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Contact JJ Bartlett to sign up: 360-319-2009 Masks required in-kitchen. Optional outdoors. Must be vaccinated. Scrambled Eggs, Sausages, 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 - ... Read more
The Local Council (LC) is the elected leadership body which serves the members of Seattle DSA. Members are welcome to observe LC meetings by signing up here. 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 ... Read more
Seattle DSA’s Housing Justice Working Group! Home of the Peoples Breakfast. Working towards a massive expansion of publicly-owned green social housing. We are now running a hybrid meeting format! Join us in-person in Capitol Hill, for an optional social from 5-6:30, followed by business meeting at 6:30pm. Message JJ B. at 360-319-2009, or a co-chair on ... 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.
Every Thursday at 4:30pm, come to University Playground Park (4745 9th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98105) to distribute supplies. Bring medical supplies, snacks, and clothes. To get involved, you can also contact Rosa Hayes through the DSA Slack. If you want to contribute financially, send money with the note “mutual aid” to @historynerd1791 on Venmo.
Join northeast Seattle comrades at Cafe on the Ave, 6:15 Thursday 1/5, for a discussion of the Introduction and Chapter 1 of Half-Earth Socialism by Troy Vetesse and Drew Pendergrass (very reasonably priced from Verso). The book provocatively contemplates life after capitalism, reversing climate disaster, and mechanisms of socialist governance. You don’t have to live ... Read more
Educators from all over (Seattle, Renton, Highline, etc...) get together, chat politics, & share about struggles in their union. All union activists and socialists are welcome to attend! We often anchor our discussions with a reading, but we'll provide a short summary so everyone can participate whether they read or not. We meet 5pm every ... Read more
Join House Our Neighbors and Seattle DSA as we kick off the GOTV for I-135 with a mega canvass across Seattle! We'll be knocking doors and spreading the word about social housing with meeting points in Hillman City, Fremont, Lake City, and Beacon Hill starting at 11am! Training will be provided on site, and a ... Read more
Contact JJ Bartlett to sign up: 360-319-2009 Masks required in-kitchen. Optional outdoors. Must be vaccinated. Scrambled Eggs, Sausages, 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 - ... Read more
Join Seattle DSA to get the word out about I-135 ahead of the February 14th election. We’ll be meeting at the SE corner of Virgil Flaim Park to knock doors in the neighborhood, so wear comfortable walking shoes! A fully charged phone with miniVAN installed will also be helpful. Please RSVP so organizers can keep in ... Read more
Meeting for the Marxist reading group. New and seasoned readers of Marxist literature welcome! For the kick-off meeting (1/9), we'll be reading The Communist Manifesto. Kick-off agenda: 1. Intros and such (10 mins) 2. Discussion of the Manifesto (40 mins) 3. Planning future meetings (10 mins) RSVP for the first meeting here: https://actionnetwork.org/events/marxist-reading-group/ ... Read more
Join Seattle DSA to get the word out about I-135 ahead of the February 14th election. We’ll be meeting at the parking lot in the Genesee Playfield to knock doors in the neighborhood, so wear comfortable walking shoes! A fully charged phone with miniVAN installed will also be helpful. Please RSVP so organizers can keep ... Read more
The Local Council (LC) is the elected leadership body which serves the members of Seattle DSA. Members are welcome to observe LC meetings by signing up here. 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 ... Read more
The Marxist Reading & Discussion Group is welcome to new and seasoned readers of Marxist literature! Please join us as we work through and discuss some of the seminal works of foundational leftist thinkers, with regards to how they pertain to modern political struggles. All discussions are based on works that are broken down into ... Read more
Join UAW 4121 in protesting the privatization of housing for academic workers at the University of Washington! The University of Washington announced that it intends to privatize four public housing complexes – Radford Court, Blakeley Village, Laurel Village, and Nordheim Court. Long-term contracts of up to 80 years will likely be awarded in early 2023 ... Read more
The Member Engagement Committee (MEC) is the group within Seattle DSA that works to ensure people who join Seattle DSA feel welcomed into our community and find a meaningful way to participate in the life of the chapter. At this meeting, we’ll be talking about our three primary projects -- socials, 1-on-1 meetings, and recruiting ... Read more
Monthly meeting for the Tech Committee. For a link to the zoom meeting please see the Tech Committee slack channel.
