Seattle Democratic Socialists of America

EWG Campaign Ops Meeting
2025-03-27 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
We recently started our Electoral Campaign Ops meeting series, where we will start building the Mike for Renton campaign!
Join us to learn, plan and execute the operational aspects of our endorsed campaigns – primarily field, fundraising, comms, and internal member mobilization.
In this meeting, we’ll begin preparations for the Mike’s Kickoff Canvass on 4/5!
RSVP for the Zoom link!

Defend Against ICE: Immigrant Accompaniment Training
2025-03-27 18:30 - 21:00 | El Centro De La Raza, 2524 16th Ave S, Seattle, WA 98144, USA
Help defend our communities against ICE! Join Seattle DSA Immigration Justice WG and the Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network to support our immigrant community members threatened by ICE. We’ll be trained by WAISN on how to accompany folks to their immigration appointments, ensure their rights are respected, and prevent unjust detentions.
This is a HYBRID event! RSVP here, both for in-person and Zoom options!
Please note that a background check with WAISN is required to complete the training process.

Mike for Renton Phonebank
2025-03-27 19:00 - 20:00
Mike Westgaard is running for Renton City Council and he needs OUR HELP! Come phonebank DSA members for Mike’s campaign to ask them to volunteer at the Kick-off Canvass and donate.
Mike is a proud union shop steward and longtime Seattle DSA member – his campaign envisions connecting our chapter to the organized labor movement and the working class struggle in South King County. Mike is a champion for housing and transit for all, ending the war on drugs, and defending Raise the Wage Renton! Mike is running as a democratic socialist in a grassroots campaign against a Chamber of Commerce backed establishment incumbent – to win he will need the people power of DSA!
First time phonebankers are welcome. We will provide a training before the phonebank.
RSVP HERE!
Looking for other ways to get involved? Fill out the volunteer interest form HERE or RSVP for the Kick-off Canvass on 4/5 HERE!

D4/D5/Ecosocialism Reading Group
2025-03-27 19:00 - 20:30 | Armistice Coffee Roosevelt, 6717 Roosevelt Ave NE, Seattle, WA
Join us 3/27 at Armistice Coffee Roosevelt to discuss Chapters 5, 6 and 7 of the book California Burning: the Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric (less than 60 pages), PLUS two articles —“Market Failure: A discussion between Brett Christophers and Adam Tooze” and “Brett Christophers · So much for Paris: Climate Overshoot“.
Our discussions seek to inform strategies for winning a democratic socialist society that thrives ecologically. You don’t have to live in city council District 4 or 5, and you can feel free to join the conversation even if you haven’t had time to read. All are welcome!
We sit outdoors in a breezeway. Questions? E-mail greennewdeal@seattledsa.org .

Tesla Takedown Art Party
2025-03-28 15:00 - 17:45 | Beacon Hill Branch – Seattle Public Library, 2821 Beacon Ave S, Seattle, WA, 98144, United States
Come help us with sign-making to support the anti-Elon protests at Tesla dealerships.
Materials will be provided, but feel free to bring additional supplies with you.

Film Screening: "La Chinoise"
2025-03-28 16:00 - 17:30 | Beacon Cinema, 4405 Rainier Ave S., Seattle, 98118, United States

Labor Organizing Happy Hour
2025-03-28 18:00 - 20:00 | Stoup Brewing – Capitol Hill, 1158 Broadway, Seattle, WA, 98122
Workers and labor organizers from all over Seattle and King County get together, talk about labor organizing, share struggles in our unions, and get to know each other. All union activists, socialists, and community members are welcome to attend!
Anyone is welcome whether you’re not a union member (yet), a long time union activist, or anywhere in between.
In order to have more space we changed the location for the happy hour this week.
New location Stoup Brewing: 1158 Broadway, Seattle , WA 98122
RSVP Here:
https://actionnetwork.org/events/labor-organizing-happy-hour-3?clear_id=true

Tesla Takedown Day of Action
2025-03-29 10:00 - 12:00 | Tesla SLU Showroom, 435 Westlake Ave N, Seattle, 98109, United States
Protest organized by the Troublemakers against Elon Musk and the fascists in our government.
RSVP HERE

Mike for Renton Practice Canvass
2025-03-29 11:00 - 14:00 | Renton Downtown Library, 100 Mill Ave S, Renton, 98057, United States
​Join us as at a practice canvass as we prepare for the Mike for Renton City Council Kickoff Canvass on 4/5! We will complete a shift lead training, hand out shift lead kits, practice and refine the script for canvassers, and get refreshed on how to run a canvass. We will be organizing a carpool, if you need a ride, please complete the questions in the Action Network RSVP form.
RSVP HERE
The event is open to everyone but is primarily aimed at those who might lead a canvass for Mike’s campaign. First time canvassers are recommended to attend the Kickoff Canvass on 4/5 instead, RSVP HERE!

