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No experience needed! We had an amazing time last weekend with our 8-foot "Billionaires Should Not Exist" banner, talking to pedestrians about building the movement for Bernie Sanders and democratic socialism. Join us! RSVP to: Harris: [email protected] or 206.962.1352 We'll be meeting at Olympia Coffee at 10:30am in Columbia City, and will begin tabling at ... Read more
----> RSVP HERE <----- Nurses and healthcare workers at Swedish Medical Center are going on strike January 28 - 30! We encourage all Seattle DSA members who are able to stand with SEIU 1199NW in their fight for a fair contract that addresses severe under-staffing and prioritizes patient safety. To learn more about their strike, ... Read more
We’ll discuss chapters 14 through the end of Naomi Klein’s On Fire: the (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal. Bring your suggestions for what you'd like to read next! Karl Marx, 1867: “Even an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not owners of the earth. They are simply ... Read more
Join us for our January 2020 meeting. We'll strategize how we'll win at the ballot box in 2020 and beyond.
Bernie’s is surging and the ruling elite are sounding the alarm and going on the offensive. After panning Bernie for most of the primaries, the corporate media, in service to the billionaire class,  are testing out different attack lines, from Sanders being sexist, too far-left, unelectable, and “It’ll be electoral carnage,'' warned a Democratic Party ... Read more
----> RSVP HERE <----- Nurses and healthcare workers at Swedish Medical Center are going on strike January 28 - 30! We encourage all Seattle DSA members who are able to stand with SEIU 1199NW in their fight for a fair contract that addresses severe under-staffing and prioritizes patient safety. To learn more about their strike, ... Read more
Every week until the March 10, 2020 WA Democratic Primary, Seattle DSA for Bernie is contacting voters in both Seattle and early voting states to encourage them to get on board the Bernie train. Join us on January 28th for a phone bank in Capitol Hill! Snacks + beverages will be provided. Please bring ... Read more
8000 Swedish healthcare workers are going on strike starting Tuesday, January 28.  This’ll be the biggest healthcare strike in the history of Seattle and the first since the 1980’s!  Join District 3 members on TUESDAY, Jan. 29 to walk the picket line  in solidarity and talk with striking workers.  We’ll meet at 6:30pm at Starbucks ... Read more
The Local Council is the leadership body of Seattle DSA elected every year at our annual convention. This meeting is open only to Seattle DSA members in good standing. For a link to the virtual meeting and an agenda, e-mail [email protected].
----> RSVP HERE <----- Nurses and healthcare workers at Swedish Medical Center are on strike January 28 - 30! We encourage all Seattle DSA members who are able to stand with SEIU 1199NW in their fight for a fair contract that addresses severe under-staffing and prioritizes patient safety. To learn more about their strike, please ... Read more
8,000 courageous healthcare workers are going on strike at Swedish this week to demand safe staffing levels for patients and reasonable wage increases. Instead of our regular session, the Workplace Organizing Collective will join the picket lines at Swedish First Hill alongside other DSAers and community allies. Join us to support the striking workers and ... Read more
We're cancelling our Queer and Feminist Caucus table for Bernie this Thursday to instead mobilize for the Swedish workers solidarity strike on Wednesday, the day before. But if you'd like to table, canvass, or phone bank for Bernie, check out lots of those events happening this week!
Join DSA's Tax Amazon and Big Business Committee to discuss how we can build an independent campaign to tax big business in 2020 for green homes and more, in collaboration with the Tax Amazon movement and many other organizations in Seattle! We'll discuss: what language we want to see in the ballot initiative and next ... Read more
Join District 5 to discuss... "Tonight, we renew our resolve that America will never be a socialist country,” declared Trump in his 2019 State of the Union Address. Since then, Trump, the GOP, and now the corporate media and surrogates of the Democratic Party establishment have launched furious attacks on Bernie and the ideas of ... Read more
----> RSVP here! <---- Primary season is heating up! We’re now less than a month out from the Iowa caucuses, so talking to voters about Bernie and a mass movement to win reforms like Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, and Housing for All is more important than ever. We can win this! So ... Read more
Please join us to kickoff our Bellevue signature gathering activities to get the East King County PUD on the 2020 ballot!
