California can lead the way to Medicare for All by being the first state to implement such a program. But getting our politicians to buck their donors and lead the way on Medicare for All, we are going to need a mass working-class movement. Join us January 3 at noon to join that movement with the Democratic Socialists of America!

In order to establish a single-payer healthcare system in California, we need our governor to request a federal waiver that allows our assembly members to act. Now is the time for working people up and down our state to demand from governor Gavin Newsom what we desperately need: free, universal healthcare funded progressively through a public single-payer. Newsom ran on single-payer healthcare and must keep his campaign promises!

In the era of COVID-19, single-payer has taken on a new urgency. It has revealed again the fundamental inequities created by our private insurance-based system that provides only the healthcare you can afford. Fourteen million Americans and over 5.4 million Californians have lost their health insurance this year, and too many who are insured still can’t afford the care they need.

Join East Bay DSA for a massive Zoom kick-off event for our campaign to win single-payer healthcare (a Medicare for All style system) in California. Hear from Michael Lighty, front line workers, and other exciting guest speakers. Learn about our plan to win and see how you can make the difference. Alongside our coalition partners in Healthy California Now, we are also excited to launch a key part of our campaign: our petition to Governor Gavin Newsom.

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Join the Green New Deal Campaign Committee and guests to usher in the New Year and the Decade of the Green New Deal!

Building on our nationwide Fight for Our Lives action and Georgia mobilization, we'll talk about how you and your chapters can link together in advancing our core demands. Climate change is here and so are we – rally for Green Jobs, a People's Bailout, and Public Power as our runway to the future we deserve.

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Join us to win power for:

• Free Public Transit
• Greatly expanded service, accessibility, and schedule
• Protection of union workers and expansion of union jobs
• Social equity to overcome transportation discrimination
• Conversion of Public Transit to Zero Emissions vehicles

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Nick Estes’s book, Our History Is the Future, is about how two centuries of Indigenous resistance created the movement proclaiming “water is life.” In it, Estes traces the traditions of Indigenous resistance that led to the #NoDAPL movement. Our History Is the Future is at once a work of history, a manifesto, and an intergenerational story of resistance.

We will be reading the final chapters ahead of this meeting. Anyone interested in learning and discussing with others is welcome to join us. (If you missed the previous meeting, catch up and join us!)

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Join the Green New Deal committee for a virtual mask assembly party! The COVID-19 pandemic is intensifying with hundreds of thousands of deaths likely over the coming months, and the U.S. continues to experience PPE shortages, especially of high-grade face masks. The failures of the capitalist system are devastatingly clear. But with mutual aid, we can take the safety and wellbeing of our community into our own hands, while developing relationships across the East Bay and building our own organizational power.

We will be assembling hundreds of no-sew, submicron "N85" masks for distribution with community partners. All we need is your help! 

This is a great event for new members to attend. Training and materials are provided, no experience necessary. During the build, we'll hang out on an online call together to talk about mutual aid, socialism, and whatever else you'd like to!

Please RSVP at the link below several days before the build so we provide materials via a touchless kit drop-off at your door! We request that attendees commit to both the January 6 and January 14th mask builds.

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The Labor Ed Study Series: Lessons from the 1930s for the 2020s presents a film screening of The Killing Floor, which highlights the plight of workers fighting to build an interracial union in the meatpacking industry in the years leading up to the Chicago race riot of 1919.

The screening is open to everyone. Participants of our Labor reading groups are encouraged to join and reflect on this period leading up to the Great Depression, as we currently read about Black workers and the fight against racism in the 30s. We'll host a short discussion after the film for those who stick around.

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Join us for a voting General Meeting of East Bay DSA! We will debate and vote on resolutions and hear reports from projects and committees around the chapter. Please see the agenda below — we will debate and vote on a resolution to endorse the formation of a statewide California DSA.

The Steering Committee recently approved recommended special rules for our Virtual General Meetings, as well as a new amendments process that allows members to submit amendments to the agendized resolutions up to one week after the release of the agenda. Amendments will not be allowed from the floor during meetings under these rules. If you would like to submit an amendment for consideration at the January GM, please send it to [email protected] by 11:59 p.m. on Monday, January 4, 2021.

The meeting will be conducted via Zoom — please register and find the call-in info below!

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The membership of DSA, the largest socialist organization in the United States, is rapidly growing by the thousands. Democratic Socialist politicians like Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, and Cori Bush are raising the expectations of millions of people across the United States and bringing them into a political awakening. Millions of working-class Americans are calling for Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, universal rent control, and more.

But what is democratic socialism? What does it mean to be a member of DSA? How do socialists look at the crises of police brutality, economic recession, and COVID-19? And what will be the best course of action when Biden takes office? Let's talk about it.

Join us to discuss what our political moment calls for, meet new people, and get plugged into our fight for democratic control of the things that we need for all of us to live a dignified life.

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