About us
Bay Area Solarpunks is eco-futurist, optimistic, and rebellious.
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We envision a future where people live in harmony with nature in autonomous communities organized as participatory democracies.
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We oppose all forms of exploitation of nature and people.
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We are part of the global Solarpunk Movement.
Our immediate goal is to build a Solarpunk community in the Bay Area, discussing, researching, and critiquing environmental, social, political, and cultural issues. We have monthly discussions, a blog with essays, fiction, and art, a book club, and movie nights.
Our midrange goal is to create an alternative community with our own beliefs, culture, permaculture gardens, third spaces, and governance.
The global Solarpunk Movement’s long term goal is to save civilization from itself by replacing capitalism and colonialism with a new world of democratically run communities living symbiotically with the natural world.
Upcoming events
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Does America Have a Ruling Class?
·OnlineOnlineMeet with Bay Area Solarpunks for an online open discussion on Does America Have a Ruling Class?
Solarpunk is an optimistic and visionary movement to create a civilization in harmony with nature, based on democratically run egalitarian communities. It is rebellious and opposed to all exploitation and oppression.
Questions:
Is American society a rigid class hierarchy?
Are major institutions responsive to the people: The Federal government; financial institutions and corporations; Non-Governmental Organizations, think tanks?
Why have both political parties implemented policies of endless war abroad and austerity at home?
Are media and social media truth-tellers or propagandists?
Does the Constitution guarantee democracy?
Rreadings/videos. Feel free to observe and listen, but to participate, read/watch the following:
Is the U.S. becoming an oligarchy?
https://www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/issues/economic-justice/is-the-us-witnessing-the-rise-of-oligarchy/ 5 min.Capitalism is working as it's supposed to, and it's not working for most people - Richard Wolff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC1OTU0_ClE 4 min.
Chris Hedges: The American Ruling Class Explained https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2FtPuhTDyM 2 min.
The End Of Capitalism Is Here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iobyc6tvn5E 20 min.How the media manufactured consent for genocide: Assal Rad interview | The Listening Post https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWCcF_Vaqmw 11 min.
Christopher Rufo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Rufo 8 min.NGOs: Can we trust them? Not on your life! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8ddTAASgBg&t=920s 18 min.
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Past events
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