Every Thursday at 4:30pm, come to University Playground Park (4745 9th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98105) to distribute supplies. Bring medical supplies, snacks, and clothes. To get involved, you can also contact Rosa Hayes through the DSA Slack. If you want to contribute financially, send money with the note “mutual aid” to @historynerd1791 on Venmo.
Join us for the next meeting of Seattle DSA's Reproductive Justice Working Group! RSVP here for meeting details. And mark your calendar to join us!
Join Seattle DSA to get the word out about I-135 ahead of the February 14th election. We’ll be meeting outside the New Holly Branch Library (32nd Ave side) to knock doors in the neighborhood, so wear comfortable walking shoes! A fully charged phone with miniVAN installed will also be helpful. Please RSVP so organizers can ... Read more
Contact JJ Bartlett to sign up: 360-319-2009 Masks required in-kitchen. Optional outdoors. Must be vaccinated. Scrambled Eggs, Sausages, 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 - ... Read more
Join Seattle DSA to get the word out about I-135 ahead of the February 14th election. We’ll be meeting at the parking lot in the Genesee Playfield to knock doors in the neighborhood, so wear comfortable walking shoes! A fully charged phone with miniVAN installed will also be helpful. Please RSVP so organizers can keep ... Read more
As our membership weighs an endorsement vote at the January membership meeting, join us for a brief discussion on Matthew Mitnick's campaign and submitted endorsement questionnaire hosted by the electoral working group. This will be an online discussion over zoom. Please RSVP for zoom meeting link.
Join Seattle DSA to get the word out about I-135 ahead of the February 14th election. We will be meeting at the SE corner of Virgil Flaim Park to knock doors in the neighborhood, so wear comfortable walking shoes! A fully charged phone with miniVAN installed will also be helpful. Please RSVP so organizers can ... Read more
The Local Council (LC) is the elected leadership body which serves the members of Seattle DSA. Members are welcome to observe LC meetings by signing up here. 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 ... Read more
Come join our January Electoral Working Group Meeting (Virtually) where we’ll be planning our selected initiative Renton Minimum Wage Initiative, preparing for the 2023 election cycle, and potentially reviewing a candidate endorsement questionnaire! RSVP Here for Zoom link.
Join the Seattle DSA Tech Working Organizing group to talk about strategies for developing issue campaigns at work. We'll have a guest organizer from the No Tech for Apartheid campaign join us to tell us a little about their campaign and opportunities to ask questions and meet other tech workers. RSVP HERE
Seattle DSA’s Housing Justice Working Group! Home of the Peoples Breakfast. Working towards a massive expansion of publicly-owned green social housing. We are now running a hybrid meeting format! Join us in-person in Capitol Hill, for an optional social from 5-6:30, followed by business meeting at 6:30pm. Message JJ B. at 360-319-2009, or a co-chair on ... Read more
Join us to text bank voters about Initiative 135: Social Housing for All! We need your help reaching out to hundreds of thousands of voters. So many Seattle voters still don't know there is a special election in February. We need to talk with these voters and get them to Vote Yes on I-135. You ... Read more
Join Seattle DSA to get the word out about I-135 ahead of the February 14th election. We’ll be meeting at the north east corner of the park to knock doors in the neighborhood, so wear comfortable walking shoes! A fully charged phone with miniVAN installed will also be helpful. Please RSVP so organizers can keep ... Read more
Join the reproductive justice working group book club. For this discussion we're reading the introduction and the essay "Children, Childhood and Capitalism" in Tithi Bhattacharya's edited collection Social Reproduction Theory Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression. Find a PDF copy here. RSVP here for details.
