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Chasing Chimeras: The Lure of Deceptive Climate Solutions is a new documentary by Barbara Bernstein exposing the fossil fuel industry’s push for false climate “solutions.” Renewable diesel, hydrogen, biogas, carbon capture, and offsets—all of these alleged post-carbon fixes promise to usher in a brave green world even while they endanger frontline communities and delay real climate action. All of them present immediate threats right here in the Bay.
From Portland, Oregon, to the Bay Area refinery corridor, Chasing Chimeras showcases the communities fighting back against these projects and the governments enabling them. Chasing Chimeras scrutinizes how state and federal programs promote and fund renewable diesel, biogas and hydrogen development, while disincentivizing the adoption of proven climate solutions.
The film features Bay Area activists Ann Alexander, Maureen Brennan, Ben Eichenberg, Bonnie Hamilton, Gary Hughes, Greg Karras, Kathy Kerridge, Theo LeQuesne, and Shoshana Wechsler. There are also cameos of Bay Area academics Barbara Haya and Mark Jacobson.
If you can’t make the screening, the film is also available online.
As COVID cases once again rise across the Bay Area, access to testing and protective resources has become more difficult for our communities—especially for Black, Brown, unhoused, and working-class residents. Many of the free testing sites that once served our neighborhoods have closed, and store-bought tests are unaffordable or unavailable for many.
In response, the Anti Police-Terror Project and The People’s House are stepping up to meet the need. We believe public health is a collective responsibility, and we remain committed to providing tools that help keep our communities safe and resourced.
We are now offering free COVID testing multiple days a week at The People’s House in Oakland (893 Willow St).
Testing Schedule
- Tuesdays from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM
- Mondays from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM
- Offered during The People’s Detox, which also includes free ear acupuncture, Narcan distribution, fentanyl test strips, and peer support for addiction and mental health
- 1st and 3rd Fridays from 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM
- Offered during The People’s Clinic, which includes massage therapy, acupuncture, healing circles, and other community-based wellness services
What to Expect
- Rapid antigen COVID tests are available on-site
- In most cases, individuals will be able to leave with a box of take-home tests (while supplies last)
- K/N95 masks are available to anyone who needs them
- No insurance, ID, or pre-registration is required
- All services are free of charge
This gathering is more than a film screening—it is a space for honest dialogue, reflection, and connection. You’ll hear directly from people whose lived experiences challenge assumptions and deepen our understanding of how cycles of harm take root and how they can be broken. Your voice and perspective matter in shaping the solutions that will define our communities for the next generation. Together, we can envision and work towards a future in which compassion and evidence guide our policy decisions, so that every child has the chance to thrive.
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You’re Invited to Berkeley’s First Sun Day!
Join neighbors, local leaders, and community partners for a joyful, hands-on celebration of clean energy and climate action.
Sun Day is not your average climate event. It’s playful, practical, and powered by community. Whether you’re a renter curious about switching to electric, a homeowner looking to go solar, or a parent seeking fun family activities, Sun Day is for you.
What to Expect
- Try e-bikes, solar ovens, induction cooktops & more
- Learn from local experts how to electrify your home and life
- Hear inspiring stories from local climate doers
- Enjoy food trucks, kids activities, and a community picnic
- Start your afternoon with a Kidical Mass bike ride then utilize our free Bike East Bay bike valet!
Let’s make clean energy feel local, doable, and joyful. Bring your friends, your questions, and your stories.
RSVP today and be part of Berkeley’s clean energy celebration!
Engagement Zone Exhibitors:
• City of Berkeley Energy & Sustainability • Acterra: Action for a Healthy Planet • Citizens’ Climate Lobby • Climate Health Now • Ava Community Energy • 1-888-Heat-Pumps • Moon Five • Gradient • QuitCarbon • Ecology Center • Sierra Club SF Bay Area Chapter • 350.org • Harvest • Bright Saver • Rebuilding Together East Bay Network • EVEN Recharge
eMobility Test Ride Partners:
• Rad Power Bikes • Access Trikes • Bay Wheels
Speaker Panel: “How We Electrified Our Homes, Schools, and Neighborhoods” featuring:
- Rahul Young, Head of Community Engagement at Rewiring America
- Rebecca Franke, Berkeley resident who fully electrified her home one step at a time
- Nick Kukulan, driving force for the solar installation on the new South Wing of First Congregational Church of Berkeley
- Erendira Blanco from the Induction Cooktop Teaching Project, making induction cooktops available to students and families in OUSD
Want to get engaged? Please email our volunteer coordinator at berkeley.ca.sun.day@gmail.com.
