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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, continued with Take Back the Economy by 
 Gibson-Graham et al, and for our August meeting will read the introduction 
 and first chapter of Ellen Brown's latest book, Banking on the People: 
 Democratizing Money in the Digital Age. 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 	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 	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 	Bring 
 your own debt-related project!\n\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/2019/08/08/18825273.php
SUMMARY:Strike Debt Bay Area Meeting: Debt Resistance - You Are Not a Loan!
LOCATION:Omni Commons\n4799 Shattuck Ave., Oakland, CA\n(Check whiteboard at 
 entrance for room location)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/08/18825273.php
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