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DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n(Backup location if Paris Baguette has no seating: Oscar Grant Plaza 
 amphitheater, outside of City Hall.)\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\n\nCome get 
 connected with SDBA’s projects!\norganizing for public banking\n 	Tiny 
 Homes for the homeless.\n 	Working on debarring US Banks that have been 
 convicted of felonies from municipal contract\n 	money bail reform 
 and 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 	student debt resistance\n 	Promoting the concept of Basic 
 Income\n 	advocating for Postal banking\n 	Presenting debt-related topics 
 at forums and workshops\n 	Bring your own debt-related project!\n\nIf you 
 are new to Strike Debt and want to come early , meet one or two of us and 
 get a briefing on our projects before we dive into our agenda, email us at 
 strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com .\n\n\n Also check out our website, 
 our twitter feed, our radio segments 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\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/2016/10/16/18792320.php
SUMMARY:Strike Debt Bay Area: Debt Resistance is NOT Futile!
LOCATION:Paris Baguette Cafe\n14th St & Jefferson St, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/10/16/18792320.php
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