Defend Against ICE: Rapid Response Training
2025-03-29 12:00 - 14:00 | Green Lake Branch – Seattle Public Library, 7001 E Green Lake Dr N, Seattle, WA, United States
Help defend our communities against ICE! Join Seattle DSA Immigration Justice WG and the Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network to support our immigrant community members threatened by ICE. We’ll be having a watch party, joining the statewide Rapid Response training to support our neighbors and friends in the event of an ICE raid or related community emergency. The training will prepare us to physically go to verified incidents to bear witness and support those targeted.
We’ll be having a casual social in Green Lake directly afterward at Retreat.
This is a HYBRID event! RSVP here, both for in-person and Zoom options!
Please note that a background check with WAISN is required to complete the training process.

Peoples’ Breakfast: U District
2025-03-30 08:00 - 11:30, 2025-04-06 08:00 - 11:30, 2025-04-13 08:00 - 11:30, 2025-04-20 08:00 - 11:30, 2025-04-27 08:00 - 11:30, 2025-05-04 08:00 - 11:30 | University Heights, 5031 University Way, Seattle, WA, 98105, United States
Contact JJ Bartlett to sign up: 360-319-2009
Masks required in-kitchen! Must be vaccinated!

Scrambled Eggs, Pancakes, and Hashbrowns!
Donuts, Coffee, Hot Chocolate, and Water!
Come to cook, eat breakfast, and get to know your unhoused neighbors here in the UDistrict!

Sundays at University Heights Community Center.
Cooking (off-site) = 8:00am – 9:30am.
Serving (UHeights outdoors) = 10:00am – Food Runs Out.
Stay for the whole time or show up to one shift!
Operated in close collaboration with University Heights Community Center!
We are currently seeking financial supporters to bottom-line a breakfast day!
Each breakfast costs around $120.00 USD in Food+Equipment to serve 60 people.

Boycott War Profiteers Tabling at Ballard PCC
2025-03-30 12:00 - 14:00 | Ballard PCC, 1451 NW 46th St, Seattle, 98107, United States

Socialist Soccer!
2025-03-30 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-04-06 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-04-13 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-04-20 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-04-27 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-05-04 14:00 - 16:00 | Volunteer Park- Amphitheater, 1139-1157 Volunteer Park Rd, Seattle, WA, 98102, United States
Come play soccer with fellow socialists! This is a fun, enjoyable way to get outdoors, exercise, and meet friendly socialists as well as non-socialist soccer enthusiasts!
All genders and skill levels are welcome! Safety is our top priority. To participate you must abide by our norms and agreements to avoid injuries and help us take care of one another.
Join us at Brighton Playfield in South Seattle. Map: goo.gl/maps/c74cytjrRB1vpT7h7
We almost always play on the most southern edge of the field.
We confirm if we have enough players each Sunday on a socialist soccer Signal chat. To be added, download the Signal app, and email your phone number to tdupuis42@gmail.com with a request to be added.

New Labor Organizers Training
2025-03-30 14:30 - 16:30 | Capitol Hill Branch Library, 425 Harvard Ave E, Seattle, WA, 98102, United States
Have you ever…

Wanted more rights at work?
Wanted to fight back against the corporate class?
Been thinking “I need a union,” but don’t know how to make it happen?

This workshop will teach you what you need to get started at your workplace!
This is intended for people at currently non-union workplaces who want to take the first steps toward organizing, whether you want to join an existing union, form a new one, or organizing demands of your boss without a union at all.
Our experienced labor organizers will teach you how to have an organizing conversation and how to form your Organizing Committee.
When we organize, we win!
RSVP on Action Network

Electoral Working Group Planning Subcommittee Meeting
2025-03-31 18:00 - 19:00, 2025-04-14 18:00 - 19:00
Help us brainstorm, research, and plan for future electoral campaigns! Some of the tasks of this subcommittee include unified campaign ideation, powermapping districts, assessing required scale of mobilization (field, fundraising, etc.) for potential campaigns, candidate development and recruitment, and facilitating the ballot initiative proposal drafting process.

RSVP HERE

Electoral Strategy Reading Discussion
2025-04-01 18:00 - 20:00
Join us for a round of electoral strategy readings discussion! We’ll be discussing socialist electoral strategy, party building, and more!
For readings and guiding questions, click HERE.
Make sure to RSVP so you’ll receive an email with updates once we have a Zoom link and location.
RSVP HERE

Local Council Meeting
2025-04-01 19:00 - 19:45, 2025-04-08 19:00 - 19:45, 2025-04-15 19:00 - 19:45, 2025-04-29 19:00 - 19:45, 2025-05-06 19:00 - 19:45 | Online (Zoom Call), WA
The Local Council (LC) is the elected leadership body which serves the members of Seattle DSA. During these short weekly check-ins, LC members will primarily be ensuring work is on track, though pressing business may occasionally be discussed and voted on. Members are welcome to observe LC meetings by RSVPing here.
The LC has an informal check-in meeting every Tuesday (except the fourth Tuesday of the month for the GMMs) from 7:00pm – 7:45pm over Zoom and a longer meeting every Saturday before a GMM from 3:00pm – 4:30pm.
If there’s something specific you’d like to bring to the Local Council, please fill out the LC Request Form which can be found on the private resources page of our website.
If you are a member that has not yet been added to our Slack (which is required to log in to the private resources page), you can request to be added here.
Please note that on rare occurrences, LC meetings will be cancelled due to holidays or unusual circumstances and these changes may not always be reflected on this calendar — if you show up to the meeting and aren’t let in after 5 minutes, that is almost certainly what has happened.

