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Reading for 10/5 Next week we’ll kick off October by beginning what will hopefully end up being a complete reading over the coming months of a true classic: Raoul Vaneigem’s The Revolution of Everyday Life. One of the high water marks of Situationism, a profound influence on “second-wave”/type 3 anarchisms, and an under-acknowledged example of egoist thought, this is a reading I’m very stoked to discuss with all of you. Each and every page of this text gives us ample material to unpack, so for this first reading let’s go from … Continued

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Join Occupy Wall Street activists as they reflect on the 10 years since OWS and comment on how OWS has influenced their current work. Friday November 12, 5:00-6:00 PM EST Occupy Wall Street activists, Nelini Stamp, Jillian Johnson, and Manissa M. Maharawal, are joined in conversation by moderator Astra Taylor to discuss their experiences in the Occupy Wall Street movement. In reflecting on the ten years since OWS, the panelists will share how participating in Occupy informs their current work in organizing, activism, media, and politics. This Tamiment event is … Continued

Suds, Snacks, and Socialism…BYO    The Glasgow Climate Summit – What the Sierra Club Won’t Tell You   Saturday, Nov. 13, 2021, 2:30 – 4:30 pm   Please register in advance at https://bit.ly/Glasgow_SSS_211113  to receive your personal link for this event.   Although no one in the climate justice movement expects much from the global climate summit in Glasgow, it does provide a platform for activity and discussion. There will be an alternative summit and demonstrations around the world on November 6th. Join the speakers at this forum, who will report on the actions and … Continued

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FREE comedy show and fundraiser for Kshama TOMORROW! (doors 3:30pm) Oakstop, 1721 Broadway in Oakland Tickets are free, but space is limited: less than 20 spots left! Please make sure to reserve your tickets in advance if you would like to attend! RSVP here! Featuring comedian, writer, and union organizer Nato Green as our headliner, alongside fellow comics FC Sierra and Marcus Williams, as well as speeches by Janani Ramachandran and more! The Kshama Solidarity Campaign is being supported across the country. Here in the Bay Area, these local leaders … Continued

This talk will include the plans by the nuclear industry to establish nuclear-rockets to Mars and nuclear-powered mining colonies on the planetary bodies. Included will be a review of US attempts to destroy the United Nations Outer Space and Moon Treaties as Obama in 2015 signed a new law giving US corporations the ‘right’ to make land claims for mining the sky in violation of those treaties. This will result in moving the war system into space as other nations will not allow the US to act as the ‘Master … Continued

Our program today has two speakers, Aidan Hill and Patricia St.Onge.  Aidan will talk about the struggle to defend Peoples Park in Berkeley.  Patricia St.Onge has been active for many years in the struggles of Native Americans over land.  These struggles are attempts to undo some of the crimes done by settlers to dispossess Native Americans from their ancestral lands.  What unites these two speakers are serious questions about land itself.  The context of this Green Sunday is the question of who “owns” the land and who should get to … Continued

Online Event Location:  https://citylights.com/events-category/amitav-ghosh-in-conversation-with-raj-patel/  In this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origins of our contemporary climate crisis in Western colonialism’s violent exploitation of human life and the natural environment. A powerful work of history, essay, testimony, and polemic, Amitav Ghosh’s new book traces our contemporary planetary crisis back to the discovery of the New World and the sea route to the Indian Ocean. The Nutmeg’s Curse argues that the dynamics of climate change today are rooted in a centuries-old geopolitical order constructed by Western colonialism. At … Continued

Tomorrow night, instead of a general meeting, we invite you to join us for a virtual movie screening of The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain. RSVP to join us! In 2011, Kenneth Chamberlain Sr., a senior Black veteran with a heart condition and a history of mental health challenges living in White Plains, New York, accidentally pressed the button on his medical alert pager while sleeping. The responding police officers needlessly escalated the situation and shot him to death. The film we will be screening is about the final hours of … Continued

Contrary to the claims of U.S. media that the November 7 Nicaragua election was illegitimate, independent observers report that it was free, fair, and democratic. We invited Rich Sterling who was in Nicaragua as an official observer to discuss the actual situation. Rick’s report can be found at: What I Saw on Election Day in Nicaragua. By Rick Sterling. https://www.laprogressive.com/election-day-in-nicaragua/ Our speaker, Rick Sterling, is an investigative journalist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is active with the Taskforce on the Americas and other organizations including Syrian Solidarity … Continued

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https://twitter.com/OAKCDP/status/1461374093312159748 To create an extra secure space, we’re requiring participants to sign-on with a zoom account. If you don’t have a zoom account, please contact communitydemocracyproject@gmail.com for advice on how to get set up with a zoom account. 69459