<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Sustainable Economies Law Center</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:communications@theselc.org">communications@theselc.org</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 12:03 AM<br>Subject: You can make policy! (And we can help!)<br>To: Michel Bauwens <<a href="mailto:michel@p2pfoundation.net">michel@p2pfoundation.net</a>><br><br><br><u></u>
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<br><br>Michel -- <br>
<p dir="ltr">The election is 8 days away! No matter what your feelings
on the Presidential race or the state of our national political
discourse, there are likely many important decisions on the rest of
your ballot this November. If you’re voting in Oakland, <strong>we
have endorsed <a href="http://www.theselc.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oaklandtenantsunion.org%2Fprotect-oakland-renters-yes-on-jj.html&e=5af0fb96cc323505133b237ae4b8287128238f30&utm_source=theselc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=oct16_blast&n=2" target="_blank">Measure
JJ, the Oakland Renter Protection Act</a></strong>. Read more
below!</p>
<p dir="ltr">But your political participation doesn’t have to stop on
November 8th -- <strong>anyone can work to change city, state, and
even national policies to build more just and resilient
communities!</strong> <br><br><em></em><img style="margin:5px 0px" title="Oakland City Council passes our Worker Cooperative Resolution." src="http://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/theselc/mailings/262/attachments/original/wcrbill.jpg?1477926827" alt="Oakland City Council passes our Worker Cooperative Resolution." width="600" height="147"><em><br>Oakland City Council passes our
Worker Cooperative Resolution.</em></p>
<p dir="ltr">Here at Sustainable Economies Law Center, we want to live
in a world where everyone can directly participate in decisions that
shape their economic wellbeing: where everyone has the option to work
in a worker-owned business, to live in democratically-controlled
housing, to be a member of solar cooperatives, food cooperatives, and
cooperative banks.</p>
<p dir="ltr">This requires changing the very means by which policy is
made. More than ever, when massive corporations wield incredible power
to craft policy for their own benefit, <strong>we urgently need to put
everyday people like YOU back into the driver’s seat of
policymaking</strong>.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>That’s why we’re piloting a <a href="http://www.theselc.org/policy_cafe_2016?e=5af0fb96cc323505133b237ae4b8287128238f30&utm_source=theselc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=oct16_blast&n=3" target="_blank">Policy
Cafe</a> in Oakland on December 5th to help you get started on your
idea to change your community for the better.</strong> <a href="http://www.theselc.org/policy_cafe_2016?e=5af0fb96cc323505133b237ae4b8287128238f30&utm_source=theselc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=oct16_blast&n=4" target="_blank">Join
us for our cafe and DIY Policymaking teach-in and explore your inner
policymaker!<br><br></a></p>
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<h2 dir="ltr">IN THE NEWS</h2>
<p dir="ltr">Read our Policy Director’s <a href="http://www.theselc.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.berkeleyside.com%2F2016%2F10%2F21%2Fop-ed-a-better-way-to-address-the-housing-crisis%2F&e=5af0fb96cc323505133b237ae4b8287128238f30&utm_source=theselc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=oct16_blast&n=5" target="_blank">op-ed
in the Berkeleyside</a> about often overlooked solutions to the
housing crisis.</p>
<h2 dir="ltr">FROM THE BLOG</h2>
<p dir="ltr"><strong><a href="http://www.theselc.org/preliminary_feedback_on_new_homemade_food_sales_policy?e=5af0fb96cc323505133b237ae4b8287128238f30&utm_source=theselc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=oct16_blast&n=6" target="_blank">Preliminary
Feedback on New Homemade Food Sales Policy</a> </strong><br>We have
been developing ideas about expanding the scope of the California
Homemade Food Act that we worked on several years ago. There is a lot
of momentum around changing the law to include more types of prepared
foods that are eligible for sale from a home kitchen. We have a lot of
ideas and a lot of questions. Check out our <a href="http://www.theselc.org/expanding_california_s_homemade_food_sales_law?e=5af0fb96cc323505133b237ae4b8287128238f30&utm_source=theselc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=oct16_blast&n=7" target="_blank">new
webpage</a> full of tons of blogs, proposals, and updates on what’s
been happening in this exciting area of food policy!</p>
<strong style="font-size:12px"><a href="http://www.theselc.org/preliminary_feedback_on_new_homemade_food_sales_policy?e=5af0fb96cc323505133b237ae4b8287128238f30&utm_source=theselc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=oct16_blast&n=8" target="_blank"><img style="float:right;margin:5px" title="Yes on Measure JJ" src="http://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/theselc/mailings/262/attachments/original/final-logo_eng.jpg?1477926259" alt="Yes on Measure JJ" width="250" height="146"></a></strong>
<p dir="ltr"><strong><a href="http://www.theselc.org/why_we_endorse_measure_jj_oakland_renter_protection_act?e=5af0fb96cc323505133b237ae4b8287128238f30&utm_source=theselc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=oct16_blast&n=9" target="_blank">Why
We Endorse Oakland Measure JJ</a> </strong><br>Sustainable Economies
Law Center endorses Oakland Measure JJ, the Oakland Renter Protection
