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Right now, ICE agents are ramping up operations inside immigration courts across the country. On Friday, California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice released a press statement alerting us that court buildings in San Francisco, Concord, and Sacramento have seen ICE agents asking people for their names and IDs, and even coordinating with ICE attorneys inside the courtroom to try to get cases dismissed, just to arrest people as they walk out. This aggressive tactic is a direct threat to due process and justice, putting families and communities at risk.
While this is a terrifying development we want to instill “power, not panic,” reminding everyone that people in immigration proceedings have rights, and that help is available through local Rapid Response Networks (www.ccijustice.org/carrn) and court accompaniment programs. For more information read the full press release here.
This is the moment to show up. Stand with immigrant community members under attack. Raise your voice. Take action. Let’s move forward together.
How to Fight Back
EBSC Immigration Rights Ambassador Training, Thursday May 29, 7-9 PM: Join friends of La Peña Immigrant Rights Committee to learn how ICE operates and become an Immigrant Rights Ambassador
Caminata De 3 Días, June 7-9: The Northern California Coalition For Just Immigration Reform (NCCJIR) will hold its third annual Walk for immigrant rights on June 7-9, 2025, from Vacaville to Sacramento! We want the State Legislature to pass our Resolution saying that California condemns the deportations and calls for a fair Path To Citizenship.
- Location
- Vacaville, June 7, 8 AM
- Dixon, June 8, 8 AM
- Sacramento, June 9, 3 PM
NO KINGS NO DUNGEONS in DUBLIN: People’s Parade, Saturday June 14, 12 PM: The protest in Dublin will focus on stopping the reopening of Dublin Women’s Prison as an ICE Detention Center. A critical part of the fight back against deportations, abductions and separating families is stopping the expansion of detention capacity at this facility. Bay Resistance encourages people from across the Bay Area to come to Dublin to participate.
- Location: 100 Civic Plaza Dublin, CA 94568
For all other actions visit our website or give us a follow on Instagram to stay updated and get plugged to actions happening near you!
Right now, ICE agents are ramping up operations inside immigration courts across the country. On Friday, California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice released a press statement alerting us that court buildings in San Francisco, Concord, and Sacramento have seen ICE agents asking people for their names and IDs, and even coordinating with ICE attorneys inside the courtroom to try to get cases dismissed, just to arrest people as they walk out. This aggressive tactic is a direct threat to due process and justice, putting families and communities at risk.
While this is a terrifying development we want to instill “power, not panic,” reminding everyone that people in immigration proceedings have rights, and that help is available through local Rapid Response Networks (www.ccijustice.org/carrn) and court accompaniment programs. For more information read the full press release here.
This is the moment to show up. Stand with immigrant community members under attack. Raise your voice. Take action. Let’s move forward together.
How to Fight Back
Bay Resistance Accompaniment Training, Saturday May 31 10:30-12 PM: The court room presence of ICE makes the need for accompaniment even more urgent. Join our accompaniment network training next Saturday.
- Location: RSVP to get the details here
Tell Newsom to Stand With Immigrants: The Governor’s May Revised Budget includes massive changes and cuts to the state’s MediCal Program. This will have massive implications for immigrant communities in California, including eliminating access to services.
EBSC Immigration Rights Ambassador Training, Thursday May 29, 7-9 PM: Join friends of La Peña Immigrant Rights Committee to learn how ICE operates and become an Immigrant Rights Ambassador
- RSVP here
- Location: La Peña Cultural Center (3105 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705)
Caminata De 3 Días, June 7-9: The Northern California Coalition For Just Immigration Reform (NCCJIR) will hold its third annual Walk for immigrant rights on June 7-9, 2025, from Vacaville to Sacramento! We want the State Legislature to pass our Resolution saying that California condemns the deportations and calls for a fair Path To Citizenship.
- Location
- Vacaville, June 7, 8 AM
- Dixon, June 8, 8 AM
- Sacramento, June 9, 3 PM
NO KINGS NO DUNGEONS in DUBLIN: People’s Parade, Saturday June 14, 12 PM: The protest in Dublin will focus on stopping the reopening of Dublin Women’s Prison as an ICE Detention Center. A critical part of the fight back against deportations, abductions and separating families is stopping the expansion of detention capacity at this facility. Bay Resistance encourages people from across the Bay Area to come to Dublin to participate.
- Location: 100 Civic Plaza Dublin, CA 94568
For all other actions visit our website or give us a follow on Instagram to stay updated and get plugged to actions happening near you!
Demand Health not profit!
Join nation-wide rallies May 31 for universal health care. Get for-profit corporations out of our health care!
National Single Payer has called a National Day of Action for May 31, 2025.
In San Francisco, between 11 am and 1 pm, we will rally at Harry Bridges Plaza (Embarcadero and Market) and then march to the BlackRock offices (Howard and First).
Here are two flyers for the SF action: one-page and palm-size
Visit the Action website to:
Listen to featured interviews with long-time activists Kay Tillow (Labor Campaign for Single Payer) and Ana Malinow (Physicians for a National Health Plan).
Find a local action (or start your own).
Read about the campaign here.
Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite. All are welcome!
For our May, 2025 meeting we will be reading the first fourteen essays in The New Possible: Visions of Our World Beyond Crisis (Barnes and Noble). For our June meeting, we will read the remaining essays.
2020 upended every aspect of our lives. But where is our world heading next? Will pandemic, protests, economic instability, and social distance lead to deeper inequalities, more nationalism, and further erosion of democracies around the world? Or are we moving toward a global re-awakening to the importance of community, mutual support, and the natural world? In our lifetimes, the future has never been so up for grabs. The New Possible offers twenty-eight unique visions of what can be, if instead of choosing to go back to normal, we choose to go forward to something far better.
Assembled from global leaders on six continents, these essays are not simply speculation. They are an inspiration and a roadmap for action. With essays by: Kim Stanley Robinson, Michael Pollan, Varshini Prakash, Vandana Shiva, Jack Kornfield, Mamphela Ramphele, Justin Rosenstein, Jack Kornfield, Helena Nordberg-Hodge, David Korten, Tristan Harris, Eileen Crist, Francis Deng, Riane Eisler, Arturo Escobar, Rebecca Kiddle, Mike Joy, Natalie Foster, Jess Rimington, Jeremy Lent, Atossa Soltani, Mark Anielski, Ellen Brown, John Restakis, Zak Stein, Oren Slozberg, Anisa Nanavati, and Fr. Joshtrom Isaac Kureethadam
Strike Debt Bay Area hosts this non-technical book group discussion monthly on new and radical economic thinking. Previous readings have included (in chronological order) Doughnut Economics, Limits, Banking on the People, Capital and Its Discontents, How to Be an Anti-Capitalist in the 21st Century, The Deficit Myth, Revenge Capitalism, the Edge of Chaos blog symposium , Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons, The Optimist’s Telescope, Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism, Exploring Degrowth, The Origin of Wealth, Mine!, The Dawn of Everything A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, Beyond Money, Less is More, Cannibal Capitalism, Debt, the First 5000 Years , Poverty, By America, End Times, Jackson Rising Redux , The Feminist Subversion of the Economy, How Infrastructure Works, Inside the Systems that Shape our World, Wealth Supremacy, The Persuaders, The Path to a Livable Future, Solidarity, Mutual Aid, Breaking Together, Making Sense of Chaos and TechnoFeudalism.