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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!\nPresenting debt and inequality related topics at forums, 
 workshops and in radio productions\n 	Promoting single-payer / Medicare for 
 All to end the plague of medical debt\n 	money bail reform and fighting 
 modern day debtors’ prisons and exploitative ticketing and fining 
 schemes\n 	Working on debarring US Banks that have been convicted of 
 felonies from municipal contracts, and divesting from the Wall St. banks\n 
 	Tiny Homes and other solutions for the homeless.\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, our full-hour radio 
 show on Financial Inequality, and our Facebook page. Take a look at the 
 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\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/2017/12/16/18805334.php
SUMMARY:Strike Debt Bay Area Meeting: Debt Resistance is NOT Futile!
LOCATION:Omni Commons - check the whiteboard for location within\n4799 Shattuck, 
 Oakland, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/12/16/18805334.php
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