Board Games and Buddies: Capitol Hill
2025-04-01 19:00 - 23:00, 2025-04-08 19:00 - 23:00, 2025-04-15 19:00 - 23:00, 2025-04-29 19:00 - 23:00, 2025-05-06 19:00 - 23:00 | Raygun Lounge, 501 E Pine St, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
Putting the party back in politics.
Board games and (root) beer with some local left homies at a cool bar.
Just having a good time + getting to know folks.

Socialist In Office Committee Planning Meeting
2025-04-02 19:30 - 20:30, 2025-04-09 19:30 - 20:30, 2025-04-16 19:30 - 20:30
Join us to plan for our work with comrade State Representative Shaun Scott, as he moves socialist policy through the WA State Legislature.
RSVP here for the Zoom link.

EWG Campaign Ops Meeting
2025-04-03 18:00 - 19:00
We recently started our Electoral Campaign Ops meeting series, where we will start building the Mike for Renton campaign!
Join us to learn, plan and execute the operational aspects of our endorsed campaigns – primarily field, fundraising, comms, and internal member mobilization.
In this meeting, we’ll finalize our preparations for Mike’s Kickoff Canvass on April 5th.
RSVP for the Zoom link!

No Hate Crimes in Our District
2025-04-04 18:30 - 19:30 | U District Light Rail Station, 4300 Brooklyn Ave NE, Seattle, WA, 98105, United States
Last Friday, March 27th, transphobes brutally attacked a member of our community, Andie, in the U District. (The Stranger covered it here.)
Join friends, family, and allies in standing up to take back our neighborhood and show that we’re here, we’re queer, and we’re fighting back!
Stand up to political violence!

Mike for Renton Campaign Kickoff Canvass
2025-04-05 11:30 - 14:30 | Renton Downtown Library, 100 Mill Ave S, Renton, 98057, United States
Come kick off Mike Westgaard’s campaign for Renton City Council! Let’s elect someone who will fight for working people.
Mike is a proud union shop steward and longtime Seattle DSA member – his campaign envisions connecting our chapter to the organized labor movement and the working class struggle in South King County. Mike is a champion for housing and transit for all, ending the war on drugs, and defending Raise the Wage Renton!
Mike is running as a democratic socialist in a grassroots campaign against a Chamber of Commerce backed establishment incumbent – to win he will need OUR HELP! Come table for Mike Westgaard’s campaign for Renton City Council! We’ll meet at the Renton Downtown Library, then take off for various locations to talk to Renton voters, and gather signatures to get Mike on the ballot. We will be organizing carpooling options, if you need a carpool please enter the relevant information into the Action Network RSVP form.
First time canvassers are welcome. We will provide a training before the canvass. Please check the weather forecast and dress appropriately!
After the canvass, please join us for a social gathering at Ocha Thai Kitchen and Bar.
RSVP HERE

America to Palestine: Climate, Colonialism, and Conservation
2025-04-05 17:00 - 20:00 | Cherry Street Village, 720 25th Ave, Seattle, 98122, United States
Join the DSA, the Pacific Workers Collective, the International Solidarity Movement, protective presence veterans, climate scientists, and anti-colonial indigenous speakers, as we discuss practical ways to free land and people, from the Pacific Northwest to Palestine!
Food and childcare will be available!
Sign up here: tinyurl.com/386zx2z4

Electoral Strategy Reading Discussion
2025-04-06 11:00 - 13:00 | Cafe Red, 7148 Martin Luther King Jr Way S, Seattle, WA, 98118, United States

Phonebank for IAM/Delta Campaign
2025-04-06 13:00 - 15:00 | https://seattledsa.org/event/phonebank-for-iam-delta-campaign-2/
Did you enjoy phonebanking or canvassing this recent special election and want to keep the organizing energy going? Do you want to be part of one of the largest union drives in the country?
The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) has reached out to DSA chapters nationwide to assist with the groundwork for their organizing drive at Delta Airlines.
This is a collaboration between IAM members at other airlines, Delta employees who want the union, IAM organizers, and DSA members including Seattle DSA’s own Labor Working Group. Our role is to help workers and union organizers reach members outside the workplace, because the airport is such a heavily surveilled environment.
We will be phonebanking Delta workers whose union cards have expired. We are trying to get them to re-sign their cards as every card counts in a union certification!
RSVP on Action Network to get the Zoom link and to keep up to date on the campaign!