Please join us to kickoff our Woodinville signature gathering activities to get the East King County PUD on the 2020 ballot!
Instead of our regularly scheduled Jacobin reading group we’ll be canvassing for DSA for Bernie! Join us at the Van Asselt Playground at 10:30 and knock on doors for Bernie! More details: https://seattledsa.org/event/dsa-for-bernie-canvass-2/
We have just a few weeks until the Washington State primary. Imagine how incredible it would be for our hometown to go for Bernie on March 10. The last few weeks we've had a ton of fun talking to Bernie supporters and the Bernie-curious about why we're not only campaigning for Bernie, but building the ... Read more
We envision a fair and effective Green New Deal to halt climate change and win environmental justice. In the short term, Seattle DSA’s Green New Deal Committee is developing a campaign to win Free Transit county-wide. Join us and the Ecosocialism Caucus, which offers a reading group every other Monday evening. Questions? Ask [email protected].
Socialist Night School is an open course that provides a chance to develop our politics together, regardless of background knowledge or whether you’ve attended a class before. New members and lifelong socialists, all are welcome! To sign up for our mailing list or to find out more, e-mail us at [email protected] Join us on Feb ... Read more
Seattle DSA holds a General Meeting, first Tuesday of each month at Washington Hall. We're voting on a resolution and an appointment to SDSA's Local Council, so making quorum is very important. There will also be a discussion of our upcoming annual Local Convention and we'll be hearing back from members who travelled to Iowa ... Read more
Due to the weather we are rescheduling for this Sunday, Feb. 9, at 10:30 am at the Capitol Hill Light Rail station on Broadway & Olive. We’re going all out for Bernie until the primary! Join us this Wednesday, February 2 at 6:30pm at the Capitol Hill Light Rail station on Broadway & Olive for ... Read more
Monthly meeting of the SDSA Political Education Working Group. If you’re interested in working on member political education efforts, come on by! Look for us at the reserved table in the back or upstairs.
Join us Thursday, February 6 @ 6:30PM at Espresso Vivace on Capitol Hill for our first reading group! In addition to building movements in the streets and supporting workers in Seattle, we want to study the history of movements across the world. Let's learn from the comrades who came before us, while building community in ... Read more
Join us in reading The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin. A free online version of the text plus epub and mobi downloads are available here — http://libcom.org/library/dispossessed-ursula-le-guin. We’ll discuss Chapters 8-10. D5? D6? Sure, and everyone welcome regardless of where you live!
Bernie's picking up more steam every day! Come join Seattle Democratic Socialists of America to celebrate our beautiful boy's imminent victory. Cheer and jeer with your fellow left-of-the-dial north-enders over food and drinks at Elliott Bay Brewing Company. We've got a big private room downstairs that holds 100 people and there'll be a big spread ... Read more
----> RSVP here! <---- Primary season is heating up! We’re now less than a month out from the Iowa caucuses, so talking to voters about Bernie and a mass movement to win reforms like Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, and Housing for All is more important than ever. We can win this! ... Read more
Doors open 6:30pm. No ticket required. We have just a few weeks before the Washington State primary. It's time to go all out to get Bernie Sanders nominated and build the vibrant, mass democratic socialist movement we need to win Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, free college, and so much more! Join other ... Read more
Open meeting for the Libertarian Socialists of King County and Seattle DSA 7:00pm - 9:00pm Victrola Coffee and Art, Conference room 411 15th Ave E, Seattle, WA 98112 The King County and Seattle DSA Libertarian Socialist Caucus members value flexible, bottom-up organizing for direct-democratic power among the oppressed and exploited. We support each others' diverse ... Read more
