Events

Everyone new to socialist activism and/or Boston DSA is invited to a four session intro reading group on the basics of socialism, based on Jacobin's pamphlet, “The ABC’s of Socialism”.

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUrfumrqj8iE9OVf7XLVQglBuza7EtXYaxq

https://s3.jacobinmag.com/issues/jacobin-abcs.pd

*Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork:* https://actionnetwork.org/events/new-member-reading-group-session-3-3

The Administrative Committee is responsible for handling our chapter’s routine administrative functions such as chapter communications, technology infrastructure, membership data maintenance, and new member onboarding. The Administrative Committee is chaired by the Communications Coordinator and the Membership Coordinators of the Coordinating Committee.
Want to do socialism from a computer while in your pajamas? Register to attend an upcoming meeting and chip in: https://bdsa.us/AdComm

*Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork:* https://actionnetwork.org/events/administrative-committee-working-meeting-july

Phonebank Boston DSA members and turn them out to canvasses and other campaign events for Evan for Cambridge! DSA endorsee Evan MacKay is running for State House in Cambridge to challenge the corruption in the State House and ensure it works for everyone, not the few. If they are going to win, we're going to need all DSA members out knocking doors and spreading the word!

*Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork:* https://actionnetwork.org/events/evan-for-cambridge-turnout-phonebank-2

Everyone new to socialist activism and/or Boston DSA is invited to a four session intro reading group on the basics of socialism, based on Jacobin's pamphlet, “The ABC’s of Socialism”.

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUrfumrqj8iE9OVf7XLVQglBuza7EtXYaxq

https://s3.jacobinmag.com/issues/jacobin-abcs.pd

*Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork:* https://actionnetwork.org/events/new-member-reading-group-session-4-3

This training is open to all members and will focus on Action Network event creation, form creation, and email setup/targeting/sending. If anyone is in a leadership position, or wants to support working groups and committees in doing event promotion, this training is for you.

*Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork:* https://actionnetwork.org/events/action-network-training-19

Phonebank Boston DSA members and turn them out to canvasses and other campaign events for Evan for Cambridge! DSA endorsee Evan MacKay is running for State House in Cambridge to challenge the corruption in the State House and ensure it works for everyone, not the few. If they are going to win, we're going to need all DSA members out knocking doors and spreading the word!

*Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork:* https://actionnetwork.org/events/evan-for-cambridge-turnout-phonebank-3

The Boston DSA Coordinating Committee meets semimonthly, usually on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of the month.
We use these meetings to brainstorm and address administrative issues in the chapter.

Meetings are typically hybrid.

All CC meetings are open to the general membership, but not to the general public.

On specific occasions where the CC is handling sensitive information, it may go into executive session for a portion of the meeting; this will be made known beforehand.

*Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork:* https://actionnetwork.org/events/coordinating-committee-wednesday-july-10

Boston DSA's Electoral Working Group (EWG) organizes to grow the socialist presence in our politics, communities, and city halls. We're building shared power for working people in Massachusetts and doing it together.

Join our monthly meeting here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82416064898

*Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork:* https://actionnetwork.org/events/electoral-wg-monthly-meeting-7

New to Boston DSA? Not sure how to get started? Not a member yet, but looking to dip your toe in? Or maybe you're a not-so-new member, but haven't been active in a while? Welcome! Join us via Zoom for a Chapter Orientation.

Comrades from our Membership Committee will walk you through the chapter's structure, answer questions, facilitate discussion about socialist organizing in Boston, discuss our Chapter's current priorities and projects, and help you get plugged in and involved in fighting back locally against capitalism.

*Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork:* https://actionnetwork.org/events/july-2024-chapter-orientation

Come hang with JP DSA comrades!

Join us for a drink on Sunday, July 14th at 4pm at Brendan Behan Pub and meet some of your fellow (or future!) Jamaica Plain DSA comrades. Some of us will be going after clipboarding for the Palestine Working Group campaign at Stop and Shop, but feel free to come and hang even if you can't make it to the clipboarding!

