Friend —

We will be having our General Meeting this Saturday, June 6, 10am-noon via Zoom. 

We are in full support of the uprisings raging across the country that are telling the government that black lives matter. It is time to ask ourselves: why are we funding institutions that perpetuate such horrors, that treat black life as expendable, that gun down and strangle unarmed young black men with such regularity? Why do we always have money to pay killer cops, to buy them tanks and body armor and military-grade weaponry — but no money for schools, housing, healthcare, and the environment? Read our full statement here. 

We support the organic daily gatherings that have been taking place at 4 pm outside of the Detroit Police headquarters at 1301 Third Street—today will be the 5th straight day—and the many solidarity actions taking place throughout the metro area.

Amid all this, we will be holding our monthly general meeting, where we are scheduled to elect our 2020 Steering Committee. Candidate statements can be found here.

All candidates running for Steering Committee will have the opportunity to briefly address the general membership. At the end of the meeting a ballot will go out via email to every DSA member who registered on Zoom. In order to receive a ballot, you must register for the meeting. You are not required to attend in order to vote.

Voting will take place from Saturday, June 6 at noon to Sunday, June 7 at 11:59 pm. 

Members will make two votes: (1) for two co-chairs, (2) for the 23-member Steering Committee including the two co-chairs. Members will not vote for officers, with the exception of the co-chair positions. 

We will share the results of this vote on Monday morning, June 8. The 23 elected members of the Steering Committee plus 2 branch representatives will have a Special Elections meeting the following weekend where the Internal Elections Committee will facilitate the election of officers. 

The link to register for our General Meeting is here:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIkdeuhpjgoHNMCOIbu-DrvGHsnPiMEh74j

Solidarity,
Danielle

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