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DESCRIPTION:IF YOU CAN'T FIND US IN MUDRAKER'S, LOOK FOR US AT WILLARD PARK, ONE BLOCK 
 EAST ON STUART AND A HALF BLOCK NORTH ON REGENT. WE WILL GO THERE IF 
 MUDRAKER'S IS TOO CROWDED OR TOO NOISY.  BRING A BLANKET OR SOMESUCH TO 
 SIT ON THE GRASS.\n\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.\n\nCome get connected with SDBA’s many 
 projects!\nstudent debt resistance\n	organizing for public 
 banking\n	advocating for Postal banking\n	fighting modern day debtors’ 
 prisons and exploitive ticketing and fining schemes\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	Working on debarring US Banks that have been convicted of 
 felonies from municipal contracts\n	Working on ways to kickstart the drive 
 for basic income\n	Presenting debt-related topics at forums and 
 workshops\n	and much more! Bring your own debt-related project!\n\nIf you 
 are new to Strike Debt and want to come early and meet one or two of us 
 before the formal meeting starts, email us at 
 strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com .\n\n\n Also check out our website, 
 our twitter feed, and our Facebook page.\n\n\nStrike Debt Bay Area is an 
 offshoot of Occupy Oakland and Strike Debt, itself an offshoot of Occupy 
 Wall Street.\n\n\n\nStrike Debt – Principles of Solidarity\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.\n\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.\n\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.\n\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.\n\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.\n\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 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/03/28/18784562.php
SUMMARY:Strike Debt Bay Area Meeting: Debt Resistance is NOT Futile!
LOCATION:Mudraker's Cafe\n2801 Telegraph Ave, Berkeley, CA 94705, USA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/03/28/18784562.php
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