” sponsored by the Green Party of Alameda County and held on the 2nd Sunday of each month. The monthly business meeting of the County Council of the Green Party follows at 7:00 pm, after a 30-minute break. Council meetings are open to anyone who is interested
