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🌹This Week with Memphis-Midsouth DSA🌹

Want to get more involved? Attend a committee meeting or upcoming event!

Wednesday, August 20, 6 - 8: Mutual Aid Committee

Saturday, August 23, 10 - 2: Solidarity: Decarcerate Memphis Brake Light Clinic (Orange Mound Library)

Saturday, August 23, 1:30 - 3:30: Solidarity: Food Not Bombs Picnic Support (Court Square)

Monday, August 25, 6 - 8: Electoral & Policy Committee Meeting

Solidarity Support: Decarcerate Memphis Free Brake Light Clinic

Decarcerate Memphis is holding a free brake light clinic this Saturday, August 23 from 10 - 2 at the Orange Mound Library. Support is needed in one-hour shifts - you can run intake, change lights, restock supplies, support field research, and more

RSVP Here to Sign Up for a Shift

Learn more about Decarcerate Memphis and its work to uplift "the people's definition of safety by shifting power and resources to community-led solutions" here and here

Cast Your Vote! What Should the Mutual Aid Committee Study Next?

Nearly every kind of organizing should be informed by research that helps us meaningfully develop strategy and tactics. For the Mutual Aid Committee, that first source was Mutual Aid by Dean Spade. As we continue to confront where the capitalist system is failing the people, we are ready to vote for our next book study so we learn how to create socialist alternatives that meet the needs of the people.

Voting closes on Tuesday!

Cast Your Ranked Choice Vote Here

Want to know which book wins? RSVP to [email protected] to attend this Wednesday’s Mutual Aid Committee meeting to find out!

Reflections from Our Delegates on the DSA National Convention 2025

Your Memphis representatives joined up with the rest of the Tennessee delegates

From August 8-10, the delegates you elected to represent our chapter took part in history and contributed to the direction DSA will take over the next two years. The membership of MMDSA and the needs of the many were motivating factors for every vote.

Decisions were made on how the DSA will support and uplift labor, what the organization’s role will be in future electoral campaigns, and how we can best contribute to the global fight against fascism and genocide. A testament to the fact that our struggles are interconnected, many of the resolutions and bylaws passed aimed to address these issues through solidarity:

• R20 passed overwhelmingly, altering the DSA’s electoral strategy to prioritize supporting candidates who are both recognized as labor leaders and committed to the principles of democratic socialism.

• With the support of the National Labor Committee, R42 committed the DSA to organizing a labor campaign that will wield worker power against the Zionist movement by establishing an arms embargo campaign in solidarity with Palestine.

• R22 condemned expressions of Zionism amongst members and mandated that candidates endorsed by the DSA stand proudly in opposition to the principles of Zionism and in support of the international BDS movement.

The internal structure of the DSA was also modified to make the organization more reflective of the principles of democracy, and to shift away from continued use of the Democratic Party’s ballot line. In the spirit of democracy, your delegation didn’t always agree with the outcomes of the votes, but they were arrived at through the collective deliberation of the voting body of DSA.

• In passing CB01, delegates voted to make the DSA itself a more democratic body by implementing the recommendations of the democracy commission established at the 2023 convention.

• R07 seeks to establish the DSA as its own political party, listing ten principles that the DSA will uphold in working toward replacing the Democrats as the party of the working class.

• CB04 established Scottish STV as the method through which all chapters will vote for delegates to represent them at the national convention, a system that was already in use by the Memphis-Midsouth chapter this year.

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Your delegates also got to connect with DSA chapters from across the nation and learn more about the movements that each one is building and supporting in their home cities and beyond.

• The Tampa Bay chapter is fighting for the principles of ecosocialism by battling for increased access to public transit in a struggle that reflects calls by community members in Memphis to defend MATA
  
  

• Houston DSA is actively calling for the shutdown of a CoreCivic facility being locally operated in conjunction with ICE, in a multi-organizational battle not dissimilar from the one we will be fighting in coming months as ICE moves to invade the community of Mason, TN.
  
  

• Philadelphia DSA is organizing in support of Starbucks Workers United and working to wield labor power for political change in a fight much like the one Memphis DSA is supporting in the hometown of the original Memphis Seven

Some amazing things are happening in each and every chapter and we are truly thankful for every lesson learned.

To quote Rashida Tlaib during her keynote address to the convention, “The working masses y’all, they’re hungry for revolutionary change!” America is reaching a tipping point, and the working class is growing tired of the complacency and apathy demonstrated by the Democrats. Be proud that you are part of a movement to unseat the capitalist class from their current positions of power, and continue to join us in amplifying calls for class struggle and working toward a collective liberation from the oppressive systems of capitalism that rule this country.

We’ll meet you on the battlefield! 🌹

In Solidarity,

Liam, Markayla, and Bryanna