Join us for the monthly Cambridge DSA meeting!

Join your local DSA comrades at our September Cambridge neighborhood meeting to talk about what's happening at the municipal level.

Register: https://actionnetwork.org/events/september-cambridge-neighborhood-dsa-meeting

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MetroWest DSA will be meeting Wednesday, September 1st at 7PM for our general meeting. Watch our email group for the meeting agenda.

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Join R&R to help us phonebank for R&R member and revolutionary socialist Eve Seitchik for Somerville City Council! Eve is running with a slate of socialists in Somerville, MA to win the first socialist city council in decades!

Eve especially is open about running as an independent socialist, not as a Democrat. That means Eve does not have access to tools like VAN and could use our support. Supporting Eve's campaign will also support the other great socialists from Boston DSA running!

In Somerville, developers are pushing out working people by building luxury housing and fight against changes that help folks get affordable or public housing. With Massachusetts banning rent control, we need a fighting candidate to change politics there.

Eve will run on defunding the police by 60%, running a Green New Deal in Somerville, fighting for rent control, building public housing, and more! Your help will help people's lives, so please sign up!

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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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Join us to knock doors for Joel Richards, a BDSA member, public school teacher, and union activist! Joel is up against eight other candidates for city council in the September 14th prelim.

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Eve, Willie and Charlotte need to knock doors across a whole city! Help our chapter elect a majority socialist city council by joining us for a canvass.

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Join us to knock doors for BDSA member, public school teacher, and union activist Joel Richards! We'll be knocking doors at 2pm, then meeting up for a BBQ and fundraiser party afterwards!

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RSVP Fundraiser: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/dsa_4_joel

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Join us to knock doors for BDSA member and public school teacher Joel Richards! Joel's prelim is September 14th and the race is incredibly tight! We need your help to win.

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Come canvass for Tessa Bridge! Tessa's primary election is September 14th, help us win a majority on the Somerville City Council!

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Join us this Monday for the Prison Abolition Working Group meeting. This group works to end the corrupt carceral system and the suppression of thousands by the justice system. This meeting will be held via Zoom.

To register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIpc-2qpjgvGtOrjK4AIqnb2b5HKIrcSCGt

For more information email prisonabolition@bostondsa.org

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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:
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After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with information about joining the meeting. We hope to see you there!

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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 note: our August 4th meeting has been rescheduled for August 11th!

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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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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Join us to knock doors for BDSA member and public school teacher Joel Richards! Joel's prelim is September 14th and the race is incredibly tight! We need your help to win.

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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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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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Come join us to watch the new documentary film about the socialist movement "The Big Scary S Word" and help us raise money for our socialist campaigns for office! Bring your own blanket and chairs and some snacks. **Rain date is 9/18/21**

"The Big Scary “S” Word explores the rich history of the American socialist movement.

Featuring interviews with Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Cornel West, and Naomi Klein, the film weaves together hidden episodes of history and verité footage and shows that, contrary to popular belief, socialism is in fact deeply American and led to popular government programs such as public schools and Medicare."

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Join us to knock doors for BDSA member and public school teacher Joel Richards! Joel's prelim is September 14th and the race is incredibly tight! We need your help to win.

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We will be meeting exclusively on Zoom for the foreseeable future. Regular meetings are held on the second Monday of each month at 7pm (subject to change) To register please visit:
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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.

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

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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 note: our August 4th meeting has been rescheduled for August 11th!

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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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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Recap of 9/14 Preliminary election results, and talking about what we are doing in the LAST SIX WEEKS of the campaigns

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Ven a pasar un buen rato y a aprender más sobre tu coalición comunitaria local: P.U.E.B.L.O. PUEBLO, Personas Unidas en East Boston to Liberar and Organizar, se relanza para celebrar el final del verano con un día de recursos comunitarios para la familia el sábado 18 de septiembre a las 10am-12pm con kayak gratuito para la familia y contará con estaciones dedicadas a las organizaciones que conforman PUEBLO junto con algunos invitados especiales que tendrán recursos disponibles para que las familias se lleven a casa y los utilicen para potenciar sus vidas cotidianas. MassCOSH tendrá información sobre los derechos laborales lista para todos, NUBE tendrá información sobre el registro de votantes y la política local, CLVU tendrá apoyo contra el desalojo y la ejecución hipotecaria disponible a la vista, y GreenRoots manejará las canoas y cada uno de nosotros sobre la importancia de la justicia ambiental y la relación de la clase trabajadora de East Boston con el paseo marítimo.

Te esperamos…. No faltes!!!
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Come out for a good time and learn more about your local community coalition: P.U.E.B.L.O. PUEBLO, People United in East Boston to Liberate and Organize, is relaunching itself to celebrate the end of the summer with a family community resource day on Saturday, September 18th from 10am-12pm with free family kayaking and will feature stations dedicated to the organizations that make up PUEBLO along with a few special guests who will have resources available for families to take home and use to empower their everyday lives. MassCOSH will have labor rights information ready for everyone, NUBE will have voter registration and local politics information, CLVU will have anti eviction and foreclosure support available on sight, and GreenRoots will manage the kayaks and teach us about the importance of environmental justice and working-class East Boston’s relationship to the waterfront.

Hope to see you!

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This talk should focus on the intersection of race and socialist thought, and primarily address how socialist principles can be applied to understand and combat the problems and injustices that arise out of racism.

The talk should discuss how socialists interpret issues of race, and how communities and organizers of color can apply socialist concepts to address issues in their organizing

The talk should highlight some prominent organizers of color who organized using socialist principles, highlighting the history of socialists outside of wrongheaded conception of the oft referred to “old white men,” who are supposed to have written most books of theory.The talk would ideally make reference to instances where these organizers made unique contributions to socialist thought by expanding upon and adapting socialist theory in their work

The talk should address in some form capitalism's relationship to the systems of racism

To fit in with the larger themes of this section of the Night Schools, the talk should touch upon how issues of race intersect and interrelate to issues of class.

Register: https://bit.ly/RaceClassBDSA

This event is part of a 3-part series about Class from Boston DSA's Socialist Night School. Feel free to join for as many as you like! The other sessions are:
(What Is Class? https://fb.me/e/417BFkwDM) Register here: https://bit.ly/ClassBDSA
(Race & Class https://fb.me/e/1IiOYNCoK) Register here: https://bit.ly/RaceClassBDSA
(Gender & Class https://fb.me/e/2r53YSZaN) Register here: https://bit.ly/GenderClassBDSA
And there will be more Socialist Night School sessions planned to follow!

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