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3:00 pm Richmond Progressive Alliance Meeting @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center
Richmond Progressive Alliance Meeting @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center
Dec 12 @ 3:00 pm – 5:30 pm
There will be a meeting, followed by a party! The meeting focus will be on the effort to get Rent Control and Just Cause for Eviction on the ballot for a public vote. Councilmember Gayle McLaughlin and others from the coalition working on the issue will give an update on how the measure is shaping up thus far, and RPA members will have the opportunity to ask questions and give input. Here’s a statement the coalition issued earlier this month: “We remain committed to rent control in Richmond to protect … Continued
4:00 pm Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! Strike Debt Bay Area Meeting. @ Omni Commons
Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! Strike Debt Bay Area Meeting. @ Omni Commons
Dec 12 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Come and help us draw awareness to and fight unjust debt! Come get connected with SDBA’s many projects! student debt resistance organizing for public banking. advocating for Postal banking. fighting modern day debtors’ prisons and exploitive ticketing and fining schemes ongoing study group helping out America’s only non-profit check-cashing organization and fighting against usurious for-profit pay-day lenders and their ilk our famous Strike Debt radio program staging Debtors’ Assemblies Working on debarring US Banks that have been convicted of felonies from municipal contracts saving the Berkeley Post Office, fighting Post … Continued
4:00 pm Lessons from the Landless: The Social Movement Economy + Goodbye Party! @ PLACE for Sustainable Living
Lessons from the Landless: The Social Movement Economy + Goodbye Party! @ PLACE for Sustainable Living
Dec 12 @ 4:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Presentation: 4-6pm Party + Potluck: 6-9pm For the last 3 months, Joelci Dannacea, an economist and leader of the Landless Worker’s Movement of Brazil (MST) has been visiting the Bay Area to learn more about U.S. social movements, and to share about her work with the MST, one of the world’s largest, most successful social movements. As the exchange comes to a close, Joelci, the Bay Area Friends of the MST, PLACE for Sustainable Living, Occupy the Farm, and the Sustainable Economies Law Center invite you to Joelci’s last public … Continued
7:00 pm LYRICAL REVOLT
LYRICAL REVOLT
Dec 12 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
The A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition will be hosting LYRICAL REVOLT, a political-artistic space to express oneself through any vocal medium. Join us as we use the power of our words and art to battle the injustices that face the world today.This open mic is dedicated to the liberation of the Palestinian people and the demand to immediately release Mumia Abu Jamal and all political prisoners in the United States. The violently racist doctrines of Zionism and white supremacy have terrorized and imprisoned Palestinians on their own land while leaders of the liberation … Continued
7:00 pm Report back from the Rojava Revolution @ Omni Commons
Report back from the Rojava Revolution @ Omni Commons
Dec 12 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Report back from the Rojava Revolution @ Omni Commons | Oakland | California | United States
On Saturday, December 12th, Paul Z. Simmons will speak on their series of recent dispatches from the liberated territories of Rojava in Northern Syria, a region besieged by war yet is also in the midst of one of the most far reaching social experiments of the 21st Century: the ‘Rojava Revolution.’ The liberated territories of Rojava are a thriving example of stateless democracy and of a people who are overturning traditional institutions such as patriarchy and social hierarchies. All events will be by donation and free copies of Paul’s dispatches … Continued