Seattle Democratic Socialists of America

Marxist Reading & Discussion Group
2023-02-06 18:30 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Chuck’s Hop Shop (Central District), 2001 E Union St, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
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 shorter, digestible chunks with no prior experience (or attendance) needed, so feel free to drop in as your schedule permits. We’d love to hear your thoughts!
We will be meeting on the patio at Chuck’s Hop Shop in the Central District (unless it’s cold, in which case we migrate inside). Our meeting format is currently in person, with the reading discussion starting at 7pm! Feel free to come a bit earlier (6:30pm) to get settled, order a food or a drink, and introduce yourself! Please be respectful of fellow attendees by assessing your COVID risk, and consider taking a test before attending or wearing a mask if that risk seems high!
Discussion and Readings for this week: Engels, Dialectics of Nature (Ch 4: The Measure of Motion – Work, Ch 5: Heat, Ch 6: Electricity)
Supplemental (not required, but potentially helpful) material:

Rob Sewell, “What Is Dialectic Materialism?”
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy – Hegel’s Dialectics
Trotsky – “The ABC of Materialist Dialectics”
Engels – Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy, Part II: Materialism

Marxist Reading & Discussion Group
2023-02-20 18:30 - 20:30 | Chuck’s Hop Shop (Central District), 2001 E Union St, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
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 shorter, digestible chunks with no prior experience (or attendance) needed, so feel free to drop in as your schedule permits. We’d love to hear your thoughts!
We will be meeting on the patio at Chuck’s Hop Shop in the Central District (unless it’s cold, in which case we migrate inside). Our meeting format is currently in person, with the reading discussion starting at 7pm! Feel free to come a bit earlier (6:30pm) to get settled, order a food or a drink, and introduce yourself! Please be respectful of fellow attendees by assessing your COVID risk, and consider taking a test before attending or wearing a mask if that risk seems high!
Discussion and Readings for this week: Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent, Chapter 1 “A Propaganda Model”

Marxist Reading & Discussion Group
2023-04-03 18:30 - 20:30 | Chuck’s Hop Shop (Central District), 2001 E Union St, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
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 shorter, digestible chunks with no prior experience (or attendance) needed, so feel free to drop in as your schedule permits. We’d love to hear your thoughts!
We will be meeting on the patio at Chuck’s Hop Shop in the Central District (unless it’s cold, in which case we migrate inside). Our meeting format is currently in person, with the reading discussion starting at 7pm! Feel free to come a bit earlier (6:30pm) to get settled, order a food or a drink, and introduce yourself! Please be respectful of fellow attendees by assessing your COVID risk, and consider taking a test before attending or wearing a mask if that risk seems high!
Discussion and Readings for this week: Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto, I: Bourgeois and Proletarians and II: Proletarians and Communists.

Marxist Reading & Discussion Group
2023-04-17 18:30 - 20:30 | Chuck’s Hop Shop (Central District), 2001 E Union St, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
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 shorter, digestible chunks with no prior experience (or attendance) needed, so feel free to drop in as your schedule permits. We’d love to hear your thoughts!
We will be meeting on the patio at Chuck’s Hop Shop in the Central District (unless it’s cold, in which case we migrate inside). Our meeting format is currently in person, with the reading discussion starting at 7pm! Feel free to come a bit earlier (6:30pm) to get settled, order a food or a drink, and introduce yourself! Please be respectful of fellow attendees by assessing your COVID risk, and consider taking a test before attending or wearing a mask if that risk seems high!
Discussion and Readings for this week: Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto, Part III: Socialist and Communist Literature & Part IV: Position of the Communists in Relation to the Various Existing Opposition Parties

Marxist Reading & Discussion Group
2023-05-01 18:30 - 20:30, 2023-05-15 18:30 - 20:30, 2023-05-29 18:30 - 20:30, 2023-06-12 18:30 - 20:30, 2023-06-26 18:30 - 20:30 | Chuck’s Hop Shop (Central District), 2001 E Union St, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
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 shorter, digestible chunks with no prior experience (or attendance) needed, so feel free to drop in as your schedule permits. We’d love to hear your thoughts!
We will be meeting on the patio at Chuck’s Hop Shop in the Central District (unless it’s cold, in which case we migrate inside). Our meeting format is currently in person, with the reading discussion starting at 7pm! Feel free to come a bit earlier (6:30pm) to get settled, order a food or a drink, and introduce yourself! Please be respectful of fellow attendees by assessing your COVID risk, and consider taking a test before attending or wearing a mask if that risk seems high!
Discussion and Readings for this week: TBA

D4/D5/Ecosocialism Reading Group
2023-05-25 18:45 - 20:30 | Urban Luxe Café, 6105A Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle, WA, 98115, United States
Join us at Urban Luxe Cafe, 6:45 Thursday 5/25, for a discussion of “Covid, Climate Change: Is the World Ready for ‘Global Public Goods’?” from New Left Review, by Sean Sweeney. Sean Sweeney is at CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies and is one of the forces behind the global organization Trade Unionists for Energy Democracy.
You don’t have to live in District 4 or 5, and feel free to join the conversation even if you haven’t had time to read! All are welcome.

