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This is the monthly meeting of the Immigration Justice Working Group We talk about the work we are doing, both on our own and in support of our partner organizations. We support La Resistencia, Entre Hermanos, Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network, and more. We hold or join demonstrations and strikes, organize or join phone banks, raise ... Read more
Join District 3 members to discuss… From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor On Sunday, July 26 at 6pm we’ll be discussing Chapter 4 and 5. **If you don’t have time to finish all of it or any of it – come anyway! We’ll have a good discussion and your views are appreciated!** The ... Read more
DSA's caucus of Afrosocialists and Socialists of Color (AFROSOC) brings Black, indigenous and people of color socialists together to educate ourselves and organize our campaigns. We are doing the work of cultivating coalitions as communities of color to help build antiracist multiracial working-class base -- the only viable strategy for securing a socialist future. Through ... Read more
We're gathering together to discuss how we can push forward the campaign to pressure various corporations to stop donating money to the Seattle Police Foundation, the non-profit wing of the Seattle Police Department. We're still in early days of this work, so please join in to find out what we're up to and how you ... Read more
Join the Seattle DSA District 2 reading group on the biography of Rosa Luxemberg by Paul Frölich. Rosa Luxemburg was an inspirational revolutionary leader, socialist theoretician, and tireless fighter for the working class right up until the moment when she was tragically murdered during the German Revolution. While Lenin and the Russian socialists faced brutal ... Read more
Does your building management take too long to make repairs? Are you concerned that your lease could be illegal? Does your landlord charge you too much rent? You’re not alone. The Tenant Organizing Collective is a group of Seattle area residents, including experienced housing rights activists, who meet every week to teach each other concrete, ... Read more
We're approaching the final week leading up to a historic Seattle City Council vote to re-balance the 2020 budget and defund the Seattle Police Department. The final vote was just postponed one week until Monday, August 10. Slashing SPD’s budget in half would be a victory that would give hope and confidence to the uprising ... Read more
Join District 4 SDSA to discuss chapters 6-8 of “The End of Policing” by Alex Vitale: The Failures of Policing Sex Work, The War on Drugs, and Gang Suppression. This event is open to DSA members and anyone curious about DSA. https://washington.zoom.us/j/91806285406 Meeting ID: 918 0628 5406
Sponsored by: King County Equity Now and Decriminalize Seattle Endorsed by: NAACP Youth Council, Seattle Equity Educators, WeAPP, Seattle Children's March, Transit Rider's Union, Seattle Democratic Socialists of America, Seattle Revolutionary Socialists, Black Minds Matter, National Educators United, Equity in Education Coalition, Black Education Matters. Education has the power to transform people’s lives when it's ... Read more
Since we have a business meeting coming up on August 4th, where we will debate and vote on a number of exciting resolutions involving the future of the chapter, we thought it'd be good to have an office hours, where LC members can answer any questions SDSA members have about the meeting. We recommend reading ... Read more
Come learn all about Action Network! Learn how to search our membership list, send emails to custom groups of people, create events, run and create reports, forms, and how to tie all of that together! RSVP here: https://actionnetwork.org/events/sdsa-action-network-training-3
Join the Queer and Feminist Caucus for our every-three-weeks Labor & Revolutionary History Happy Hour, featuring working class struggles led by women and queer people throughout history. This week's topic: Slave Rebellion and Maroon Societies. We’ll learn from and about our comrades who fought before us. Each week we’ll discuss a different historical event, through ... Read more
Rebecca is a DSA member running for congress, and has been endorsed by our comrades in Tacoma DSA, as well as DSA National. She's running a strong campaign on Medicare For All, A Green New Deal, and Housing For All, against an established incumbent. Let's show some solidarity with our Tacoma DSA comrades and get ... Read more
Join us to pursue a fair and effective Green New Deal to halt climate change and win environmental justice. We explore ecosocialist theory, organize with climate groups, and are developing a campaign for fare-free transit. Join zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84134942601?pwd=QjJMWjNVd0dxeDM3RGtlZVVETGtxUT09 OR by phone 253-215-8782 Meeting ID: 841 3494 2601 Password: 200123
Join District 3 members to discuss… From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor On Sunday at 6pm we’ll be discussing the final chapters of the book, Chapter 6 and 7. **If you don’t have time to finish all of it or any of it – come anyway! We’ll have a good discussion and your ... Read more
DSA's caucus of Afrosocialists and Socialists of Color (AFROSOC) brings Black, indigenous and people of color socialists together to educate ourselves and organize our campaigns. We are doing the work of cultivating coalitions as communities of color to help build antiracist multiracial working-class base -- the only viable strategy for securing a socialist future. Through ... Read more
We'll be discussing the plan for getting various corporations to stop donating to the Seattle Police Foundation in the coming months. There's plenty of ways to get involved, both online and off -- we hope you will join in! RSVP here to get a Zoom link: https://actionnetwork.org/events/divest-spd-meeting
Our August General Membership Meeting is a business meeting! Members have submitted resolutions and amendments for consideration and a vote by the general membership. This meeting will include lively debate and discussion about resolutions that will shape the direction of our chapter, so we hope you can attend! This is a virtual meeting. For Zoom ... Read more
Join the Seattle DSA District 2 reading group on the biography of Rosa Luxemberg by Paul Frölich. Rosa Luxemburg was an inspirational revolutionary leader, socialist theoretician, and tireless fighter for the working class right up until the moment when she was tragically murdered during the German Revolution. While Lenin and the Russian socialists faced brutal ... Read more
Does your building management take too long to make repairs? Are you concerned that your lease could be illegal? Does your landlord charge you too much rent? You’re not alone. The Housing Collective is a group of Seattle area residents, including experienced housing rights activists, who meet every month to teach each other concrete, effective ... 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.
