Friend --

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 🌹

 

Worker May Day Celebration
Saturday, May 1st
In-Person Rally: Hart Plaza, 12PM
Zoom Virtual Town Hall 7PM

This May Day, we're teaming up with Detroit Action and MAJIC to put on an in-person May Day Worker Celebration starting at noon at Hart Plaza, complete with speakers, food, and live music! Later that night, we'll be joined by labor leaders from across the state, Professor Steve Babson, and Rep Andy Levin for a Virtual Town Hall to discuss labor history and the importance of passing the PRO Act. Whether you're interested in one or both events, we look forward to you joining us celebrating the workers who built our world!

TOWN HALL REGISTRATION

 


This week in...

 


The life and times of a Prole... 
New comic from the Detroit Socialist's Comics SyndicateThe 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

Metro Detroit Democratic Socialists of America · United States
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