Boycott War Profiteers Tabling at Fremont PCC
2025-04-06 13:00 - 15:00 | Fremont PCC, 600 N 34th St, Seattle, 98103, United States

Access Working Group Monthly Meeting
2025-04-06 16:00 - 17:00
The monthly meeting for the Access Working Group of the Seattle DSA.
We work on reducing the barriers that prevent members from being active within or joining our chapter.

Immigration Justice Working Group
2025-04-07 19:00 - 20:00, 2025-04-28 19:00 - 20:00 | Virtual. RSVP for details, WA, United States
This is the weekly meeting for Seattle DSA’s Immigration Justice Working Group. We’re organizing to keep ICE out of our communities and to keep our immigrant communities and neighbors safe! RSVP here for the Zoom link!

Ecosocialism and Green New Deal Working Group
2025-04-07 20:00 - 21:30, 2025-04-21 20:00 - 21:30
We meet biweekly on Mondays. All are welcome.
RSVP below, or on the event page to get meeting information.

General Tech Help
2025-04-08 17:00 - 19:00

Palestine Solidarity and Internationalism Working Group/Boycott War Profiteers Joint Meeting
2025-04-08 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-05-06 18:30 - 20:00

Mobilization Committee April Meeting
2025-04-09 19:00 - 20:30
April Meeting for Mobilization Committee.
Masks are required and available. The Meeting building does not have an elevator but a hybrid option is available.
Please contact the Mobilization Committee over Slack or Signal for the Physical Location.
RSVP: https://actionnetwork.org/events/mobilization-committee-april-general-meeting?source=direct_link&

Electoral Working Group Campaign Operations Meeting
2025-04-10 18:00 - 19:00, 2025-04-24 18:00 - 19:00, 2025-05-01 18:00 - 19:30, 2025-05-08 18:00 - 19:30
Join our Electoral Working Group’s Campaign Ops meeting series, where we are working on the Mike for Renton campaign! Come learn, plan, and execute the operational aspects of our endorsed campaigns – with tasks and trainings on field, fundraising, comms, and internal member mobilization. Every Thursday at 6pm, except third Thursdays.
Sign up for our weekly calendar event that contains the Zoom link using this Action Network form!
Email electoral@seattledsa.org with any questions.

Labor Working Group Monthly Meeting
2025-04-10 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-05-08 18:30 - 20:00
This event is online-only, please RSVP for the Zoom link.
Join comrades to discuss our ongoing labor organizing and meet others involved in labor organizing work. We will discuss and plan any upcoming labor work and ongoing campaigns.
Look for the full agenda on Slack in the labor channel!

D4/D5/Ecosocialism Reading Group
2025-04-10 19:00 - 20:30 | Armistice Coffee Roosevelt, 6717 Roosevelt Ave NE, Seattle, WA
Join us 4/10 at Armistice Coffee Roosevelt to finish off the book California Burning: the Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric. We’ll discuss the Epilogue, and anything else you’ve chosen to read along the way. PLUS a bonus article “Polanyi’s Prescience”, a book review from the journal Economic Sociology & Political Economy.
Our discussions seek to inform strategies for winning a democratic socialist society that thrives ecologically. You don’t have to live in city council District 4 or 5, and you can feel free to join the conversation even if you haven’t had time to read. All are welcome!
We sit outdoors in a breezeway. Questions? E-mail greennewdeal@seattledsa.org .

4/12 Central District PCC Table
2025-04-12 10:00 - 12:00 | Central Disctrict PCC, 2230 E Union St, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States

Mike for Renton Canvass
2025-04-12 11:30 - 14:30 | Renton Downtown Library, 100 Mill Ave S, Renton, 98057, United States
Come canvass for Mike Westgaard’s campaign for Renton City Council! Let’s elect someone who will fight for working people.
Mike is a proud union shop steward and longtime Seattle DSA member – his campaign envisions connecting our chapter to the organized labor movement and the working class struggle in South King County. Mike is a champion for housing and transit for all, ending the war on drugs, and defending Raise the Wage Renton!
Mike is running as a democratic socialist in a grassroots campaign against a Chamber of Commerce backed establishment incumbent – to win he will need OUR HELP! We’ll meet at the Renton Downtown Library, then head out to talk to neighbors about Mike’s campaign, and gather signatures to get him on the ballot. We will be organizing carpooling options, if you need a carpool please enter the relevant information into the Action Network RSVP form.
First time canvassers are welcome. We will provide a training before the canvass. Please check the weather forecast and dress appropriately!
RSVP HERE

Housing Justice Is... (Panel & Fundraiser)
2025-04-12 12:00 - 14:00 | El Centro De La Raza, 2524 16th Ave S, Seattle, WA 98144, USA
Date: Saturday, April 12, 2025Time: 12:00 PM to 2:00 PMLocation: El Centro de la Raza (Room 107), 2524 16th Ave S, Seattle, WA 98144
Tickets are available for a sliding scale suggested donation starting at $20 (up through $250). We need all the help we can get to keep Be:Seattle strong.No one will be turned away for lack of funds. If you’re unable to make a donation, please email admin@beseattle.org to RSVP.
Event sponsor: Seattle Democratic Socialists of America 🌹 Housing Justice Workgroup
Light refreshments will be served. Masking is strongly encouraged when not eating or drinking.

