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Good afternoon, Comrade
Friend!
Here are our chapter announcements for Thursday, July 13th:
We are continuing
to raise money to help send our delegates to the National
Convention in August. If you'd like, you can donate
here! There will be future
fundraisers to also help us reach out goal!
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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!
News from
National: How will we
get Green Social Housing in the United
States? Join us Tuesday 7/18 at 9 PM to find
out! Panelists from DSA’s Green New Deal Campaign
Commission and the Housing Justice Commission will discuss different
contemporary and historical approaches to the development of
eco-conscious social housing and how we can win it today.
Chapters are required to submit data annually about grievances
processed, which are used to compile an Annual
Report. Click here for the 2021-2022 Annual
Report.
We’re less than a month away from the National
Convention, and working class delegates traveling to Chicago
from all over the country need your support! Pitch into the
Convention Solidarity Fund to cover travel and lodging costs for
working class comrades and make sure the Convention is fully
accessible to all. Pitch in $17 or more by Tuesday 8/1 and get a Working
Class Takes the Wheel sticker!
Solidarity
forever,
Your Metro Detroit DSA comrades!
UPCOMING EVENTS 🌹
Learn to Organize with Your Co-Workers
with Rashida!
Sunday,
July 16th, 2 - 4:30 PM
RSVP for location
Do
you want better pay, safe working conditions, respect in your
workplace, and more time with your family? Come to
this free training with Team Rashida, cohosted with DSA, and bring a
coworker! You'll learn practical organizing tools
for engaging your co-workers around issues you all care
about.
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Socialist Book Club: Hammer
and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression by Robin
D. G. Kelley (Ch. 1 - 5)
Sunday, July 23rd, 4 PM
Cafe Delite
3135 Caniff St, Hamtramck, MI 48212
A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the "long
Civil Rights movement," Hammer and Hoe tells the
story of how, during the 1930s and 40s, Communists took on Alabama's
repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil
and political rights, and racial equality. The Alabama Communist Party
was made up of working people without a Euro-American radical
political tradition: devoutly religious and semi-literate black
laborers and sharecroppers, and a handful of whites, including
unemployed industrial workers, housewives, youth, and renegade
liberals. In this book, Robin D. G. Kelley reveals how the experiences
and identities of these people from Alabama's farms, factories, mines,
kitchens, and city streets shaped the Party's tactics and unique
political culture. The result was a remarkably resilient movement
forged in a racist world that had little tolerance for radicals. PDF Link
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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