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DESCRIPTION:\nCome get connected with SDBA’s projects - we have exciting work to do 
 in 2019!\n\n\n 	Our medical debt erasure campaign with RIP Medical Debt is 
 doing well (but needs more signal-boosting). We joined another Alameda 
 County campaign, and together we’re more than halfway to our minimum 
 goal. Our donation page is here. The online version of our flyer, with 
 live links, is here. Our FAQ is here. We can also link you to a printable 
 version of the flyer if you have places to hand them out.\n 	Continuing 
 our discussion group on Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth (moving on 
 to Chapter 7 and the end of the book, on May 11 at 4:30 at the OMNI). Two 
 of the book group members entered the author’s competition for an 8th way 
 to think like a 21st-century economist.\n 	Organizing for public banking in 
 the East Bay! Public Banking East Bay (which overlaps significantly with 
 our group) is also an active member of the California Public Banking 
 Alliance. The Green New Deal envisions financing through public banks! 
 AB857, which will pave the way for local and regional California public 
 banks, is in committee hearings next week in Sacramento.\n 	Supporting 
 student debt resistance, working with our sister organization, The Debt 
 Collective. At the end of last year, the Debt Collective won a huge 
 victory against Betsy DeVos and the Trump Department of “Education.”\n 
 	Supporting the progress of bail reform law, better than the 2018 
 California law (including the new end of cash bail policy in Mecklenburg 
 County, North Carolina, Charlotte’s county), while also fighting modern 
 day debtors’ prisons and exploitative ticketing and fining schemes\n 
 	Helping out America’s only non-profit check-cashing organization (an 
 Oakland institution) and fighting against usurious for-profit pay-day 
 lenders and their ilk\n 	Advocating for postal banking, now a national 
 conversation because of Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s bill to restore it 
 to U.S. law\n 	Fighting the current proposed cuts to Medicare and Medicaid, 
 while promoting single-payer / Medicare for All to end the plague of 
 medical debt\n 	Organizing for Tiny Homes, better sanctioned encampments 
 than Oakland is now currently creating, and other ways to help homeless 
 people get housing and support\n 	Promoting the concept of universal basic 
 income\n 	Bring your own debt-related project!\n\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.\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/2019/04/26/18822970.php
SUMMARY:Strike Debt Bay Area: Debt Resistance in the Age of Trump
LOCATION:Omni Commons\n4799 Shattuck, Oakland, CA
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