Bernie's gonna WIN, branch meeting on Sunday, and more

MoCo DSA members:

This Tuesday's primaries are incredibly important for Bernie Sanders to win. He's leading in a number of polls, but is tied with billionaire oligarch Michael Bloomberg in Virginia.

The most effective thing any of us can do right now is canvass to Get Out The Vote (GOTV) in states like Virginia. The person-to-person interaction is SO key!! Therefore, we hope you will join local DSA members in Virginia TOMORROW - Saturday, Feb. 29! We'll be joining canvasses that the campaign is setting up, and there will be rides to VA if you need one. You must RSVP here in advance.

In addition, to hear more about our plans for the Bernie campaign moving forward, please join us at our monthly branch meeting this Sunday, March 1st at the Silver Spring library.

We also want to thank everyone who voted in our recent steering and bylaws election. The amendments to our bylaws were ratified, and our new steering committee has been seated:
Frank Fritz (chair)
Elissa Laitin
Susan Rogers
Zach Wiita

Upcoming events:

TOMORROW - Saturday, Feb. 29: Canvass for Bernie in Virginia
Virginia is a Super Tuesday state, so canvassing there is a high priority right now. Over 80 DSA members have been coming out to canvass each weekend! RSVP here.

Sunday, March 1: MoCo DSA branch meeting in Silver Spring
Our next monthly meeting is this Sunday, March 1 at the Silver Spring library at 2 pm. We'll discuss plans for supporting the Bernie campaign in Maryland, and more. Details and RSVP here.

Saturday, March 7: DSA House Party for Mckayla Wilkes in Lanham
Mckayla Wilkes - endorsed by DSA - is an incredible woman running against corporate Dem. Steny Hoyer in Maryland's District 5. Our comrades in Prince George's County are planning a house party for her next month - stay tuned for more details!

Tuesday, March 17: DC Labor Chorus in Takoma Park
The DC Labor Chorus is celebrating Women's History Month with a free concert at the Takoma Busboys & Poets from 6-8 pm. Details here.

Good Reads

In The Intercept: "No Surrender" by Alleen Brown and Amber Bracken. "As police defend a gas pipeline, protestors shut down railways across Canada. Now, documents uncovered by journalists and researchers confirm that officials have strategized furiously about how to prevent the Wet’suwet’en people’s assertion of land rights from getting in the way of the message that Canada is open for business."

In NBC News: "Kickstarter workers vote to form first union in tech industry" by April Glaser. "Employees at crowdfunding platform Kickstarter voted to form a union, the first of its kind in the technology industry, after an 18-month battle with the company. 'What Kickstarter employees are organizing a union for is the agency to challenge management when management is failing the community,' said Clarissa Redwine, one of two union organizers who were fired by the company in September."

In the Washington Post: "'Parasite' paints a nightmarish picture of Korean inequality. The reality in American is even worse" by Christopher Ingraham. " Korean director Bong Joon-ho’s “Parasite” is a dark parable about the yawning gulf between the rich and the poor in South Korea. Americas’ embrace of 'Parasite' probably isn’t an accident: By any number of measures, inequality here in the States is much, much worse than in Bong’s South Korea."

In solidarity,