Rock Out For Rojava fundraiser show
2025-02-08 17:30 - 21:00 | Southside Commons, 3518 S Edmunds St, Seattle, WA, 98118, United States
Whoever said we can’t sing and dance while building the revolution?
Join comrades for an evening fundraising event as we help raise funds for Heyva Sor a Kurd (the Kurdish Red Crescent) in response to the escalating situation in North and East Syria, an area commonly referred to as Rojava.
Beginning soon after the Arab Spring that sparked off in 2011, the democratic, pluralistic, polyethnic, and feminist political project known as the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (DAANES) has fought to defend itself and its radical vision for the region on multiple fronts. Humanitarian groups like Heyva Sor a Kurd continue to provide essential services in war-torn Rojava, more so now with the fall of Bashar al-Assad from power and increasing military aggression from forces aligned with Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Come show your solidarity and Rock Out for Rojava!

Location is Southside Commons (3518 S Edmunds St), doors open at 5:30pm.
Event is all ages. Respect each other and the space.
Pay-what-you-can cover at the door.
Mask or a negative COVID test result required.

Event sponsors: Seattle DSA, Snohomish County DSA, Emergency Committee for Rojava, Radical Women – Seattle, Puget Sound Socialist Rifle Association, Yellow Peril Tactical
RSVP on Action Network

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 .

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!

Puget Sound EWOC Monthly Meeting
2025-05-15 18:00 - 19:00, 2025-06-19 18:00 - 19:00, 2025-07-17 18:00 - 19:00, 2025-09-18 18:00 - 19:00, 2025-10-16 18:00 - 19:00, 2025-11-20 18:00 - 19:00, 2025-12-18 18:00 - 19:00, 2026-01-15 18:00 - 19:00 and 55 more dates | RSVP for Address, RSVP at link below.
The Emergency Workplace 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 with a union of their choice, or in some instances helps workers organize without a union. Find out more here: https://workerorganizing.org.   Recently, labor organizers in Seattle DSA formed a Puget Sound EWOC local to facilitate local union organizing. Puget Sound EWOC meets on the 3rd Thursday from 6PM to 7PM. If you would like to get involved, RSVP here and an organizer will reach out: https://tinyurl.com/EWOCSEA . You can also reach us by email at PSEWOC@proton.me.

Counterprotest Anti-LGBTQ Hate Group MAYDAYUSA
2025-05-24 12:00 - 21:00 | Cal Anderson Park and Bobby Morris Playfield
CALL TO ACTION SATURDAY, MAY 24th
Antiqueer, transphobic, anti-reproductive healthcare hate tour MayDayUSA (deceptive name, right?!) is making a stop in Seattle to spread their bigotry and cry about queer people existing under the guise of a family-friendly event complete with free children’s haircuts. Community members and organizations are rallying to counter the event by celebrating our queerness and say no to hate. Seattle DSA’s Mobilization Committee is coordinating with multiple groups to give these bigoted astroturfers a proper Seattle welcome.
This is expected to be an all-day event at Cal Anderson Park. Specific location of the hate rally is TBD but indicators point to the Bobby Morris Playfields on the southern end of the park. A group of local musicians and artists are organizing a punk show at the skatepark on the southwest corner of the park (see attached image) and other actions will be occurring throughout the afternoon and evening in and around Cal Anderson. We will plan to stage our contingent adjacent to the skatepark starting at noon; look for the DSA banner or red flag. Double-check this calendar event the morning of for any change of plans.
Coalition organizations hope to keep this a peaceful counter demonstration. However, in lieu of the persons involved with MayDayUSA and their connections with far-right provocateurs, the Mobilization Committee is asking attendees to take some precautions:

Wear a mask to protect your identity and to keep your community safe from COVID and other airborne infections.
Bring earplugs or other hearing protection as a precaution.
Check the weather forecast the morning of and dress appropriately for the conditions.
Do not attend alone and have a buddy or small group, and never let anyone wander alone. Also have an agreed-on check-in time with someone not attending.
Continuously observe your surroundings and orientate yourself. Decide ahead of time where you and your friends or family will meet in the event of a dispersal order or emergency.
A police liaison will be on hand, so there is no reason to talk to police.
If you intend to be there all afternoon/evening, bring snacks and water.
Remember, we keep each other safe.

Puget Sound EWOC Monthly Meeting
2025-08-27 18:00 - 19:00 | RSVP for Address, RSVP at link below.
The August meeting for PSEWOC has been postponed to Wednesday, 8/27 and will be online-only.

The Emergency Workplace 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 with a union of their choice, or in some instances helps workers organize without a union. Find out more here: https://workerorganizing.org.   Recently, labor organizers in Seattle DSA formed a Puget Sound EWOC local to facilitate local union organizing. Puget Sound EWOC meets on the 3rd Thursday from 6PM to 7PM. If you would like to get involved, RSVP here and an organizer will reach out: https://tinyurl.com/EWOCSEA . You can also reach us by email at PSEWOC@proton.me.
