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East Bay DSA Newsletter October 17, 2019
There is nothing that helps the Socialist Party so much as receiving an occasional deathblow. The oftener it is killed the more active, the more energetic, the more powerful it becomes.
Eugene V. Debs
Comrades,

On Tuesday night, as Bernie Sanders made his triumphant return to the campaign trail, we learned that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will be endorsing his run for the presidency in 2020. For those of us who remember the night of her upset victory over Democratic Party flunky Joe Crowley, the news brought back familiar feelings. Excitement, sure, but mainly optimism⁠—the hope that the better world we envision, the one that we all deserve, is possible after all. But endorsements, elections, and presidents can't win socialism alone: only we can, and only if we work together and fight for it. So let's fight.

This Saturday, join us at Lake Merritt to talk to our neighbors about Bernie and our demands for single-payer healthcare, guaranteed housing for all, and a Green New Deal. And on Sunday, we'll be hosting a Democratic Socialism 101 event at Marston Campbell Park in Oakland, perfect for new members and Bernie- or socialism-curious friends.

The pressure on AOC to endorse someone else⁠—or no one at all⁠—must have been massive. Yet she chose to stand in solidarity with Bernie and his agenda for the working class. Our fight against the billionaire class and the political establishment is just getting started, and there's never been a better time to join in!
Last weekend, we met neighbors and comrades canvassing for Bernie and Housing for All. Talking about housing policy that works for everyone, not just the wealthy, is a great way to bond with your Bay Area neighbors. Our next canvass is this Saturday—come join in!
Tech companies cross borders to exploit workers in other countries and exploit their resources; then they profit off scapegoating and punishing migrants who try to cross those same borders. On October 14, Indigenous Peoples' Day, we told Amazon and others to stop profiting off detention and deportation, and drop their contracts with ICE and CBP.
 
Featured Events
If you're looking for ways to get involved, here's a list of events. RSVP to keep updated. You can also keep track on our Events page.

INVEST IN SOCIALISM: EBDSA PLEDGE DRIVE NIGHT

Tonight! October 17 | 5:30–8 p.m.
Oak Stop, 1721 Broadway Suite 201, Oakland ♿
Socialists don't host fancy galas or luncheons to fund our work. We also don't receive grants or big checks from capitalists. We are funded by every day members just like you! From renting event spaces to running strike support to providing childcare, we need funds in order to keep organizing for our demands.

Join your comrades for a super fun Pledge Drive Night. We will be eating snacks, hanging out, and making calls to East Bay DSA members asking them to make a monthly investment for East Bay DSA to ensure we can keep running robust campaigns like the Oakland teacher's strike, Hayward rent control campaign and Let's Own PG&E.

We have more than 1,000 calls to make (!) so come by and help us raise the money we need to organize and fight! Please bring a computer if you can.

This venue is ADA accessible.

RSVP

CROWD CANVASS FOR BERNIE AT LAKE MERRITT

Saturday, October 19 | noon–4 p.m.
Empowerment Park, 462 Bellevue Ave, Oakland ♿️
A democratic socialist is a front-runner for the presidency, and DSA is building a mass movement for socialism behind him. Bernie Sanders's 2020 run offers an unprecedented opportunity for democratic socialists to reach thousands of ordinary people with our politics, build working-class power, and make sure that California—a crucial battleground state—goes to Bernie on Super Tuesday.

Join our movement for a weekend crowd canvass at Lake Merritt! We'll meet at Empowerment Park (462 Bellevue Ave. in Oakland) at noon for a canvassing training and then break into teams to canvass the lake and talk to hundreds of ordinary people about Bernie 2020 and democratic socialism.

12–1 p.m.: Introduction and Canvassing Training
1–3:30 p.m.: Break into teams and canvass the Lake
3:30–4 p.m.: Reconvene, debrief, and socialize together!

Don't forget your: hat, sunscreen, sunglasses, water bottle, comfy shoes, DSA pins, DSA and Bernie shirts, and friends, family, or coworkers!

RSVP

DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM 101

Sunday, October 20 | 1–3 p.m.
Marston Campbell Park, 17th Street & West Street, Oakland ♿️
Democratic socialist politicians like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are calling for Medicare for All and a Green New Deal. Teachers from West Virginia to Oakland are striking for public education and winning, and tens of thousands of people across the country are getting involved in the project of building democratic socialism in the US. But what is democratic socialism?

