Peace & Freedom Party’s co-sponsored Suds, Snacks & Socialism monthly forum series continues in online form via Zoom meeting on Saturday, May 7, entitled World Workers Rising.

In this post-May Day forum, the current state of labor organizing in the US and abroad is explored. Speakers will discuss recent victories, new leadership, unionization of traditionally marginalized workers, and how this trend is related to the fight for Socialism.

Guest speakers include:

• David Bacon, photojournalist, author, political activist and union organizer;
• Barry Eidlin, Assistant Professor of Sociology at McGill University and author of Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and Canada; and
• Joe Thompson, who successfully helped organize the first Starbucks union in California.

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.

This forum is co-sponsored by the Oakland Greens, the Alameda County Peace and 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 continues in online form via Zoom meeting on Saturday, April 2, to discuss The D.A. recall and San Francisco values. 

Chesa Boudin, San Francisco’s recently elected District Attorney, is facing a recall election in June. It does not please certain interests in the liberal city that he is fulfilling his campaign promise of prosecuting police officers who use excessive force and fatally shoot without cause.

Guest speakers include

• Lara Bazelon, law professor at the University of San Francisco, on behalf of the Chesa Boudin anti-recall campaign;
• Dan Kapelovitz, Green Party candidate for California Attorney General; and
• Richard Tan, criminal defense attorney in Oakland.

Join them as they discuss what it means to be a progressive prosecutor as well as the possibilities for real justice and public safety in a capitalist system.

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.

This forum is co-sponsored by the Oakland Greens, the Alameda County Peace and 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 continues in online form via Zoom meeting on Saturday, February 5, to discuss Building an Independent Campaign to Put the “Public” in “Public Education”. 

Meet Marco Amaral, an independent PFP-endorsed candidate for State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Join us in a discussion about California public schools, democracy, and independence from the two-party system.

Marco Amaral is a special education teacher and School Board Trustee for the South Bay Union School District in San Diego. He “proudly reclaim[s] radicalism as the only viable solution for comprehensive change and improvements for every student, every worker, every family, and every community.”

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.

This forum is co-sponsored by the Oakland Greens, the Alameda County Peace and 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 and Freedom Party or our fellow co-sponsors.

Peace & Freedom Party’s co-sponsored Suds, Snacks & Socialism monthly forum series continues in online form via Zoom meeting on Saturday, January 8, to discuss Education as Political Football.

Political polarization in the United States is playing out in public school governance, policies, and curricula, as well as in political rhetoric around public education. From vaccine and mask mandates to ethnic studies, race and class battle lines abound.

Join the speakers at this forum, who will talk about the impending San Francisco School Board recall election, the recent Virginia gubernatorial election and other topics to illustrate how public education is serving as a staging area for system-wide conflict.

• Scott McLemee, Intellectual Affairs columnist for Inside Higher Ed.
• Jack Gerson, retired Oakland public school teacher and former Oakland Education Association executive board and bargaining team member.
• Nathalie Hrizi, bilingual librarian/teacher with SFUSD for 15 years and UESF Executive Board member for three years, currently VP for Substitutes, and Peace & Freedom Party candidate for Insurance Commissioner.

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.

This forum is co-sponsored by the Oakland Greens, the Alameda County Peace and 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 and Freedom Party or our fellow co-sponsors.