¡El pueblo unido, jamás será vencido!

Saturday was May Day or International Workers’ Day. Seattle DSA Members engaged in several actions: volunteering in the Nikkita Oliver for D9 Campaign and marching with community organizations in El Comite’s Annual March & Rally for Immigrants’ and Workers’ Rights. This year’s theme Essential & Excluded Workers which exposed the violence capitalism works-as-intended wages during crisis: higher quotas, cramped work conditions, insufficient supplies, and few protections or relief due to lost wages during the pandemic. Even vaccine production for working-class Indians is restricted for “patent” (meaning profit) protections. More here. What we saw during COVID is many workers being pressured to remain silent. Amazon silenced critics and waged war on workplace actions. Food packers forced into cramped tenement housing and infrequent supplies while under threat of deportation or lost wages. Immigrants here in the US are more likely to get COVID, die from it, or face insurmountable debts resulting from it.

How can you fight back? This week’s Pass the Pro Act Townhall is Thursday, May 6 at 7 PM which would make it easier to form unions and offer guarantees to protect workers, especially immigrants, who are organizing for safer conditions and living wages. Find out how to get involved.

Our Monthly General Membership Meeting is Tuesday (tomorrow) at 7 PM. We have two internal and external communications officers up for election. We need to hit Quorum for these results to be binding. RSVP here to attend and receive a ballot.

DSA National’s 2021 convention is coming up this summer. We’re allotted a proportional number of delegates at the national convention to elect new leaders and to vote on national priorities and resolutions. It’s the largest forum in DSA to chart our future. This year it will be virtual due to ongoing concerns of COVID-19. More news to come in a subsequent email and #bulletin_board on Slack.

In short, this week has been a lot. The week may be over but we’re not over it -- not yet. Until every worker is safe, every household has dignity and comfort, we redirect the profits we produce to meet human need not private greed, and all the damn land back. These can't be dreams or abstract theories. The last will be first for once. All power to the people. Every damn one.

In solidarity,

Your Seattle DSA Communications Team

P.S. Join the Comms Team Sundays at 2PM: sweet jams, friendly spaces, intentional sarcasm, and helping to coordinate email/social/projects with internal and external folx.