We are in the preliminary stages of forming the JP DSA Neighborhood Group, so if you are interested, please make sure drop by! If you can't make it and are interested in learning more, feel free to reach out at membership@bostondsa.org

*Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork:* https://actionnetwork.org/events/jamaica-plain-dsa-social

The Administrative Committee is responsible for handling our chapter’s routine administrative functions such as chapter communications, technology infrastructure, membership data maintenance, and new member onboarding. The Administrative Committee is chaired by the Communications Coordinator and the Membership Coordinators of the Coordinating Committee.
Want to do socialism from a computer while in your pajamas? Register to attend an upcoming meeting and chip in: https://bdsa.us/AdComm

*Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork:* https://actionnetwork.org/events/administrative-committee-discussion-meeting-june-2

Phonebank Boston DSA members and turn them out to canvasses and other campaign events for Evan for Cambridge! DSA endorsee Evan MacKay is running for State House in Cambridge to challenge the corruption in the State House and ensure it works for everyone, not the few. If they are going to win, we're going to need all DSA members out knocking doors and spreading the word!

*Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork:* https://actionnetwork.org/events/evan-for-cambridge-turnout-phonebank-4

The Palestine Working Group will be screening "Naila and the Uprising" and discussing the path forward for the Palestine solidarity movement in the U.S. with guest speaker Willie Burnley, Jr.! The Civic Engagement Committee needs help turning out petition signers and DSA members to this movie night, so please join us Thursday, July 18th at 6pm to help activate DSA and community members!

*Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork:* https://actionnetwork.org/events/movie-night-phonebank

Join the Internationalism Working Group for its monthly meeting! The Internationalism Working Group aims to build global solidarity for global liberation. We oppose globalized capitalism, imperialism, militarism, settler colonialism, and all forms of oppression wherever they occur.

*Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork:* https://actionnetwork.org/events/internationalism-working-group-monthly-meeting-13

How should socialists in the labor movement organize leading up to the 2024 Election? The LWG returns to this question for discussion as calls for Biden to exit the running increase and the likelihood of a Trump victory is higher than ever.

Also, elections for the LWG Organizing Committee will be in August. We'll go over the different positions and the timeline. Ever think about how we should lead our labor work? Come to this meeting!

We'll be on Zoom and, as always, new, returning and prospective members are welcome.

*Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork:* https://actionnetwork.org/events/labor-working-group-meeting-79

Join Boston DSA members for a phonebank to raise socialist cash to fight the capitalist class! One hour of phonebanking raises an additional $1300 annually, ensuring that DSA can continue striving for a militant labor movement, Palestinian liberation, a Green New Deal, and green social housing!

*Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork:* https://actionnetwork.org/events/boston-dsa-solidarity-dues-phonebank

Join your DSA comrades on Saturday, July 20th. Cambridge DSA and the Boston DSA Healthcare working group are doing a joint canvass for DSA nationally endorsed candidate for Massachusetts State Rep. Evan MacKay (a champion for progressive taxation and Medicare For All).

If you can't get there right at 12, no problem - we'll be canvassing from 12-3 and will be happy to see you anytime during that stretch. Never canvassed before? No worries, we will pair you up with an experienced buddy.

Join for the canvass and treat yourself with the social that begins at 3pm (rain date Sunday July 21st).

Calling all comrades! You don't have to live in Cambridge to join us :)

Follow us on Instagram @CambridgeDSA and on Twitter/X @Cambridge_DSA

Not yet a DSA member? Join us today! https://dsausa.org/join

*Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork:* https://actionnetwork.org/events/july-cambridge-dsa-meeting-tax-harvard-get-a-socialist-into-the-state-house

Come socialize with comrades over free food, drinks, and games while raising money for DSA-endorsed Evan MacKay's State House race! There will be free food and alcohol as well as fun field day games like a sack race and cornhole, and a raffle for some sweet Boston DSA swag!

Evan has a real chance to win and Marjorie Decker knows it. She’s enlisted the governor and lieutenant governor to headline her re-election launch. She’s raising more money from donors – most of whom don’t live in the district – than ever before in her career. In the coming weeks, she’s going to flood her district with glossy mailers and try to create an air of inevitability against Evan. We know this deluge is coming, the Democratic Establishment is nothing if not predictable.

