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In Minneapolis right now, the working people have responded to the atrocities committed in their city by making a plan. This Friday, January 23rd, there will be no business as usual in Minneapolis—no school, no work, no shopping. The call for a general strike has been taken up by many major unions, including the educators. This is the type of bold, coordinated action that unions across the country and right here in San Francisco must strive for.”

We stand in unbreakable solidarity with Minnesota, where 3,000 ICE agents are waging a violent, state-sanctioned occupation. It is a coordinated, top-down assault designed to break our communities and test our resistance. We refuse to let it operate with impunity.

STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH MINNESOTA

What’s happening in Minnesota will shape all of our futures. That’s why we are mobilizing here in the Bay Area in direct solidarity. Join us Friday, 1/23 at 4pm outside the Target on 4th & Mission in San Francisco as we march on ICE profiteers. If we push the corporate pillars whose silence or collaboration enables the occupation of Minnesota, we can end ICE terror and topple corporate support for the MAGA regime.

THE OAKLAND GREENS invite you to the January 2026 FREE Dinner & a Movie Community Discussion Night, featuring Civil War (2024).

Dinner begins at 6:30 PM
Movie starts at 7:00 PM

These free community events are hosted in partnership with It’s Your Move Games,

Civil War is a 2024 dystopian action thriller written and directed by Alex Garland, starring Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Sonoya Mizuno, and Nick Offerman. Set during a civil war across the United States between a despotic federal government and secessionist movements, the film follows a group of war journalists traveling from New York City to Washington, D.C., to interview the President before rebel forces reach the capital.

This screening is part of The Oakland Greens 2026 Free Dinner & a Movie Discussion Series and will be followed by a community discussion.

Walk-ins welcome.
More information: www.theoaklandgreens.org
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Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite.  All are welcome!

For our February, 2026 meeting we will be reading and discussing the first three chapters of  A Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit (Amazon) (Alibris).  For our March meeting we will finish the book.

The most startling thing about disasters, according to award-winning author Rebecca Solnit, is not merely that so many people rise to the occasion, but that they do so with joy. That joy reveals an ordinarily unmet yearning for community, purposefulness, and meaningful work that disaster often provides. A Paradise Built in Hell is an investigation of the moments of altruism, resourcefulness, and generosity that arise amid disaster’s grief and disruption and considers their implications for everyday life. It points to a new vision of what society could become-one that is less authoritarian and fearful, more collaborative and local.

Strike Debt Bay Area hosts this non-technical book group discussion monthly on new and radical economic thinking. Our first book was  Doughnut Economics, and our most recent books were What’s Left – 3 Paths Through the Planetary Crisis, The Age of Insecurity and Elinor Ostrom’s Rules for Radicals. For the rest of our reading list see here.