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Without further ado, here is issue 12 of the Houston DSA newsletter!

Contents

Featured Event: Chili Cookoff Fundraiser
Last Week in Houston DSA
Upcoming Events
Signing off

Chili Cook-Off & Potluck Fundraiser

Sunday Sunday Sunday! Join Houston DSA for a 🌶 Chili Cook-Off and Potluck Fundraiser 🌶 to help fund travel and registration costs for our delegation to the DSA National Convention in Atlanta! Come to Smither Park (2441 Munger) from 2-6 PM for some savory socialism!

Hang out, eat chili, and talk socialism with us. We'll have a raffle for fun socialist prizes, and vote on our favorite chili dish. The contest will be judged in four categories: People's Choice, Best Vegan/Vegetarian, Spiciest, and Most Interesting Ingredient.

Enter your chili in the competition with a pay-what-you-can donation here. Anyone is welcome and encouraged to bring non-chili foods as well. Tell us what you're bringing. No one will be turned away for lack of donations--all chilis are beautiful! Donations from those partaking in the feast would be greatly appreciated, but are not at all required.

For accessibility purposes, please provide full ingredient lists for anything contributed. See you there!

🌹 And, don't forget, this is a fundraiser, so please donate to the Houston DSA Convention Fund 🌹

RSVP Here

Counter-Recruitment in the Schools

Are you a teacher, or do you know one? Then we have a request for you! We are looking for teachers willing to have a speaker come talk about options other than joining the military. As I'm sure you all know, the US military often recruits low-income students who don't see any better options for their life. We're looking to show them the harms of the military and what they could do instead. If that is something you'd like to see in your classroom, please fill out this form.

Last Week in Houston DSA

We started off the week strong with another successful Medicare for All Canvass of CD-07. It was one of our biggest turnouts yet! Next time we can do even more, and all we need is you! Keep an eye out for an annoucement about our next canvass, or, come to the Medicare for All Working Group meeting on Wednesday!

Soon after, the Racial Justice met to discuss various ways we can show solidarity with the immigrant communities imperiled by ICE and our country's inhumane policies. They also discussed our nascent Abolitionist Campaign, which would have widespread benefits across identity groups and classes. Please join us for a full meeting on the campagin this Thursday!

The Reading Group discussed the last chapter of Bhaskar Sunkara's The Socialist Manifesto, supplemented by "Settler Colonialism Then and Now: A Conversation between J. Kehaulani and Patrick Wolfe." Next meeting, on the 26th, they will be discussing Angela Davis's Are Prisons Obsolete. Get excited, read it, and come out! Even if you don't read it, come out for the great conversation we are sure to have.

The new Socialist Feminist Working Group met and discussed goals both internal to our chapter and external. How can we make Houston DSA a friendlier space to non-men, with the goal of reaching gender parity within the chapter? They also discussed various actions the working group could take that would help our city and state move towards a more just form. It's vital work, so come out to their next meeting!

The Events Committee is, well, planning events. More accurately, at the meeting, they discussed various ways to set up event boxes and checklists, so anyone can be in charge of throwing an event themselves! If party planning, and planning the planning, is your thing, please come to the next Events Committee meeting!

Finally, our Labor Working Group is re-forming to fight for workers' rights in Houston. We all love the idea of unions, but how many of us are actually in one, and how can we improve that stat? Find out at the next Labor Working Group meeting (spoiler alert: the answer is to organize).