A spectre is haunting the midwest--the spectre of sugar beets. All the powers of old climate have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Farmer and immigrant laborer, Sheriff Clarke and Guizot, French farming coops and German police-spies.

WHAT IS TO BEET DONE!?

As climate change ramps up agriculture is going to change. After buckwild weather events including mass flooding and late freezes the harvest of many agricultural products is massively down in the last year. With an increasingly unstable climate we can expect further issues into the future. But climate change's effect on agriculture is massive, perhaps impossible for a single human being to keep an understanding of it in their own mind.

So we're using sugar beets as a microcosm to discuss the problem in a way the human mind can handle.

Please join us at the regular meeting of the Boston Revolutionary Socialist Caucus February open meeting! We're a caucus of revolutionary socialists within and around Boston DSA working on discovering and carrying out a communist praxis for the 21st century.

Our meetings will typically feature discussion of ongoing organizing, political discussions, and logistical work. All who are interested in discussing how revolutionary socialists can work are welcome to join.

Accessibility information for the space: The Democracy Center is partially wheelchair accessible, but there is no accessible bathroom on site. The Mandela, Parks, and Chavez rooms are accessible, but the Library is not. Wheelchair users are welcome to use the accessible restroom at Daedalus while we plan our improvements for bathroom accessibility. To reach that bathroom, exit the ramp and turn left on Bow St, at the next building (Daedalus) use their accessible entrance and their restroom will be on the right.
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2020 has arrived! Come out and knock doors in Waltham for Bernie and Democratic Socialism! We need your help to build a mass movement for Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, and a Sanders presidency.

No experience needed! Training will be provided and we can send you out with a buddy if it's your first time canvassing.

There will be simultaneous canvasses that day in Allston, Jamaica Plain/Roxbury, Somerville, East Boston, and Newton, so attend the canvass that is closest to you.

https://www.facebook.com/2746927525400971

Come out and knock doors in Newton for Bernie and Democratic Socialism! We need your help to build a mass movement for Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, and a Sanders presidency.

No experience needed! Training will be provided and we can send you out with a buddy if it's your first time canvassing.

We are meeting at the McDonalds at 198 California St, Newton.

https://www.facebook.com/596248367616328

2020 has arrived! Come out and knock doors in both Jamaica Plain and Roxbury for Bernie and Democratic Socialism! We need your help to build a mass movement for Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, and a Sanders presidency.

No experience needed! Training will be provided and we can send you out with a buddy if it's your first time canvassing.

There will be simultaneous canvasses that day in Allston, Somerville, and East Boston, so attend the canvass that is closest to you.

https://www.facebook.com/1602702389872400

2020 has arrived! Come out and knock doors in Waltham for Bernie and Democratic Socialism! We need your help to build a mass movement for Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, and a Sanders presidency.

No experience needed! Training will be provided and we can send you out with a buddy if it's your first time canvassing.

There will be simultaneous canvasses that day in Allston, Jamaica Plain/Roxbury, Somerville, East Boston, and Newton, so attend the canvass that is closest to you.

https://www.facebook.com/214492346244565

2020 has arrived! Come out and knock doors in East Boston for Bernie and Democratic Socialism! We need your help to build a mass movement for Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, and a Sanders presidency.

No experience needed! Training will be provided and we can send you out with a buddy if it's your first time canvassing.

We have literature in both English and Spanish, and any Spanish-speaking ability is a big plus!

The canvasses is a five minute walk from the Maverick station (blue line) at 116 Webster St, Apt 3. Ring the doorbell when you arrive and someone will come down to let you in.

https://www.facebook.com/2430218220529055

2020 has arrived! Come out and knock doors in Somerville for Bernie and Democratic Socialism. We need your help to build a mass movement for Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, and a Sanders presidency.

No experience needed! Training will be provided and we can send you out with a buddy if it's your first time canvassing.

There will be simultaneous canvasses that day in Dorchester, Allston, and East Boston, so attend the closest location and knock some doors!

https://www.facebook.com/492163761434081

2020 has arrived! Come out and knock doors in Allston for Bernie and Democratic Socialism. We need you to help build a mass movement for Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, and a Sanders presidency.

No experience needed! Training will be provided and we can send you out with a buddy if it's your first time canvassing.

There will be simultaneous canvasses in Dorchester, Somerville, and East Boston, so pick the location closest to you and knock some doors!

We are meeting at the Dunkin Donuts at 209 N. Harvard St, Allston. The store is easily accessible by both the 66 and the 70 buses.

