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One of the main tools of the 1% is divide-and-conquer. For example, the two-party political system was designed to distract the working-class in pointless conflict, leaving the 1% free to enslave everybody. Schaaf and her developer puppet-masters organized a campaign to attack here and other places like this: black churches, Malonga Center, and the drummers at Lake Merritt. All of these institutions aspire to bring working-class people together in community and thus pose a threat to the hegemony of the 1%. So today we are hosting another wedding at working-class prices. We do it out of love for these young people and for the community. Let them keep their money and use it support their new lives together.

Photos from Humanist Hall's post

More Hindu wedding pictures. Saluting Oakland diversity, living together in love and friendship!

Photos from Humanist Hall's post

A Hindu wedding at Humanist Hall. Oakland uses joyful happenings to fight the evil that feeds on suffering and enslavement!

Terence McKenna

Works if you aren't destroyed by the status quo using violence!

Humanist Hall's cover photo

Shake Rumble & Roll

There will be a benefit tomorrow, featuring middle eastern and oriental dance, to help save elephants from extinction: https://www.facebook.com/events/106560216412471/

The Free Thought Project

Timeline Photos

We just got a notice from yelp saying that we are popular there. Our yelp account was created as part of a smear campaign against the Hall back in 2008. We linked the account to developer interests by visiting the creator's yelp account. That account recommended a lawyer who was "good at attacking vulnerable properties for real estate deals" (or something like that). The first picture that they posted was a picture of large gray primer-spot on one of our building columns. Ironically, we were in the process of painting the building but the picture made us look like we were in deep disrepair. The reality is that we have been working on the building ever since 2000 and it is very sound now. That is what much of the rental fee goes towards so that, hopefully, all the young millennials will have a good building to go to long after we are gone.

This is a good explanation of one of the many reasons that we will not sell Humanist Hall. We think that the current hierarchies of privilege are dying and will be replaced by highly-effective non-hierarchical networks of collaborators. The status quo will turn to violence and humiliation to suppress parts of the grassroots networked economy, but in the long-run, they will collapse from their inefficiency and inability to serve people's needs. ******************************************************************** "Central banks have a monopoly on issuing and distributing money and credit. Given that monopolies generate stagnation, inequality and instability, and central banks are monopolies par excellence, it is unsurprising that the central bank system rewards privilege, not productivity or innovation. The key feature of the central bank system is that the money/ credit is not distributed to those producing goods and services— the money/ credit flow only to the privileged few at the top. In other words, the creation and distribution of money/ credit are completely disconnected from the production of value. The money/ credit flow only to the privileged few who can use this credit to buy productive assets, outbidding those who only have savings. With such an advantage, the wealthy few become increasingly wealthy, as they buy up more assets and gain the income from these assets." Smith, Charles Hugh. A Radically Beneficial World: Automation, Technology and Creating Jobs for All: The Future Belongs to Work That Is Meaningful (pp. 94-95). Trewe Press. Kindle Edition.

ManKind Project - Northern California Community

This week we host the Mankind Project. The Mankind Project encourages men to find joy and meaning through community service. They build a sweat lodge and incorporate some American Indian culture into their process. The members are extremely helpful and a joy to work with. We see it as a model of the future, in stark opposition to consumerist social-isolation and narcissism. They turn the hall property into a kind of primitive village for a few days.

Dave Janda: Bad Medicine

Many people have heard about the recent slaughter of alternative health-care practitioners. Here is an excellent interview with Dave Janda about the war that is currently being waged against globalist-banker death-culture-dominated healthcare in the US. People are really starting to wake-up! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gmw5okTVvqA

Charles Hughes Smith captures the battle being waged here at Humanist Hall between us and the City of Oakland. Probably even some of our worst enemies at the City of Oakland Planning Department would agree with this. "The Neoliberal/ State Fantasy of Taxable Profits and Wages The status quo (neoliberal) fantasy is that every good and service can become a profitable market of transactions and wages which generate tax revenues for the state. Consider two households as an example. Household #1 eats most of its meals in cafes and restaurants, and whatever meals are eaten at home are packaged— frozen pizza, mixes, etc. This household sends its children to private schools and pays for after-school care and enrichment lessons. A maid is paid to clean the house, and a gardener is paid to care for the yard. The maintenance of the family vehicles is done by others, and a dog walker is paid to walk the family pet. All home maintenance is done by professionals. Mom and Dad pay personal trainers for their fitness regimes, and pay monthly fees for gym memberships. Household #1 is the private sector’s fantasy: every activity generates revenue and profit. This is the state’s fantasy, too: every activity generates transactions, profits and wages that are all taxed. Household #2 is in a traditional village. The children go to the local school, and the parents scrape up what little cash is available to pay school fees and buy supplies. All meals are prepared at home with food that is homegrown or obtained by barter. All household tasks are done by the household members, including home maintenance. Any labor that cannot be performed within the household (for example, repairing the household’s old motorbike) is bartered by in-kind labor or homegrown food. Virtually all of the activity in Household #2 is done without paying anyone. Household #2 is the neoliberal nightmare: there is essentially no potential for profit in this village because nobody has enough income to pay for anything beyond low-profit basics such a few school supplies. Needs are met without generating profit, wages or taxes paid to the state. This village is also the state’s worst nightmare, because with no transactions, profit or paid labor, there is no activity that can be taxed. Measured by conventional metrics of gross domestic product (GDP), the village produces near-zero GDP. By these same metrics, Household #1 generates an enormous amount of GDP. Which is more sustainable, given that profits and paid labor are both in structural decline? Is conventional GDP measuring what is actually important in each household? The problem with the neoliberal/ state fantasy is that only the top 5% of American households can afford the lifestyle of Household #1 without going deeply into debt. The idea that the market and state can transform every aspect of human activity into a profitable venture that generates tax revenues for the state is not just detached from reality— it ignores what’s actually important: sustainable well-being." Smith, Charles Hugh (2016-04-20). Why Our Status Quo Failed and Is Beyond Reform (Kindle Locations 1039-1046). . Kindle Edition. Smith, Charles Hugh (2016-04-20). Why Our Status Quo Failed and Is Beyond Reform (Kindle Locations 1022-1039). . Kindle Edition.