Housing justice isn’t just about rent—it’s about power, dignity, and tearing down a system that creates scarcity to keep us in line.
Join us for a panel and fundraiser exploring what housing justice really means, how it’s part of the broader fight for liberation, and why solidarity and care are the foundation of the movement.
We’re excited to welcome Tracy Rosenthal, co-founder of the LA Tenants Union and co-author of Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis, as a keynote speaker and panelist. She will be joined by:

Amy Sundberg, public safety reporter at The Urbanist, publisher of Notes from the Emerald City, and fiction writer. Amy’s past organizing experience includes People Power Washington and the Seattle Solidarity Budget.
Julissa Sánchez, community organizer, writer, advocate, and mother working for collective liberation through policy reform, cultural education, and transformative justice. Julissa serves on the Seattle Renters’ Commission and helped lead the fight for Just Cause protections in Burien and statewide.
Tye Reed, co-founder of House Our Neighbors, chair of Be:Seattle’s board of directors, and an organizer in Seattle focused on ending the inhumane treatment of poor and unhoused neighbors.

The panel will be moderated by Renaissance, a hip-hop and spoken word artist and intersectional organizer and activist engaged in the struggle for Black and Brown Liberation since 2014. Renaissance is currently a Campaign Director at 350 Seattle, and organizes with Whose Streets Our Streets, May First Coalition, Seattle MLK Organizing Coalition, and Seattle Solidarity Budget.
Nationally, we’re seeing escalating attacks on housing, healthcare, education, and basic rights. Washington State is moving forward with an austerity budget that threatens critical public services, and instead of planning ahead to protect Seattle’s renters and unhoused communities, the Seattle Mayor and City Council have been targeting them—slashing funding for tenant services, raiding funds for affordable housing to pay for more policing and surveillance, increasing dangerous sweeps, trying to undermine social housing, and now working to roll back the protections we fought to win. Be:Seattle needs your support to stay in this fight.
Every contribution matters. If you’re not attending, you can still support our work at beseattle.org/donate.

Mobilization Committee General Meeting
2025-04-12 19:00 - 20:30

Phonebank for IAM/Delta
2025-04-13 13:00 - 15:00 | https://seattledsa.org/event/phonebank-for-iam-delta/
Did you enjoy phonebanking or canvassing this recent special election and want to keep the organizing energy going? Do you want to be part of one of the largest union drives in the country?
The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) has reached out to DSA chapters nationwide to assist with the groundwork for their organizing drive at Delta Airlines.
This is a collaboration between IAM members at other airlines, Delta employees who want the union, IAM organizers, and DSA members including Seattle DSA’s own Labor Working Group. Our role is to help workers and union organizers reach members outside the workplace, because the airport is such a heavily surveilled environment.
We will be phonebanking Delta workers whose union cards have expired. We are trying to get them to re-sign their cards as every card counts in a union certification!
RSVP to get the Zoom link for this event.

April Tech Committee Meeting
2025-04-15 18:00 - 19:00

Electoral Working Group April Monthly Meeting
2025-04-17 18:00 - 19:30 | Beacon Hill Branch – Seattle Public Library, 2821 Beacon Ave S, Seattle, WA, 98144, United States
Join us for Electoral Working Group’s April Monthly meeting! Agenda will be announced here before the event.
You can attend either in-person at the Beacon Hill library branch or via Zoom. Once you RSVP, you’ll be emailed a Zoom link.
RSVP for the Zoom link.
See you there!
Held every third Thursday.

4/18 Columbia City PCC Table
2025-04-18 10:00 - 12:00 | Columbia City PCC, 3610 S Edmunds St, Seattle, 98118, United States

Drag Brunch Fundraiser for the People's Breakfast
2025-04-19 11:00 - 13:00 | Seattle First Baptist Church, 1111 Harvard Ave, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
Bring your looks and your dollar bills for a drag brunch fundraiser for the People’s Breakfast program! Support us feeding our neighbors with a brunch including a delicious brunch, live music, and some dazzling drag performances!
Tickets are $30, but an additional donation helps us sustain our work
Event is 21+
Purchase your tickets at https://ko-fi.com/s/055a40bc20
The People’s Breakfast is a local mutual aid program that had its humble beginnings cooking on hotplates in members’ living rooms to now operating out of a professional kitchen and serving over 100 people every Sunday in the University District. It has since spurred the creation of sister programs operating across the city under the Seattle Mutual Aid Coalition banner.

