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DESCRIPTION:\n\nCome get connected with SDBA’s projects - we have exciting work to do 
 in 2019!\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\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\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/2019/03/23/18822169.php
SUMMARY:Strike Debt Bay Area: You Are Not a Loan!
LOCATION:Omni Commons\n4799 Shattuck, Oakland, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/03/23/18822169.php
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