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Come join fellow Bernie fans while we follow the results of the Iowa Caucus! It will be a great way to celebrate your hard work, relax with allies, and stress out as the numbers come in.

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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 location, contact bostonmarxist@gmail.com

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This week, immigrant leaders from Cosecha are going on hunger strike as an emergency measure to save The Work and Family Mobility Act (a bill to allow undocumented folks to get drivers licenses).

The hunger strike kicks off Monday (2/3) at 10:30 AM: https://www.facebook.com/events/185435525854825/

Hunger strikes are grueling, and the goal is to generate attention and pressure the legislature to stop sitting on this critical bill. We want to show up to support the hunger strikers and amplify their message as much as possible.

In case you haven’t been following—this campaign has been going on for quite a while and is the top priority legislative reform for many undocumented people in MA; currently, immigrants are forced to drive without a license, risking arrest and deportation just for going to work, or the hospital, or picking up groceries.

Here is a message from Cosecha, highlighting the immediate impact on Cosecha leadership alone and the urgency of this action: “The bill for drivers licenses for undocumented immigrants, The Work and Family Mobility Act, still has not been voted out of the transportation committee, and the deadline is approaching on Feb 5th. There’s been two leaders detained and at least one arrested for driving without a license just in the past three weeks. Given the urgency of the situation, leaders from all over MA have decided to go on hunger strike until the bill is voted favorably through committee.“

If these times don’t work, you can also find Cosecha there any time 9-5 during the week (https://www.facebook.com/cosechaenmassachusetts/)

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Join us to plan the next steps in Boston DSA's independent campaign for Bernie. Topics will include New Hampshire canvassing, weekly local canvasses, and campus organizing.

Find out how you can get involved with the campaign post-Iowa caucus in this final stretch!

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Join us for the monthly meeting of the Mental Health Working Group. We meet in the Tower Room of the First Church in Cambridge. To get to the Tower Room, turn left once you enter the church, then left again to enter the Sanctuary. At the back of the Sanctuary are several sets of double doors; go through any of these and turn right, and you will find the Tower Room.

Accessibility: https://www.firstchurchcambridge.org/community-resources/accessibility-at-first-church. You can also message the Boston DSA Facebook page for accessibility questions or requests.

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Capitalism has transformed the world and increased our productivity, but at the cost of enormous human suffering. Our shared values—equality and fairness, democracy and freedom, community and solidarity—can provide both the basis for a critique of capitalism and help to guide us toward a socialist and democratic society.

The late, great Marxist sociologist Erik Olin Wright's last work, "How to Be an Anti-Capitalist in the 21st Century," distills decades of work into a concise and tightly argued manifesto: analyzing the varieties of anti-capitalism, assessing different strategic approaches, and proposing a vision of how to build a society dedicated to human flourishing.

Join the Boston DSA as we read and critically discuss EOW's final ideas across four weeks. Folks are welcome to attend as many or as few of the sessions as they wish. The reading breakdown is as follows:
Week 1: Preface, Parts 1 and 2 (pgs. xi to 36)
Week 2: Part 3 (pgs. 37 to 64) (see location change)
Week 3: Parts 4 and 5 (pgs. 65 to 118)
Week 4: Part 6, Afterword (pgs. 119 to end)

Boston DSA has five (5) copies of the book available for readers to borrow. (We will want them back for use in future reading groups.) Please email education@bostondsa.org if you would like to borrow one of these copies. Otherwise, the book is available in ebook and hardcover from Verso Press; you can also request your local library purchase it if they do not have it on the shelves already.

The American Friends' Service Committee is about a 10-minute walk from the Porter Square T station. It is wheelchair accessible with an accessible bathroom.

The Feb. 4 meeting (Week 2) will be held in the Mezzanine Conference Room 2 of the central branch of the Boston Public Library in Copley Square, along the Green Line. Please see https://www.bpl.org/users-with-disabilities/ for accessibility information.

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UPDATE: Hunger Strikers and supporters are meeting in "Nurse's Hall" on the second floor INSIDE the state house!

Also, Cosecha has asked if anyone is able to bring pillows, cushions, chairs, or water to support the strikers. If you are able to lend any of these items please get in touch!

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This week, immigrant leaders from Cosecha are going on hunger strike as an emergency measure to save The Work and Family Mobility Act (a bill to allow undocumented folks to get drivers licenses).

