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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 To Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85175860127?pwd=bfZRQOSMuhX9Pfm4qhPMOZMrmE9Ohm.1 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 … Continued

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 Register here 78092

Speaker: Mehmet Bayram To Join Zoom Meetinghttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/89531900427?pwd=mXg1rSZe3ONl4pfWlALW4ornc32Eez.1 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 … Continued

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 … Continued

After 465 days of genocide, Palestinians in Gaza have shown the world that they will continue to rise until liberation. We know that this ceasefire is not enough, but an essential step on the path to liberation. We stand with Palestinians in Gaza, demand accountability for Zionist and imperialist war criminals and all their accomplices, and recommit ourselves to the struggle and the long road ahead. Bring Palestinian flags, kuffiyehs, and your voices. We’ll see you in the streets. ————— From AROC’s Ceasefire statement: This is also a moment to … Continued

 Join Cat Brooks this week for an evening of light and love, our concert fundraiser, Love Is Our Armor: A Music-Filled Fundraiser for the Anti Police-Terror Project, to kick off our 11th Annual Reclaim MLK March and Week of Action. Love Is Our Armor: A Music-Filled Fundraiser for the Anti Police-Terror Project PURCHASE YOUR TICKETS HERE TODAY! Cat Brooks will be hosting and we will convene at BAM House, a “Black culture driven space dedicated to the growth, cultivation, and sustaining of Black livity, (good strong life)”. I am so … Continued

The Bay Area Climate Emergency Mobilization Task Force will present its first Virtual Summit of the year on the topic “Climate, Colonialism, and the Rights of Humans and Nature.” More info and registration here.78094

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Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite.  All are welcome. For our January, 2025 meeting we will be reading the first seven chapters Making Sense of Chaos by by J. Doyne Farmer (Yale University Press, Amazon). For our February meeting, we will be finishing the book. We live in an age of increasing complexity—an era of accelerating technology and global interconnection that holds more promise, and more peril, than any other time in human history. The fossil fuels that have powered global wealth creation now threaten to … Continued

Speaker: Stansfield Smith To Join Zoom Meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89531900427?pwd=mXg1rSZe3ONl4pfWlALW4ornc32Eez.1 The CIA helped to build and subsidize a “compatible left” in the 1940-1960s to help counter the Communist bloc and associated organizations. This anti-communist compatible left still exists today, giving backhanded defense of US imperialism’s endless wars. They harshly criticize the same nations the US seeks to overthrow and cover up US covert operations and economic warfare against these countries; e.g., Qaddafi’s Libya, Assad’s Syria, Iran, Chavistas in Venezuela, Sandinistas in Nicaragua. They condemn Russia or China (or both) as imperialistic, while … Continued

A great way to spend Inauguration Day — in community with other progressives at the 11th annual March to Reclaim Martin Luther King’s Radical Legacy, demanding “freedom from white supremacy, war, genocide, colonialism, extractivism, and imperialism.” The event is hosted by Oakland’s Anti Police-Terror Project , which writes: “Are you enraged because of the deepening facism and police state in this country? Disgusted and heart sick by the ongoing genocide in Palestine? Appalled at the attacks against our unhoused neighbors? “Oakland will not concede to fascism. We knew no matter the outcome … Continued

The Office of Health Care Affordability, (OHCA), is a relatively new office tucked inside one department of California’s Health and Human Services Agency. Its three stated aims are to “slow spending growth, promote high value, and assess market consolidation”. Doctors James G. Kahn, moderator, and Ana Malinow, presenter, are both single-payer advocates. Along with participating panelists, they will share information about the office and the actions it has taken so far and share their views about how it might impact healthcare in the state. Until we shift to a single … Continued

Join us for a Peace Gathering. This event, sponsored by the Humanist Mutual Aid Network (Hank Pellissier), will feature networking tables and presentations by 14 activist groups, an honor ceremony, Chilean & Aymara music, live texting actions, and a CodePink bake sale benefiting Prosthetics for Palestine. Participating groups include CodePink, Veterans for Peace, Mount Diablo Peace & Justice Center, Berkeley Banner Drop, Nor Cal Sabeel, Prosthetics for Palestine, Taxpayers Against Genocide, Berkeley Network for Palestine, RACCOON, People’s Arms Embargo, Women in Black, Albany El Cerrito for Palestine, Divest Bay Area, … Continued

The Zone of Interest is a 2023 historical drama film written and directed by Jonathan Glazer, co-produced among the United Kingdom, the United States, and Poland. Loosely based on the 2014 novel by Martin Amis, the film focuses on the life of German Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig, who live with their family in a home in the “Zone of Interest” next to the German concentration camp. Join the Oakland Greens for this free community event: dinner starts at 6:30 PM PST and movie promptly at 7 PM PST. The Oakland Greens Free Dinner & a Movie Discussion Series is a community … Continued

Panelists: Bob Mandel, founding member of the ILWU Militant Caucus; OEA Executive Board (ret.) co-founder, Adult School Teachers United Tom Riley, co-founder, with Howard Keylor, of the External Tendency of the iSt / Bolshevik Tendency Mary Jane Galviso, lifelong Marxist, Communist and comrade of Howard Keylor; founding member, Filipino Farmers Cooperative and its parent organization, the Rural Communities Resource Center Howard Keylor was a long-time communist militant in International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10. A veteran of the Battle of Okinawa, he made the motion in Local 10 for … Continued