Peace & Freedom Party’s co-sponsored Suds, Snacks & Socialism monthly forum series at the Starry Plough Pub in Berkeley (3101 Shattuck Avenue; click here for map) on Saturday, October 7. All are welcome to discuss the topic Fighting the information behemoth: Why we need alternative media .

(Please note that for technical reasons this edition of the forum will *not* be available via live stream.)

The corporate press has always expressed the views of the rich and powerful. Now that giant corporations are consuming and consolidating once nominally independent news outlets, there is very little independent reporting. In order to get news about things like grassroots organizing, anti-capitalist political parties, efforts to halt state violence and anti-war viewpoints, we turn to alternative sources.

Join our panelists to discuss some quality alternative sources and how we can access and support them:

• Ann Garrison – contributing editor at Black Agenda Report; contributor to The Grayzone, Pacifica Radio, and other outlets;
• Frank Sterling – programmer, KPFA Radio’s “Full Circle”; producer, First Voice Media; member of the Oscar Grant Committee and Reimagine Anitoch; and
• Ken Epstein – Education Editor for the Oakland Post; former communication director for the Oakland Education Association.

Serving as moderator is Marsha Feinland of PFP.

The program will start promptly at 2:30pm PT and is expected to wrap up by 4:30pm. For more information, write This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for login instructions.

Please support the Starry Plough by ordering food and/or drinks. Please try to arrive early to place your order so that you do not miss any of the presentations. An open discussion will follow the presentations. We will be accepting donations which will be divided among the sponsoring organizations.

This forum is co-sponsored by the Oakland Greens, the Alameda County Peace & Freedom Party and Bay Area System Change Not Climate Change. The forum is part of our ongoing Socialist Forum Series on the first Saturday of every month. Our purpose is informed political discussion, and the views expressed are those of the speakers only, not official positions of the Peace & Freedom Party or our fellow co-sponsors.

Peace & Freedom Party’s co-sponsored Suds, Snacks & Socialism monthly forum series at the Starry Plough Pub in Berkeley (3101 Shattuck Avenue; click here for map) on Saturday, September 9. All are welcome to discuss the topic Labor on the Move: Prospects and Challenges.

(Please note that for technical reasons this edition of the forum will *not* be available via live stream.)

Following the Covid disruptions, we are seeing a new militancy among U.S. workers, with an uptick of labor organizing and activity that has not been seen in decades. President Biden was able to stop railway workers from striking last December. Now union members are choosing more progressive leadership.

Join our panelists to discuss how workers can assert themselves independently and throw off the stranglehold by the Democratic Party:

• Luna Osleger – United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW) member, academic researcher at UC Santa Cruz and the shop steward at her workplace;
• Yajaira Cuapio – United Educators of San Francisco (UESF) organizer for the bargaining team in their contract fight, and a social worker at SFUSD for nine years;
• Ramon Patrick Blanco – Teamsters Local #70 member, a decades-long member of Teamsters for a Democratic Union, and, though no longer a UPS worker, played a major role in preparations for the UPS strike.

Serving as moderator is Marsha Feinland of PFP.

The program will start promptly at 2:30pm PT and is expected to wrap up by 4:30pm. To join the forum, click here or write This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for login instructions.

Please support the Starry Plough by ordering food and/or drinks. Please try to arrive early to place your order so that you do not miss any of the presentations. An open discussion will follow the presentations. We will be accepting donations which will be divided among the sponsoring organizations.

This forum is co-sponsored by the Oakland Greens, the Alameda County Peace & Freedom Party and Bay Area System Change Not Climate Change. The forum is part of our ongoing Socialist Forum Series on the first Saturday of every month. Our purpose is informed political discussion, and the views expressed are those of the speakers only, not official positions of the Peace & Freedom Party or our fellow co-sponsors.

Anti-nuclear weapons activists gathered at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory on August 4 to commemorate the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 and to say “Never again!”

This year’s theme was honoring the memory of anti-nuclear weapons activist Daniel Ellsberg.

Several Peace and Freedom Party members showed up in support of the cause!

--written by Marsha Feinland

from L to R: PFP members Kathy Labriola, Marsha Feinland, Eric Bergman

PFP member C.T. Weber

Peace & Freedom Party’s co-sponsored Suds, Snacks & Socialism monthly forum series at the Starry Plough Pub in Berkeley (3101 Shattuck Avenue; click here for map) on Saturday, June 3. All are welcome to discuss the topic Attack on Trans People: A page from the fascist playbook.

(Can’t participate in person? Join the forum online! Click here to register and join in.)

Fascism is authoritarianism and class war combined with destruction of social relations within the working class. In order to gain power, fascist movements amplify already-existing prejudices among working-class people, positioning themselves as the defenders of “normal” people against the “others.”

Trans people are currently under attack from both street-level violence and legislation. These attacks, and the propaganda aimed at getting working-class people to support them, are part of the war against the entire working class. The purpose, as ever, is to prevent the growth of workers’ solidarity by driving a wedge between us based on our differences.

We need to be united to fight for our everyday needs and for a better future for all.

Join our panelists to discuss what is happening to trans people in the context of the general conditions in this country and to explore ways to fight the growth of fascism in the USA.

• Cassandra Devereaux – transwoman writer for Fighting Words, the journal of the Communist Workers League; and
• Rosa Astra – organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) in Oakland, writer for Liberation News and socialist feminist magazine Breaking the Chains.

Serving as moderator is Marsha Feinland of PFP.

The program will start promptly at 2:30pm PT and is expected to wrap up by 4:30pm. To join the forum, click here or write This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for login instructions.

Please help us celebrate our return to the Starry Plough by ordering food and/or drinks. Please try to arrive early to place your order so that you do not miss any of the presentations. An open discussion will follow the presentations. We will be accepting donations which will be divided among the sponsoring organizations.

This forum is co-sponsored by the Oakland Greens, the Alameda County Peace & Freedom Party and Bay Area System Change Not Climate Change. The forum is part of our ongoing Socialist Forum Series on the first Saturday of every month. Our purpose is informed political discussion, and the views expressed are those of the speakers only, not official positions of the Peace & Freedom Party or our fellow co-sponsors..