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Friend — At this month's General Meeting, we'll be joined by Chicago DSA Co-chair Melinda Bunnage to discuss CDSA's recent campaign that got six socialists elected to Chicago's City Council. Prior to running for chair, Melinda helped launch the first chapter wide campaign in CDSA, the Lift the Ban (on Rent Control) campaign. She is an excellent union organizer, who worked on multiple mass strikes at public sector employers in Chicago, including the 2019 strike in Chicago Public Schools. Most recently, she organized with workers at the University of Illinois Chicago's Hospital, who struck for ten days during the pandemic to demand fair pay, safe working conditions, and respect as essential workers. Melinda will be talking about their endorsement process, how they organized to get those city council wins, how CDSA is able to continue working with them through the elections once they begin serving in office, and handling accountability for their elected officials. REGISTER
🌹 ANNOUNCEMENTS 🌹
On January 27, budget office
representatives and City Council heard a resounding cry from District
6 residents at their Community Budget Priorities Virtual Forum:
DEFUND THE POLICE! REFUND THE PEOPLE!
And there is still time to tell the budget office and city
council what YOUR budget priorities are!
On March 5, Mayor Duggan will present the Fiscal Year 2022 budget to City Council. It is set to include a $41 million funding increase to Detroit Police Department. There’s no doubt this comes at the expense of other crucial departments like Health, Housing, and Transportation. We are demanding that council defunds the police and invests in the the material conditions of Detroiters: by providing alternative crisis response teams like Oregon’s CAHOOTS model, affordable decent housing, public health clinics, mass public transit, green union jobs, and more. ---
We need all hands on deck to pressure Detroit City Council to vote NO in April against any austerity budget that leaves too many low-income and working class Detroiters sick and stuck in the cold.
• Email the Budget Office and your city council
member. Demand that they defund
the police and refund Detroiters. Click here for talking points to
use .
• Get involved with Metro Detroit DSA’s Defund the Police campaign. • Sign our Action Network Petition.
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