Event Calendar

The Convention Planning Committee will be discussing plans for the Annual Convention in April. The meeting is open to all members. We will meet on Discord.

*Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork:* https://actionnetwork.org/events/convention-planning-committee-meeting-3

Join the 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-10

Please join the Palestine Working Group of Boston DSA for its campaign launch! We are building a campaign to add to the pressure on our representatives in DC to end the genocide by calling for a ceasefire and voting against any aid to Israel.

We will have guest speakers involved in pro-Palestine organizing, as well as a training on how to organize in your community for a ceasefire and a free Palestine.

Afterward, we will be clipboarding around Boston to talk directly to constituents about the genocide and how they can help stop it from right here in our city.

Please email ncweiske@gmail.com with any questions and we hope to see you there!

*Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork:* https://actionnetwork.org/events/palestine-working-group-campaign-launch

Join Boston DSA and our local YDSA comrades for a canvass in support of our endorsed state representative candidate Evan MacKay in the 25th Middlesex District! We will meet at 12 pm at Cambridge City Hall. The canvass will start with a quick introduction and training on canvassing and then we'll go out and talk to some voters.

Never canvassed before or it's been a while? No worries! We'll have experienced canvassers there to train you and get you feeling comfortable before hitting the doors. Or you can always canvass with a more experienced buddy!

*Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork:* https://actionnetwork.org/events/bdsa-ydsa-canvass-for-evan

Join your neighbors in Somerville DSA for a picnic in Foss Park on Sunday, April 21.

Feel free to drop by anytime between 12:30 and 4 pm. This event is open to anyone and is meant to be a chance for Somerville residents to meet their neighbors.

DSA will bring food to share for the occasion. If you plan to come, we just ask that you RSVP here so that we can have a better sense of how much food to bring.

We hope to see you there!

*Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork:* https://actionnetwork.org/events/meet-your-neighbors-picnic-with-somerville-dsa

The Boston DSA Coordinating Committee meets semimonthly, usually on the 2nd and 4th Sundays of the month.
We use these meetings to brainstorm and address administrative issues in the chapter.

Meetings are typically hybrid. The Zoom link and in-person location if applicable will be posted in the #ask-cc channel in the chapter Slack.

All CC meetings are open to the general membership, but not to the general public.

The CC meeting notes are also posted in the #ask-cc channel in the chapter Slack. In addition, you can email the CC at boston-dsa-coordinating-committee at googlegroups dot com.

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-sunday-april-21

Attend a monthly meeting of the BDSA Healthcare Working Group. We'll be discussing our current projects, including our organizing around Medicare for All.

*Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork:* https://actionnetwork.org/events/healthcare-working-group-meeting-35

What is the "DSA Difference" in an electoral campaign? Come find out with DSA's national electoral organizer Milo Pomarico as we envision our chapter's campaign for endorsed candidate Evan MacKay. This training works best with a wide range of working groups and DSA members represented! Since we will be discussing a specific candidate and campaign, it is limited to members in good standing.

What you will take from it:
An understanding of the “DSA Difference” in electoral campaigns as well
as an overview of the key elements needed to develop a strategic class
struggle electoral campaign.

Audience: All members interested in learning more about DSA’s electoral strategy especially with an eye towards an upcoming campaign. Limited to DSA members in good standing.

*Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork:* https://actionnetwork.org/events/electoral-101-training

This is a pre-convention forum for members to discuss resolutions that will be on the convention agenda and ask questions of candidates running for elected positions. The event will be hybrid.

*Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork:* https://actionnetwork.org/events/pre-convention-resolution-and-candidate-forum

This is the meeting for planning our campaign for a Green New Deal for Somerville Public Schools. We meet on zoom every second and fourth Thursday of the month at 7 pm.

*Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork:* https://actionnetwork.org/events/green-new-deal-for-schools-campaign-meeting-11

April, May and June are booked at the democracy center! We will be at the Malala Yousafzai Library. We will also be on zoom.

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 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-monthly-meeting-11

Our local annual convention is the largest deliberative and voting body of the chapter, and this year we have an exciting new format in which we will be debating and voting live on consensus resolutions submitted by working groups, committees, and members. We will also have candidate panels for the Coordinating Committee and other elected positions.

The agenda will start promptly at 12 PM.

*Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork:* https://actionnetwork.org/events/annual-convention-save-the-date-time-location-tbd