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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.
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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! 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!
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.
Masks are required unless drinking, eating or
speaking on the mic. Please bring a snack to share, if you're
able.
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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
book Forgotten
Populists.
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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 and Facebook
event here.
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Socialist Book Club: Caliban
and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive
Accumulation by 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
Witch is 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
Our next reading will be A Brief History of
Neoliberalism by David Harvey.
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, 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] to
check!
Thank you! - Detroit
DSA 🌹
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