Hello Comrades! Take a look at what Sacramento DSA has in store this month and see how you can get involved.

Announcements

Read through the announcements and learn about any updates or requests to the General Membership.

Steering Committee Members

We have an updated Steering Committee membership!

New/Updated Members
Secretary - Jessie R.

Organizer - Case F.

Organizer - Sara C.

Enter in a raffle by completing our Conflict Skills Survey!

What Is It:

The goal of this survey is to help identify member's greatest barriers to participation in the chapter and sources of chapter conflict in order to guide the efforts of the newly formed conflict navigation working working group.

Survey URL:
https://forms.gle/MJxxsJx6Cx7mF2i77

Raffle Details:

- Must enter contact information to be entered in the raffle.

- The earlier you fill out the survey the more chances you have to win!

- After first 80 responses, participants are entered in raffle for two $10 gift cards

- After 160 responses, all participants who haven't yet won are entered in raffle for a 1 year Jacobin subscription

- After 200 responses all participants who haven't won are entered in to raffle of Vivek Chibber's "Confronting Capitalism" and Kate Aranoff's "A Planet to Win."

- If we reach 300 responses we will have a special surprise raffle.

Interested writing a blog post?

Do you feel passionate about a certain leftist topic? How about current events? Are you a good writer? If you answered yes, we would love to host your writing on our Sacramento DSA blog located on our website!

Our last entry is a few years ago, so we are hungry for new leftist content to display.

If interested, please email Chapter Secretary, Jessie, at [email protected].

Upcoming Sacramento DSA Events

Events are a great way to plug into the spirit and culture of Sacramento DSA. Subscribe to our Google Calendar here. Feel free to join your fellow socialists in the upcoming event(s) below. Hope to see you there! 🌹

Mutual Aid Committee >> Bi-Weekly Distribution >>

Monday, April 3, 2023 5:30-7pm, and
Monday, April 17, 2023 5:30-7pm
Cesar Chavez Park

Join the Mutual Aid Committee for our next Mutual Aid Monday meal & supply distribution! We meet at the corner of 10th & I st. at Cesar Chavez Park. Come find out what we're all about and how you can get involved! We have a variety of ways for you to help out in person.

Ongoing donations needed: tents (the larger, the better), sunscreen, tarps, bug spray/wipes, gently used clean/new bedding, gently used clothing & shoes for all adult sizes & genders, clean socks, underwear (all sizes & genders--especially larger sizes), deodorant, dry shampoo, baby powder (travel-sized please), self-defense tools, menstrual products, lotion, hair care products for all types of hair, floss, dog supplies, and more. We also go out to encampments from time to time and could always use help if that better fits your availability/capacity.

Can't make it out to distributions but want to support? You can make an ongoing donation here.

Email us if you have any questions or would like help coordinating a donation: [email protected]

We look forward to seeing you out there!

-The Mutual Aid Committee 🌹

Socialist Education Committee >> Film Screening of "The Invisible Homeless" >>

Wednesday, April 26, 2023 7-9pm
Sierra 2 Center for the Arts and Community (The Big Room)
2791 24th St, Sacramento, CA 95818

Come join your fellow comrades in viewing "The Invisible Homeless", written and directed by Nick Anderson & Ian Lee, 'The Invisible Homeless' examines the current Sacramento homeless crisis. Talking with policy experts, non-profit leaders, mutual aid groups, and women directly experiencing homelessness, the consensus is clear: we must fund affordable housing. This short documentary was produced by Bright Coast Productions & Jolie Media.

Upcoming National DSA Events

Getting plugged into national DSA events are a great way to meet other comrades from across the country! Feel free to join any of the following national DSA events.

Confronting the Threat of the Far Right >>

Monday, April 3, 2023, 5pm

Event Information Trump lost the 2020 presidential election but the forces he represented and the ideas he furthered – the contemporary US right – have not gone away. These forces are continuing their efforts to push the US – both at in the electoral and the extra-parliamentary terrains – further towards their anti-democratic vision for the U.S. NPEC is sponsoring an upcoming zoom session, Confronting the Threat of the Far Right.

Three sets of questions will be addressed in this session:

(1) Who is the right, both electorally and in the larger cultural front? What groups are the most active? What are the historical roots of the U.S. right? How are these groups organized?

(2) The “right” has several ideological strand and beliefs. What are these differences? Is it possible to exploit potential divisions between libertarians, white evangelical Christian nationalists, para-militarists, white supremacists, etc. and other segments the right?

(3) What should the broad left do to counter today’s right? How should we organize and with what goals? Where does DSA fit into in the effort to create a progressive counter-offensive to the right?

We will hear from and ask questions of Bill Fletcher, John Huntington, and Nancy McLean. These three presenters have engaged with the US far right as analysts, organizers or both. . The presentations and discussion will help DSA members in our day-to-day organizing and will provide important context for our political thinking and work through the 2023 convention and beyond. Join us on April 3.

RSVP Here

Upcoming Committee and Working Group Meetings

Committees and working groups drive much of the energy in Sacramento DSA. Learn more about our Committees on our Sacramento DSA website here. Then feel free to join any of the upcoming Committee meetings below. We are hope to see you in an upcoming meeting soon! 🌹