Bernie is on a roll and so is our weekly table in the south end  Since there's a ton of stuff going on this weekend, including the Tax Amazon Conference Part 2 on Sunday, we're going to start earlier this Sunday so we can get some tabling in beforehand. Contact: 206.962.1352 if you have any questions ... Read more
We’re going all out for Bernie until the primary! Join us this Sunday, February 9 at 10:30am at the Capitol Hill Light Rail station on Broadway & Olive for a DSA 4 Bernie table and crowd canvass! Tabling is a lot of fun and there’ll be experienced canvassers there to help if you haven’t done ... Read more
Meeting with new members (and potential members) 1-on-1 is a HUGELY important part of growing DSA. There's a lot to learn about and do within DSA and many folks entering our organization get confused, overwhelmed, or bored and drift away; connecting with these folks, helping orient them to DSA, and getting them involved in the ... Read more
The Democratic Party establishment is determined to defeat Bernie. From Elizabeth Warren to the pages of the New York Times, the claptrap accusation that Bernie is sexist is being trotted out and repeated ad nauseam. In the face of relentless attacks from the Right on reproductive rights, this same Democratic establishment has mounted no serious ... Read more
Every week until the March 10, 2020 WA Democratic Primary, Seattle DSA for Bernie is contacting voters in both Seattle and early voting states to encourage them to get on board the Bernie train. Join us on February 11th for a phone bank in Capitol Hill! Snacks + beverages will be provided. Please bring a ... Read more
Whether it was incompetence or conspiracy, Iowa was a racket. The corporate media played its role by reporting each batch of data to give prominence to the center-of-the-road candidates, Biden, Klobuchar, and Buttigieg, and downplaying Sanders' victory. Millions of people, not just Sanders supporters, are questioning the legitimacy of our democratic system -- and they ... Read more
The Democratic Party establishment is determined to defeat Bernie. From Elizabeth Warren to the pages of the New York Times, the claptrap accusation that Bernie is sexist is being trotted out and repeated ad nauseam. In the face of relentless attacks from the Right on reproductive rights, this same Democratic establishment has mounted no serious ... Read more
—-> RSVP here! <—- Primary season is heating up! We’re now less than a month out from the Iowa caucuses, so talking to voters about Bernie and a mass movement to win reforms like Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, and Housing for All is more important than ever. We can win this! So ... Read more
----> RSVP here! <---- As we approach the March 10, 2020 primary, we’ll be knocking on doors each week to talk to voters about electing Bernie and winning Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, and College for All. Join us on Sunday, February 16th at 10:30 as we canvass in Mt. Baker! Before the ... Read more
We’re going all out for Bernie until the primary! Join us this Sunday, February 16 at 11:00am at the Capitol Hill Light Rail station on Broadway & Olive for a DSA 4 Bernie table and crowd canvass! Tabling is a lot of fun and there’ll be experienced canvassers there to help if you haven’t done ... Read more
The Seattle DSA Immigrant Justice Working Group (IJWG) will be holding its first meeting of 2020 on Sunday February 16th from 12-2pm at the Rainier Beach library. Topics of discussion will include a report back on La Resistencia's campaign to shut down the Northwest Detention Center, future educational and solidarity events. New members welcome, cause ... Read more
We envision a fair and effective Green New Deal to halt climate change and win environmental justice. In the short term, Seattle DSA’s Green New Deal Committee is developing a campaign to win Free Transit county-wide. Join us and the Ecosocialism Caucus, which offers a reading group every other Monday evening. Questions? Ask [email protected].