Mike for Renton Canvass
2025-04-19 11:30 - 14:30 | Heritage Park, 233 Union Ave NE, Renton, WA, 98059, United States
Come canvass for Mike Westgaard’s campaign for Renton City Council! Let’s elect someone who will fight for working people.
Mike is a proud union shop steward and longtime Seattle DSA member – his campaign envisions connecting our chapter to the organized labor movement and the working class struggle in South King County. Mike is a champion for housing and transit for all, ending the war on drugs, and defending Raise the Wage Renton!
Mike is running as a democratic socialist in a grassroots campaign against a Chamber of Commerce backed establishment incumbent – to win he will need OUR HELP! We’ll meet at Heritage Park for sign-ins and training, then head out to talk to neighbors about Mike’s campaign, and gather signatures to get him on the ballot. We will be organizing carpooling options, if you need a carpool please enter the relevant information into the Action Network RSVP form.
First time canvassers are welcome. We will provide a training before the canvass. Please check the weather forecast and dress appropriately!
RSVP HERE

Member Engagement Committee Meeting
2025-04-20 11:00 - 12:00
Seattle DSA’s Member Engagement Committee works to grow our chapter and help onboard new members by running our seasonal onboarding cohorts for new members, hosting socials, and keeping our one-on-one meeting system and Job Board up-to-date. Join us to grow our chapter community and give members the tools to become effective socialist organizers.
Meeting to be held via zoom; Zoom link provided upon RSVP.

Electoral Working Group Planning Subcommittee Meeting
2025-04-21 18:00 - 19:00
Help us brainstorm, research, and plan for future electoral campaigns! Some of the tasks of this subcommittee include unified campaign ideation, powermapping districts, assessing required scale of mobilization (field, fundraising, etc.) for potential campaigns, candidate development and recruitment, and facilitating the ballot initiative proposal drafting process.

Sign up for our weekly calendar event that contains the Zoom link using this Action Network form!
Email electoral@seattledsa.org with any questions.

Housing Justice Working Group
2025-04-21 18:30 - 20:00
Seattle DSA’s Housing Justice Working Group!
A sponsor of the Peoples Breakfast.
Working towards a massive expansion of publicly-owned green social housing.
Building a fighting tenants movement.
We are now running a hybrid meeting format!
Join us on Zoom for the business portion of the meeting starting at 6:30pm, running till 8pm!
Agenda: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gxhFExgKMXDKUolOVPxah77RF-9_9FgiOh8-CtpfPCU
RSVP

4/22 Columbia City PCC Table
2025-04-22 17:45 - 19:00 | Columbia City PCC, 3610 S Edmunds St, Seattle, 98118, United States

April General Membership Meeting
2025-04-22 19:00 - 21:00 | Southside Commons, 3518 S Edmunds St, Seattle, WA, 98118, United States
Join us for our largest monthly gathering to discuss issues and learn what the chapter has been up to, what is on the horizon and how to get involved. In-person and online. RSVP for the zoom link.
RSVP

Socialist Night School: Fascism and the American Right
2025-04-23 19:00 - 21:00 | New Freeway Hall 5018 Rainier Ave S., Seattle, 5018 Rainier Ave S., Seattle, WA, United States
Come join us at New Freeway Hall from 7:00pm to 9:00pm at New Freeway Hall for Seattle DSA Socialist Night School’s first-ever session: Fascism and the American Right.
We’ll be using materials from DSA’s National Political Education Committee, going over Trump and Fascism, by Jerry Harris, Carl Davidson, Bill Fletcher Jr., & Paul Harris along with the video Building Rank & File Power to Fight Fascism by Bill Fletcher, Jr. We hope you get a chance to come by!
Please RSVP here!

Socialist In Office Committee Planning Meeting
2025-04-23 19:30 - 20:30, 2025-04-30 19:30 - 20:30, 2025-05-07 19:30 - 20:30
Join us to plan for our work with comrade State Representative Shaun Scott, as he moves socialist policy through the WA State Legislature.
Sign up for our weekly calendar event that contains the Zoom link using this Action Network form!
Email electoral@seattledsa.org with any questions.

Socialist Book Club
2025-04-23 19:30 - 21:30

D4/D5/Ecosocialism Reading Group
2025-04-24 19:00 - 20:30 | Armistice Coffee Roosevelt, 6717 Roosevelt Ave NE, Seattle, WA
Join us 4/24 at Armistice Coffee Roosevelt. We’ll discuss “Climate Leninism and Revolutionary Transition” by Jodi Dean and Kai Heron, and “The Great Unfettering” by Kai Heron. We will also decide on starting a new book.
Our discussions seek to inform strategies for winning a democratic socialist society that thrives ecologically. You don’t have to live in city council District 4 or 5, and you can feel free to join the conversation even if you haven’t had time to read. All are welcome!
We sit outdoors in a breezeway. Questions? E-mail greennewdeal@seattledsa.org .

