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As the political landscape in Alameda County continues to shift, we believe it is critical to come together as community members, organizers, advocates, and partners to reflect honestly on where we are and where we need to go.

This virtual gathering will create space to discuss:

• How the current District Attorney’s priorities are impacting community safety
• Where we believe the DA is falling short of what our communities actually need
• The policy priorities community wants to see centered: including rehabilitation, diversion, accountability, and investment in our neighborhoods instead of continued expansion of mass incarceration
• How we build collective power and alignment moving forward

This is not a presentation, it’s a conversation. We want to hear directly from you on Zoom on January 15th about what you’re seeing, what you’re feeling, and what you believe true community safety should look like in Alameda County.

Whether you’ve been deeply involved in accountability efforts or are just beginning to engage, your voice matters. This is an opportunity to shape shared priorities, strengthen relationships, and ensure community wisdom drives the path forward.

Please save the date and register to join us on zoom. We look forward to being in community with you.

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

For our February, 2026 meeting we will be reading and discussing the first three chapters of  A Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit (Amazon) (Alibris).  For our March meeting we will finish the book.

The most startling thing about disasters, according to award-winning author Rebecca Solnit, is not merely that so many people rise to the occasion, but that they do so with joy. That joy reveals an ordinarily unmet yearning for community, purposefulness, and meaningful work that disaster often provides. A Paradise Built in Hell is an investigation of the moments of altruism, resourcefulness, and generosity that arise amid disaster’s grief and disruption and considers their implications for everyday life. It points to a new vision of what society could become-one that is less authoritarian and fearful, more collaborative and local.

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 What’s Left – 3 Paths Through the Planetary Crisis, The Age of Insecurity and Elinor Ostrom’s Rules for Radicals. For the rest of our reading list see here.