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We in DSA know that we can only win the Green New Deal with a radicalized and organized working class. Labor militancy won the original New Deal; if we pass the PRO (Protecting the Right to Organize) Act, we can achieve a transformative Green New Deal. That's why we are organizing to pass the PRO Act. It will strengthen unions, build working class power to organize on the job, and boost our collective capacity to win a just transition to a green economy for all.

To solve our climate and economic crises, we need a Green New Deal.

To win a Green New Deal, we need mass worker power.

To build mass worker power, we need to pass the PRO Act.

This week, DSA's National PRO Act Campaign got another senator to support the bill: Joe Manchin of West Virginia! With only three senators left standing in the way of the bill - Senators Sinema and Kelly of Arizona, and Senator Harris of Virginia. If you'd like to help DSA National keep the pressure on, go here to volunteer for the campaign.

Here in Detroit, we'll be pushing back our General Membership Meeting a week to May 8th to make room for a huge May Day Celebration that we're following with our own work to support the PRO Act, along with continuing the work on our two main campaigns - Defunding the Police and Landis for BOPC.  

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Now that the Detroit city budget fight is over (details on the results coming soon), our chapter's Defund the Police campaign is shifting focus to the Detroit city charter revision ballot initiative that Detroiters will vote on in August. A vote on an official chapter endorsement of this ballot initiative will be brought before membership at the General Meeting on May 8. Please read the detailed proposal HERE and reply to this email if you are interested in getting involved in the campaign!

🌹 UPCOMING EVENTS 🌹

This week in...

The life and times of a Prole... New comic from the Detroit Socialist's Comics Syndicate: The Dream, "Rejection" by Ken Jackson

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In The End of Policing, sociologist Alex S. Vitale argues that policing as it is currently practiced cannot be reformed. Instead, policing needs to be dismantled and completely rethought. In a word, Vitale calls for defunding the police in order to refund the community. - "The Problem Not the Solution: Lessons from The End of Policing" by Vince Carducci

Detroit DSA is a 1200+ member funded organization. We receive no money from outside sources so we can say things like "Defund the Police" and "Abolish ICE" without losing funding, and we will always act democratically in the interests of our members and the working class! If you're able to, we ask that you make monthly contributions as they more directly benefit our chapter. Thank you for whatever amount you're able to contribute!

If you're ready to join us in the fight for workers and all oppressed people, go to: dsausa.org/join and send your dues receipt to [email protected] to get plugged in to the work we're doing!

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In solidarity,

🌹 Detroit DSA