The hunger strike kicks off Monday (2/3) at 10:30 AM: https://www.facebook.com/events/185435525854825/

Hunger strikes are grueling, and the goal is to generate attention and pressure the legislature to stop sitting on this critical bill. We want to show up to support the hunger strikers and amplify their message as much as possible.

In case you haven’t been following—this campaign has been going on for quite a while and is the top priority legislative reform for many undocumented people in MA; currently, immigrants are forced to drive without a license, risking arrest and deportation just for going to work, or the hospital, or picking up groceries.

Here is a message from Cosecha, highlighting the immediate impact on Cosecha leadership alone and the urgency of this action: “The bill for drivers licenses for undocumented immigrants, The Work and Family Mobility Act, still has not been voted out of the transportation committee, and the deadline is approaching on Feb 5th. There’s been two leaders detained and at least one arrested for driving without a license just in the past three weeks. Given the urgency of the situation, leaders from all over MA have decided to go on hunger strike until the bill is voted favorably through committee.“

If these times don’t work, you can also find Cosecha there any time 9-5 during the week (https://www.facebook.com/cosechaenmassachusetts/)

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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.

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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Wednesday, February 5th at the American Friends Service Committee, we will be running our second Bernie Night School, part of a series of discussions on how to talk on doors and phones about why Bernie Sanders is our best choice for president, how he will enact his policy agenda, and what it means to take the step beyond a presidential platform and into socialist organizing.

Our second session will be about Medicare For All--what it is, what it isn't, and why we cannot compromise our values on this core issue of the Sanders agenda.

We have six suggested readings for this night school (but please attend even if you cannot do the readings!):

https://berniesanders.com/issues/medicare-for-all/
https://whatismedicareforall.com/
https://pnhp.org/what-is-single-payer/faqs/
https://medicareforall.dsausa.org/organizing-guide/socialism-and-medicare-for-all
https://splinternews.com/the-only-guide-to-medicare-for-all-that-you-will-ever-n-1832594853
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/01/the-many-bad-arguments-against-medicare-for-all

The discussion will help highlight how and why American needs a single-payer system--and how to talk on doors to skeptical folks about why the US can and must provide safe, affordable, and universal coverage for all Americans.

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This regular neighborhood meeting of MetroWest DSA will be hosted in the Costin Room at the Main Branch of the Framingham Public Library located at 49 Lexington Street.

The Main Branch of the Framingham Public Library is a fully accessible building with parking spots reserved for individuals with disabilities, and an automatic door at the main entrance.

If you need any accessibility accommodations at the meeting please reach out to the Boston DSA accessibility team. Our chapter’s accessibility guide can be found at http://www.bostondsa.org/accessibility/.

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The Stafford Beer Reading Group meets on the first Wednesday of every month.

The January meeting (date moved due to the holiday) will be discussing the text "Designing Freedom." The book is available for free online at http://ada.evergreen.edu/~arunc/texts/cybernetics/beer/book.pdf.
The lectures it is based on are also free online at https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-1973-cbc-massey-lectures-designing-freedom-1.2946819.

We will be meeting in the Cambridge Masonic Hall at 1950 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, a block from the Porter Square T stop on the Red Line. The venue is, unfortunately, not disability friendly--there is no elevator and no accessible bathroom onsite. We hope to move to a more inclusive location for future meetings.

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This is the monthly meeting of the Boston DSA Ecosocialism working group. We'll discuss updates to our campaigns, work with other groups, and a political reading discussion.

Note: We are meeting in the Mandela room.

Accessibility: The Democracy Center is partially wheelchair accessible, no accessible bathroom on site. The Mandela, Parks, and Chavez rooms are accessible, but the Library is not. Wheelchair users are welcome to use the accessible restroom at Daedalus while we plan our improvements for bathroom accessibility. To reach that bathroom, exit the ramp and turn left on Bow St, at the next building (Daedalus) use their accessible entrance and their restroom will be on the right. More information at: democracycenter.org/accessibility. Contact info@democracycenter.org or 617 492 8855 as needed

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Please join us at Porter Square Books to welcome Alyssa Battistoni, Thea Riofrancos, and Daniel Aldana Cohen, co-authors of A Planet to Win, for a reading and discussion. This event is co-sponsored by the Democratic Socialists of America, Boston chapter.

In the twenty-first century, all politics are climate politics.

