Good afternoon, Comrade Friend!

Here are our chapter announcements for Tuesday, June 13th:

A local hate group went into the Ferndale Library on June 4th and removed all the books on their youth Pride displays. Library workers already have stressful jobs and now also have to act as the frontline defense for queer rights in Ferndale. We need to mobilize as many people as possible to show up to the Library board meeting Thursday June 15th to voice support for library workers and the queer community, demand that management take action to protect the workers from hate groups, and pressure them to reach an agreement with the workers' union on a contract. Come out to the next Library Board meeting Thursday, June 15th at 6:30 PM held at the Ferndale Library to show your support. You can fill out this form to let us know you plan on coming! 

We have some new articles from The Detroit Socialist! Check out the latest article which provides an update on the UAW strike at Constellium Automotive in Van Buren Township. 

With new UAW leaders sworn in, the union is focusing on bargaining for its Big Three auto contracts, which expire September 14th. Read more here. 

Our local chapter convention is just around the corner on June 17th. How can we use this newspaper to prepare for it? Read that article here.

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Douglass Debs Dinner: Save the date! On October 28th at 6 PM the Douglass Debs Dinner will finally return! You can expect some fun ways to fundraise, good food, and a celebration of some standout work done in our chapter. More details to come! You can RSVP here!

News from National: Join the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee Thursday 6/22 at 8:30pm for a Remote Worker Organizing Training! If you’re organizing a remote workplace and don’t know where to start, or you hit a wall trying to reach everyone at your workplace, this training is for you! If you’re an organizer supporting remote workers, this training is for you!

Join the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee’s first ever bilingual Foundational Training to learn how. Sessions will be held Mondays beginning 7/10 at 9pm ET/8pm CT/7pm MT/6pm PT to make the series accessible to West Coast workers. Space is limited to 200 participants. Register today, or share with Spanish speaking coworkers, friends and family!

Join the AfroSocialists and Socialists of Color for their quarterly General Meeting Monday 6/26 at 8pm! All BIPOC members are encouraged to attend. The meeting is open to all who identify as Black, Indigenous, and/or a person of color, regardless of their membership status in either AfroSoC or DSA.

Maine DSA is fighting to defend the Rent Control Ordinance passed by Portland voters in 2020 and 2022. Now landlords have brought it back to the ballot. Show your solidarity with Portland tenants and support the campaign with a contribution today!

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!

DSA is proud to endorse Socialism 2023 in Chicago this Labor Day weekend! This four-day conference features dozens of panels, lectures, and workshops organized by Haymarket Books and left groups from all over the country. Socialism 2023 will facilitate exchanges between existing activists and organizations and welcome new politically curious people as part of rebuilding our radical traditions and movements.

Solidarity forever, 

Your Metro Detroit DSA comrades!

UPCOMING EVENTS 🌹 

Garden Party Fundraiser 🌹
Friday, June 16th, 5 PM - 9 PM
Old Miami
3930 Cass Ave, Detroit, MI 48201

Come hang out in the garden with your comrades while raising funds to send our delegates to the National Convention in Chicago this August! Ticket price covers entry, a plate of food, and one drink. Bands will start at 7. Ticket prices are on a sliding scale, so you can pay whatever you can. You can purchase a ticket by clicking the RSVP link!

RSVP

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Chapter Convention 2023 (apply to be an observer!)
Saturday, June 17th, 11 AM - 5 PM
Student Center Ballroom at WSU
5221 Gullen Mall, Detroit, MI 48202

Metro Detroit DSA is holding its inaugural Chapter Convention on June 17th, at Wayne State University's Student Center. The purpose of our Chapter Convention is to determine goals for the chapter over the following year and to elect the next Steering Committee. We have a draft of the Consensus Resolution. The convention will be run in accordance with the Convention Rules approved by the Steering Committee. If you are not a DSA member, you can apply to be an observer and check out other details here. If you have any questions, you can email [email protected].

RSVP

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Socialist Book Club: A Brief History of Neoliberalism by David Harvey (Intro - Ch.4)
Sunday, June 25th, 4 PM
Cafe Delite
3135 Caniff St, Hamtramck, MI 48212

Neoliberalism--the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action--has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so. Writing for a wide audience, David Harvey tells the political-economic story of where neoliberalization came from and how it proliferated on the world stage. Through critical engagement with this history, he constructs a framework, not only for analyzing the political and economic dangers that now surround us, but also for assessing the prospects for the more socially just alternatives being advocated by many oppositional movements. PDF LINK.

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Solidarity Town Hall
Monday, June 26th, 7 PM - 9 PM
Art Block
1411 Holden St, Detroit, MI 48208

Detroit DSA is getting Strike Ready! UPS Teamsters are 340,000 strong and are organizing to win a strong new contract by August 1. They’re prepared to strike - in what would be the largest strike in the US since they last struck in 1997 - to make sure it’s delivered. The UAW Big 3 auto contract expires one month later on September 1. 150,000 UAW autoworkers may strike to show the power to win what they need. Both unions are fighting tiers that have undermined their union power. Join us for a discussion of the issues, the organizing, and find out how we can all help build the labor movement by standing with them in solidarity.

RSVP

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 🌹