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 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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Activist organizations that seek to be open, visible, and easy to join face some unique dilemmas. We want information about our organizations and our events to be easy to find, but we know there's no guarantee that the only people to find us will be friendly. For people to feel comfortable organizing with us, we need to be able to keep ourselves and our members safe without going "underground."

Boston DSA's Direct Action, De-escalation, and Security Committee is therefore pleased to host this training on digital security practices for DSA members and other activists. We will discuss general opsec for activists, informational security for protests, how not to get doxxed (and what to do if you are), and best practices for using social media to safely advertise events.

This training will be held over Zoom on Saturday, April 3, at 3 pm. Register for the call at: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZApfu2hpjMjE9AhhFVG9kzwelFcmHGGhghh

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Project Right to Shelter is phase 1 of a larger emerging Project Right to Housing. It demands that our elected officials take immediate action to protect the current homeless population under COVID-19 through temporary placement in hotel rooms, while also pressuring them to pass guaranteed housing legislation into law. Project Right to Housing is being piloted in Cambridge, MA, but it is easily replicable in other local communities across the nation. This project challenges local governments to adopt a housing first model. Once phase 1 is completed successfully then phase 2 will be enacted, which will ensure that all residents are provided with permanent housing within six months of their residence at a hotel or motel. We are at a critical juncture where we have made significant progress on attaining non-congregate shelter for unhoused community members in Cambridge, but while we continue to organize for this demand we are now ready to shift into building out phase 2 of this project.

Project Right to Shelter will not solve every struggle in the homeless community. It does not immediately alleviate the long-term issues that have left them to live on the streets. But it does grant residents protection and dignity in an incredibly vulnerable moment, and it does it in a way that benefits cities and communities. In the long term, through phase 2 of Project Right to Housing, we hope that this project will lead to a greater focus on the provision of housing and building support structures for every resident of our city, state, and country. In the meantime, now is our chance to demonstrate to the world that local communities truly care about all community members.

Read our proposal and get involved by attending our open weekly meetings on Mondays from 6-7pm.
#HousingFirst🏠
#Hotels4UnhousedCambMA

https://www.righttohousing.com/

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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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The Mental Health Working Group aims to investigate, discuss, and confront the deleterious effects of capitalism on mental health. We address the material and emotional needs and respect and support the autonomy of neurodivergent individuals and those who struggle with substance use disorders.

The Mental Health Working Group's current projects include:
* The Comrade Rosie Project, comrade-rosie.org, a creative, collaborative, mental health support network, by and for the working class of Greater Boston.
* Monthly Peer Support Sessions, on the 2nd Tuesday of every month, a space where leftists can help each other process life under COVID and under capitalism
* Red Roses Writing Workshop, bit.ly/RedRosesWriting, a low-key creative workshop on the fourth Friday of every month. Comrades are encouraged to bring 1 poem or 2 pages of prose writing to share.
* Chill With Comrades, a social hangout on the 4th Tuesday of every month. Though hangin' on Zoom is not the same as socializing with socialists in person, this provides some unstructured time to get to know your comrades and remember that we are all just people, not organizing machines.
* The MHWG Google site, https://sites.google.com/view/wg-mentalhealth, to facilitate long-form writing, in homage to the historical "committees of correspondence"
* The Epoch of Incredulity, https://anchor.fm/epoch-of-incredulity, the working group's least safe for work side project. Since we cannot go to cheap dive bars after meetings anymore, the MHWG has attempted to recreate the experience via podcast.

We serve as a resource for other Boston DSA members as much as we serve the larger community. Thus, people need not be reserved about their struggles or hesitant to ask for help.

The Mental Health Working Group meets monthly on the first Tuesday of every month from 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have moved all our meetings to Zoom. If you have any questions or for a copy of the agenda, check out the #wg-mentalhealth channel on the BDSA Slack, or email us at mentalhealth@bostondsa.org.

To register in advance for this meeting, click the link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMrf-2orz4jG9O5kNFU564SYkfHqQbk-m9_
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with information about joining the meeting. We hope to see you there!

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Come to one, come to all!
Lets fight for socialism at every level! Join us to get involved in our most local politics, and support everyone's needs.

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwude6pqDsjHdM3uDCNfY27NjjLOv3CrBOb

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The Boston DSA Labor Working Group meets *twice* each month - on the first and third Wednesdays of each month. New, old, and potential DSA members are all welcome! Come for a discussion on local labor updates and a wide variety of projects, including new worker organizing, labor solidarity campaigns, events and panels, as well as our blog, Working Mass (working-mass.com).

Please email us at labor@bostondsa.org for the Zoom link, and to get on the mailing list.

If you're interested in getting involved, you can also fill out our interest form (bit.ly/BDSAlabor), and follow us on Twitter (twitter.com/BDSA_Labor).

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Do you love socialism and posting? Do you have skills in email-writing, newsletter-laying-out, 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 Boston DSA 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 DSA 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.

