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.

General Membership Meeting - 5/20/23

Our General Membership Meeting is this Saturday, May 20, 2023 from 1:30-3:30pm. It will be hybrid (in-person and Zoom). We will be discussing national convention delegates, strike ready resolution, and much more! More info in a separate email!

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, May 15, 2023 5:30-7pm, and
Monday, May 29, 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 🌹

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.

DSA Strike Ready: Supporting the UPS Teamsters' Contract Fight! >>

Monday, May 8th, 2023 at 5:30pm

DSA Labor has launched its Strike Ready campaign to support the UPS Teamsters in their contract fight. The campaign encourages chapters to pass the Strike Ready resolution and appoint solidarity captains, and we already have over 90 solidarity captains identified from 40+ chapters.

The Strike Ready campaign will require the entire organization to be involved and ready to support the UPS Teamsters, including at-large members, smaller chapters, chapters with less active labor work, YDSA chapters, and chapters that have not yet passed the resolution. Further, this campaign is also meant to help chapters build their labor work and solidarity capacity. UPS is the first of many fights to come and chapters and members should get “strike ready” for all of the labor fights ahead.

This mass call will explain what the Strike Ready campaign is, why the UPS Teamsters’ contract fight is important, what work has already been done, and how members, including those at-large, can plug into the work. Further, this call will help chapters learn how to hold solidarity fund fundraisers in May as part of the Strike Ready campaign and re-ignite excitement around the campaign as it begins to ramp up during June and July.

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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! 🌹