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2020 Seattle DSA Convention ** NOTE: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the convention and LC election will be held online. Bylaws and resolutions will be postponed. ** All members of Seattle DSA both active and inactive are encouraged to attend this partial 2020 annual convention, adjusted for the coronavirus. Among other things, we will ... Read more
These meetings will be primarily focused on actions we can take in the immediate term. We will start by pressuring our local electeds. We will discuss progress from prior meetings, as well as different tactics we can take. We will then agree on a short message that we, as DSA members, can send out to ... Read more
TODAY, the Seattle City Council will be voting on a resolution to call on Governor Inslee to institute a state-wide rent freeze during the Covid-19 crisis. The POC led group Got Green has asked people to call their councilmembers and ask them to vote in favor of this resolution. We are calling on Seattle DSA ... Read more
Join District 5 members for a Zoom/phone ACTION meeting this WEDNESDAY to discuss what we can do in our neighborhoods and city to organize relief efforts in our communities and if there are any CAMPAIGNS or actions we can take to defend working people’s jobs or tenets ORGANIZING rent strikes. We also plan to discuss, ... Read more
Join District 3 members for a Zoom/phone meeting this THURSDAY to discuss the excellent petition/letter campaign by several DSA members that demands Gov. Inslee decree a rent suspension and how we can build that pressure campaign in District 3. As well as discuss the demand of taking into public democratic ownership corporations like American Airlines, ... Read more
Monthly meeting of the Member Engagement Team: we work on welcoming new and prospective DSA members, and connecting them to organizing projects in the chapter. This month we will be discussing how to continue work during the Covid19 crisis!
Join District 6 members for a Zoom/phone ACTION meeting this SUNDAY to discuss what we can do in our neighborhoods and city to organize relief efforts in our communities and if there are any CAMPAIGNS or actions we can take to defend working people’s jobs or tenets ORGANIZINGrent strikes. We also plan to discuss, what ... Read more
These meetings will be primarily focused on actions we can take in the immediate term. We will start by pressuring state electeds. We will discuss progress from prior meetings, as well as different tactics we can take. This will include pressuring electeds, tenant organizing, and mutual aid. Finally, we will plan some actions for people ... Read more
Join your D3 comrades in phonebanking SDSA D3 members to reach out and connect during these trying times and to talk about the campaign and petition demanding Governor Inslee and other officials to decree a rent suspension/forgiveness. We'll also be plugging our weekly D3 meetings (Thursday nights at 7). Now more than ever, it's critical ... Read more
Join District 3 members to discuss... COVID19 has unleashed a global economic and social catastrophe, the devastating impact of which will be disproportionately borne by working people. This comes on the backs of four decades of neoliberalism which meted out savage cuts to working people’s living standards to the point that 12% of the US ... Read more
We need to suspend rents now! The covid-19 situation becomes both a housing crisis and a health crisis. Join us in phone zapping the Governor's phonelines until he takes action on our demands. What do we mean by phone zap? We will be calling in to the Governor's office in shifts. If we get through ... Read more
Join District 5 members to discuss the sad news of Bernie dropping out, what we think and feel about it, potential lessons we can draw from the campaign and how we can continue the political revolution against the billionaire class. We’ll also be discussing how we can organize in our neighborhoods in District 5 for ... Read more
Join District 1 members to discuss the sad news of Bernie dropping out, what we think and feel about it, potential lessons we can draw from the campaign and how we can continue the political revolution against the billionaire class. We’ll also be discussing how we can organize in our neighborhoods in District 1 for ... Read more
Join District 6 members to discuss the sad news of Bernie dropping out, what we think and feel about it, potential lessons we can draw from the campaign and how we can continue the political revolution against the billionaire class. We’ll also be discussing how we can organize in our neighborhoods in District 6 for ... Read more
These meetings will be primarily focused on actions we can take in the immediate term. We will start by pressuring state electeds. We will discuss progress from prior meetings, as well as different tactics we can take. This will include pressuring electeds, tenant organizing, and mutual aid. Finally, we will plan some actions for people ... Read more
Join Seattle DSA for our April General Membership Meeting where we’ll be joined by guest DSA member Eric Blanc, author of Red State Revolt and Bernie Sanders surrogate. Eric will share about how workers are organizing in this moment of crisis, including the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee, a joint project of DSA and the United ... Read more
As COVID19 tightens its grip on society, global stock markets have collapsed by 30%. Unemployment is soaring, 16 million in the last 3 weeks, and threatens to crest double digits, as high as 20% according to Goldman Sachs. We don’t know what the full impact will be but what we do know is, like the ... Read more
Join District 5 this Saturday at 3:00pm for a covid-19 organizing strategy session followed by a discussion about who should pay for this crisis. During the COVID-19 strategy session we want to discuss what we can do to apply pressure to elected officials / employers now. What tactics should we take as a group to pressure ... Read more
COVID 19 has universally affected our neighbors and communities. Even relatively well-off workers are suddenly coping with working from home and childcare, while the most vulnerable now find themselves competing for ever scarcer resources. While we are all feeling the effects of this crisis, some workers are disproportionately affected. Frontline and essential workers, who are ... Read more
These meetings will be primarily focused on actions we can take in the immediate term. We will start by pressuring state electeds. We will discuss progress from prior meetings, as well as different tactics we can take. This will include pressuring electeds, tenant organizing, and mutual aid. Finally, we will plan some actions for people ... Read more
We need to suspend rents now! The covid-19 situation becomes both a housing crisis and a health crisis. Join us in phone zapping the Governor’s phonelines until he takes action on our demands. What do we mean by phone zap? We will be calling in to the Governor’s office in shifts. If we get through ... Read more
Fighting for Housing Rights and Workers' Rights During Covid-19: A District 2 Virtual Community Forum with Councilmember Tammy Morales hosted by Seattle DSA The COVID-19 pandemic has our community on edge. Renters and homeowners are struggling to get by and frontline workers are facing impossible decisions between job security and personal safety. Join Seattle DSA ... Read more
Politicians like to say that we are all in this together, that this crisis hits rich and poor alike, and while we know this virus will strike any and all, we also know that working people will face the brunt of the crisis and will be forced to pay for it long after its gone. ... Read more
Amazon Employees for Climate Justice (AECJ) sent a meeting invitation to fellow employees internally on April 10 to hear from warehouse workers about conditions in warehouses during COVID-19 and about the intersections between the COVID-19 pandemic and the climate crisis from author and climate justice advocate Naomi Klein. Hours after the invitation was sent, Amazon ... Read more
Join District 5 members to discuss... May 1st - International Workers Day - presents us the opportunity to discuss the impact of COVID19 on the liberal capitalist world order, immigration, prospects for struggle, how the global economic and social catastrophe unleashed by the coronavirus will disproportionately impact developing and poor countries, and how we can ... Read more
Join District 3 meeting to discuss…. “People are making a choice between rent and food, and that’s not a choice they should have to make,” Across Seattle and beyond, working people are facing this grim choice as they are being forced to bear the brunt of the economic calamity unleashed by the Covid-19 response. Meanwhile, ... Read more
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