The age of climate gradualism is over, as unprecedented disasters are exacerbated by inequalities of race and class. We need profound, radical change. A Green New Deal can tackle the climate emergency and rampant inequality at the same time. Cutting carbon emissions while winning immediate gains for the many is the only way to build a movement strong enough to defeat big oil, big business, and the super-rich—starting right now.

A Planet to Win explores the political potential and concrete first steps of a Green New Deal. It calls for dismantling the fossil fuel industry and building beautiful landscapes of renewable energy, guaranteeing climate-friendly work and no-carbon housing and free public transit. And it shows how a Green New Deal in the United States can strengthen climate justice movements worldwide. We don’t make politics under conditions of our own choosing, and no one would choose this crisis. But crises also present opportunities. We stand on the brink of disaster—but also at the cusp of wondrous, transformative change.

Alyssa Battistoni is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University and an Editor at Jacobin. Her writing has appeared in the Guardian, n+1, The Nation, Jacobin, In These Times, Dissent, and the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Thea Riofrancos is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Providence College and the author of Resource Radicals. Her writing has appeared in the Guardian, n+1, Jacobin, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Dissent, and In These Times. She serves on the steering committee of DSA’s Ecosocialist Working Group.

Daniel Aldana Cohen is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he directs the Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2. He's a Senior Fellow at Data for Progress and a member of People's Action's Homes Guarantee campaign policy team. His writing has appeared in Nature, The Guardian, The Nation, Jacobin, Dissent, and elsewhere.

Porter Square Books is ADA-accessible. Their public bathroom may be narrow for some wheelchair users.

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2020 has arrived! Come out and knock doors in Waltham for Bernie and Democratic Socialism! We need your help to build a mass movement for Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, and a Sanders presidency.

No experience needed! Training will be provided and we can send you out with a buddy if it's your first time canvassing.

There will be simultaneous canvasses that day in Allston, Jamaica Plain/Roxbury, Somerville, East Boston, and Newton, so attend the canvass that is closest to you.

https://www.facebook.com/214492342911232

2020 has arrived! Come out and knock doors in Allston for Bernie and Democratic Socialism. We need you to help build a mass movement for Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, and a Sanders presidency.

No experience needed! Training will be provided and we can send you out with a buddy if it's your first time canvassing.

There will be simultaneous canvasses in Dorchester, Somerville, and East Boston, so pick the location closest to you and knock some doors!

We are meeting at the Dunkin Donuts at 209 N. Harvard St, Allston. The store is easily accessible by both the 66 and the 70 buses.

https://www.facebook.com/504158126892431

Come out and knock doors in Newton for Bernie and Democratic Socialism! We need your help to build a mass movement for Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, and a Sanders presidency.

No experience needed! Training will be provided and we can send you out with a buddy if it's your first time canvassing.

We are meeting at the McDonalds at 198 California St, Newton.

https://www.facebook.com/596248364282995

2020 has arrived! Come out and knock doors in East Boston for Bernie and Democratic Socialism! We need your help to build a mass movement for Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, and a Sanders presidency.

No experience needed! Training will be provided and we can send you out with a buddy if it's your first time canvassing.

We have literature in both English and Spanish, and any Spanish-speaking ability is a big plus!

The canvasses is a five minute walk from the Maverick station (blue line) at 116 Webster St, Apt 3. Ring the doorbell when you arrive and someone will come down to let you in.

https://www.facebook.com/2430218223862388

2020 has arrived! Come out and knock doors in both Jamaica Plain and Roxbury for Bernie and Democratic Socialism! We need your help to build a mass movement for Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, and a Sanders presidency.

No experience needed! Training will be provided and we can send you out with a buddy if it's your first time canvassing.

There will be simultaneous canvasses that day in Allston, Somerville, and East Boston, so attend the canvass that is closest to you.

https://www.facebook.com/1602702393205733

2020 has arrived! Come out and knock doors in Waltham for Bernie and Democratic Socialism! We need your help to build a mass movement for Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, and a Sanders presidency.

No experience needed! Training will be provided and we can send you out with a buddy if it's your first time canvassing.

There will be simultaneous canvasses that day in Allston, Jamaica Plain/Roxbury, Somerville, East Boston, and Newton, so attend the canvass that is closest to you.

https://www.facebook.com/2746927522067638

2020 has arrived! Come out and knock doors in Somerville for Bernie and Democratic Socialism. We need your help to build a mass movement for Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, and a Sanders presidency.

No experience needed! Training will be provided and we can send you out with a buddy if it's your first time canvassing.