Evan’s message can win; they’re willing to put in the work and make the personal connections with voters that we know can carry the day. But the campaign needs resources of its own to fight back against Decker’s flood of out-of-district money. Evan, a committed socialist, categorically refuses to take corporate and PAC money. That means that what we can do for our comrade as they run for office is more important than ever.

Join us at a field day fundraiser to help raise money for Evan’s campaign!

*Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork:* https://actionnetwork.org/events/boston-dsa-fundraiser-for-evan-for-cambridge

Boston DSA will be tabling at Open Streets in Jamaica Plain!

Our table will include materials on our Palestine Working Group's campaign as well as support for Jamaica Plain 4 Palestine's campaigns.

We will also have members clipboarding throughout the day for both the Palestine Working Group and Jamaica Plain 4 Palestine.

If you are interested in joining, please RSVP to receive a signup sheet for either tabling or clipboarding! We are looking for members interested in taking on 1 hour shifts throughout the day from 10:00am to 5:00pm.

See you Sunday!

*Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork:* https://actionnetwork.org/events/tabling-at-bostons-open-streets-in-jp

MA Ecosocialists will be hosting our semi-annual strategic retreat on July 21 at First Baptist Church in JP and on Zoom. Come join us to reflect on past work and plan ahead for future campaigns! Light snacks and beverages will be provided. The Zoom link will be sent to RSVPers prior to the meeting.

*Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork:* https://actionnetwork.org/events/ma-ecosocialists-2024-strategy-retreat

Join Boston DSA for a screening of “Naila and the Uprising,” a story of one woman’s struggle against Israeli colonial occupation. As the first Intifada breaks out, Naila and other Palestinian women are called upon to lead the movement.

*Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork:* https://actionnetwork.org/events/movie-night-naila-and-the-uprising

Attend a monthly meeting of the BDSA Healthcare Working Group. We'll be discussing our current projects, including our organizing around Medicare for All.

*Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork:* https://actionnetwork.org/events/healthcare-working-group-meeting-38

Phonebank Boston DSA members and turn them out to canvasses and other campaign events for Evan for Cambridge! DSA endorsee Evan MacKay is running for State House in Cambridge to challenge the corruption in the State House and ensure it works for everyone, not the few. If they are going to win, we're going to need all DSA members out knocking doors and spreading the word!

*Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork:* https://actionnetwork.org/events/evan-for-cambridge-turnout-phonebank-5

The Boston DSA Coordinating Committee meets semimonthly, usually on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of the month.
We use these meetings to brainstorm and address administrative issues in the chapter.

Meetings are typically hybrid.

All CC meetings are open to the general membership, but not to the general public.

On specific occasions where the CC is handling sensitive information, it may go into executive session for a portion of the meeting; this will be made known beforehand.

*Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork:* https://actionnetwork.org/events/coordinating-committee-wednesday-july-24

July will be at the Cambridge Public Library (main branch) community room + zoom

Boston DSA's Political Education Working Group meets on the last Thursday of every month at 7 pm, unless we have to move it for a holiday, which happens more often than you'd think.
PEWG's goal is to provide our members with the theoretical knowledge and practical skills to organize effectively and strategically, and to educate the wider public on DSA's vision for a socialist future and the often-erased leftist movements of the past. PEWG hosts a number of ongoing projects, such as the chapter's political education blog (bostonpewg.org), our Socialist Night School series, and periodic New Member Reading Groups (abcsofsocialism@gmail.com).

We also run one-time (or a-few-times) events such as reading groups, lectures, and panel discussions; and work with other working groups in the chapter to run political education events related to their areas of organization.
Working group meetings and events always have a zoom option if you cant make it in person. You can find our meeting's Zoom link or join the working group's mailing list at https://actionnetwork.org/forms/join-the-political-education-working-group?source=direct_link&
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to email us at education@bostondsa.org.

*Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork:* https://actionnetwork.org/events/pewg-monthly-meeting-14