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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Capitalist austerity and alienation or Solarpunk economic democracy
·OnlineOnlineBay Area Solarpunks Podcast Club
Join us for an online open discussion on “Capitalist austerity and alienation or Solarpunk economic democracy.”
Workers are experiencing capitalist rationalization of jobs to maximize profits: low wages, work speedup and demand-driven scheduling, gig and contract work with no benefits, unsafe/unhealthy working conditions, surveillance, management by AI.
Solarpunk is rebellious and anti-capitalist, envisioning a civilization made up of democratic communities living in harmony with nature.
How does capitalism impact you? It’s affect on America? How should work be organized and workers empowered?
While all are welcome to come and observe, watching the videos is required for participation.
June 25th at 7:30. Zoom MeetingRequired videos:
Late Stage Capitalism is Sucking the Life Out of Young Americans 24 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4kHJ6NeS-4&t=1036s
Why Austerity Works for Capitalism | Clara Mattei watch to minute 17:40
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RhMZtaoPEQ
Blauner on Alienation | Work, Poverty & Welfare watch to minute 5:17 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTakSDaVioY
Let's Go Solarpunks 3 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0UoxzgMFaw4 attendees
Past events
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