Act. <a href="http://www.theselc.org/homeownership_is_dead?e=5af0fb96cc323505133b237ae4b8287128238f30&utm_source=theselc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=oct16_blast&n=10" target="_blank">We
recently declared</a>, “We have to stop profiting from property!” A
necessary and parallel step to rethinking our extractive housing
system as a whole is to stabilize the existing system. Protecting
renters from the economic and psychological harm of eviction and
untenable rent increases is good for the 60% of Oakland residents that
are tenants. It’s also good for the rest of our communities because
stable and self-determined neighborhoods are the foundation of more
just and resilient local economies.</p>
<h2 dir="ltr">UPCOMING EVENTS</h2>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.theselc.org/fall_volunteers_members_hh?e=5af0fb96cc323505133b237ae4b8287128238f30&utm_source=theselc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=oct16_blast&n=11" target="_blank">Fall
Volunteers & Members Happy Hour</a> - November 1st (Double
Standard, Oakland)<br></strong></p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong><a href="http://www.theselc.org/cafe_calendar?e=5af0fb96cc323505133b237ae4b8287128238f30&utm_source=theselc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=oct16_blast&n=12" target="_blank">Resilient
Communities Legal Cafe</a> - November & December (East
Bay)</strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">The Resilient Communities Legal Cafe provides direct
legal advice, workshops, teach-ins, discussions, and legal services to
businesses and organizations that are trying to make their communities
a better place to live and thrive. Come, ask us your questions, and
join others from your neighborhood who are taking their livelihoods,
communities, and economies back! <a href="http://www.theselc.org/cafe_calendar?e=ed92f4e250cb217994ea15ec073e849b403e42b3&utm_source=theselc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=march_2016&n=4&e=5af0fb96cc323505133b237ae4b8287128238f30&utm_source=theselc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=oct16_blast&n=13" target="_blank">See
dates and locations here</a>.</p>
<p><a style="font-size:12px" href="http://www.theselc.org/selling_produce_from_urban_farms?e=5af0fb96cc323505133b237ae4b8287128238f30&utm_source=theselc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=oct16_blast&n=14" target="_blank"><strong>Teach-In:
Selling Produce from Urban Farms</strong></a> - <strong style="font-size:12px">November 10th (City Slickers Farms,
Oakland)</strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">If you’re an urban farmer who wants to sell locally, a
restaurant or store owner who wants to buy from local farms, or just
interested in learning what the challenges and opportunities are for
increasing local food production and consumption, please join us! We
will discuss:</p>
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<p dir="ltr">How to generate local economic activity through urban
agriculture.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">What it means to be a “community food producer” and how
that affects your urban farm.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">What it takes for local food retailers to buy locally
produced food.</p>
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<strong><a href="http://www.theselc.org/2016_fall_celebration?e=5af0fb96cc323505133b237ae4b8287128238f30&utm_source=theselc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=oct16_blast&n=15" target="_blank">7th
Annual Fall Celebration &
Showcase</a> -</strong><span> </span><strong>November
17th</strong><span> </span><strong>(Impact HUB Oakland,
Oakland)<br></strong><span>Join the Sustainable Economies Law Center
as we celebrate 7 years of cultivating a new legal landscape to
support community resilience and grassroots economic empowerment!
We’ll have a delicious dinner catered by </span><a href="http://www.theselc.org/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fmasapalaraza%2F&e=5af0fb96cc323505133b237ae4b8287128238f30&utm_source=theselc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=oct16_blast&n=16" target="_blank">Masa
Pa’La Raza</a><span>, local wine and beer, an entertaining
presentation from the whole SELC team, and much more! Early Bird
tickets on sale for only 5 more days!<br><br><a href="http://www.theselc.org/2016_fall_celebration?e=5af0fb96cc323505133b237ae4b8287128238f30&utm_source=theselc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=oct16_blast&n=17" target="_blank"><img title="Early Bird Tickets Extended to November 5th!" src="http://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/theselc/mailings/262/attachments/original/email-02.png?1477929841" alt="Early Bird Tickets Extended to November 5th!" width="600" height="132"></a><br><span><em>Early Bird Tickets on Sale for 5 More
Days! </em> </span></span><br><br><strong><strong><a href="http://www.theselc.org/2016_end_hh?e=5af0fb96cc323505133b237ae4b8287128238f30&utm_source=theselc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=oct16_blast&n=18" target="_blank">End
O' Year Happy Hour</a> - December 14th (Awaken Cafe,
Oakland)</strong></strong> <strong><strong><br></strong></strong><br><br>In
Solidarity, <br><br>Sustainable Economies Law Center<br><a href="http://www.theselc.org/?e=5af0fb96cc323505133b237ae4b8287128238f30&utm_source=theselc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=oct16_blast&n=19" target="_blank">http://www.theselc.org/</a>
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