Learn basic and advanced skills in Google Sheets and how to apply them to your organizing! This free, hybrid event series will include snacks and time to mingle with comrades.

We'll watch short video tutorials together, pausing for questions and practice activities that are specialized to DSA organizing. Then, participants will be given a Google Sheets file to transform using the skills they've learned and have the option to present it at the end of the series.

Before RSVPing, please review the requirements and agenda below. In-person space is limited, so RSVP soon!

Requirements:

• Have a basic understanding of computers and web browsers
• Bring their own laptop and charger to the event*
• Have a Google account (Gmail address)

*Don't have a laptop? We recommend attending a course at the Boston Public Library. Find upcoming BPL events here.

Schedule:

This series will take place on Wednesdays in February at 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM. Be sure to RSVP for all four sessions!

• February 4
• February 11
• February 18
• February 25

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Introductory Topics:

• Managing data (importing, sorting, filters)
• Formatting (cell types, freezing, sheet managament)
• Basic formulas, functions, and charts (=SUM, =AVERAGE, data types, named ranges)
• Sharing and collaboration (roles, permissions, versions, downloading)

Advanced Topics:

• Advanced formatting (themes, conditional formatting)
• Advanced formulas and functions (relative/absolute references, =IF/IFS, data validation)
• Analyzing and reporting (charts, pivot tables, integration, web publishing, macros)
• Populating data using Google Forms

*Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork:* https://actionnetwork.org/events/spreadsheets-for-socialism-2026-feb18

Join us for our February monthly meeting of the Labor Working Group in a very special meeting, as the outgoing Organizing Committee hands the keys over to the incoming Organizing Committee! We will meet at the Lamplighter Brewing Cambridge Crossing location (across from the Green line Lechmere stop), which recently filed for union recognition. This will be a nontraditional meeting, including some agenda items but mostly centered around Doing The Work and getting to know each other. Items include:

🍻✊ We will hear from Lamplighter Workers about their union drive 🍻✊

🎶🚶‍♀️🥁 Updates and opportunities to join the May Day Parade planning team! (Do you love crafting messaging, poster and graphic design, or events planning broadly? Join us!)🚶🏻🎺🚶

🧑‍💻👩‍🔧 Hear from the recently-assembled Jobs Board / Jobs Fair team and get plugged into the organizing project. (Do you want to organize salting efforts? Do you want to help existing union workers democratize their unions? Do you or someone you know have jobs to offer? Or do you just love planning fairs? Join the JBJF team.) 🧑‍🏫👨‍🚒

☕ The ongoing Starbucks Workers United strike and current solidarity actions (Do you have a car and would be willing to drive to a Starbucks location to flyer for the boycott?) ☕

📅 The planning team launch and scholarship updates for the 2026 Labor Notes Conference 📅

🤝 Are you interested to organize your own workplace? Or are you actively organizing and looking for insight? Get in touch with our Labor Circle group at this meeting and start building peer-to-peer relationships and meet with our experienced team 🤝

🎉 Celebrating our organizing committee transition! A toast to outgoing and incoming! 🎉

Do you have something to add? Reach out to us at labor@bostondsa.org

The
monthly meeting is open to all—we encourage both new and experienced members to join! Some food will be provided per chapter reimbursement policy (members must purchase their own alcoholic beverages). Childcare can be provided
upon request.

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