Understanding how internationalist socialism works can be a hard thing to figure out (believe us, we've all been there). Luckily, you don't have to do it alone. Nervous about where to start reading? Look no further than our introduction to internationalism reading group. Join us to discuss how we achieve global solidarity!

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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 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. 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.

Registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYvdOivrDgiEtXNW5YkZGkpjyAFaCmjYi0-

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The Boston DSA Coordinating Committee meets semimonthly, usually on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of the month.

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 Boston DSA Coordinating Committee meets semimonthly, usually on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of the month.

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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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? 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.

Register for the Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84184872257?pwd=mQISSQG9TV6Y2uNPqX3Hl3cRgweyIC.1

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Join us for the monthly meeting of the Electoral Working Group.

Zoom registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYpdu-oqD8iE9x30ksdMokQKnuGIa1ak1Ds

Email electoral@bostondsa.org with any questions.

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Understanding how internationalist socialism works can be a hard thing to figure out (believe us, we've all been there). Luckily, you don't have to do it alone. Nervous about where to start reading? Look no further than our introduction to internationalism reading group. Join us to discuss how we achieve global solidarity!

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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:
bdsa.us/PeerSupport

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

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Understanding how internationalist socialism works can be a hard thing to figure out (believe us, we've all been there). Luckily, you don't have to do it alone. Nervous about where to start reading? Look no further than our introduction to internationalism reading group. Join us to discuss how we achieve global solidarity!

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Join the Housing Working Group for our monthly meeting!

Global real estate is valued at $217 trillion and makes up more than 60% of the world’s capital, 75% of which is in housing. As exploitable natural resources dwindle, curtailing commodity production, the ruling class has re-oriented towards rentier capitalism.

In this context, Boston DSA Housing working group organizes to build and support tenant unions, to build the power of working class people to confront the landlord and developer class, and to take control of our own homes and cities. In 2020, we contributed to the formation of the Greater Boston Tenants Union (GBTU) in 2020, a tenant-run, independent institution that is part of the national Autonomous Tenants Union Network.

We are currently working on supporting GBTU eviction defense canvasses and ongoing organizing projects. In addition we use our meetings for political education, particularly tenant organizer trainings, to develop our skill set, political analysis, and to help bring new organizers into the tenant unionist movement.

If you're not on the DSA mailing list, email housing@bostondsa.org for Zoom call-in info.

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Everyone new to socialist activism and/or Boston DSA is invited to a four session intro reading group on the basics of socialism, based on Jacobin's pamphlet, “The ABC’s of Socialism”.

The group starts on Monday, February 20 and runs for four weeks (February 20th & 27th, and March 6th & 13th). All sessions are 7:00-8:30 PM.

To Register:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMkf-yoqzspGdVU-YGHGwwBjmEwv1Vg10Ra

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

Each session will discuss a few questions raised in “ABCs” that you may encounter when discussing socialism with workmates, family members or fellow activists.
Topics will include: “Why do socialists talk so much about workers?”, “Doesn’t socialism always end in dictatorship?”, and “Don’t the rich deserve to keep most of their money?”
The goal of this reading group is to provide a basic knowledge of socialist goals and analysis through a brief, accessible text and to help motivate new DSA members get more deeply involved in the work of our chapter.

"The ABCs of Socialism" can be downloaded here:
https://s3.jacobinmag.com/issues/jacobin-abcs.pdf.

For more info: education@bostondsa.org

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The Boston DSA Coordinating Committee meets semimonthly, usually on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of the month.

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 Boston DSA Coordinating Committee meets semimonthly, usually on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of the month.

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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It’s in making decisions that we learn to decide." - Paolo Friere, Pedagogy of Freedom

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 are held over Zoom. 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.

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Everyone new to socialist activism and/or Boston DSA is invited to a four session intro reading group on the basics of socialism, based on Jacobin's pamphlet, “The ABC’s of Socialism”.

The group starts on Monday, February 20 and runs for four weeks (February 20th & 27th, and March 6th & 13th). All sessions are 7:00-8:30 PM.

To Register:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMkf-yoqzspGdVU-YGHGwwBjmEwv1Vg10Ra

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

Each session will discuss a few questions raised in “ABCs” that you may encounter when discussing socialism with workmates, family members or fellow activists.
Topics will include: “Why do socialists talk so much about workers?”, “Doesn’t socialism always end in dictatorship?”, and “Don’t the rich deserve to keep most of their money?”
The goal of this reading group is to provide a basic knowledge of socialist goals and analysis through a brief, accessible text and to help motivate new DSA members get more deeply involved in the work of our chapter.

"The ABCs of Socialism" can be downloaded here:
https://s3.jacobinmag.com/issues/jacobin-abcs.pdf.

For more info: education@bostondsa.org

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Let's put the social back in Socialism! Everyone knows that nothing compares to hanging out and socializing with comrades in-person, but since that's not possible due to Covid, this is the next best thing! Take the opportunity to socialize with members of the chapter, as well as cope with the social isolation imposed by the pandemic. There's no meeting agenda for this event, no readings to do in advance, just show up and have a good time! If you have any questions at all, feel free to email us at, mentalhealth@bostondsa.org. We hope to see you there!

Register in advance for this event:
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