Bernie won in Iowa and New Hampshire! Come join Seattle DSA in cheering him on at Big Time Brewery. We’ll be in the back room that holds up to 20-30 people comfortably. This is a great way to meet socialists in your community and get plugged into more Seattle DSA events. We hope to see ... Read more
AOC rightly pointed out that she and Biden, in any other country, would not be in the same party. The corporate wing of the Democratic Party, the dominant wing, is in a pitched war to defeat Bernie and his signature policies, which are favored by the majority of working people who make up the base ... Read more
----> RSVP here! <---- As we approach the March 10, 2020 primary, we’ll be knocking on doors each week to talk to voters about electing Bernie and winning Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, and College for All. Join us on Saturday, February 22th at 10:30 as we canvass in West Seattle! Before the ... Read more
----> RSVP here! <---- As we approach the March 10, 2020 primary, we’ll be knocking on doors each week to talk to voters about electing Bernie and winning Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, and College for All. Join us on Sunday, February 23rd at 10:30 as we canvass in Mt. Baker! Before ... Read more
We’re going all out for Bernie until the primary! Join us this Sunday, February 23 at 11 am at the Capitol Hill Light Rail station on Broadway & Olive for a DSA 4 Bernie table and crowd canvass! Tabling is a lot of fun and there’ll be experienced canvassers there to help if you haven’t ... Read more
AOC rightly pointed out that she and Biden, in any other country, would not be in the same party. The corporate wing of the Democratic Party, the dominant wing, is in a pitched war to defeat Bernie and his signature policies, which are favored by the majority of working people who make up the base of ... Read more
Socialist Night School is an open course that provides a chance to develop our politics together, regardless of background knowledge or whether you’ve attended a class before. New members and lifelong socialists, all are welcome! To sign up for our mailing list or to find out more, e-mail us at [email protected] The conclusion of our ... Read more
Join Seattle DSA's Ecosocialist Caucus to learn more about sustainable socialism for people and the planet. Enjoy casual, lively discussion and help to envision a better future for life on Earth. Instead of an ongoing book, we are reading one of the foundational articles from DSA National's Ecosocialism Caucus. Richard Smith's "An Ecosocialist Path to ... Read more
Watch the next Democratic Presidential Debate with the Seattle Democratic Socialists of America! Come to the famous Clock-out Lounge in Beacon Hill, grab a drink and a slice of Breezy-Town Pizza, and cheer Bernie as he takes on establishment Democrats & the billionaire class. The debate is expected to start at 5 PM, but we ... Read more
The Local Council is the leadership body of Seattle DSA elected every year at our annual convention. This meeting is open only to Seattle DSA members in good standing. For a link to the virtual meeting and an agenda, e-mail [email protected].
AOC rightly pointed out that she and Biden, in any other country, would not be in the same party. The corporate wing of the Democratic Party, the dominant wing, is determined to defeat Bernie and his signature policies, which are favored by the majority of working people who make up the base of the Democratic Party. ... Read more
We’re going all out for Bernie until the primary! This past week ballots dropped in Seattle so its important we make sure everyone votes for Bernie. This is also a good opportunity to talk to people about the Tax Amazon movement and to meet people who are open to socialist ideas and joining DSA.  Phonebanking is ... Read more
Join us in discussing the last few chapters (11-13) of The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin. A free online version of the text plus epub and mobi downloads are available here — http://libcom.org/library/dispossessed-ursula-le-guin. We’ll also be discussing what to read next, so bring recommendations! D5? D6? Sure, and everyone welcome regardless of where you live!
Bernie Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, may just win the Democratic Party nomination to run for president of the U.S. But we can have no doubt that the capitalist class, the CEO's and their representatives in both major parties, will fight with all their might against the radical agenda Bernie Sanders has popularized and millions ... Read more
Calling all union members & others interested in labor organizing! Hang out with Seattle DSA members who are interested in the labor movement, hear about what’s happening in the Labor Committee, and learn how you can get involved!
----> RSVP here! <---- Ballots are dropping and it's time to get knocking! Seattle DSA is going BIG on February 29th and we need your help to talk to as many voters as possible about electing Bernie in the Democratic Primary and building a working class movement. Ballots are due on March 10, 2020, so ... Read more
Edgewater Hotel Workers from the 'Unite Here' Union will start a picket line this Saturday on 2/30/20 from 1:30-2:30 PM on the hotel grounds. Come out and show your support!
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