Event Calendar

This is the monthly meeting of Boston DSA's Eco-Socialism working group. We will discuss updates to our campaigns and work with other groups, and we will have in a political reading discussion.
Please register or join our mailing list at bdsa.us/Eco.
You'll receive the agenda and zoom/in person details if you are on the mailing list. We will use the recurring Zoom number from past meetings, and will send out an agenda with details prior to the meeting if you RSVPed above or if you're on our mailing list. If you have any questions or would like to be added to our mailing list, please contact ecosocialism@bostondsa.org

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This is the initial organizing meeting of Boston DSA's work on the national DSA campaign to support the potential upcoming strike of the 340,000 Teamsters at UPS expected to begin August 1. Anyone interested in getting involved in BDSA's UPS Teamsters strike-ready campaign should attend this meeting, or contact BDSA Solidarity Captain Paul Bamberger at bamberger59@gmail.com for more information.

Even if the Teamsters settle their contract and don’t strike, DSA’s support work leading up to August 1 will help get a better contract for Teamsters members. We are also seeking people interested in taking shifts at Amazon to support this effort. We will also be discussing taking shifts at Amazon.

Currently, Boston DSA has one Solidarity Captain, Paul Bamberger, for this campaign. BDSA is in the process of recruiting a second Solidarity Captain. Please attend this meeting if you are interested in being a Solidarity Captain and/or contact Paul for more information.

The meeting will be held in the “Rosa Parks” room of the Democracy Center.

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Join us for the monthly meeting of the Electoral Working Group.

Zoom registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYpdu-oqD8iE9x30ksdMokQKnuGIa1ak1Ds

Email electoral@bostondsa.org with any questions.

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Join the Housing Working Group for our monthly meeting!

Global real estate is valued at $217 trillion and makes up more than 60% of the world’s capital, 75% of which is in housing. As exploitable natural resources dwindle, curtailing commodity production, the ruling class has re-oriented towards rentier capitalism.

In this context, Boston DSA Housing working group organizes to build and support tenant unions, to build the power of working class people to confront the landlord and developer class, and to take control of our own homes and cities. In 2020, we contributed to the formation of the Greater Boston Tenants Union (GBTU) in 2020, a tenant-run, independent institution that is part of the national Autonomous Tenants Union Network.

We are currently working on supporting GBTU eviction defense canvasses and ongoing organizing projects. In addition we use our meetings for political education, particularly tenant organizer trainings, to develop our skill set, political analysis, and to help bring new organizers into the tenant unionist movement.

If you're not on the DSA mailing list, email housing@bostondsa.org for Zoom call-in info.

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Landlord raising the rents? Not fixing your apartment? Pests and mold everywhere? Don't just take it -- learn how to come together with your neighbors and fight back!

Join the Boston DSA housing working group and the Greater Boston Tenants Union on Monday, May 15 at the Democracy center for a training about tenants rights -- and how to organize a tenants' union to beat bad landlord behavior through solidarity.

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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

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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.

Meeting Zoom link:
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Email internationalism@bostondsa.org with questions.

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The regular meeting of the BDSA Transformative Justice Committee. Open to all members.

Please join the cmt-transformativejustice channel on Slack or sign up for the email list here to get more info and access to the Zoom link: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tjc-signup

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It’s in making decisions that we learn to decide." - Paolo Friere, Pedagogy of Freedom

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 are held over Zoom. 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.

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DEFEND abortion access in Boston- STAND against fake clinics!

We call for the eviction of a 'fake clinic' crisis pregnancy center (CPC) called Boston Center for Pregnancy Choices, located at 120 Lincoln Street Suite 1A near Chinatown.

Join us for a mock trial hearing and public theater event to demand justice from 120 Lincoln landlord Jeffrey Chung and Boston politicians who claim to protect bodily autonomy and reproductive freedom!

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