Event Calendar

	January 2025
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			1	2 General Meeting Planning Team Call - January General Meeting Planning Team Call - January January 2, 2025 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Online Join us for our January General Meeting Planning Team call on January 2nd, 2025 from 6 to 7 PM. Agenda and info found here: https://tinyurl.com/btbypcxh Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork: https://actionnetwork.org/events/general-meeting-planning-team-call-january See more details •	3 Chapter Orientation - Friday, Jan 3 Chapter Orientation - Friday, Jan 3 January 3, 2025 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Online 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 Onboarding & Membership Team will walk you through the chapter's mission and 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 for a better world. Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork: https://actionnetwork.org/events/chapter-orientation-friday-jan-3 See more details •	4 Let Cambridge Choose, Jan 4th, Street Canvass Let Cambridge Choose, Jan 4th, Street Canvass January 4, 2025 @ 11:30 am - 2:30 pm Central Square, Massachusetts Ave and Essex St, Cambridge MA, 02139 Join us to collect signatures to Let Cambridge Choose! Our ballot question petition will put a democratic reform of the Cambridge City Charter on the ballot for 2025. We can replace the unelected, unaccountable City Manager government with an elected executive. Volunteers will collect petition signatures and engage with the public to grow our movement. If this is your first time collecting signatures by clipboard, a quick training and practice session can be provided. Cambridge DSA is organizing this event in support of the Let Cambridge Choose Ballot Initiative. Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork: https://actionnetwork.org/events/let-cambridge-choose-jan-4th-street-canvass See more details DSA Crafting social DSA Crafting social January 4, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Lechmere T Stop, Monsignor O'Brien Hwy, Cambridge MA, 02141 Come hang with comrades on January 4th at 7pm for a cozy crafting night in one of the buildings next to the Lechmere T stop in Cambridge! Bring your embroidery, knitting, crochet, or other craft project and let's knit our social ties closer together across the chapter! Aren't a crafter? Bring anything to do that's not hanging out on your phone or computer. We will also have a puzzle and adult coloring pages available. Hot chocolate, tea, and a few mugs and blankets will be available, bring a blanket for yourself or your favorite mug if you'd like! Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork: https://actionnetwork.org/events/dsa-crafting-social See more details • •
5 Let Cambridge Choose, Jan 5th, Street Canvass Let Cambridge Choose, Jan 5th, Street Canvass January 5, 2025 @ 11:30 am - 2:30 pm Harvard Square, Red Line T stop, Cambridge MA, 02139 Join us to collect signatures to Let Cambridge Choose! Our ballot question petition will put a democratic reform of the Cambridge City Charter on the ballot for 2025. We can replace the unelected, unaccountable City Manager government with an elected executive. Volunteers will collect petition signatures and engage with the public to grow our movement. If this is your first time collecting signatures by clipboard, a quick training and practice session can be provided. Cambridge DSA is organizing this event in support of the Let Cambridge Choose Ballot Initiative. Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork: https://actionnetwork.org/events/let-cambridge-choose-jan-5th-street-canvass See more details Structured Organizing Conversations Training (co-sponsored by Onboarding & Membership Team) Structured Organizing Conversations Training (co-sponsored by Onboarding & Membership Team) January 5, 2025 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm Community Church of Boston, 565 Boylston Street, 2nd fl., Boston MA, 02116 This in-person only training will focus on how to ask individuals to get more involved in our work and take on roles of responsibility. This training will focus on developing new chapter infrastructure for onboarding and engaging new members. All members are welcome, though anyone interested in listwork or member onboarding are strongly encouraged to attend. Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork: https://actionnetwork.org/events/structured-organizing-conversations-training-6 See more details Marxist Reading Group Marxist Reading Group January 5, 2025 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Online The readings we will be discussing are "Value, Price, and Profit" and "Wage, Labor, and Capital" by Karl Marx. Recommend reading "Wage, Labor, and Capital" first as it is the older text of the two Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork: https://actionnetwork.org/events/marxist-reading-group-6 See more details • • •	6	7 Administrative Committee Working Meeting - January Administrative Committee Working Meeting - January January 7, 2025 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Online 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-december-3 See more details January Somerville DSA Meeting January Somerville DSA Meeting January 7, 2025 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm Somerville Central Library Auditorium, 79 Highland Ave, Somerville MA, 02143 Come join Somerville DSA for our first organizing meeting of the new year! We will be meeting in the Somerville Central Library's auditorium to discuss how we can support the Somerville Educator Union and SMEU in their contract negotiations, foster collaboration with other community organizations, and develop a policy document outlining our beliefs and values as a neighborhood group. Also, there will be food 🙂 Hope to see you there! Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork: https://actionnetwork.org/events/january-somerville-dsa-meeting See more details • •	8 Coordinating Committee - Wednesday, January 8 Coordinating Committee - Wednesday, January 8 January 8, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Online 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-january-8 See more details •	9 January ecosocialism working group meeting January ecosocialism working group meeting January 9, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Online Join us for the monthly meeting of the Ecosocialism Working Group, on the second Thursday of the month at 7 pm. This meeting will be hybrid - in person at The Foundry (101 Rogers St, Cambridge, MA 02142) and on Zoom. Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork: https://actionnetwork.org/events/january-ecosocialism-working-group-meeting-2 See more details •	10 Ecosocialism Reading Group: "Slow Down" - Meeting #4 Ecosocialism Reading Group: "Slow Down" - Meeting #4 January 10, 2025 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm Online Join us for the fourth meeting of our reading group series on Kohei Saito's "Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto". We will be discussing Chapters 7 & 8 and the Conclusion. All are welcome to attend, even if you weren't at the other meetings! This meeting will be hybrid - in person in Somerville near Porter Square and on Zoom. Please RSVP for the in-person address. The book is available for purchase here or potentially through your local library. Book summary from the publisher: "Why, in our affluent society, do so many people live in poverty, without access to health care, working multiple jobs and are nevertheless unable to make ends meet, with no future prospects, while the planet is burning? In his international bestseller, Kohei Saito argues that while unfettered capitalism is often blamed for inequality and climate change, subsequent calls for “sustainable growth” and a “Green New Deal” are a dangerous compromise. Capitalism creates artificial scarcity by pursuing profit based on the value of products rather than their usefulness and by putting perpetual growth above all else. It is therefore impossible to reverse climate change in a capitalist society—more: the system that caused the problem in the first place cannot be an integral part of the solution. Instead, Saito advocates for degrowth and deceleration, which he conceives as the slowing of economic activity through the democratic reform of labor and production. In practical terms, he argues for: the end of mass production and mass consumption decarbonization through shorter working hours the prioritization of essential labor over corporate profits By returning to a system of social ownership, he argues, we can restore abundance and focus on those activities that are essential for human life, effectively reversing climate change and saving the planet." Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork: https://actionnetwork.org/events/ecosocialism-reading-group-slow-down-meeting-4 See more details •	11 Cambridge DSA January Monthly Meeting Cambridge DSA January Monthly Meeting January 11, 2025 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm CCTV Studios, 438 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge MA, 02139 Join us at CCTV studios, 438 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge for the first meeting of 2025! The working group has two exciting campaigns in progress that you can dive into - Let Cambridge Choose & Tax Harvard! The Let Cambridge Choose campaign is a ballot question petition to reform of the Cambridge City Charter which seeks to replace the unelected, unaccountable City Manager government with an elected executive. Tax Harvard campaign seeks to pressure both Harvard & City Manager as negotiations between the parties for another 20 year term agreement are happening right now behind closed doors while our communities are being shut out and Harvard PILOTs (or payments-in-lieu of taxes) to the city are only $4.5million/yr. We will do campaign updates and deep-dives on both and give you ways to get involved and start making a difference! If you're interested in the Cambridge Working Group but can't make it, you can still get involved by filling out our member survey. Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork: https://actionnetwork.org/events/cambridge-dsa-monthly-meeting-3 See more details Effective Coalition Work Training Effective Coalition Work Training January 11, 2025 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Community Church of Boston, 565 Boylston Street, 2nd fl., Boston MA, 02116 A training on why DSA should build and join multiracial, working-class coalitions, the basics of what a coalition is and is not, and how DSA can participate and lead coalitions. All members are welcome, though anyone interested in Palestine organizing, immigrant justice, or climate issues are strongly encouraged to attend. Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork: https://actionnetwork.org/events/effective-coalition-work-training See more details • •
