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DESCRIPTION:LIVE PODCAST/PANEL DISCUSSION: What Everyone Should Know about Resisting 
 State Repression\nWHERE: First Unitarian Church of Oakland; 685 14th St, 
 Oakland, CA
\nWHEN: Sunday, October 26th at 7pm; Doors open at 
 6:30pm\nVIRTUAL OPTION: Will be livestreaming and recording the event. 
 Please RSVP and you'd get the link closer to the 
 event.\nRSVP:https://bit.ly/ResistStateRepression\n\nJoin us on October 
 26th at 7pm for a panel on resisting state repression. The panel will 
 feature journalist and author Will Potter, Meg Calaw with the League of 
 Filipino Students, civil rights and criminal defense attorney John Viola 
 and other panelists TBA.\n\nPresident Trump has designated the anti-fascist 
 movement as a terrorist organization. While, in fact, it’s an opportunity 
 for his administration to target and destroy a broader network of left and 
 progressive groups. We’re living in challenging times with crises around 
 war in the Middle East, renewed McCarthyist attacks on free speech, 
 corporate domination of everyday life, escalating climate disasters and, 
 now, a fascist takeover of our government.\n\nAs Will Potter has said, 
 “The intention is to capitalize on this to crack down on their opponents 
 and to consolidate authoritarian power.”\n\nWe’re also living in a time 
 where large numbers of people have taken to the streets to confront those 
 responsible for these crises. Today’s state repression is aimed to 
 eliminate that opposition.\n\nThis panel will explore the ongoing conflict 
 between democratic resistance movements and state repression and lessons 
 that we can use to push back against this authoritarian 
 takeover.\n\nPanelist Bios//\n\nWill Potter is an award-winning 
 investigative journalist and TED Senior Fellow who exposes political 
 repression and the erosion of civil liberties. His reporting and commentary 
 have appeared in The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, and Rolling Stone. He 
 is the author of “Green is the New Red” and his new book is “Little 
 Red Barns: Hiding The Truth, From Farm To Fable.”\n\n\nMeg Kalaw is an 
 organizer with Gabriela Berkeley, a local organization of Filipina women 
 that fights for genuine liberation and national democracy in the 
 Philippines. Currently, Gab Berkeley is waging the Chevron Out of the 
 Philippines campaign, to expose the corporate plunder that multinational 
 corporations like Chevron enact in the Philippines and the particular 
 impacts on peasant and indigenous women and children. Meg is also the 
 regional coordinator of the International League of People’s Struggles 
 NorCal, a regional alliance of anti-imperialist organizations in the Bay 
 Area who are united under fighting state repression and promoting 
 international solidarity.\n\n\nJohn Viola is a Bay Area civil rights and 
 criminal defense attorney.\n\nOther Panelists TBA.\n\n**Donations on a 
 $5-20 sliding scale, no one turned away for lack of funds.\n\nCo-sponsored 
 by Green and Red Podcast, Diablo Rising Tide, XR SF Bay, Oil and Gas Action 
 Network and Bay Resistance.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/10/13/18880673.php
SUMMARY:Panel Discussion: What Everyone Should Know about Resisting State Repression
LOCATION:First Unitarian Church of Oakland•685 14th St., Oakland, CA 94612 US
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/10/13/18880673.php
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