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Jan
3
Sat
Suds, Snacks, and Socialism: What’s the Deal With Venezuela? @ Starry Plough
Jan 3 @ 1:30 pm – 4:00 pm

Please register in advance at
https://bit.ly/SSS-Venezuela
to receive your personal link to participate in this event online

U.S. government officials have already admitted that CIA forces and other “clandestine” warfare groups have been operating within Venezuela, and the movement of large naval forces to the area signal an intent to invade.

The “clandestine” acts of war already constitute aggression, illegal under international law. The blowing up of boats, with the clearly false excuse that they are somehow running drugs to the USA, is a crime. Further military action will be war crimes.

Our speakers will address the question: Why is the U.S. Government, and particularly the current Trump regime, attacking Venezuela, and what can we do about it?

Laura Wells – Green Party of California, Task Force on the Americas

Roger Harris – Task Force on the Americas and the Venezuela Solidarity Network

*Organizations listed for identification purposes only.

Please help us celebrate our return to the Starry Plough by ordering food and/or drinks.
Please arrive early to place your order so that you do not miss any of the presentations.
An open discussion will follow the presentations.
We will be accepting donations which will be divided among the sponsoring organizations.

This event is sponsored by the Alameda County Peace and Freedom Party,
the Alameda County Green Party and Bay Area System Change Not Climate Change.

For more information email <info@sudssnackssocialism.org>

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Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: What’s Left – 3 Paths Through the Planetary Crisis @ Online
Jan 3 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite.  All are welcome!

For our December, 2025 meeting we will be reading and discussing the first two chapters of What’s Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis by Malcolm Harris (Amazon) (Hatchette).  For our January meeting we will finish the book.

A vital guide for collective political action against the climate apocalypse, from bestselling progressive intellectual Malcolm Harris—“a brilliant thinker and writer capable of making the intricacies of economic conditions supremely readable” (Vulture).

Climate change is the unifying crisis of our time. But the scale of the problem can be paralyzing, especially when corporations are actively staving off changes that could save the planet but which might threaten their bottom lines. To quote Greta Thunberg, despite very clear science and very real devastation, the adults at the table are still saying “blah blah blah.” Something has to change—but what, and how?

In What’s Left, Malcolm Harris cuts through the noise and gets real about our remaining options for saving the world. Just as humans have caused climate change, we hold the power to avert a climate apocalypse, but that will only happen through collective political action. Harris outlines the three strategies—progressive, socialist, and revolutionary—that have any chance of succeeding, while also revealing that none of them can succeed on their own. What’s Left shows how we must combine them into a single pathway: a meta-strategy, one that will ensure we can move forward together rather than squabbling over potential solutions while the world burns.

Vital and transformative, What’s Left confirms Malcolm Harris as next-generation David Graeber or Mike Davis—a historian-activist who shows us where we stand and how we got here, while also blazing a path toward a brighter future.

Strike Debt Bay Area hosts this non-technical book group discussion monthly on new and radical economic thinking. Our first book was  Doughnut Economics, and our most recent books were The Age of Insecurity and Elinor Ostrom’s Rules for Radicals”. For the rest of our reading list see here.

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Jan
4
Sun
Trump’s Economy: Year One @ Online
Jan 4 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm

Speaker: Jack Rasmus

To Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87388824824?pwd=QTWNvr8cGeGo1ZDW7x9Y8W0sDaNxRc.1

Meeting ID: 873 8882 4824
Passcode:  042428

 

 

Why the real economy is stagnant and on the cusp of recession; why inflation is double what is reported and jobs are contracting; the impact of Trump’s policies on taxes and tariffs; the consequences of $2 trillion in military spending and a $1.8 trillion federal government deficit; the growing BRICS challenge and the falling U.S. dollar.

The contradictions in 21st-century US capitalism

SPEAKER BIO:

Dr. Jack Rasmus, Ph.D Political Economy, teaches economics at St. Mary’s College in California. He is the author and producer of numerous books, including The Scourge of Neoliberalism: US Economic Policy From Reagan to Bush (2019), Central Bankers at the End of Their Rope? (2017), and forthcoming The Twilight of American Imperialism. Jack is the host of the weekly radio show, Alternative Visions, on the Progressive Radio Network, and a journalist writing on economic, political, and labor issues for various magazines. Before his current roles as author, journalist and radio host, Jack was an economist and market analyst for several global companies, and for more than a decade, a local union president, vice-president, contract negotiator, and organizer for several labor unions, including the UAW, CWA, SEIU, and HERE. Jack’s website is www.kyklosproductions.com. He blogs at jackrasmus.com, where weekly commentaries on US and global economic matters are available. His Twitter handle is @drjackrasmus.

 

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