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. If you are already active in the Seattle chapter, we need your help putting on New Member Orientations, meeting one-on-one with new members, and working to better connect the projects ... Read more
Join the Seattle DSA Critical and Revolutionary Pedagogy Reading Group to discuss bell hooks’ Teaching to Transgress (1994.) bell hook is the pen name of Gloria Jean Watkins, a Black feminist teacher and activist deeply involved in critical pedagogy building on the work of Paulo Freire and influenced by both marxist approaches to pedagogy and Black ... 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! Questions? Send us an e-mail at SeaNightSchool gmail . com ---> RSVP here! <--- The topic for this session is ... Read more
DSA's caucus of Afrosocialists and Socialists of Color (AFROSOC) brings Black, indigenous and people of color socialists together to educate ourselves and organize our campaigns. We are doing the work of cultivating coalitions as communities of color to help build antiracist multiracial working-class base -- the only viable strategy for securing a socialist future. Through ... Read more
We'll be gathering to talk about the campaign to pressure corporations to stop donating to the Seattle Police Foundation, the non-profit arm of the Seattle Police Department. There's many ways to get involved from research, to helping build our coalition, to planning in-person events that relate to the online campaign, and more! To get the ... Read more
Join the Seattle DSA District 2 reading group on the biography of Rosa Luxemberg by Paul Frölich. Rosa Luxemburg was an inspirational revolutionary leader, socialist theoretician, and tireless fighter for the working class right up until the moment when she was tragically murdered during the German Revolution. While Lenin and the Russian socialists faced brutal ... Read more
Join District 3 members to discuss… Trump and the Right: Is the US heading toward Fascism? What is Fascism and how do we fight it? From his grotesque attacks on immigrants and Muslims to his remarks following Charlottesville to sending federal agents to Portland to intimidate and threaten violence against peaceful protesters, Trump has a ... Read more
This week Carmen Best resigned from her role as chief of the Seattle Police Department and Kamala Harris joined the Democratic ticket as Joe Biden’s running mate. How do we analyze the capitalist weaponization of race and gender without resorting to class reductionism? How do we develop an intersectional socialist analysis aligned with the ... Read more
Join us to pursue a fair and effective Green New Deal to halt climate change and win environmental justice. We explore ecosocialist theory, organize with climate groups, and are developing a campaign for fare-free transit. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82362844278?pwd=azYyd1ZVNVdHUUxOYkdJVnl2bm01dz09 OR by phone 253-215-8782 Meeting ID: 823 6284 4278 Password: 902533
Join the Seattle DSA District 2 reading group on the biography of Rosa Luxemberg by Paul Frölich. Rosa Luxemburg was an inspirational revolutionary leader, socialist theoretician, and tireless fighter for the working class right up until the moment when she was tragically murdered during the German Revolution. While Lenin and the Russian socialists faced brutal ... Read more
DSA's caucus of Afrosocialists and Socialists of Color (AFROSOC) brings Black, indigenous and people of color socialists together to educate ourselves and organize our campaigns. We are doing the work of cultivating coalitions as communities of color to help build antiracist multiracial working-class base -- the only viable strategy for securing a socialist future. Through ... Read more
Calling all socialist tech workers! We are planning work on a number of interesting projects to work on that will help the org build power. These include: a members-only section of the Seattle DSA website a labor portal campaign data analysis tools We'll figure out how we want to organize this group, who wants to ... Read more
Join your District 3 comrades for an internal phonebank! We’ll be calling up our fellow friendly neighborhood socialists to mobilize them to upcoming events and engage in political discussion. Most importantly, we’ll be talking to folks about organizing online town halls this Fall to put pressure on wavering City Council members to stick to their ... Read more
There is a meeting of Seattle DSA’s Local Council that was not on our radar, and some people we’d invited to speak at our D2 meeting won’t available on August 20. We have decided to postpone our meeting and will hold it next Thursday 8/27 6-8 pm. A new calendar entry has been posted with ... Read more
Co-chairs of Working Groups and District Groups as well as Local Council members are invited to the monthly meeting of the Coordination Committee to implement the chapter's agreed priority of defunding and divesting the Seattle Police Department.