Zoom registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAoc-2vrDsjH9yZ5X8zTM9Q9iWKduzsgK4T

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Meet and chat with other socialist education workers in the Boston area and beyond. All prek-12 & higher ed workers are welcome! We are a network of socialist education workers connected to BDSA's Labor Working Group.

Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUlfuyrrzooHdLGuNjq3IGsa2920uB_J2Fo

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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:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/v5Mpf-uopjMr5ofu92wMNMb7rvcc4RqNSQ

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

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Virtual screening of “I Am Somebody”

Register for emailed zoom link: https://bit.ly/3u7yyD8

Please RSVP

Synopsis: “ Named to the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress, preserved by the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, and widely available for the first time, Madeline Anderson’s I AM SOMEBODY (1970), along with her pioneering INTEGRATION REPORT 1 (1960), the first known documentary directed by an African American woman, and A TRIBUTE TO MALCOLM X (1967), bring viewers to the front lines of the fight for civil rights.

In 1969, black female hospital workers in Charleston, South Carolina went on strike for union recognition and a wage increase, only to find themselves in a confrontation with the state government and the National Guard. Featuring Andrew Young, Charles Abernathy, and Coretta Scott King and produced by Local 1199, New York’s Drug and Hospital Union, I AM SOMEBODY is a crucial document in the struggle for labor rights.

Recognized as the first documentary ever directed by an African-American woman, INTEGRATION REPORT 1 examines the struggle for black equality in Alabama, Brooklyn and Washington, D.C., incorporating footage by documentary legends Albert Maysles and Ricky Leacock, protest songs by Maya Angelou, and a speech by Martin Luther King, Jr.”

Endorsed by Afro-Socialists & Socialists of Color Caucus and the Labor working group

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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.

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. RSVP at bit.ly/BDSANewMember for the link!

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The St. Vincent nurses are still on strike in Worcester and need your continued support! Join Worcester DSA and Boston DSA for a musical rally on Sunday, April 11 at 12pm. We will meet in the parking lot at 11 E Central St in Worcester and march to the strike picket at 12:30pm. DSA will show our continuing solidarity for the nurses by leading a sing-along of old union songs to raise everyone's spirits!

Let us know if you can make it here: http://bit.ly/DSASingsatStV

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Come join Northeastern students and Roxbury community members to discuss the issue at hand and to build the best fightback! This campaign involves Boston Socialist Alternative, Northeastern YDSA, Northeastern for the Common Good, Graduate Employees of Northeastern-UAW, Northeastern Progressive Students Alliance, Northeastern Students for Justice for Palestine, Northeastern Latin American Students Organization and more!

We demand:
1. Stop gentrification: Northeastern administration and President Aoun should halt the plans to build a Luxury dorm at 840 Columbus Avenue

2. Build more AFFORDABLE housing: the Boston Planning and Development Agency, Mayor Marty Walsh and soon to be Interim Mayor Kim Janey should construct a high quality, union built, publicly affordable housing complex for Roxbury residents at 840 Columbus Avenue.

3. Make dorms affordable: no student should have to pay luxury prices, all dorms should be affordable to all students.

4. Implement rent control and tax corporations and the big universities to fund high quality public affordable housing for all.

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Project Right to Shelter is phase 1 of a larger emerging Project Right to Housing. It demands that our elected officials take immediate action to protect the current homeless population under COVID-19 through temporary placement in hotel rooms, while also pressuring them to pass guaranteed housing legislation into law. Project Right to Housing is being piloted in Cambridge, MA, but it is easily replicable in other local communities across the nation. This project challenges local governments to adopt a housing first model. Once phase 1 is completed successfully then phase 2 will be enacted, which will ensure that all residents are provided with permanent housing within six months of their residence at a hotel or motel. We are at a critical juncture where we have made significant progress on attaining non-congregate shelter for unhoused community members in Cambridge, but while we continue to organize for this demand we are now ready to shift into building out phase 2 of this project.

Project Right to Shelter will not solve every struggle in the homeless community. It does not immediately alleviate the long-term issues that have left them to live on the streets. But it does grant residents protection and dignity in an incredibly vulnerable moment, and it does it in a way that benefits cities and communities. In the long term, through phase 2 of Project Right to Housing, we hope that this project will lead to a greater focus on the provision of housing and building support structures for every resident of our city, state, and country. In the meantime, now is our chance to demonstrate to the world that local communities truly care about all community members.

Read our proposal and get involved by attending our open weekly meetings on Mondays from 6-7pm.
#HousingFirst🏠
#Hotels4UnhousedCambMA

https://www.righttohousing.com/

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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.

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. RSVP at bit.ly/BDSANewMember for the link!

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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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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.

Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0lfuGvrjwsHdBWscC5OQubCbjMN-QixBuZ

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

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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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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.

At our April meeting we will debrief from our recent Palestine solidarity event and develop plans to launch our two new campaigns, on ending US military and police aid to Honduras and advocating for the WTO TRIPS waiver for COVID vaccines. Join us to get plugged into this timely and necessary work!

Meeting Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/537353376?pwd=WVRwc3pnTFhqQm5uU2NyRXRZRE5XQT09

Email internationalism@bostondsa.org with questions.

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