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DESCRIPTION:Come get connected with SDBA’s projects - we have exciting work to do in 
 2019!\n\n \n\n 	NEW: Relieving millions in local Medical Debt through 
 pennies-on-the-dollar buyback programs.\n 	NEW: A book group and seminar 
 focused on Economic Inequality and Economic Theory for the modern age.\n 
 	Presenting 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 	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 	Working on 
 debarring US Banks that have been convicted of felonies from municipal 
 contracts, and divesting from the Wall St. banks\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 Also check out our website, our twitter 
 feed, our radio segments and our Facebook page. Take a look at the local 
 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\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/2019/02/03/18820958.php
SUMMARY:Strike Debt Bay Area: Debt Resistance is Not Futile!
LOCATION:Omni Commons\n4799 Shattuck, Oakland, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/02/03/18820958.php
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