Join northeast Seattle comrades at Cafe on the Ave, 6:15 Thursday 1/19, for a discussion of the Chapter 2 of Half-Earth Socialism by Troy Vetesse and Drew Pendergrass (very reasonably priced from Verso). The book provocatively contemplates life after capitalism, reversing climate disaster, and mechanisms of socialist governance. You don’t have to live in District ... Read more
Educators from all over (Seattle, Renton, Highline, etc...) get together, chat politics, & share about struggles in their union. All union activists and socialists are welcome to attend! We often anchor our discussions with a reading, but we'll provide a short summary so everyone can participate whether they read or not. We meet 5pm every ... Read more
Saturday, January 21st at 5PM The Beacon Cinema, 4405 Rainier Ave S Based on a true story, Pride depicts a group of socialist lesbian and gay activists who raised money and did strike support for the British miners' strike in 1984, at the outset of what would become the Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners ... Read more
Join Seattle DSA to get the word out about I-135 ahead of the February 14th election. We’ll be meeting at the SW corner of 3rd Ave W and W Bertona St to knock doors in the neighborhood, so wear comfortable walking shoes! A fully charged phone with miniVAN installed will also be helpful. Please RSVP ... Read more
Working to create socialism is sometimes ... well, a lot of work! If it's all rallies and meetings and spreadsheets, it can turn into a drag real quick. We think it's important to have some time to just simply get to know each other, connect over food and drinks, and have fun together -- that's ... Read more
Contact JJ Bartlett to sign up: 360-319-2009 Masks required in-kitchen. Optional outdoors. Must be vaccinated. Scrambled Eggs, Sausages, 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 - ... Read more
We won’t go back: Free abortion on demand! Stop forced sterilization! Rally and march for abortion and full reproductive justice on the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Protest the millions spent by Catholic institutions to overturn abortion and seize control of hospitals & healthcare. Meet outside of St James Cathedral, 804 9th Ave, Seattle, ... Read more
Join Seattle DSA to get the word out about I-135 ahead of the February 14th election. We’ll be meeting at the parking lot in the Genesee Playfield to knock doors in the neighborhood, so wear comfortable walking shoes! A fully charged phone with miniVAN installed will also be helpful. Please RSVP so organizers can keep ... Read more
Let's start thinking about the research and ballot initiatives we would like to do for 2024! We'll meet and discuss the work that would need done, the timeline for a ballot initiative for 2024, and assist in putting together research for ballot initiative proposals. RSVP Here.
The Local Council (LC) is the elected leadership body which serves the members of Seattle DSA. Members are welcome to observe LC meetings by signing up here. 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 ... Read more
The Marxist Reading & Discussion Group is welcome to new and seasoned readers of Marxist literature! Please join us as we work through and discuss some of the seminal works of foundational leftist thinkers, with regards to how they pertain to modern political struggles. All discussions are based on works that are broken down into ... Read more
Chapter Membership Meetings are the events in which the largest number of members come together to hear about what the chapter has been up to recently, learn what is on the horizon and how to get involved, discuss ideas, and vote on how we should use our collective resources of money to achieve our goals. ... Read more
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Ahead of the 2023 DSA National Convention, please join us for a debate and discussion between National Political Committee members on the future of DSA. We'll dig into important political questions facing our organization and what the terrain looks like for us and for the left broadly. This call will also include an orientation on ... Read more
Join us for the next meeting of Seattle DSA's Reproductive Justice Working Group! RSVP here for meeting details. And mark your calendar to join us!
Come meet like-minded workers in tech at the Socialist Tech Workers Social! We will discuss workplace organization and mutual aid, in a time where layoffs are affecting a lot of us, and “voting with your feet” might no longer be a viable option. Invite your friends and coworkers!
