This is the monthly meeting of the Boston DSA Ecosocialism working group. We will discuss updates to our campaigns and work with other groups, and a political reading discussion.This month, join us for the first part of our series on the four D's of energy democracy!

This will be a Zoom-only event. We will use the recurring number from past meetings, and will send out an agenda with details prior to the meeting, so if you're not already on our mailing list but would like to attend, please contact ecosocialism@bostondsa.org for meeting details.

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A reading group that meets every Monday, studying various theoretical works that cover socialist organizing, Marxist economics, building in a pre-revolutionary moment, the historical meaning of the Russian Revolution and the effects of Stalinism.

For more information about the current readings and the Zoom link, contact bostonmarxist@gmail.com.

You can also fill out this Google form to register interest: https://forms.gle/4158uVY7mvWoDqot6

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Join us for the monthly meeting of the Mental Health Working Group. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have moved all our meetings remotely to Zoom. You can find the zoom link for this meeting on our DSA slack channel

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The Boston DSA Labor Working Group meets every month, on the first Wednesday of the month from 6:30-8:30pm. Note that for January 2020 this date is being bumped a week later due to the holiday!!

Our specific meeting room within the building is room 2B on the second floor. NOTE: We're holding meetings over Zoom for the time being. Please reach out to labor@bostondsa.org to get on the listserv and receive the Zoom link.

Agenda will be posted on the labor working group listserv in advance of each meeting. Please reach out to labor@bostondsa.org with any questions you may have!! 🙂

The SEIU 32BJ meeting space downtown is handicapped accessible with elevator access to the meeting room, which is on the second floor. The front door to the building may require assistance to hold open for anyone with mobility limitations.

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Do you love socialism and posting? Do you have skills in email-writing, calendar-managing, social media, and other officey stuff from your corporate job that you'd like to use to smash capitalism instead? Do you hate canvassing and would prefer to just draft emails for the revolution? Are you good at graphic design (because I'm not and could really use some help on that front)? Then the newly rebooted Communications Committee wants YOU! *World War II recruitment poster pointing*

This Committee is open to all members in good standing, but is only open to members. If you are not a member but are Comms-Committee-curious, you are still welcome to call in, or you can DM us and someone from the Comms Committee will be happy to chat with you about what kind of stuff we do.

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This is the monthly meeting of Boston DSA's electoral working group. This meeting is open to all DSA members, non-members, allies, and coalition partners.

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we are holding this meeting online. The Zoom link will be emailed to the electoral working google group list before the 14th. If you are not on that google group, please register in advance for this meeting:
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After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

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We invite everyone to come to an action at 12pm at Fort Washington Park (95 Waverly St.) to stand in solidarity with your neighbors. Mass evictions are a public health crisis, a housing crisis, an economic crisis, a racial justice crisis, a crisis for all our communities. We are leafleting Joseph Boncore's district in Cambridge to put pressure on him to put the Guaranteed Housing Stability Act to a vote before the end of the evictions moratorium on Oct 17th. Research suggests that well over 100,000 households could face eviction or foreclosure in a week! You can call Boncore at 617-722-1634 with this script: tinyurl.com/CambridgeH5018

The good news is that the Housing Stability Act was voted favorably out of the Statehouse Housing Committee by a 14-2 margin. We need this bill to pass the full House and Senate. It includes protections for tenants, small owners and landlords.
You can go to housingguarantee.org for more info. If you can't make it on Sat and would like to join evictions defense work, go to tinyurl.com/BDSAHWG

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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? Then please join us via Zoom for a New Member Orientation call on the second Saturday of every month at 2 pm!

Comrades from our Membership Committee will walk you through the chapter's structure, answer questions, facilitate discussion about socialist organizing in Boston, and discuss how the chapter is responding to the COVID-19 state of emergency and the associated crises of capitalism it has accelerated.

Due to the aforementioned pandemic, this meeting, as well as most of our other meetings and events for the foreseeable future, will be held over Zoom. Please register in advance here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIufu2pqjMoGtPLaAC3UWcPHC7A8m-zJ9i9

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COVID-19 Update: We will be meeting exclusively on Zoom for the foreseeable future. Please message Tim Follo for the zoom link!

The Immigration Working Group works in solidarity with (im)migrant-led groups in Boston to help build a broad cultural and legislative campaign in the name of dignity, respect, and political protection for the (im)migrant working class.

If you have any questions or would like to be added to the working group mailing list, please email immigration@bostondsa.org.

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COVID-19 is exacerbating the housing crisis. Rents continue to rise, the landlord class prospers, and the working class continues to get squeezed. But our chapter is part of the growing movement to change all of this. We are putting principles into action and loudly saying: housing is a human right!

Boston DSA has formed a Rent Control Campaign to coordinate housing justice issues in the current moment. We will organize to fight for the immediate demand of today-- an emergency cancellation of rent and mortgages -- and pave the way for further mobilizations to win state-wide rent control.

Each monthly meeting will be held over Zoom. Please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMvce6trjMiGdOTAMMCFhrWenx5CuE6t3mp

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Hi there comrade!

Let's put the social back in socialism! Come chill with us!

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The Boston DSA Coordinating Committee meets semimonthly, usually on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of the month. We will be meeting online only for the foreseeable future.

We use these meetings to brainstorm and address administrative issues in the chapter. The Zoom link and CC meeting notes are 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.

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

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This month we will be discussing strategies of how to contribute to Defund The Police movements through an anti-militarism perspective, and our ongoing participation campaign against sanctions.

The Boston DSA Internationalism Working Group meets the 3rd Thursday of every month.

Mission: 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. Capitalism is global — to defeat it, we must be too.

We will have Zoom call available. Details are at the bottom.

Send a DM or email internationalism@bostondsa.com if you would like to put something on the agenda.

