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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 
 all  but complete. We joined another Alameda County campaign, and together 
 we’re more than 90% of the way to our 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 September meeting will read through the 
 first section (Chapters 1-6) 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, 
 beginning at 4:30 PM.\n 	Organizing for public banking in the East 
 Bay! Public Banking East Bay (which overlaps 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, 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\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\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/11/18825388.php
SUMMARY:Strike Debt Bay Area Meeting: Debt Resistance is NOT Futile!
LOCATION:Omni Commons\n4799 Shattuck Ave., Oakland, CA\n(look on whiteboard near 
 entrance for room location)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/11/18825388.php
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