April 2020
Online Study Group: What Will It Take to Save a World in Crisis? Reform vs. Revolution
The global pandemic, impending economic collapse, and the survival of the earth itself at risk—with stakes this high, how do we focus our organizing? Can the course reversal we need be achieved through piecemeal reforms and voting in democratic socialists? Or will it take a complete transformation of the current capitalist system? In this remote access-study group, we’ll discuss the current crisis and concrete steps toward moving humanity through it. Historic debates over the relationship between battling for vital social…
Find out more »May 2020
Safety First – Not Profit: Frontline Essential Workers Speak Out
From healthcare providers to grocery clerks, to utility workers, people staffing essential services are being asked to sacrifice safety to reduce costs and protect profits. But there’s more than enough wealth to provide the equipment, procedures, and distancing necessary to stop COVID-19 and all other workplace hazards. Hear San Francisco Water Department plumber Amy Gray-Schlink and Amazon-Whole Foods shopper Sam Rubin describe efforts to fight for worker protections at their jobs, and what it will take to win. Add your…
Find out more »Poetry in the Time of the Pandemic and Other Earthly Ills
Join award-winning poets Nellie Wong, Genny Lim, Kim Shuck, Maw Shein Win, and Alice Rogoff reading a selection of their works. These five Bay Area poets will share their lifelong experience of current events past and present through verse. This is a live online event hosted on Zoom. After purchasing a ticket, you will be provided the registration link in email to complete details to join the webinar on the day of the poetry reading....
Find out more »July 2020
Demand Radical Reforms: A Discussion on Reining in the Police
Working people are rebelling against police repression and brutality throughout the world. The murder of George Floyd ignited another round of protests. Communities are unified in their demand for substantive change to rein in the terror that cops perpetuate. Calls are being raised to defund, disarm, abolish, and/or demilitarize the police, kick the cops out of the union movement, and create an elected civilian review board. What do each of these demands mean and what would they accomplish? Join the…
Find out more »Organizing Meeting: Stop Police Violence – Slash the SFPD Budget
Join with community members and activists to kick off a coalition that will call on the San Francisco City government to make major cuts to the police budget. By decreasing the cops’ allotment by half or more, the racist practices of the police can be reined in. Funds should be re-directed to provide jobs, housing, healthcare and education to the city’s most underserved communities. All are welcome. Come share your ideas for making police defunding a reality. Online meeting. Click…
Find out more »September 2020
Devastating Climate Change – Socialist Feminist Solutions to Save Mother Earth
The wildfires devouring homes and making the air unbreathable result from the climate crisis created by capitalism’s drive for profit. Big oil knew decades ago that carbon dioxide buildup would cause global warming and change weather patterns to cause devastation by drought, fires, storms and flooding. California’s yearly infernos are a consequence. Even the COVID pandemic can be traced to the planet’s rising temperatures. To save the Earth, conservation and individual solutions are not enough. Hear a Marxist feminist…
Find out more »Online Study Group: The State and Revolution
A tidal wave of protest against racist police violence coinciding with a deadly pandemic, the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, and environmental devastation is presenting social activists with urgent and profound political challenges. • How do we understand and expose the role of the police and legal system in sustaining white male supremacy and class exploitation? • What demands will most challenge the capitalist status quo, create meaningful change, and empower working and oppressed people? • What will…
Find out more »Online Study Group: The State and Revolution
A tidal wave of protest against racist police violence coinciding with a deadly pandemic, the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, and environmental devastation is presenting social activists with urgent and profound political challenges. • How do we understand and expose the role of the police and legal system in sustaining white male supremacy and class exploitation? • What demands will most challenge the capitalist status quo, create meaningful change, and empower working and oppressed people? • What will…
Find out more »October 2020
Online Study Group: The State and Revolution
A tidal wave of protest against racist police violence coinciding with a deadly pandemic, the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, and environmental devastation is presenting social activists with urgent and profound political challenges. • How do we understand and expose the role of the police and legal system in sustaining white male supremacy and class exploitation? • What demands will most challenge the capitalist status quo, create meaningful change, and empower working and oppressed people? • What will…
Find out more »Online Study Group: The State and Revolution
A tidal wave of protest against racist police violence coinciding with a deadly pandemic, the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, and environmental devastation is presenting social activists with urgent and profound political challenges. • How do we understand and expose the role of the police and legal system in sustaining white male supremacy and class exploitation? • What demands will most challenge the capitalist status quo, create meaningful change, and empower working and oppressed people? • What will…
Find out more »Online Study Group: The State and Revolution
A tidal wave of protest against racist police violence coinciding with a deadly pandemic, the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, and environmental devastation is presenting social activists with urgent and profound political challenges. • How do we understand and expose the role of the police and legal system in sustaining white male supremacy and class exploitation? • What demands will most challenge the capitalist status quo, create meaningful change, and empower working and oppressed people? • What will…
Find out more »Online Study Group: The State and Revolution
A tidal wave of protest against racist police violence coinciding with a deadly pandemic, the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, and environmental devastation is presenting social activists with urgent and profound political challenges. • How do we understand and expose the role of the police and legal system in sustaining white male supremacy and class exploitation? • What demands will most challenge the capitalist status quo, create meaningful change, and empower working and oppressed people? • What will…
Find out more »November 2020
Online Study Group: The State and Revolution
A tidal wave of protest against racist police violence coinciding with a deadly pandemic, the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, and environmental devastation is presenting social activists with urgent and profound political challenges. • How do we understand and expose the role of the police and legal system in sustaining white male supremacy and class exploitation? • What demands will most challenge the capitalist status quo, create meaningful change, and empower working and oppressed people? • What will…
Find out more »Online Study Group: The State and Revolution
A tidal wave of protest against racist police violence coinciding with a deadly pandemic, the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, and environmental devastation is presenting social activists with urgent and profound political challenges. • How do we understand and expose the role of the police and legal system in sustaining white male supremacy and class exploitation? • What demands will most challenge the capitalist status quo, create meaningful change, and empower working and oppressed people? • What will…
Find out more »Online Study Group: The State and Revolution
A tidal wave of protest against racist police violence coinciding with a deadly pandemic, the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, and environmental devastation is presenting social activists with urgent and profound political challenges. • How do we understand and expose the role of the police and legal system in sustaining white male supremacy and class exploitation? • What demands will most challenge the capitalist status quo, create meaningful change, and empower working and oppressed people? • What will…
Find out more »Online Study Group: The State and Revolution
A tidal wave of protest against racist police violence coinciding with a deadly pandemic, the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, and environmental devastation is presenting social activists with urgent and profound political challenges. • How do we understand and expose the role of the police and legal system in sustaining white male supremacy and class exploitation? • What demands will most challenge the capitalist status quo, create meaningful change, and empower working and oppressed people? • What will…
Find out more »Beyond Biden: Working-Class Remedies for a World in Crisis
Trump was defeated. But Biden & Harris won't solve the multitude of problems that working people are faced with, from COVID and climate devastation to police killings of people of color. What will work, based on history, are mass movements. They have been the catalyst for working people's gains. Today this is truer than ever. Los Angeles FSP invites you to join this online discussion hosted by our Bay Area branch on how to build a revolutionary feminist groundswell in…
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