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DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nCome and help us draw awareness to and fight unjust debt!\n\nCome get 
 connected with SDBA's many projects!\nstudent debt resistance\n	organizing 
 for public banking.\n	advocating for Postal banking.\n	ongoing study 
 group\n	helping out America's only non-profit check-cashing organization 
 and fighting against usurious for-profit pay-day lenders and their 
 ilk\n	our famous Strike Debt radio program\n	staging Debtors' 
 Assemblies\n	Reviewing our recent presentation on money and debt at the US 
 Social Forum\n	saving the Berkeley Post Office and stopping the Staples 
 non-union takeover of good Post Office jobs\n	and much more!\n\n\n Also 
 check out our website, our twitter feed, and our Facebook 
 page.\n\nStrike Debt Bay Area is an offshoot of Occupy Oakland and Strike 
 Debt, itself an offshoot of Occupy Wall Street.\n\n\n\n\nStrike Debt – 
 Principles of Solidarity\n\nStrike Debt is building a debt resistance 
 movement. We believe that most individual debt is illegitimate and unjust. 
 Most of us fall into debt because we are increasingly deprived of the means 
 to acquire the basic necessities of life: health care, education, and 
 housing. Because we are forced to go into debt simply in order to live, we 
 think it is right and moral to resist it.\nWe also oppose debt because it 
 is an instrument of exploitation and political domination. Debt is used to 
 discipline us, deepen existing inequalities, and reinforce racial, 
 gendered, and other social hierarchies. Every Strike Debt action is 
 designed to weaken the institutions that seek to divide us and benefit from 
 our division. As an alternative to this predatory system, Strike Debt 
 advocates a just and sustainable economy, based on mutual aid, common 
 goods, and public affluence.\nStrike Debt is committed to the principles 
 and tactics of political autonomy, direct democracy, direct action, 
 creative openness, a culture of solidarity, and commitment to 
 anti-oppressive language and conduct. We struggle for a world without 
 racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and all forms of 
 oppression.\nStrike Debt holds that we are all debtors, whether or not we 
 have personal loan agreements. Through the manipulation of sovereign and 
 municipal debt, the costs of speculator-driven crises are passed on to all 
 of us. Though different kinds of debt can affect the same household, they 
 are all interconnected, and so all household debtors have a common interest 
 in resisting.\nStrike Debt engages in public education about the 
 debt-system to counteract the self-serving myth that finance is too 
 complicated for laypersons to understand. In particular, it urges direct 
 action as a way of stopping the damage caused by the creditor class and 
 their enablers among elected government officials. Direct action empowers 
 those who participate in challenging the debt-system.\nStrike Debt holds 
 that we owe the financial institutions nothing, whereas, to our friends, 
 families and communities, we owe everything. In pursuing a long-term 
 strategy for national organizing around this principle, we pledge 
 international solidarity with the growing global movement against debt and 
 austerity.\n\n\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/07/15/18774959.php
SUMMARY:Strike Debt Bay Area Meeting
LOCATION:Omni Commons, 4799 Shattuck Ave., Oakland
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/07/15/18774959.php
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