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Speaker: João Romeiro Hermeto ZOOM LINK https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89531900427?pwd=mXg1rSZe3OelectioNl4pfWlALW4ornc32Eez.1 The energy crisis in Europe, proxy war in Ukraine, rebellion in the Global South, and expansion of the BRICS reflect the decline of Western imperialism and growing cracks in the capitalist world system. Based on his new book of the same name (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2024), João Romeiro Hermeto will address some historical developments of intellectual property. He asks what is ‘knowledge’ under capitalism, and how is it created and appropriated? Developments such as digitalisation and the convergence between big pharma and tech giants are … Continued

RSVP NOW The Green Party of California co-sponsors the Missouri Green Party’s Black & Green Wednesday Webinar Series, and we invite you to tune in to the September 4 webinar, Curing Electoral Dysfunction. From the organizers: We all see it, the election process is not working. But how can we fix it? How can Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) remove the “spoiler effect”? What’s the difference between “Approval voting” and RCV? How could “proportional representation” give us a voice, and how could it work combined with RCV? What about the backroom … Continued

Suds, Snacks, and Socialism Please register in advance at https://bit.ly/2024DownBallot to receive your personal link to participate in this event online Here in California, there is no question about who will get the electoral votes. But there are a lot of issues and ballot measures that could have great consequence for the lives of working people. Will we finally repeal Costa-Hawkins and get the possibility of effective rent control? Will Alameda County’s progressive D.A. keep her job and continue prosecuting killer cops and corporate criminals? Join our speakers who will discuss … Continued

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Speaker: Gabriel Rockhill Western Marxism: How It Was Born, How It Died, How It Can Be Reborn, by Domenico Losurdoa, is a paradigm-shifting book that provides a trenchant critique of the Western left intelligentsia. It reveals how its dominant ideological orientation�characterized by defeatism, utopianism, and anti-commuunism�is rooted in the political economy of imperialism. Internationnally acclaimed theorist Domenico Losurdo thus provides a fresh and challenging perspective on purportedly radical thinkers who have been widely promoted in the imperial core Our speaker, Gabriel Rockhill, is a philosopher and activist who has published … Continued

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Join us for a A Teach-In Introducing the Debt Collective – the nation’s first union of debtors. w/ local Bay Area organizers Maddy Clifford and Emily Birnbaum. Learn how debtor’s unions are organizing alongside labor unions and tenant unions to combat the financialization of our most basic needs like housing, education and healthcare. Share your personal story, your dream for an economically just future and build solidarity with other debtors and our allies. Plus, free resources to fight your eviction in California AND free copies of Debt Collective’s In These Times … Continued

Speaker: Radhika Desai To Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89531900427?pwd=mXg1rSZe3ONl4pfWlALW4ornc32Eez.1 The application of Neoliberal Economics had its beginning with Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. It held its sway for almost four decades starting when China allowed G-7 capital to exploit a vast pool of labor power, but unlike in the past when it resulted in failed economics in the Third World, China rose as an economic giant in just three decades, with the Communist Party of China firmly controlling the process. The US workers largely lost good industrial wages … Continued

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Medical debt shouldn’t exist. More than 100 million people in the U.S. are actively struggling with medical debt. It’s an injustice that’s costing us our livelihoods, economic stability, and, in far too many cases, our lives. As election season ramps up and politicians pay lip service to the issue, we can’t make the mistake of accepting minor concessions and band-aid fixes as solutions. If we want to put an end to medical debt, we need to strike at the root of the problem – our predatory, prrofit-driven healthcare system. That’s … Continued

Community groups have long been pushing the California Air Resources Board to prioritize environmental justice.  Now CARB is at least asking for our input.  The powerful agency is holding a series of public meetings around California in the next few weeks to discuss how to “incorporate environmental justice into future research on air quality, climate change, health, and sustainable communities.”   It wants to hear about research needs and priorities.  Outcomes from the meeting will impact CARB’s 5-Year Strategic Research Plan and help guide potential research projects for the 2025-2030 time … Continued

A diverse group of changemakers, knowledge-holders, and innovators, hosted by the Alliance of South Asians Taking Action, will explore how we can “disrupt the corporation-enriching global extractive system that results in widespread injustice, poverty, hunger, climate change, and irreversible environmental destruction.” Forty years ago, Bhopal, India, experienced the world’s worst-ever corporation-caused disaster, resulting in the deaths and disabling of hundreds of thousands of marginalized people over multiple generations. Here in the San Francisco Bay Area, corporations have been exploiting, polluting, and appropriating land and people for over a century. In this … Continued

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ICSS Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library   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.  Open discussion on the upcoming U.S. election Bring your ideas, comments, and questions on the upcoming U.S. presidential election. To Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89531900427?pwd=mXg1rSZe3ONl4pfWlALW4ornc32Eez.1   77978

After Zionist interference got the last Berkeley Peace and Justice Commission cancelled earlier this month, the commission is again set to vote on a resolution calling for an End of Military Aid, an End to the Occupation, and Support for Palestinian Self-Determination on Monday, September 30th. They need the community to show up and say, unequivocally, that Berkeley wants not only a permanent ceasefire, but an end to Israeli aggression in Occupied Palestine. Within 24 hours of the resolution’s publication, three zionists were quickly appointed to the commission and one … Continued