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Below you’ll find the latest updates from across Boston DSA, including local events and actions that we are supporting, campaigns our Working Groups are focusing on, and local political news.
Federal Employees Prepare For DOGE Cuts
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Boston Educators Launch Informational Pickets As Contract Negotiations Drag On
[[{"value":" By Vanessa Bartlett and Aaron Hall BTU members rally in Jamaica Plain on Thursday, January 16. BOSTON—On Thursday morning, public school teachers across Boston participated in...
House Republicans’ Top Priority is a Giveaway to Private Health Insurance
[[{"value":" Restricting Trans Students’ Rights Would Also Gut Healthcare Nondiscrimination Law By Siobhan M. Earlier this month, House Republicans passed Speaker Mike Johnson’s rules package for...
Working Mass
Working Mass is a collaborative project of many Massachusetts DSA chapters and working groups, including Boston DSA’s Labor Working Group, Cape Cod DSA, and Worcester DSA. Read more on their website.
Federal Employees Prepare For DOGE Cuts
[[{"value":" By Chris Brady Federal workers are used to being vilified. It’s a convenient punching down opportunity for politicians and pundits; our government doesn’t work, and the mascot of this...
Boston Educators Launch Informational Pickets As Contract Negotiations Drag On
[[{"value":" By Vanessa Bartlett and Aaron Hall BTU members rally in Jamaica Plain on Thursday, January 16. BOSTON—On Thursday morning, public school teachers across Boston participated in...
House Republicans’ Top Priority is a Giveaway to Private Health Insurance
[[{"value":" Restricting Trans Students’ Rights Would Also Gut Healthcare Nondiscrimination Law By Siobhan M. Earlier this month, House Republicans passed Speaker Mike Johnson’s rules package for...
Political Education Working Group (PEWG) blog
Political education is the shared learning process needed to inform, mobilize, and advance our work. The PEWG blog is maintained by Boston DSA’s Political Education Working Group and focuses on providing different insights and perspectives on socialism. Read more on their website.
Why Mayor Wu’s Rent Control Proposal is Lacking
Boston City Hall Photo by Naquib Hossain on Flickr On Feb. 21st Boston DSA emailed out the following call to action to Boston residents encouraging them to give public testimony on how the Mayor’s...
Step right up, come one come all, to defend Fall River
The first thing I want to say about our December 10 defense of the Fall River Pride Committee’s drag story time is that we succeeded. I wanted to start out that way because between all the various...
PUBLIC STATEMENT BY BOSTON DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA IN SUPPORT OF RAIL UNION WORKERS
The rail freight carriers that employ approximately 125,000 unionized employees have spent years prioritizing shareholders and executives, making record profits for the railroad industry. At the...
Take Back the Grid blog
Take Back the Grid is the action arm of Boston DSA’s EcoSocialism Working Group. Its goal is to democratize, decarbonize, decommodify, and decolonize energy utilities here in Massachusetts. You can read more on their website.
What’s in My Electricity Bill?
by Corey Donahue The cost of electricity is significantly increasing this year, with some ratepayers paying as much as double the normal price for the same amount of electricity. The rise in costs...
DPU 101
What is the Department of Public Utilities (DPU)? The stated mission of the DPU is “to ensure that consumer rights are protected, and that utility companies are providing the most reliable service...
Quarterly update: Fall 2022
This fall, the Ecosocialism Working Group (EWG) focused our attention on fighting for a Cambridge Green New Deal (GND) and organizing opposition to utility rate hikes across the Commonwealth. In...