Comrades,

In our chapter meeting last night, we began discussing strategic priorities for Berkshires DSA over the coming six months, and with a particular focus on the upcoming election. We decided that we should hold a strategy session next week so that we can have a structured discussion on how we focus our energies and resources over the coming months. I'm writing to invite you to that meeting, next Thursday (9/24) at 7p. (Zoom link here, password: 460658)

I've listed below some of the topics we discussed last night and that we'll dive into deeper next week. We'd love to hear your thoughts on these, as well as other issues we might want to take up in the coming months:

- Green New Deal, ecosocialism

- Housing

- Defunding the Police

- M4A

- Membership drive

- Supporting mutual aid work in the Berkshires

- Ranked choice voting

- Reading group

Looking forward to getting together with you all next week.

In solidarity,

Sid

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