4/26 Central District PCC Table
2025-04-26 10:00 - 12:00 | Central Disctrict PCC, 2230 E Union St, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States

Mike for Renton Canvass
2025-04-26 11:30 - 14:30 | Tiffany Park, 1902 Lake Youngs Way SE, Renton, WA, 98058, United States
Come canvass for Mike Westgaard’s campaign for Renton City Council! Let’s elect someone who will fight for working people.
Mike is a proud union shop steward and longtime Seattle DSA member – his campaign envisions connecting our chapter to the organized labor movement and the working class struggle in South King County. Mike is a champion for housing and transit for all, ending the war on drugs, and defending Raise the Wage Renton!
Mike is running as a democratic socialist in a grassroots campaign against a Chamber of Commerce backed establishment incumbent – to win he will need OUR HELP! We’ll meet at Tiffany Park for sign-ins and training, then head out to talk to neighbors about Mike’s campaign, and gather signatures to get him on the ballot. We will be organizing carpooling options, if you need a carpool please enter the relevant information into the Action Network RSVP form.
First time canvassers are welcome. We will provide a training before the canvass. Please check the weather forecast and dress appropriately!
RSVP HERE

Community Forum: Winning Local Ballot Initiatives (Virtual)
2025-04-27 10:30 - 12:00
Local ballot initiatives are a powerful tool for creating change. We will be joining House Our Neighbors, Transit Riders Union, and Washington Can to discuss how we can effect change with local ballot initiatives.
RSVP here!

Phonebank for IAM/Delta
2025-04-27 12:00 - 14:00 | https://seattledsa.org/event/phonebank-for-iam-delta-2/

4/27 Columbia City PCC Table
2025-04-27 13:00 - 15:00 | Columbia City PCC, 3610 S Edmunds St, Seattle, 98118, United States

EWOC Organizer Training
2025-04-27 15:00 - 18:00 | RSVP and we will contact you with the location
The Emergency Workers Organizing Committee began during the COVID-19 pandemic as a response to working conditions for essential workers. It has since expanded to include workers from all industries organizing on the job for union representation. EWOC is an all-volunteer organization that helps workers locally build a union campaign. It is a joint project of United Electrical and the DSA. Find out more on their website.
Puget Sound EWOC and SDSA’s Labor Working Group will be hosting a training with a staff organizer from L.A. EWOC on April 27th at the CID Workers Center. The content list of the training will include:
* How does an EWOC local function
* Helping workers build union organizing committees on their jobs
* Developing leadership among workers
* The union campaign arc
* How to organize against inoculation from the boss
* And several other topics
RSVP to sign up for the training!

Trump's New World Disorder: Making sense of Trump 2.0 & how we can fight Trump, the Billionaires, & the Right
2025-04-27 17:00 - 18:30 | Victrola Coffee (411 15th Ave E), 411 15th Ave E, Seattle, WA, 98112, United States
You’re invited to the next Seattle DSA District 3 Meetup (everyone’s welcome!):
Trump’s New World Disorder:
Making sense of Trump 2.0 & how Seattle DSA and the Left can fight Trump, the Billionaires, & the Right
This Sunday, April 27, 5pm
Victrola Cafe, 411 15th Ave E (Community room)
RSVP
Trump is unleashing a furious blitzkrieg against working people across all fronts. From savaging social services, education, healthcare, the environment, to teeing up a massive tax cut for the rich and disappearing and mass deportation of both documented and undocumented workers.
His authoritarian impulses are coming to the fore through blistering executive orders aimed at tearing down democratic rights, demonizing oppressed layers of working people and youth, sharply dividing working people against each other to realize unmatched power and profits for Trump, the Right and the Billionaire class. But resistance is mounting, with working people taking to the streets to fight back in growing numbers.

Come discuss with your friendly neighborhood socialists! 😀
What will it take to defeat Trump and the Right? What can Seattle DSA, DSA National, unions and the Left do? How did this happen and why? What does Trump represent? Is a new world order being ushered in and if so, what is it?

Community Forum: Winning Local Ballot Initiatives (In-person)
2025-04-29 17:00 - 19:00 | El Centro De La Raza, 2524 16th Ave S, Seattle, WA 98144, USA

4/29 Boycott War Profiteers Campaign Steering Meeting
2025-04-29 18:30 - 19:30

May Day 2025
2025-05-01 12:00 - 17:00 | Cal Anderson Park, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
Join us this May 1 for International Workers’ Day to take a stand for the workers and immigrants that make this country function. We will be meeting at noon at Cal Anderson Park in Capitol Hill. Bring your friends, family, and voice to loudly demand our siblings are treated with dignity and respect. RSVP at SeattleMayDay.org. An injury to one is an injury to all.

