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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 two-thirds of the way 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. Press 
 release: press-release-after-1m-raised-final\n 	Continuing our discussion 
 group on new economic thinking., which began by reading and Doughnut 
 Economics by Kate Raworth, and is continuing with Take Back the Economy by 
 Gibson-Graham et al.  This month, the book group discussion will take 
 place immediately following the Strike Debt Bay Area meeting.\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\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\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/06/16/18824017.php
SUMMARY:Strike Debt Bay Area Meeting - Fighting Back Against Unjust Debt
LOCATION:Omni Commons\n4799 Shattuck Ave., Oakland, CA\n(check the whiteboard for 
 room location; check upstairs and downstairs)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/06/16/18824017.php
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