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Our February General Meeting will take place this Saturday, Feb. 8 from 10 am – noon at Ant Hall (2320 Caniff, Hamtramck). 

We will be discussing a proposal for new chapter bylaws. Our current bylaws can be found here. The proposed new bylaws can be reviewed here. We will not be voting on new bylaws at this meeting, but wish to introduce them so everyone has a chance to take a look, raise questions, discuss and provide feedback before we revisit them in March, hopefully for a vote. If you have immediate feedback, please email it to [email protected].

Also this Saturday, we will briefly talk about submitting applications to the new Michigan Independent Redistricting Commission. A representative from the group that got this measure on the ballot will be in attendance to answer questions, and several of our DSA members who are notaries will bring their equipment to notarize applications. If you received an application in the mail and would like to apply to the commission, bring your application on Saturday. Reminder that this is a paid position. There will also be an opportunity to apply Saturday even if you did not receive an application in the mail.

Other topics we will cover Saturday: DSA for Bernie work, Medicare for All, Media Team, and Labor working group updates, the upcoming Green New Deal and College for All Town Halls, and responding to anticipated future visits from Trump to SE Michigan.

We will be breaking out into working groups as usual at the end of the meeting.

New Steering Committee Member! The Detroit DSA Steering Committee is excited to welcome Diana Hussein to the Steering Committee. Diana will be serving out the last few months of a vacant seat. Thank you to all the chapter members who offered to take on this role. We will be electing a new Steering Committee this summer, so if you have an interest in serving on the Steering Committee please keep that in mind and consider running for a seat. 

Tonight — Join Detroit DSA and Wayne State YDSA for the return of Socialist Night School. Meet at 6 pm in the Student Center Building, room 010. Class begins at 6:30 pm. The topic of tonight’s session is “Black Politics in Detroit,” led by David Goldberg.

Tomorrow night — Join the DSA for Bernie team during our regular Thursday night phone bank hours at Red Door Digital, 7500 Oakland Ave, 6:30–8:30 pm. This week only: we will be discussing plans for future phone banking, canvassing, happy hours, house parties, tabling and beyond. Then we will do a bit of phone banking. Hopefully we’ll know the results of the Iowa caucus by then. 

Saturday — After the DSA General Meeting, many of us will go out to canvass in Hamtramck for Bernie. Bring a water bottle and dress for the weather. We will do a training before people head out in pairs. If you’d like to join us just for the canvass, we’ll start around 12:30 pm, leaving from Ant Hall.

For the General Meeting, members and visitors are welcome as always! If you have any accessibility or childcare needs please email [email protected].

RSVP for our upcoming Town  Halls

College for All: Student Debt Town Hall with Rashida Tlaib
Tuesday, Feb. 18, 6:30 pm ; doors open at 5:30 pm
Wayne State University, Community Arts Auditorium

Bernie Sanders and the Fight for a Green New Deal with Abdul El-Sayed 
Friday, Feb. 21, 6 pm
UM-Dearborn, 4901 Evergreen, 1133 University Center

In solidarity,

Danielle Aubert
http://www.metrodetroitdsa.com/

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