There will be simultaneous canvasses that day in Dorchester, Allston, and East Boston, so attend the closest location and knock some doors!

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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.

UPDATE for January 13 meeting: we will have a Zoom call in place of an in-person meeting. Please message Tim Follo for a link to join the call!

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

Jobs With Justice is wheelchair accessible with an accessible bathroom. If you have any other accessibility-related questions or requests, please email accessibility@bostondsa.org and our Accessibility Coordinator will get back to you.

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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 location, contact bostonmarxist@gmail.com

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Come join fellow Democratic Socialists as we follow the results of the New Hampshire primary! It will be a great way to celebrate your hard work, relax with friends, and stress out as the numbers come in.

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We use these meetings to brainstorm and address administrative issues in the chapter. They are usually the second and fourth Wednesday of each month. There is always a Zoom link posted to the BDSA Slack ask-cc channel. Every other meeting, the CC meets in person at a location also available on Slack. If you're a DSA member but not on Slack, email boston-dsa-coordinating-committee@googlegroups.com for the information. CC meetings are open to DSA members but not the public.

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Bernie Sanders’ historic presidential campaign is mobilizing millions of people to fight for fundamental changes in our society. We need Medicare for All, the cancellation of all student debt, a Green New Deal, and to fight the billionaire class altogether.

Like in 2016, there will be a big Rally and March for Bernie in Boston on Saturday, February 22nd at 1pm. Students, workers, union members, and progressive activists will rally to show our support for Bernie and prove the strength of our movement. Everybody who attends will be asked to sign up for outreach shifts in the final week and a half before the Massachusetts primary.

Join the march organizing meeting on Wednesday, February 12th at 6:30, the day after the New Hampshire primary! We will discuss the results in New Hampshire, talk about how to get as many people to the Boston March for Bernie as possible, and how we can build a movement to win!

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Open to all DSA volunteers, members, allies, and coalition partners.

Current projects include:
Our DSA for Bernie campaign!
Continuing work on our 2020 state and federal endorsement process
Ongoing work alongside Right to the City to create deep, accountable two-way coalitions
Continuing, long-term work on Raise Up, Mass Alliance, and Green New Deal coalition work

Please watch the electoral working group email list for the Zoom details--or if you are not yet on the list, message us on Facebook.

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After the New Hampshire primary we will only have 2 and a half weeks to win Massachusetts for Bernie! Let's hit the ground running with a rally in support of Sanders and the political revolution.

After the rally there will be a nearby opportunity to canvass with the Bernie 2020 campaign. The link to the public canvass can be found here: https://www.mobilize.us/sandersma/event/222073/

Speakers (in order of appearance):

Democratic State Committee Candidate Armani White
State Representative Candidate Anna Callahan (34th Middlesex)
Boston Independent Drivers Guild Organizer Felipe Martinez
State Representative Candidate Erika Uyterhoeven (27th Middlesex)
State Representative Mike Connolly
Bernie 2020 National Press Secretary Briahna Joy Gray
State Representative Nika Elugardo

Cosponsored by:

Boston DSA
Sunrise Boston
Massachusetts Labor for Bernie
Our Revolution Massachusetts
IBEW Local 2222
Boston Independent Drivers Guild
MIT Beavers for Bernie
Brandeis for Bernie Sanders
Clark Students for Bernie
Boston Socialist Alternative
MA4Bernie2020
Greater Fall River MA for Bernie 2020
Boston Independent Drivers Guild

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Join us at Boston DSA's February General Meeting, a time for us to get together as a chapter to share knowledge, make decisions, and do crafts (yeah, there's crafts now)! We will be meeting at the Boston Teacher's Union in Dorchester from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

This month we will be debating and voting upon the applications for the Sister City resolution we passed at the end of last year. Potential Sister Cities will discuss their work, and comrades will be able to discuss the merits of each applicant chapter before voting opens.

We will also have a short reportback from our Bernie subcommittee about the campaign, which was recently voted a chapter priority.

Political Education Co-Chair Joey P. will be hosting a zine-making workshop, where comrades will learn a little about the history of zines in leftist politics, and then we'll get to make some zines of our own. Come prepared to get creative!

After the meeting, come socialize with socialists at the Harp and Bard! Bar shepherds will be around to ensure everyone gets safely from the BTU to the social.

Childwatch will be provided.

The BTU is wheelchair accessible with wheelchair accessible bathrooms. If you have any questions or concerns regarding accessibility, please email accessibility@bostondsa.org and our Accessibility Coordinator will get back to you.

