Event Calendar

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-september

Join us for the monthly meeting of the Ecosocialism Working Group, on the first Thursday of the month at 7 pm. This meeting will be on Zoom only.

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

Join us for the Palestine Working Group's biweekly planning meeting.  We have been
working on a community outreach campaign, petitioning our Congresspeople to call
for a permanent ceasefire, end of aid to Israel, and immediate relief
for Gaza. This work helps grow Boston DSA's community presence while
conducting political education about the Democratic Party's complicity
in genocide.

This week, we will be breaking out into the three committees - civic engagement, political education, and media to continue our work. Specifically, we will be planning escalation tactics and developing workplans for each of these committees.

Interested in learning more about the Working Group but not ready to attend a meeting? Fill out our interest form! bdsa.us/pwg-interest

*Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork:* https://actionnetwork.org/events/palestine-working-group-biweekly-meeting-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-september-11

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-9

Come hang with JP DSA comrades!

Join us on Sunday, September 15th at 3pm and meet some of your fellow (or future!) Jamaica Plain DSA comrades. We will briefly continue discussing our ongoing support for the Palestine Working Group campaign in addition to the social! The location will be shared after RSVPing.

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 but are interested in learning more, feel free to reach out at membership@bostondsa.org to be added to our Signal chat.

See you there!

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

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-15

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/september-2024-chapter-orientation

Join the Cambridge-Somerville Palestine Neighborhood Group for clipboarding and social at Union Square! Join us and speak to your neighbors about Palestine, why the war needs to end, and how to build a mass movement for peace.

We clipboard in groups and we hold an extensive training beforehand - so don't fret if you've never done it before!

Afterward, we'll be holding a social at Bow Market! Share your woes and victories from clipboarding over beers and good food.

Questions? Please fill out our interest form at bdsa.us/pwg-interest

*Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork:* https://actionnetwork.org/events/somerville-palestine-socialcanvass

Join community members for a potluck on September 21st at 4pm in Ringer Park! We'll be hanging out, making new friends, and considering how to build and support progressive activism in our neighborhood.

*Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork:* https://actionnetwork.org/events/allstonbrighton-social

Join us for a training on how to hold a 1:1 organizing conversation with a member of DSA's National Growth and Development Committee!

We will be going over the basics of how to have effective conversations to grow and develop your working group, labor union, and more!

After learning the basics, we will break into small groups to discuss how to apply the 1:1 in our working groups and role play!

*Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork:* https://actionnetwork.org/events/11-organizer-training-w-national-growth-and-development-committee

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-40

Join us for our first meeting of the 2024-2025 term! We will be discussing the state of the Labor Working Group, its role in Boston DSA, and what priorities to take on over the next year.

*Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork:* https://actionnetwork.org/events/labor-working-group-meeting-924

Mega Meetings happen quarterly with the Boston DSA Coordinating Committee and chairs of all of the chapters working groups, usually on the 2nd or 4th Wednesday of the month.
We use these meetings to coordinate efforts within the chapter across working groups.

This meeting will be hybrid.

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

*Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork:* https://actionnetwork.org/events/september-mega-meeting-wednesday-september-25

Join us to plan the upcoming chapterwide SIO check-in. Agenda to follow

*Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork:* https://actionnetwork.org/events/planning-meeting-for-upcoming-sio-check-in

September will be on 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-16

It's been quite a summer. Between Evan MacKay's campaign, PILOT, the Democracy Center, and other important local organizing, we see the work our members have been putting in. Let's gather in a Cambridge green space (location shown on RSVP) to regroup, debrief, share food, and rejuvenate our spirits as we prepare to write the next chapter of Cambridge DSA!

If you're interested in the Cambridge Working Group but can't make it, fill out our member survey to let us know what times/places/activities would make you most likely to attend in the future.

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

Join us for our monthly Eco-Social event! We will be exploring a portion of the Boston Walking City Trail, guided by the trail's creator, Miles Howard.

Meet outside the Stony Brook T Stop at 12 pm, in the shaded area near the northeast corner of Boylston and Lamartine. Our hike will take us ~4 miles through popular and lesser-known public green spaces near Jamaica Plain and in the backyards of Brookline billionaires. We'll finish in Hyde Square for food & drinks.

The start and finish are accessible by the Orange Line and the 39, 41, and 42 bus routes. Here is a link to a map of the hike. Additional details will be sent to RSVPers closer to the date.

*Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork:* https://actionnetwork.org/events/september-eco-social-event-urban-hiking-in-boston

Join Somerville DSA for our next social & organizing meeting starting at 4 pm on Sunday, September 29!

First, we will have an organizing meeting for approximately 90 minutes. The plan will be to discuss organizing projects, municipal government happenings, and other goings-on in our city --- and what we as DSA can do! Afterwards, there will be time to socialize.

If you RSVP, we will email you to provide updates about any schedule changes. Also, if you wish to attend the meeting portion virtually, RSVP here and you will find the Zoom link we are to use. And to attend in-person, RSVP and you will be emailed the address of our meeting spot at a later date.

We hope to see you there! Not yet a member of DSA? You can join here: https://act.dsausa.org/donate/membership/

*Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork:* https://actionnetwork.org/events/september-somerville-dsa-social-meeting