Oct 3, 2022 | Chapter Updates, Internationalism
In the past three months, the prodigious Internationalism Working Group has continued to drive action within our work. In our most recent victory, we helped organize a Somerville city council resolution that was passed unanimously in city hall. The resolution...
Oct 3, 2022 | Chapter Updates, Housing
The Housing Working Group has continued to work closely with the Greater Boston Tenants Union to help build tenant power across the Boston area. The WG is planning on revamping our Tenant Organizer Trainings and offering at least one to a...
Sep 30, 2022 | Chapter Updates, Committees
As part of our ongoing effort to secure our chapter office space, we would like to announce our office fundraiser! We are asking members to make a monthly donation to the chapter of whatever they can afford in order to secure a space we all can use. Our...
Sep 9, 2022 | Endorsements, Prison Abolition & Immigration
Boston DSA members are invited to join Families for Justice as Healing and the National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls for the FreeHer 5k on Saturday, September 10, from South Bay Jail to the State House. This 3.1...
Aug 19, 2022 | Electoral, PEWG blog
Painting credit: @Lizzie Rutberg Today, in an unprecedented and historic move, Governor Charlie Baker’s MBTA will shut down the entire Orange Line for thirty days of emergency maintenance. This, the severs a vital transit artery for hundreds of thousands of greater...
Aug 11, 2022 | Committees, PEWG blog, Political Education
Chalked messages of love and courage on the pavement Where we left off Five years ago I was at the counterprotests to Unite the Right, the fascist gathering in Charlottesville, Virginia, that culminated in a car attack that killed Heather Heyer and wounded many...
Jul 18, 2022 | Committees, PEWG blog
On July 2nd 2022, a large force from Patriot Front, the largest Neo-Nazi group in America, marched through downtown Boston. They assaulted an onlooker, but the situation was deescalated by FBI agents on the scene. The Nazis proceeded to ride the MBTA Orange Line to...
Jun 1, 2022 | PEWG blog, Political Education
Hello Comrades, The Political Education Working Group (PEWG) is re-committing itself to its mission of continued political education, both for the members of the working group and for the chapter as a whole. We’ve been incorporating reading sessions into our monthly...
Jan 21, 2022 | Chapter Updates, Electoral, PEWG blog
Following our December 19th General Meeting, the members of Boston Democratic Socialists of America voted to pass four resolutions that chart a path toward more consistent solidarity with the Palestinian cause and make some necessary structural and procedural changes...
