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-sunday-november-9

The Boston chapter of Democratic Socialists of America typically holds its General Meetings and General Organizing Meetings for all members each month on a weekend afternoon. Interested in DSA but haven't signed up yet? Joins us! Members of the public are welcome too.

From NY to MA, it's our time to win.

DSA’s Zohran Mamdani was just elected mayor of NYC—the biggest socialist electoral victory in a century. Despite the millions spent to stop us, working people chose the democratic socialist movement to bring down the cost of living, expand public services, and hold war criminals to account.

That same movement is growing throughout Greater Boston. Over the last few months, Boston DSA knocked 95K+ doors to put Ayah Al-Zubi & Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler on Cambridge City Council and get Somerville’s Willie Burnley Jr. and Lowell’s Marcos Candido within inches of defeating wealthy establishment opponents.

While election season may be over, we still have a world to win.

There’s no better time to join your Boston DSA comrades in fighting for affordable housing, sustaining one of the century’s biggest union struggles, reversing mass incarceration, protecting immigrant neighbors from ICE abduction, and more.

Find your place in the movement.

Whether you're not yet in DSA or have been around for years, we want to celebrate this moment in history with you. Please join us at our chapterwide General Meeting on Sunday, November 16th from 4 to 7 PM at First Church in Cambridge to learn about what DSA is winning in eastern Mass – and how you can help.

We’ll hear from:

• 🎊Our electeds & endorsed candidates on what’s next for socialists in office in MA

  • Ayah Al-Zubi & Jivan Sobrinho Wheeler, City Councilors elect, Cambridge

  • Willie Burnley Jr., Somerville City Councilor & mayoral candidate

  • Marcos Candido, candidate for Lowell City Council District 8

• ☕ Starbucks Workers United on how you can support their historic nationwide strike (and we’ll vote on the Labor Working Group’s plan to do exactly that!)

• 🐦Mallory Hanora of Roxbury’s own Families for Justice as Healing on the prison moratorium campaign and how you can help people incarcerated in MA get free

🍕🍕 To celebrate Ayah, Jivan, Willie, Marcos, and Zohran, we’ll finish up with a pay-what-you-can pizza party – New York style, of course. All $$$ raised will go towards the SBWU Strike Fund. 🍕🍕

Finally, please bring non-perishable food donations for striking Starbucks workers. Your support will sustain workers who are giving up their paychecks to stay on the picket line!  

🖥️ Joining on Zoom: Our general meetings are hybrid with in-person & remote options -- and yes, you can still vote if you attend online! To get the Zoom link sent to you, please RSVP.

🤿 Masks Required: Attendees must wear masks when not eating / drinking. A variety of free disposable masks will be available at the sign-in table.

🚸 Child Watch: While their parents & caregivers attend the GM, kids are welcome to participate in crafts & activities facilitated by BDSA volunteers at our Child Watch table at the back of the room.

🗳️ Deliberation & Voting: At this GM, we’ll be voting on the Labor Working Group’s resolution Back the Baristas: Solidarity for Starbucks Workers’ Historic Strike. You can read it here.

🖋️Amendments: If you’d like to propose a change to the resolution we're voting on, please submit this form by Thursday, November 13 at 11:59pm.

🤝🏽Proxy Voting: If you can't attend this month’s GM in person or online via Zoom, you can designate a proxy to cast your vote for you by submit this form by Thursday, November 13 at 11:59 pm. Your proxy must be 1) a Boston DSA member in good standing who is 2) attending the meeting live (in person or online) and 3) is proxy voting for no more than two BDSA members total, including you. Members are responsible for finding their own proxies & coordinating with them on votes, but if you aren’t able to find anyone, please say so on the form – we can assist!

*Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork:* https://actionnetwork.org/events/boston-dsa-november-general-meeting