Join us on Thursday to discuss Schools and Communities First, Defunding the Police, and other opportunities to get involved.

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July Chapter Meeting
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Thursday, July 16 @ 6pm - 7pm via Zoom
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Meeting ID: 942 3389 7897
Password: 586710

This month, along with announcements and updates from our working groups, our chapter will discuss the following items:

1. Vote on recommendations from the Steering Committee and Labor Working Group to endorse and campaign for Schools and Communities First: Over the course of the past two months, our Labor Working Group has been part of a DSA statewide labor formation whose goal is to build a network of labor organizers in chapters across California who can run and win powerful campaigns. One opportunity to begin building our connections with other progressive labor organizations is by joining in the work being done to help pass the Schools and Communities First initiative on the ballot in November. As our comrades in East Bay DSA put it:

“DSA members up and down California have the opportunity to help pass the largest tax increase in history on California’s wealthiest commercial property owners, raising $10-12 billion per year for public education and social services. With the Movement for Black Lives uprising deepening into the call for defunding the police, it will be necessary to expand revenues required to build alternative, sustainable public services and practices. Progressive taxation—especially taxing the rich—is an essential path to accomplish that goal. “Schools and Communities First” (SCF), on the November 3 ballot, is backed by labor and opposed by the most reactionary sectors of capital.

Click here to read a sample resolution to endorse Schools and Communities First drafted by Inland Empire DSA ([link removed]) .

2. Open discussion around capacity and leadership of Police Abolition working group: Last month, our chapter voted in favor of creating an educational workshop aimed at explaining the role of the police in a racist system, why the socialist call to withhold labor is the way for us to topple that system, and how we work towards that goal together. For this to happen, we need our membership to take the lead in organizing this working group and decide what such a workshop would look like. We’ll have a discussion of whether we currently have capacity for this project, or if there is another way we could accomplish this goal.

We hope to see you there!

Thursday, July 16 @ 6pm - 7pm via Zoom
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Meeting ID: 942 3389 7897
Password: 586710


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Building a better future
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Organize with us as we fight for a habitable planet and a just future. See you soon.

In solidarity,

DSA Santa Barbara
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