Proudly co-sponsored by:
John Carpenter’s legendary sci-fi action film is now regarded and revered more like a prescient documentary. If you really want to know what’s going on behind the scenes of our authoritarian Government and all the complicit corporations, keep those glasses on, man. Also, chew bubble gum and kick ass.
As COVID cases once again rise across the Bay Area, access to testing and protective resources has become more difficult for our communities—especially for Black, Brown, unhoused, and working-class residents. Many of the free testing sites that once served our neighborhoods have closed, and store-bought tests are unaffordable or unavailable for many.
In response, the Anti Police-Terror Project and The People’s House are stepping up to meet the need. We believe public health is a collective responsibility, and we remain committed to providing tools that help keep our communities safe and resourced.
We are now offering free COVID testing multiple days a week at The People’s House in Oakland (893 Willow St).
Testing Schedule
- Tuesdays from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM
- Mondays from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM
- Offered during The People’s Detox, which also includes free ear acupuncture, Narcan distribution, fentanyl test strips, and peer support for addiction and mental health
- 1st and 3rd Fridays from 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM
- Offered during The People’s Clinic, which includes massage therapy, acupuncture, healing circles, and other community-based wellness services
What to Expect
- Rapid antigen COVID tests are available on-site
- In most cases, individuals will be able to leave with a box of take-home tests (while supplies last)
- K/N95 masks are available to anyone who needs them
- No insurance, ID, or pre-registration is required
- All services are free of charge
As COVID cases once again rise across the Bay Area, access to testing and protective resources has become more difficult for our communities—especially for Black, Brown, unhoused, and working-class residents. Many of the free testing sites that once served our neighborhoods have closed, and store-bought tests are unaffordable or unavailable for many.
In response, the Anti Police-Terror Project and The People’s House are stepping up to meet the need. We believe public health is a collective responsibility, and we remain committed to providing tools that help keep our communities safe and resourced.
We are now offering free COVID testing multiple days a week at The People’s House in Oakland (893 Willow St).
Testing Schedule
- Tuesdays from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM
- Mondays from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM
- Offered during The People’s Detox, which also includes free ear acupuncture, Narcan distribution, fentanyl test strips, and peer support for addiction and mental health
- 1st and 3rd Fridays from 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM
- Offered during The People’s Clinic, which includes massage therapy, acupuncture, healing circles, and other community-based wellness services
What to Expect
- Rapid antigen COVID tests are available on-site
- In most cases, individuals will be able to leave with a box of take-home tests (while supplies last)
- K/N95 masks are available to anyone who needs them
- No insurance, ID, or pre-registration is required
- All services are free of charge
Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite. All are welcome!
For our October, 2025 meeting we will be reading and discussing the first three chapters of The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart (The CBC Massey Lectures) by Astra Taylor (Amazon) (Verso Books). For our November meeting we will finish the book.
Finalist, 2024 Governor General’s Literary Award for Nonfiction
Finalist, 2024 Writers’ Trust Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing
These days, everyone feels insecure. We are financially stressed and emotionally overwhelmed. The status quo isn’t working for anyone, even those who appear to have it all. What is going on?
In this urgent cultural diagnosis, author and activist Astra Taylor exposes how seemingly disparate crises―rising inequality and declining mental health, the ecological emergency, and the threat of authoritarianism―originate from a social order built on insecurity. From home ownership and education to the wellness industry and policing, many of the institutions and systems that promise to make us more secure actually undermine us.
Mixing social critique, memoir, history, political analysis, and philosophy, this genre-bending book rethinks both insecurity and security from the ground up. By facing our existential insecurity and embracing our vulnerability, Taylor argues, we can begin to develop more caring, inclusive, and sustainable forms of security to help us better weather the challenges ahead. The Age of Insecurity will transform how you understand yourself and society―while illuminating a path toward meaningful change.
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 book was Elinor Ostrom’s Rules for Radicals”. For the rest of our reading list see here.
Bay Area Peace & Justice Activists join Singers, Drummers:
2nd Fridays 5-6:00 pm
Outdoors beside “The Way” 1305 University Ave between Acton & Bonar
Open Mic: Songs, Poems, Chants for Peace & for Palestine
Bring signs/ banners, instruments, rattles, drums and your Voice
Ceasefire Now, Break the Siege, Lift the Blockades. Let in Food & Humanitarian Relief
SPARE IRAN. STOP WW III!
Our taxes fund massive weapons of mass destruction in the US & Israel.
That money is needed for US healthcare, education, housing!
HANDS OFF IMMIGRANTS
STOP ICE
HANDS OFF our LEGISLATORS
MARINES/National Guard OUT OF California
Sponsored by the Social Justice Committee of the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists & CODE PINK