Join the Queer and Feminist Caucus for our every-three-weeks Labor & Revolutionary History Happy Hour, featuring working class struggles led by women and queer people throughout history. This week we're taking a quick detour from our timeline (don't worry, we'll be back in the 1830s after this!) with a discussion on the Postal Workers' strike ... Read more
Training to support immigrants when they go to court for bond hearings. This training will be provided by members of both Seattle's and Tacoma's DSA chapters. The training will be similar to WAISN's (Washington Immigration Support Network) Bond Hearing Support training, and will be set in a socialist/labor framework, and include content on working with ... Read more
Please join us for the Ecosocialist reading group! We’ll be discussing the following short pieces on the topic of ecosocialism, and taking suggestions for our next reading. http://www.cnsjournal.org/about/an-ecosocialist-manifesto/ https://climateandcapitalism.com/2018/07/22/the-belem-ecosocialist-declaration-an-historic-document/ https://greattransition.org/publication/why-ecosocialism-red-green-future Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88041874573?pwd=Vjc4b3hVTnlyQ3Y0OVMxMVFNMVdPQT09 Meeting ID: 880 4187 4573 Passcode: 441268 Join by phone 253-215-8782
You are invited to join Seattle DSA District 3 for a ZOOM screening and discussion of the 1971 documentary film, The Murder of Fred Hampton. The Black Panther Party was the most significant independent Black revolutionary movement in North America and the most radical mass organization of the Civil Rights Era. It brought together thousands ... Read more
DSA's caucus of Afrosocialists and Socialists of Color (AFROSOC) brings Black, indigenous and people of color socialists together to educate ourselves and organize our campaigns. We are doing the work of cultivating coalitions as communities of color to help build antiracist multiracial working-class base -- the only viable strategy for securing a socialist future. Through ... Read more
One way to get connected with the work of Seattle DSA is through your local District Group. SDSA District Groups correspond to City of Seattle Council Districts, of which there are seven total. SDSA District Groups have organized a variety of activities to engage new and current members in order to build power at the ... Read more
Residents of Seattle City Council voting District 5* and north King County (and anyone else that's interested in joining -- you don't have to live here) will be gathering to get to know each other, build community, and reflect on the political landscape in our area in the last several months, Seattle DSA's involvement in ... Read more
Come to learn about what Democratic Socialism is all about, what we can learn about capitalism and socialism from the current uprisings and the pandemic, and how YOU can get involved with Seattle DSA’s efforts to engage in mutual aid and building power for a socialist future in which people come before profits. You don’t ... Read more
Join comrades from District 2 (southeast Seattle) on Thursday August 20, 6-8 pm, for a lively Zoom discussion on the prospects for an independent working-class political party. At the DSA national convention in 2019, delegates overwhelmingly voted in favor of a resolution titled “Class Struggle Elections” which stated: DSA is committed to building political organization ... Read more
Join Seattle DSA District 3 members to discuss... The Democratic National Convention represented the consolidation of the moderate, pro-corporate wing of the Democratic Party and a repudiation of the politics of Bernie Sanders, AOC, and the insurgent left wing candidates like Cori Bush, a BLM activist and DSA member who defeated a dynastic incumbent from ... Read more
Join the Seattle DSA Critical and Revolutionary Pedagogy Reading Group to discuss bell hooks’ Teaching to Transgress (1994.) bell hook is the pen name of Gloria Jean Watkins, a Black feminist teacher and activist deeply involved in critical pedagogy building on the work of Paulo Freire and influenced by both marxist approaches to pedagogy and Black ... Read more
Immigration Justice This is the monthly meeting of the Immigration Justice Working Group We talk about the work we are doing, both on our own as a group and in conjunction with our partner organizations. We support La Resistencia, Entre Hermanos, Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network, and more. We hold or join demonstrations and strikes, organize ... Read more
Join us to pursue a fair and effective Green New Deal to halt climate change and win environmental justice. We explore ecosocialist theory, organize with climate groups, and are developing a campaign for fare-free transit. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84612917962?pwd=RzA2aFlxdEhYa3NHalliV2Y1NC96dz09 OR by phone 253-215-8782 Meeting ID: 846 1291 7962 Password: 976494
DSA's caucus of Afrosocialists and Socialists of Color (AFROSOC) brings Black, indigenous and people of color socialists together to educate ourselves and organize our campaigns. We are doing the work of cultivating coalitions as communities of color to help build antiracist multiracial working-class base -- the only viable strategy for securing a socialist future. Through ... Read more
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