Seattle Democratic Socialists of America

Before we review This Week in Capitalist Nonsense, we’d like to invite you (yes, YOU!) to our February General Membership Meeting, which will be held Tuesday, Feb. 2nd at 7:00 PM. Tuesday’s meeting will feature a Teach-In with housing and homelessness activists who are leading the fight for shelter and housing for all - and we'll discuss legislative battles for tenants rights and rent control in Olympia and beyond. If you’re passionate about housing rights and looking for ways to get involved, this is the meeting to attend - and it’s open to the public at large, so tell your friends!

But wait, there’s more! Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant will also be joining us at this meeting as part of a broader discussion and call to action to reject the right-wing recall attempt aiming to remove her from office. This recall attempt is a major threat to the socialist movement and a harbinger of what’s to come as socialists continue to build our power. RSVP for our General Membership meeting - once again, that’s Tuesday, Feb. 2 at 7:00PM - for all this and more!

On the national landscape this week: DSA Member and Missouri Rep. Cori Bush has announced she’ll be moving offices within the Capitol complex for her own safety and that of her staff after a prolonged campaign of verbal assault and harassment coordinated by right-wing conspiracy theorist and Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. With no Republicans speaking out to condemn Rep. Taylor Greene, they tacitly endorse her actions - and make it clear that the greatest threat to their survival is a Black woman fighting for the working class. We stand with Rep. Cori Bush now as before.

This week also offered some rueful levity in the door-slamming farce that is the stock market, particularly the saga of working-class people using exactly the same tactics as the billionaire class does to make and maintain unbelievable wealth, only to be shut down or face punitive measures that simply don’t apply when it’s the billionaires doing it. Maddening as it is, the stock market - and capitalism - are designed to work this way. By constantly increasing capital for a handful of people who “run the country” at the expense of the people whose labor creates wealth and who actually run the country. If you’re pissed off (as you should be), we’d recommend—you guessed it—joining DSA, or if you’re already a member, attending an event or two this week!

You may have heard that nationally, DSA is growing exponentially - over 90,000 as of this email! Seattle DSA is growing too, and not just in our membership rolls. Whether you’re into abolitionist and Marxist study groups, pop-up mutual aid stations, organizing your workplace, or (of course) singalongs and polar bear plunges, Seattle DSA has more ways for you to get up, get out, and get something done with your neighbors than ever before. Join us, won’t you?

In solidarity,

Seattle DSA