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Kshama Sawant, Seattle's famous socialist city councilor who just defeated Amazon and Jeff Bezos, will speak in Boston about why we need to go all in for Bernie, what strategy can win the primary, and how we can build a strong socialist movement.

Speaking alongside Kshama will be:
-- Mike Connolly, MA State Rep and member of Democratic Socialists of America
-- Margaret Whittier-Ferguson, member of Somerville Teachers Association and Chair of Somerville's paraprofessional Contract Action Team as they fight for a fair contract and living wage

There will be time for Q+A discussion as well as next steps for the Bernie movement here in Massachusetts. Attendees will be encouraged to sign up for street canvassing shifts and flyering/postering shifts for the upcoming Boston Rally and March for Bernie.

This event is free and open to the public. Seats are first come first served. Free childcare will be provided and can be requested at the sign-in table (though messaging Boston Socialist Alternative ahead of time is encouraged).

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English:

The Political Revolution is coming to Eastie!

Medicare for All. Green New Deal. Housing for All. We need YOU to help build a mass movement to elect Bernie Sanders president and win the bold policies we need.

Join us every weekend until March 3rd as we knock doors in East Boston. No prior experience is needed. Training will be provided and we will can send you out with a buddy if it's your first time canvassing.

We have literature in both English and Spanish, and any spanish-speaking ability is a big plus.

The canvass will be meeting at 153 Lexington St, right near Angela's Cafe.

Spanish:

¡La Revolución Política viene a Eastie!

Medicare para Todxs. Un New Deal Verde. Vivienda Para Todos. Para ganar estas reformas históricas, va a requerir que todos nosotros dediquemos nuestro tiempo y energía para elegir a Bernie.

¡Únete a nosotros todos los fines de semana hasta el 3 de marzo para hablar con sus vecinos sobre Bernie! No se necesita experiencia previa. Les ofrecemos capacitación a todos los voluntarios, y nuevos voluntarios tendrán la opción de acompañar a alguien con más experiencia.

Tenemos literatura en Inglés y Español. La participación de hispanohablantes es particularmente importante para que la Revolución Política alcance a toda la comunidad de Eastie.

Comenzaremos a las a 153 Lexington St, cerca del Angela’s Café.

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The Boston DSA Arts and Music Caucus is pleased to host a reading group for Vassilis Vasilikos' "Z," in advance of the screening of the film version on February 20th.

The reading group will meet twice in the Democracy Center in Cambridge. The Democracy Center is partly wheelchair accessible, with no accessible bathroom on site. Wheelchair users are welcome to use the accessible restroom at Daedalus while we plan our improvements for bathroom accessibility. To reach that bathroom, exit the ramp and turn left on Bow St, at the next building (Daedalus) use their accessible entrance and their restroom will be on the right. More information at: democracycenter.org/accessibility. Contact info@democracycenter.org or 617 492 8855 as needed.

For the first meeting, we will be reading parts 1 and 2 of the book; for the second meeting, we will be reading parts 3 to 5.

Consider these questions while reading:
1) Vassilis Vassilikos manages to describe his characters' ideological positions with great precision, economy and clarity. What are they, and what do they say about the political climate in Greece in the period in which the narrative takes place?
2) Who is 'Z?' What does he represent, and what does his voice add to the narrative?

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Come meet with other artists, musicians and creators within DSA to discuss how we can use our talents and interests to enhance the cultural landscape of our organization. We will be discussing events we've been planning, including music shows, movie screenings and anything else people have energy to try and put together. We also will be discussing the possibility of turning this caucus into a working group that meets regularly to tackle arts related issues from a socialist perspective.

We meet in the Malala Yousafzai Library at the Democracy Center on the 3rd Sunday of every month. The Democracy Center is partially wheelchair accessible, no accessible bathroom on site. The Mandela, Parks, and Chavez rooms are accessible, but the Library is not. Wheelchair users are welcome to use the accessible restroom at Daedalus while we plan our improvements for bathroom accessibility. To reach that bathroom, exit the ramp and turn left on Bow St, at the next building (Daedalus) use their accessible entrance and their restroom will be on the right. More information at: democracycenter.org/accessibility. Contact info@democracycenter.org or 617 492 8855 as needed.

For any additional accessibility-related requests or questions, please contact our Accessibility Coordinator at accessibility@bostondsa.org.

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