Friends and Comrades - Thank you to everyone who was able to attend our general meeting yesterday. We had good discussion, informative updates, passed an important resolution(see below!) and elected 4 At-Large Organizers to serve on our Organizing Committee. Congratulations to Dylan, Anais, Shaan, and Greg! We are excited for your ideas and leadership.

Housing is a massive issue in Santa Fe. Unhoused people are facing increased state violence. Families spend unreasonable percentages of their monthly income on rent, paid to exploitive landlords. This is why the formation of a Housing Working Group, passed yesterday at our General Meeting, is so important.?

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We want to approach housing from multiple angles: Tenant unions, mutual aid for the unhoused, fighting source of income discrimination on a state level, coalition building. And we would love for you to join us in this work!

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If you are a member in good standing and are interested in joining our Housing Working Group, please email us at [email protected]. We look forward to working with you :)

Far-right MAGA organizations, including Moms for Liberty and the New Mexico Freedoms Alliance, are hosting an anti-trans detransitioners panel on September 12, at La Fonda on the Plaza. Events like this one promote junk science and enable further hate and violence against our trans siblings.

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We're asking members to contact La Fonda and the President of the La Fonda Foundation Board to tell them that hatred for trans folks has no place in Santa Fe! If you want to lend your voice to this effort, please see this Google Doc for ways to contact La Fonda to apply pressure on them!

Join us on Friday, September 13, at 6pm for a concert benefitting Alianza Tenent Union! The concert will take place at Our Lady of Light Community Center?in Lamy. If you've never been,? this is a wonderful space to hear music!

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Join us for a night of classical show pieces and Spanish labor folk songs. More details in the upcoming weeks!

Join Santa?Fe?DSA member Sam Hitt for a forest hike on the morning of Sunday 9/8. Meet at 9:00am at the?PERA parking lot next to Kakawa Chocolate to car pool. See how the forest is adapting to climate change and learn about forest resiliency. This will be a short hike with some steep downhill. Back by noon. Bring water and rain gear. Questions? Call Sam at 505-577-2944.

DSA depends on support from ordinary members, rather than corporate funding or grants. As we ramp up our campaigns to take on the millionaire and billionaire class in New Mexico, any donations you can provide will go a long way.