The Stay Housed, Stay Healthy campaign needs to make sure proposed tenant protections going before the King County Council stay strong with no loopholes! Join us Tuesday, May 11 at 6:00 PM for a virtual rally, briefing on the proposals, and breakout groups to prepare for giving testimony the next morning or taking other actions like emailing and calling councilmembers and expressing support on social media.
Stop the Line 3 Pipeline -350 Seattle oversaw a demonstration this past Saturday protesting Chase Bank’s funding of Line 3, a tar sands oil pipeline that’s as dangerous as it is expensive, and is in flagrant violation of the sovereignty of Indigenous peoples and established treaties. If you’d like to help protect our waterways and stand in solidarity with our Indigenous brothers and sisters either through actions like this or on-the-ground support both locally and out-of-state, Please reach out to the Ecosocialist Caucus, either via their channel in our Slack, or by emailing [email protected].
Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous People - Indigenous women, girls, trans people and two-spirits are murdered and disappear at a rate 10 times the national average, and less than 10% of cases are even investigated. Roxanne White, an organizer we have been honored to work with in the past, is leading a Solidarity Prayer Walk and Call for Justice on Saturday, May 15th at 10:00 AM at Be’er Sheva Park. Come walk with us, and show that the community cares about Native lives.
Help District 2 Canvass for Nikkita! In case you haven’t heard, our chapter voted to endorse SDSA member Nikkita Oliver’s campaign for City Council, Position 9. We’d like to help get as many of us as possible out in these streets canvassing! If clipboards and conversations with your neighbors sound like your jam, Join us in Othello Playground this Saturday, May 15th at 1PM, or squad up at Sandel Park in Greenwood on Sunday, May 16th at 12 noon!
Socialist Night School is an open course that provides a chance to develop our politics together, regardless of background knowledge or whether you’ve attended a class before. New members and lifelong socialists, all are welcome! To sign up for our mailing list or to find out more, e-mail us at SeaNightSchool [at] gmail . com --> RSVP here! [Read More]
DSA's caucus of Afrosocialists and Socialists of Color (AFROSOC) brings Black, indigenous and people of color socialists together to educate ourselves and organize our campaigns. We are doing the work of cultivating coalitions as communities of color to help build antiracist multiracial working-class base -- the only viable strategy for securing a socialist future. Through public and internal [Read More]
Join Seattle DSA's Housing Justice Work Group! We\'re fighting back against the anti-homeless "Compassionate Seattle" campaign and building power for winning a massive expansion of quality, green, affordable, publicly-owned social housing. Register here for Zoom info [Read More]
“Power comes from the people and our policy making should too!”, writes Nikkita on their website, nikkitafornine.com. The democratic socialist is running for a city wide seat this year with a clear vision: “Equity and justice for all means that your race, gender, where you were born or the work you do does not prevent you from living a whole, healthy, thriving life. Thriving means that we have [Read More]
Indigenous women, girls, trans people and two-spirits are murdered and disappear at a rate ten times the national average. Less than ten percent of cases are even investigated. Roxanne White, a dedicated, tireless organizer, is hosting a prayer walk and gathering to call for an end to this violence. This event ties into May 5th, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day. The link [Read More]
Join the District 4 reading group April 24th at 4:30 pm to read “Caliban and the Witch” by Silvia Federici — https://libcom.org/library/caliban-witch-silvia-federici. We will be reading the start of Chapter 2 pg 61-91. This event is open to DSA members and anyone curious about DSA. Zoom Details: https://washington.zoom.us/j/92223147165 Meeting ID: 922 2314 7165 [Read More]
Come join your Ecosocialist comrades for some casual conversation Sunday at 6:30 pm. Lots to talk about this week! We hope to see you there. Zoom info: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86814509454?pwd=VlpYRFlnRU8raFE1endGZWdVczdodz09 Dial in by phone: 253 215 8782 Meeting ID: 868 1450 9454 Passcode: 860638 [Read More]
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