"Outgrow the System" Film and Panel
2025-05-02 18:00 - 21:00 | Mount Baker Community Club, 2811 Mt Rainier Drive S, Seattle, 98144, United States
Join Seattle DSA, Extinction Rebellion Seattle, and 350 Seattle for a powerful evening of film, local discussion, and action.
The film Outgrow the System explores how we can create a sustainable economy that works for people and the planet—not for corporate profits at the expense of communities and all life. Following the screening, we’ll hear from local organizers already working to build alternative economic models in the Greater Seattle area.
Free admission, food, and refreshments. Donations welcome. Come find your place in the movement! Questions? Email greennewdeal@seattledsa.org
🔗 RSVP Now to save your spot!

Spring Two-Stage Hike: First Wheelchair Accessible, then West Tiger 2
2025-05-03 12:00 - 18:00 | Puget Sound Transit Bus Stop, I-90 and 270th Ave SE, Issaquah, WA, 98027, United States
Join members of Seattle Democratic Socialists of America for a two-stage hike on Saturday, May 3rd. Each stage will begin AND end at the Puget Sound Transit bus stop at I-90 and 270th Ave SE in Issaquah.
The first stage will be wheelchair accessible and last from 12pm to 2pm. This three-mile-long hike will follow SE 79th Street to the High Point Trailhead parking lot. From there, we will follow the Around the Lake Interpretive Trail, the Bus Trail, and the West Tiger 3 Trail before taking 79th Stret back to the bus stop.
The hike’s second leg will last from 2pm to approximately 6pm. Starting at the High Point Trail, we will climb 2,200 vertical feet to the summit of West Tiger Mountain #2. We will see mossy rainforests, bubbling waterfalls, and spectacular views of the Olympics, the Cascades, and Mount Rainier.
The second stage will be a strenuous five-mile round trip hike with unpredictable weather. If you can, please bring the following to be prepared:

Hiking boots
Hiking poles
A backpack
A rain jacket
Sunglasses and sunscreen
At least a half-gallon of water

Dogs are welcome on the trails as long as they are leashed. A DSA member will be stationed throughout the day by the bus stop at SE 79th Street and I-90 to assist anyone needing guidance or assistance.
Please let us know if you are able to take anyone to and from the trailhead by car that day in the provided form. If you plan on taking public transportation, your best option is the 554 from 2nd and Yesler to the Issaquah Transit Center, transferring to the 208 to 270th Street and I-90 (exit 20)
This event is endorsed by Seattle DSA’s Mobilization Committee and Access Working Group. Please contact the DSA Mobilization Committee in the form to the right over Slack if you have any questions.
RSVP on Action Network and make sure to let us know if you are able to drive other comrades or will need a ride to the trailhead!

5/4 West Seattle PCC Table
2025-05-04 10:00 - 12:00 | West Seattle PCC, 2749 California Ave SW, Seattle, 98116, United States

Mike for Renton MEGA CANVASS & Social
2025-05-04 11:00 - 14:00 | Earlington Park, 272 Thomas Ave SW, Renton, WA, 98057, United States
CALLING ALL CANVASSERS! We have one weekend left to collect signatures to get Mike Westgaard on the ballot for Renton City Council! Join us at a Mega Canvass on Sunday, May 4th at 11am at Earlington Park to knock on doors, tell voters about the campaign, and get final signatures!
Mike is running as a democratic socialist in a grassroots campaign against a Chamber of Commerce backed establishment incumbent. In our first month of helping run the Mike for Renton campaign, we’ve knocked on over 2,500 doors, collected nearly 300 signatures, and raised over $10,000. We also found over 20 supporters willing to put up yard signs or volunteer with the campaign! We’re off to a tremendous start – make sure the campaign finishes this phase strong by coming to the Mega Canvass!
First time canvassers are welcome. We will provide training before the canvass. We will also organize carpools, please note your carpool needs in the Action Network RSVP form. Social to follow. Please check the weather forecast and dress appropriately!
After the canvass, we will have an optional volunteer social at
The Local 907
907 S 3rd St
Renton, WA 98057.
RSVP HERE

Ecosocialism and Green New Deal Working Group
2025-05-05 20:00 - 21:00 | Virtual, WA, United States
Join us biweekly on Mondays! Ecosocialism promotes democratic control over all institutions that impact life and the environment. A Green New Deal (GND) distills actions to address the climate crisis through a rapid and just transformation of these institutions.
Zoom link here

D4/D5/Ecosocialism Reading Group
2025-05-08 19:00 - 20:30 | Armistice Coffee Roosevelt, 6717 Roosevelt Ave NE, Seattle, WA
Join us 5/8 at Armistice Coffee Roosevelt. We will discuss two contrasting articles. A 1972 work entitled “What is a Marxist-Leninist Party?” expands on our 4/24 discussion of climate Leninism, and a Guardian article “The rise of end times fascism”, by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor, will inform our present peril. We will also decide on a book to read next.
Our discussions seek to inform strategies for winning a democratic socialist society that thrives ecologically. You don’t have to live in city council District 4 or 5, and you can feel free to join the conversation even if you haven’t had time to read. All are welcome!
We sit outdoors in a breezeway. Questions? E-mail greennewdeal@seattledsa.org .