12 Chapter Orientation - Sunday, Jan 12 Chapter Orientation - Sunday, Jan 12 January 12, 2025 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Online 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 Onboarding & Membership Team will walk you through the chapter's mission and 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 for a better world. Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork: https://actionnetwork.org/events/chapter-orientation-friday-jan-10 See more details Let Cambridge Choose, Jan 12th, Street Canvass Let Cambridge Choose, Jan 12th, Street Canvass January 12, 2025 @ 11:30 am - 2:30 pm Harvard Square, Red Line T stop, Cambridge MA, 02139 Join us to collect signatures to Let Cambridge Choose! Our ballot question petition will put a democratic reform of the Cambridge City Charter on the ballot for 2025. We can replace the unelected, unaccountable City Manager government with an elected executive. Volunteers will collect petition signatures and engage with the public to grow our movement. If this is your first time collecting signatures by clipboard, a quick training and practice session can be provided. Cambridge DSA is organizing this event in support of the Let Cambridge Choose Ballot Initiative. Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork: https://actionnetwork.org/events/let-cambridge-choose-jan-12th-street-canvass See more details Protest Health and Safety Training Protest Health and Safety Training January 12, 2025 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm Cambridge Community Center, 5 Callender St, Cambridge MA, 02139 Large scale protests have been happening continuously for the last few years, but new people are always being introduced into the movement. How do you get to a protest safely? How can you avoid dangers at a protest, whether they be rampaging fascists,belligerent state forces or the weather? Weather is actually one of the largest sources of danger at a protest, believe it or not. How do you get home from a protest? This training will cover physical, mental and emotional dangers you may face at a protest and how you can protect yourself and your community. Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork: https://actionnetwork.org/events/protest-health-and-safety-training-2 See more details Strategic Campaigns Training (co-sponsored by Ecosocialism Working Group) Strategic Campaigns Training (co-sponsored by Ecosocialism Working Group) January 12, 2025 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm Community Church of Boston, 565 Boylston Street, 2nd fl., Boston MA, 02116 This in-person only training will walk through the process of how to best choose and execute campaigns that will build long-term power for DSA & the working class. This training will focus on developing a campaign within the Ecosocialism Working Group. All members are welcome, though anyone in Ecosocialism WG or interested in climate and transit issues are strongly encouraged to attend. Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork: https://actionnetwork.org/events/strategic-campaigns-training-6 See more details • • • •	13	14 De-Escalation Plan Training De-Escalation Plan Training January 14, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Cambridge Community Center, 5 Callender St, Cambridge MA, 02139 The best defense is planed out ahead of time. If you're planning an event and something goes wrong it's best to already have a plan in place. With our De-Escalation Plan Training the DADS committee will teach you how we plan to keep our events safe. Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork: https://actionnetwork.org/events/de-escalation-plan-training See more details Palestine Working Group Working Meeting Palestine Working Group Working Meeting January 14, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm The Community Church of Boston, 565 Boylston St, Boston MA, 02116 Join one of the Palestine Working Group's Research Committees as we design proposals of different campaigns to take on in the new year! Currently, we are researching the prospects for continued national electoral pressure, divestment, targeting companies, humanitarian aid, and domestic political movements in Palestine to which we can connect. Join us! Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork: https://actionnetwork.org/events/palestine-working-group-working-meeting-2 See more details • •	15	16 Electoral WG Monthly Meeting Electoral WG Monthly Meeting January 16, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Online 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-13 See more details Internationalism Working Group Monthly Meeting Internationalism Working Group Monthly Meeting January 16, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Online Join the Immigration and 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-19 See more details South Shore DSA Monthly Meeting South Shore DSA Monthly Meeting January 16, 2025 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm Online Join us every third Thursday of the month at 7:30PM is the general meeting of South Shore Democratic Socialists of America. Please RSVP for Zoom link. We will catch up on our continued struggle fighting for renters being evicted in Randolph, discuss the fight locally for justice in Palestine, and hear about South Shore Medicare for All battle to bring single payer healthcare to Massachusetts. Stick around after for casual conversations with other like minded comrades! Get involved, a better world is possible! Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork: https://actionnetwork.org/events/south-shore-dsa-monthly-meeting-2 See more details • • •	17 Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Group Inaugural Organizing Meeting Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Group Inaugural Organizing Meeting January 17, 2025 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm First Baptist Church, 633 Centre St, Jamaica Plain MA, 02130 Join us on Friday, January 17th at 6:30pm for our first official Jamaica Plain DSA Neighborhood Group organizing meeting! For the past several months, we have been building relationships in the neighborhood and building connections with each other. At this inaugural organizing meeting, we'll discuss our goals as a neighborhood group and strategy for organizing in our community. If you can't make it but would still like to stay up-to-date with JP DSA organizing, please reach out to coordinators@bostondsa.org. Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork: https://actionnetwork.org/events/jp-dsa-neighborhood-meeting See more details •	18 Chapter Orientation - Saturday, Jan 18 Chapter Orientation - Saturday, Jan 18 January 18, 2025 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Online 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 Onboarding & Membership Team will walk you through the chapter's mission and 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 for a better world. Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork: https://actionnetwork.org/events/chapter-orientation-saturday-jan-18 See more details •
19 Arise and Resist: Organizing for Peace and Justice Under Repression Arise and Resist: Organizing for Peace and Justice Under Repression January 19, 2025 @ 9:30 am - 5:00 pm Roxbury Community College Media Arts Center, 1234 Columbus Avenue, Roxbury Crossing MA, 02130 In coalition with other local groups on the Left, the purpose of this conference is to bring together a mass movement and situate ourselves in our political reality of repression in the US and genocide in Gaza and creeping annexation in the West Bank. We must work in alliance to build a society based on solidarity, peace and justice. Our work, based here in Massachusetts, will be shaped by national and international developments. We are holding this conference before the inauguration so we can prepare for the crises we will face after January 20. Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork: https://actionnetwork.org/events/arise-and-resist-with-hope-and-resolve-peace-and-justice-strategy-conference See more details •	20	21 Administrative Committee Working Meeting - January Administrative Committee Working Meeting - January January 21, 2025 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Online 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-january See more details •	22	23 PEWG January 2025 Meeting PEWG January 2025 Meeting January 23, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm zoom, zoom, 02138 Location: TBD + zoom Boston DSA's Political Education Working Group meets on the fourth or 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-january-2025-meeting See more details •	24	25 Trivia Night Trivia Night January 25, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Virtual, Online, Boston MA, 02108 Join Boston DSA for a virtual trivia night! Make friends with your neighborhood socialists and play for a chance to win prizes! Members and non-members alike are welcome to participate and show off their knowledge to their comrades. Tell your friends! Teams should be of 4 or fewer people. Teams can come in advance or you can come without a team we can pair you randomly! If you have one or two partners but would like to be randomly paired with someone as well, we will also do our best to accommodate that.. Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork: https://actionnetwork.org/events/trivia-night-13 See more details •
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