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DESCRIPTION:Strike 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!\nPromoting single-payer / Medicare for All to end the plague of 
 medical debt\n 	Presenting debt-related topics at forums and workshops\n 
 	Tiny Homes for the homeless.\n 	Working on debarring US Banks that have 
 been convicted of felonies from municipal contracts, and divesting from the 
 Wall St. banks\n 	money bail reform and fighting modern day debtors’ 
 prisons and exploitive ticketing and fining schemes\n 	Student debt 
 resistance. Check out the Debt Collective, our sister organization\n 
 	helping out America’s only non-profit check-cashing organization and 
 fighting against usurious for-profit pay-day lenders and their ilk\n 
 	Promoting the concept of Basic Income\n 	Advocating for Postal banking\n 
 	Organizing for public banking in Oakland! We made the first steps 
 happen… now there’s a spinoff group\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. 
 Take a look at our Public Banking website, Friends of the Public Bank of 
 Oakland.\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/2017/05/20/18799591.php
SUMMARY:Strike Debt Bay Area Meeting: Debt Resistance is NOT Futile!
LOCATION:Paris Baugette\nJefferson & 14th St., Oakland, CA\n3 blocks from downtown 
 Oakland BART
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/05/20/18799591.php
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