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Come and canvass in your DSA swag and let’s get a socialist in City Hall to win affordable housing and Green New Seattle! Meet us at Gasworks Park; we’re usually done by 3pm and we usually have a quick social afterwards! Look forward to seeing you there!
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 to watch ... Read more
Come watch the Democratic Presidential Debates with fellow socialists! This debate includes Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Marianne Williamson, as well as a number of candidates that aren't worth mentioning. It’s guaranteed to be the most leftwing, raucous, and fun debate watch party in Seattle! The debate is expected to start a little early at ... Read more
The DSA phone bank for Shaun Scott. Shaun is a DSA member who is running for Seattle City Council District 4 and received the chapter’s endorsement. Come and phone bank and let’s get a socialist in City Hall to win affordable housing and Green New Seattle! Phone banking begins at 6:30pm with a training and ... Read more
Hello all, Due to a scheduling conflicts impacting both facilitators, the Workplace Organizing Collective will have to be cancelled this week, but we will continue to meet every Wednesday at 7pm. Sorry for any inconvenience.
From Facebook: We can no longer watch as our friends and neighbors are torn from their homes by the Trump Administration. We can also no longer wait for our politicians to decide when the right time is to solve this crisis. With every child that dies in a cage due to inhumane conditions, we are ... Read more
Join our discussion of the first 4 chapters of The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen (available at http://www.gutenberg.org/files/833/833-h/833-h.htm or google for various pdf formats). Feel free to bring discussion topics and questions of your own, or to come and listen in. Hope to see you there!
It's the home stretch of the campaign before the Primary on August 6th - so come out and doorbell or table for Shaun! We always kick things off with a training, so we always welcome newcomers and beginners! For doorbelling: Meet us at Cowen Park; we’re usually done by 3 pm and will have a ... Read more
Let’s sharpen our thinking and build a powerful movement to halt climate change and win environmental justice. Join us.
Join a press conference by Got Green POC organizers and community leaders adding detail to Seattle's Green New Deal. Show up to support and learn from black and brown communities that are on the frontlines of Environmental Injustice in our city. Following the press conference, we will head into the Sustainability and Transportation meeting where ... Read more
Seattle DSA holds a General Meeting, first Tuesday of each month at Washington Hall. This event is member friendly and oftentimes has voting on issues affecting the chapter. For inquiries to childcare, contact [email protected]
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.
Come join us for a caucus meeting! We’re discussing our work with the bond fund, court support and accompaniment, community education, and internal organizing. New faces welcome!
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 location information and agenda, e-mail [email protected].
Come hang out with your fellow socialists of color! This is an event that's open to members and non-members alike. Let's discuss issues facing our communities, plan projects, or just meet other fellow socialists of color. We’ll be hanging out at the Station from 2-5 so come on by!
Join us August 10 for a discussion on borders, abolishing ICE, family separation, “the Squad", and how this country's heartless border enforcement is incentivized by capitalism and how we can organize against it. If you're able to, check out this very readable article before the meeting: https://www.leftvoice.org/borders-and-capitalism-a-socialist-perspective, with special attention on the "Why Capitalism Needs Borders" ... Read more
The Internal Organizing Committee works on planning and coordinating activities relating to member engagement, political education, socials, organizing general meetings, and other various internal aspects of DSA. Come if you'd like to find out more or get involved.
This get-together is open to members of the Democratic Socialists of America, non-members who are interested in learning more about the group, and anyone else who’d like to get acquainted with the DSA and its activities. Bring a friend or two who might like to learn more about the group, or who would just like ... Read more
A frightful hobgoblin stalks throughout District 2. We are haunted by a ghost—the ghost of Communism! Join the District 2 Reading group, where we will be reading and discussing socialists texts from throughout our rich shared history, from Marx and Engels through contemporary writers. In this session, we will be reading part of Bhaskar Sunkara’s ... Read more
Join us at the next Seattle DSA District 3 meeting to discuss what lessons we can learn from the mass movements of millions in Puerto Rico and Hong Kong that toppled a hated leader and stopped an oppressive law. Can movements like these happen here in the US? What are the most effective forms of ... Read more
It’s another meeting of the Seattle DSA Committee for Bernie Sanders! Are you excited for 2020 and getting a democratic socialist named Bernard Sanders into office? Interested in joining a mass movement that will fight for the demands of working class people? Then this is the place for you! Join us at The College Inn ... Read more
Join us for an informal happy hour at Floating Bridge. We won’t have structured discussion - just time to socialize with fellow socialists and the socialist-curious. Floating Bridge graciously said they’d reserve some tables for us - likely on the upper level of the brewery near the bathrooms. Please note that this space is also ... Read more
Have you been dying to talk to your fellow Seattle DSA members about the primary results or the convention votes? Come grab a drink, chat, celebrate, and/or commiserate with your comrades at the Twilight Exit Bar!
Last month we read about a few socialist approaches to housing. This month, we're going to take a deeper look at rent control and social housing. So, we'll be reading "Universal Rent Control Now" by Amee Chew and Katie Goldstein in the latest issue of Jacobin (https://jacobinmag.com/2019/06/universal-rent-control-now). We'll also be branching out from the magazine and ... Read more
Let’s sharpen our thinking and build a powerful movement to halt climate change and win environmental justice. Join us.
Come phonebank union members and labor activists in the Seattle area to get involved with Labor for Bernie!
Come meet up with District 2 DSA members at Twilight Rainier in Hillman City (5609 S Rainier Ave) to socialize and discuss what's happening in the South End! This will mostly be a social, but we can also discuss - Tabling for DSA 4 Bernie in South Seattle - Primary Results - Holding a bigger ... Read more
Community Event: Friends and neighbors! Join us at Kate's Pub in Wallingford Thursday, August 22nd at 7:30 pm to help kickoff our efforts for the general election. Kate's Pub is generously sharing 20% of the evening's proceeds with the campaign, so come through to support us, learn more about the campaign, and get involved! 21+ ... Read more
Socialism is experiencing a historic resurgence and new members are joining Seattle DSA all the time, yet only a small portion of our large membership is active. We’ll be meeting to come up with a more clearly defined way to get these new folks involved in the work of our chapter and to mobilize the ... Read more
Come join us for our FIRST general election canvass for Shaun Scott! Shaun is a democratic socialist running for Seattle City Council District 4, advocating for a Green New Deal for Seattle, public housing, municipal broadband, and so much more! Shaun's also received the Seattle and national DSA's endorsement. The general election for Seattle City ... 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] This month we will ... 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].
This event has been cancelled. Stay tuned for updates. A frightful hobgoblin stalks throughout District 2. We are haunted by a ghost—the ghost of Communism! Join the District 2 Reading group, where we will be reading and discussing socialists texts from throughout our rich shared history, from Marx and Engels through contemporary writers. In this ... Read more
Come join us for our first mid-week general election canvass for Shaun Scott! Shaun is a democratic socialist running for Seattle City Council District 4, advocating for a Green New Deal for Seattle, public housing, municipal broadband, and so much more! The general election for Seattle City Council is on November 5th and we need ... Read more
Join the Seattle Democratic Socialists of America for the Seattle DSA for Shaun Scott Subcommittee General Election Launch Party! We'll be discussing the chapter's plans and goals for Shaun Scott's general election, how to get plugged into organizing for Shaun, and signed up for a door-knocking shift! See you there!
Are you new to the group and interested in learning more about Seattle DSA or socialism in general? If so, this New Member Orientation is for you! We’ll give a brief introduction to Democratic Socialism, an overview of the Seattle DSA, and a summary of the projects Seattle DSA is currently engaged in as well ... Read more
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