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Suds, Snacks, and Socialism at the Starry Plough The War on Immigrants, and How We Fight Back Please register in advance at https://bit.ly/SSS_WarOnImmigrants to receive your personal link to participate in this event online Most immigrants come to this country to escape violence and persecution and to work to support their families. While Trump is virulent in his threats against them, politicians of both capitalist parties spew the rhetoric and advocate various policies including detention and deportation to ban immigrants, even while they and their allies benefit from their labor. … Continued

Speaker: Roger D. Harris To Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85175860127?pwd=bfZRQOSMuhX9Pfm4qhPMOZMrmE9Ohm.1 Forecasts are favorable for Venezuela’s quarter-century-old Bolivarian Revolution. Initiated by Hugo Chávez and seamlessly carried forward by Nicolás Maduro, it is threatened by an increasingly aggressive Yankee hegemon. Venezuela’s regional role will be pivotal with key left-leaning presidents in Brazil and Colombia up for reelection in the next two years. Our speaker, Roger D. Harris, accompanied the January 10 presidential election in Venezuela and the concurrent antifascist conference. He will report back on what happened there as well as on Washington’s campaign … Continued

Join us in this critical fight and secure your spot at our upcoming town hall by RSVPing now. ACLU Town Hall: Fighting Trump’s First Attacks RSVP The town hall will focus on the ACLU’s response to the Trump administration’s very first actions in office, including attempts to end birthright citizenship, shut down the southern border to asylum seekers, ban health care for transgender youth, and dismantle the core principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion. AJ Hikes, ACLU Deputy Executive Director for Strategy & Culture, will be the moderator, joined by … Continued

Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88083342274 A second Trump administration will push U.S. policy in the Middle East in a very dangerous direction. Already, Trump has thrown his weight behind the most extremist elements in Israel while effectively renouncing international legal precedence, embracing Arab dictatorships, and making the U.S. very much of an outlier even among our pro-Western allies. However, the Biden administration pursued many of these dangerous policies as well. As a result, supporters of Palestinian rights–and proponents of human rights and international law in general–must be willing to challenge the … Continued

Debtors of the world, unite! Alone, our debts are a burden. Together they give us power. When we share our experiences of debt and economic pressure with each other, we begin to see our collective power to change the systems that exploit us. Everyone is welcome to participate in this debtors assembly, whether or not you are currently debt-burdened. This is a 100 Days to Build Debtor Power event. Over the first 100 days of the new presidential administration, we’re embarking – together – on an intensive campaign of organizing trainings, political education, and … Continued

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: Dan Kovalik https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85175860127?pwd=bfZRQOSMuhX9Pfm4qhPMOZMrmE9Ohm.1 Our speaker, international human rights advocate and lawyer Dan Kovalik just returned from Syria, once a beautiful country and the cradle of civilization. He visited so that we could speak out for people there who can’t speak out because they fear violent repression. Dan will report back on the current situation in light of historical developments. The new de facto government was in large part brought to power by the US and other foreign entities and does not have a mandate or right to rule. Multiculturalism … Continued

Invite Link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86411768499?pwd=UitCdlJuWFR2QkZZTDVOQ2w0anVZUT09 At 18 years of age, Theodore Hall was the youngest physicist on the Manhattan Project, hired as a junior at Harvard and put to work at Los Alamos in 1944. Assigned the job of testing and refining the complex implosion system for the plutonium bomb, Hall was described as “amazingly brilliant” by his superiors on the project, many of whom were Nobel Prize winners. But what Hall’s colleagues didn’t know was that the teenaged Hall was also the youngest spy taken on by the Soviet Union in … Continued

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The bellicose foreign policy of the U.S. continues to fuel instability and war worldwide in misguided efforts to attain global hegemony. In Europe, the Mideast, and the Pacific, U.S. covert and overt actions are undermining political stability and endangering peace. The webinar will explain how this process works, review the historic record, and address the dangers posed by continuation of covert and overt U.S. actions that harm other nations and threaten our own national security. You must pre-register for the webinar HERE or click on the link below https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/nG2cJo_3SG2ODCL4ojfFMQ Panelists: Matthew … Continued

On February 19th, federal workers and supporters are gathering to say NO to Elon Musk’s push to gut federal services and impose mass layoffs. Join us at La Peña Cultural Center for a quick photo op to support this push back against the coup! There will be singing! We’ll gather at 2:30–take and share some photos of all of us with our signs. Make your own or just show up! We’ll be done before 3 PM. Our demands: NO cuts to vital services NO mass layoffs: respect union workers’ contracts … Continued

This event is a part of the 100 Days of Debtor Organizing and in particular is for those a part of the Debt Collective’s 50 Over 50. This call is open to anyone and will serve as a training to supporting student debtors in your community with information on the current avenues to debt cancellation. We will be sharing how we hosted events in local communities to educate and support folks on these methods of debt cancellation. This is through existing programs such as Total and Permanent Disability Discharge, Public … Continued

The Oakland Greens’ movie this month is from our first season, the 2005 film “500 Years Later”. This Independent film by M.K. Asante and Owen Alik Shahadah examines the “Why”, 500 years later, from the onset of Slavery and subsequent Colonialism, people of the African Diaspora are still struggling for basic freedom. Join your community members on Sunday, February 23, with doors open at 6:15 PM, dinner at 6:30 PM and movie promptly at 7 PM. Discussion will happen afterwards, where your thoughts are greatly appreciated.   The Oakland Greens Free Dinner & … Continued