Good afternoon, Comrade Friend!
Here are our chapter announcements for Wednesday, May 3rd:
This Saturday (5/6), we'll be having our May General meeting at 11 AM. You'll hear updates on our Local Chapter Convention happening in June, candidate statements from nominees for our delegation to the National Convention, and news about the upcoming Labor Campaign. All are welcome to join, but only members in good standing may vote. RSVP here. <[link removed]>
<[link removed]>___
News from National: DSA Labor is getting strike ready across the country. Join us Monday 5/8 at 8:30 PM for DSA Strike Ready: Supporting the UPS Teamsters’ Contract Fight! <[link removed]>On this call, you’ll hear from DSA members on: Why the UPS Teamsters’ contract fight is important, the work going on right now, how chapters like yours are building labor work and solidarity capacity, heating up labor excitement this summer.
This year we’re bringing socialist organizers together in a big way with the YDSA/DSA Labor and Electoral Spring Conference and the DSA National Convention. But travel costs are rising, and working class attendees need your help.If you'd like to pitch in and help members come together you can do so here! <[link removed]>
Solidarity forever,
Your Metro Detroit DSA comrades!
UPCOMING EVENTS 🌹
May General Meeting
Saturday, May 6th, 11 AM - 1 PM
Swords Into Plowshares
33 E Adams Ave, Detroit, MI 48226
Come to our May General Meeting!
This meeting will start an hour early at 11 AM. Swords into Plowshares will be hosting their Spring Festival Fundraiser starting at 1 PM. There will be a $10 entry fee and there will be many activities to check out! Some cool things happening include button making, a silent auction for pieces from local artists, screen printing, film screenings, and a paint and sip project. We encourage everyone coming to the general meeting to stick around, show their support for SIP, and have fun!
During the meeting we'll be hearing candidate statements from nominees for our delegation to the National Convention, updates on the upcoming Labor Campaign, and more.
If you need the Zoom option,register here. <[link removed]>
Masks are required unless drinking, eating or speaking on the mic. Please bring a snack to share, if you're able.
RSVP <[link removed]>
___
BOOK DISCUSSION: Forgotten Populists by Steve Babson
Sunday, May 7th, 7PM
ArtBlock
1411 Holden St, Detroit, MI 48208
How can Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump both be called “populists”? Is populism a people's movement or is it right-wing? Learn the true history and meaning of populism, and its lessons for today about organizing a big tent. Come hear Detroit DSA member Steve Babson speak about his new bookForgotten Populists.
RSVP <[link removed]>
___
Riotsville, USA: Film Screening & Discussion
Thursday, May 11th, 6:30 PM
2701 Bagley St, Detroit, MI 48216
Join MEJC and Metro Detroit DSA on Thursday, May 11th at 6:30 p.m. for a film screening and discussion of Riotsville, USA. We will discuss the historical significance of civilian uprisings against militarized police & the national guard as well as the intersection with today's Atlanta Cop City, Michigan's Camp Grayling, and our defense of Mother Earth.
Indoor event, masks required. COVID Rapid Tests available on site. Documentary info here <[link removed]>andFacebook event here. <[link removed]>
___
Socialist Book Club: Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulationby Silvia Federici (Intro. - Ch. 2)
Sunday, May 15th, 4 PM
Cafe Delite
3135 Caniff St, Hamtramck, MI 48212
A cult classic since its publication in the early years of this century, Caliban and the Witchis Silvia Federici's history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages through the European witch-hunts, the rise of scientific rationalism and the colonization of the Americas, it gives a panoramic account of the often horrific violence with which the unruly human material of pre-capitalist societies was transformed into a set of predictable and controllable mechanisms. It Is a study of indigenous traditions crushed, of the enclosure of women's reproductive powers within the nuclear family, and of how our modern world was forged in blood. PDF LINK <[link removed]>
Our next reading will be A Brief History of Neoliberalism by David Harvey.
RSVP <[link removed]>
Detroit DSA is a member-funded organization. We receive no money from outside sources so we can say things like "Defund the Police" and "Abolish ICE" without losing funding, and we will always act democratically in the interests of our members and the working class! If you're able to, we ask that you make contributions as they more directly benefit our chapter. Thank you!
If you'd like to become a dues-paying member, you can do so here, <[link removed]> and use the email address currently associated with your DSA membership. If you're unsure whether your dues are up to date, reach out to
[email protected] <mailto:
[email protected]> to check!
Thank you! - Detroit DSA 🌹
-=-=-
Metro Detroit Democratic Socialists of America - United States
This email was sent to
[email protected]. To stop receiving emails: [link removed]
-=-=-
Created with NationBuilder - [link removed]
