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DESCRIPTION:New to Strike Debt?? Don’t walk cold turkey into a bunch of radicals 
 talking about debt! Show up a half hour early—at 2:30 PM—for an 
 informal pre-meeting intro session. If you’d like to attend this 
 pre-together please email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com and let us know 
 you’re coming.\n\np>Join Strike Debt Bay Area in working on some exciting 
 projects locally and nationally to fight unjust debt.\n\n\n\n– The latest 
 on our coalition efforts to Save the Berkeley Post Office and fight the 
 privatization of our commons.\n\n– The latest on our efforts to help 
 Richmond and NGO allies push for principal reduction for Richmond's 
 homeowners. Read two articles here and here, written by two Strike Debt 
 Bay Area members  on the Richmond principal reduction / eminent domain 
 case.\n\nIn addition, we are exploring the use of a public bank to help 
 Richmond, CA and other communities escape the thrall of Wall Street.\n\n- 
 Work on our radio segment broadcast periodically on KPFA.\n\n- A project to 
 bring non-profit, non-usurious payday loan services to Vallejo and 
 Oakland.\n\n– Other projects include efforts to fight against student 
 debt in conjunction with peeps at UC Cal via a Strike Debt UC Berkeley 
 chapter of Strike Debt, a book group with semi-weekly discussions, 
 investigations into the legitimacy of mortgage ownership and therefore the 
 right to foreclose, and moe.\n\n"Just as bosses are dependent on workers, 
 so are lenders dependent on borrowers. If workers walk out, the enterprise 
 stops. If borrowers refuse to pay their debts, the lenders could be in real 
 trouble. Each side depends on the other. The millions of underwater 
 mortgage holders, of student debtors and credit card holders, need the bank 
 loans -  but so do the banks need those borrowers, and they especially 
 need them to cooperate by paying their monthly charges. Otherwise, the 
 capital that the banks list on their books begins to drain away." ~Francis 
 Fox Piven\n\nCheck out our website, our Facebook, and follow us 
 on Twitter.\n\nCheck out the Berkeley Post Office Defenders 
 website too.\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/04/28/18754963.php
SUMMARY:Strike Debt Bay Area Meeting: Ideas Into Action.
LOCATION:Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheatre, outside City Hall, next to BART.\n14th & 
 Broadway, Oakland, CA.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/04/28/18754963.php
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