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If you need assistance with accessibility, please reach out via email to accessibility@bostondsa.org or through this form: http://bit.ly/bdsaaccess

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This is the monthly meeting of the Housing Working Group. Join our ongoing tenant organizing projects and other socialist housing topics!

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we are holding this meeting online. Please message us for the Zoom link.

We also have a weekly strategy call every Monday at 7pm, and a monthly training on "Tenant Organizing under Covid." (the next one will focus on Eviction Defense, on Sunday 7/26 at 2pm).

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This is the monthly meeting of the Membership Committee, which meets via Zoom on the third Tuesday of every month. Meetings are open to all Boston DSA members in good standing. To obtain the Zoom information, please email the Membership Committee at coordinators at bostondsa dot org.

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Join the Immigration Working Group for an hour of action in support of ongoing immigration justice and related campaigns.

This week will include making calls together in support of No Cost Calls, a priority for the Building Up People Not Prisons Coalition (for more info: tinyurl.com/maweekofaction)

Registration required, sign up here:
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With any questions, please reach out to immigration@bostondsa.org

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Join us for the monthly Tech & Infrastructure Committee meeting where we discuss ongoing projects and opportunities for direct action.

Join the #cmt-tech-infra channel on Slack or send an email to boston-dsa-tech-infra@googlegroups.com for more information on how to get involved.

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Monthly meeting of the Take Back the Grid campaign, in which we’ll discuss campaign strategy and updates with people new to energy democracy and experienced campaigners alike. For zoom information, if you are not on our mailing list, please email takebackthegrid.boston@gmail.com.

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Calling all leftists of color! Boston DSA AfroSocialists and Socialists of Color Caucus is hosting a hangout on Zoom to discuss how to build a strong, diverse, and organized Left -- and why BIPOC socialists in Boston and beyond might consider joining DSA and getting active in Boston DSA.

DSA is the largest socialist organization in the United States, with 70K members, and growing daily. But we can only win radical demands like the Green New Deal and Medicare for All if our membership reflects the working class generally. Share how you're holding up during the Covid-19 pandemic, tell us your stories about what it means to you to be a leftist of color, and have a good time! Let’s build the bonds that can pull us closer to take on the fights ahead.

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The Massachusetts legislature has failed us, bowing to pressure from landlords and choosing not to extend the statewide moratorium on evictions. The moratorium expired October 17th, and massive numbers of tenants statewide have already received notices to quit (the first step in the eviction process). Join Boston DSA's Housing Working group at 12PM at the Sausage Lot by Franklin Park Zoo as we let tenants know about their rights and what resoruces are available, and connect with tenants to prepare to fight back.

Please be aware, this will be a mobile flyering event. We will be driving to various parts of Boston from our meeting place. We will be taking social distancing precautions, and may not have access to enough transportation for everyone. Having access to a car or a bicycle is highly recommended. Masks are mandatory.

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What could DSA win if we had 100,000 members? What if DSA had 100,000 active members? The DSA 100K Recruitment Drive is happening NOW! Sign the DSA 100K Pledge to recruit three people to join DSA.

Want to become a chapter 100K captain? Recruit three people to join DSA and recruit three DSA members to also take the DSA 100K Pledge. We're training chapter captains this Sunday at 12pm. Sign up for the training at bit.ly/BDSA100K.

Every person who signs up to be a chapter 100K captain helps build our working groups, committees, and neighborhood groups with new comrades.

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The People’s Green New Deal issue Editorial Collective and the Climate Change Working Group of Science for the People are excited to announce a virtual teach-in series focusing on the grassroots movements that are building a People’s Green New Deal. This teach-in on *Building our Energy Futures* will be the third in an going series.

As the conversation around what constitutes a Green New Deal shifts and changes with the risk of being co-opted by the same capitalists who have endangered our existence with their willful negligence, and at times intentional acceleration, of the climate crisis, we must continue to push for meaningful policy. This series of teach-ins will center grassroots organizing movements led by coalitions of environmental justice communities, academics and activists, not just in the US, but around the globe. These teach-ins are based on the People’s Green New Deal issue of Science for the People magazine, and will continue to build an internationalist, anti-capitalist, and anti-racist vision. Attend the teach-ins to join the conversations among scientists, labor organizers, artists, designers and community activists, that will inform our ongoing organizing work to meet the climate crisis.
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Welcome boos, ghouls and non-corporeal comrades!

Step into the cemetery tended by the gravediggers of capital, for the terrifying, blood-curdling, spine-tingling DADS Halloween Party, Sunday, October 25th, from 4:00pm to 6:00pm.

The DADS Committee (Direct Action, Deescalation and Security) welcomes all members of Boston DSA to this online event.

The DADS Halloween Party will blend a scary serious discussion of how we approach protest planning in DADS with the spooky fun of a Halloween party. Costumes! Trivia! The Discourse! And hopefully, strategies we can all use going forward to make us safer, more connected, and more powerful, regardless of what goes bump in the night.

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We hope to see you on Sunday! Come get to know your DADS!

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Join Boston DSA members to discuss ongoing local mutual aid efforts in response to COVID-19 and how to get involved. This meeting will be held over Zoom. Contact mutualaid@bostondsa.org with any questions or if you want to be added to the working group mailing list.

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Hey Comrade,

Living under capitalism is hard. We want a better world, but for the mean time, those of us with burdens are really struggling. This is a safe space to decompress, and share struggles and successes so we keep going. Self-care is important, and sometimes it works better together.

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The Boston DSA Coordinating Committee meets semimonthly, usually on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of the month. We will be meeting online only for the foreseeable future.

We use these meetings to brainstorm and address administrative issues in the chapter. The Zoom link and CC meeting notes are 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.

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

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