The Local Council is excited to announce that Hayley Banyai-Becker, the DSA full time organizer for the PNW, will be in town for a political visit from 1/27 - 29. On Saturday, 1/28 at she'll be facilitating a training on How to Build a Mass Organization, with a social to follow. Description: Why build a mass organization ... Read more
Join Seattle DSA to get the word out about I-135 ahead of the February 14th election. We’ll be meeting at the SW corner of 3rd Ave W and W Bertona St to knock doors in the neighborhood, so wear comfortable walking shoes! A fully charged phone with miniVAN installed will also be helpful. Please RSVP ... Read more
Join us at our weekly Raise The Wage Renton signature gathering table at The Landing. Talk to retail/service workers and their customers, meet cool people from around King County who care about workers' standard of living, and contribute to a great cause! RSVP here (not required, but strongly encouraged so we have a sense of ... Read more
Contact JJ Bartlett to sign up: 360-319-2009 Masks required in-kitchen. Optional outdoors. Must be vaccinated. Scrambled Eggs, Sausages, 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 - ... Read more
DSA's Regional Organizer for our chapter, Hayley Banyai-Becker, will be in town for the weekend. Drop in to Broadcast Coffee Roasters this Sunday between 9:30 and 11:30am to chat with her about electoral strategy, labor strategy, national DSA politics, or any other DSA related topics! She'll have something at her table to clearly identify herself ... Read more
The Local Council (LC) is the elected leadership body which serves the members of Seattle DSA. Members are welcome to observe LC meetings by signing up here. 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 ... Read more
Join Seattle DSA to get the word out about I-135 ahead of the February 14th election. We’ll be meeting at the parking lot in the Genesee Playfield to knock doors in the neighborhood, so wear comfortable walking shoes! A fully charged phone with miniVAN installed will also be helpful. Please RSVP so organizers can keep ... Read more
Hello Comrades! As a part of our ongoing fundraising dues drive, Seattle DSA is hosting its first 2023 membership outreach phonebank this Sunday, January 29th, from 6-8PM on Zoom. Seattle DSA has launched a fundraising dues drive to increase income by $3,500/month by February. So far, we’ve increased our dues income by $1,500/month - that’s ... Read more
Dear Beloved South King County DSA members, If you attended the General Meeting on Tuesday, you may have heard that I was recently hired as Chapter Organizer for Seattle DSA. I am extremely grateful to the local council and to all of you for supporting me on this journey. I’m gonna be straight, South King ... Read more
Organizing, naturally, takes work, but just as important, organizing is about community, it's about people. Join me in my lunch hour as I host my very first virtual open office hours -- available for our membership. If you have an idea that you’d like to see implemented, or if you are looking to get involved ... Read more
The Local Council (LC) is the elected leadership body which serves the members of Seattle DSA. Members are welcome to observe LC meetings by signing up here. 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 ... Read more
Come join us for the January labor working group meeting. Look for the agenda in the labor channel on slack! RSVP Here: https://actionnetwork.org/events/labor-committee-meeting-36/
Putting the party back in politics. Board games and (root) beer with some local left homies at a cool bar. No agenda and no lecture to sit through. Just having a good time + getting to know folks. Feel free to bring your own games as well! NOTES: Please eat beforehand unless you're fine with ... Read more
Organizing, naturally, takes work, but just as important, organizing is about community, it's about people. Join me in my lunch hour as I host my very first virtual open office hours -- available for our membership. If you have an idea that you’d like to see implemented, or if you are looking to get involved ... Read more
Seattle DSA’s Housing Justice Working Group! Home of the Peoples Breakfast. Working towards a massive expansion of publicly-owned green social housing. In light of the special election on February 14, we'll be putting our regular HJWG meeting on hiatus to remind voters in Capitol Hill that Seattle has the potential to enact a first-of-its-kind-in-the-USA ... Read more
Seattle DSA’s Housing Justice Working Group! Home of the Peoples Breakfast. Working towards a massive expansion of publicly-owned green social housing. We are now running a hybrid meeting format! Join us in-person in Capitol Hill, for an optional social from 5-6:30, followed by business meeting at 6:30pm. Message JJ B. at 360-319-2009, or a co-chair on ... Read more
Join Seattle DSA in a textbank to reach out to voters before the special election deadline! Help us remind voters that permanently affordable social housing is on the February ballot, and that ballot is due February 14! We'll be meeting up in the Real Change office to get together to navigate Spoke, have some food, ... Read more
Educators from all over (Seattle, Renton, Highline, etc...) get together, chat politics, & share about struggles in their union. All union activists and socialists are welcome to attend! We often anchor our discussions with a reading, but we'll provide a short summary so everyone can participate whether they read or not. We meet 5pm every ... Read more
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