Let's talk about it.

If you're a new DSA member or just curious about democratic socialism, come out to Democratic Socialism 101 and find out how to get involved in DSA's fight for democratic control of the things that matter on the job and in your community and the things we all need to lead a dignified life. Look for the DSA banner and red t-shirts!

Event is located in an outdoor park.

RSVP

RACIAL SOLIDARITY COMMITTEE MEETING

Monday, October 21 | 7–9 p.m.
Call / text 209-613-0810 for location
Our regularly-scheduled monthly meeting of the Racial Solidarity Committee!

Location and accessibility details may vary.

RSVP
Upcoming Events

BEER & ROSES LABOR SOCIAL

Thursday, October 24 | 6:30–8:30 p.m.

Aloha Club, 952 Fruitvale Ave, Oakland ♿️

Join the East Bay DSA's Labor Committee for their regular Beer and Roses social. Hang out with other members who are interested in the labor movement, hear about what's happening in EBDSA Labor Committee & learn how you can get involved.

Venue is wheelchair accessible.

RSVP on Facebook

LABOR COMMITTEE MONTHLY MEETING

Sunday, October 27 | noon–1:30 p.m.

Niebyl Proctor Marxist Library 6501 Telegraph Ave, Oakland ♿️

Please join the East Bay DSA Labor Committee for our regular monthly meeting. It's open to all DSA members who are interested in getting involved in labor work with their comrades! Learn more about how to get involved in the committee, our ongoing projects, and upcoming solidarity actions!

If you'd like to submit an item for the agenda, please email [email protected].

Entrance and bathroom are wheelchair-accessible.
Not a Member Yet? Let's Fix That.
DSA now has 60,000 members nationally, and we're still growing. There's never been a better time to get involved than right now! Join our national organization by clicking below and become an official socialist organizer.

Join DSA
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Caucus Corner
Aside from the events and announcements in this newsletter, our caucuses organize events too! Please check the Caucus Corner of the East Bay DSA website to learn more about the activities of East Bay DSA caucuses and how to participate.
Announcements
EAST BAY DSA IN SEARCH OF OFFICE SPACE
Do you or someone you know have access to an office space that East Bay DSA could rent? Because we are a member-run organization with limited resources, we are looking for a low-cost, below market rate office space. Please contact [email protected] if you have any leads. Thank you!
Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.
Evo Morales

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There is nothing that helps the Socialist Party so much as receiving an occasional deathblow. The oftener it is killed the more active, the more energetic, the more powerful it becomes.

--Eugene V. Debs

Comrades,

On Tuesday night, as Bernie Sanders made his triumphant return to the campaign trail, we learned that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will be endorsing his run for the presidency in 2020. For those of us who remember the night of her upset victory over Democratic Party flunky Joe Crowley, the news brought back familiar feelings. Excitement, sure, but mainly optimism⁠—the hope that the better world we envision, the one that we all deserve, is possible after all. But endorsements, elections, and presidents can’t win socialism alone: only we can, and only if we work together and fight for it. So let’s fight.

This Saturday, join us at Lake Merritt to talk to our neighbors about Bernie and our demands for single-payer healthcare, guaranteed housing for all, and a Green New Deal. And on Sunday, we’ll be hosting a Democratic Socialism 101 event at Marston Campbell Park in Oakland, perfect for new members and Bernie- or socialism-curious friends.

The pressure on AOC to endorse someone else⁠—or no one at all⁠—must have been massive. Yet she chose to stand in solidarity with Bernie and his agenda for the working class. Our fight against the billionaire class and the political establishment is just getting started, and there’s never been a better time to join in.

 

Featured Events
If you're looking for ways to get involved, here's a list of events. RSVP to keep updated. You can also keep track on our Events page (http://eastbaydsa.org/events/) .


** INVEST IN SOCIALISM: EBDSA PLEDGE DRIVE NIGHT
------------------------------------------------------------
Tonight! October 17 | 5:30–8 p.m.
Oak Stop, 1721 Broadway Suite 201, Oakland ♿️

Socialists don't host fancy galas or luncheons to fund our work. We also don't receive grants or big checks from capitalists. We are funded by every day members just like you! From renting event spaces to running strike support to providing childcare, we need funds in order to keep organizing for our demands.

Join your comrades for a super fun Pledge Drive Night. We will be eating snacks, hanging out, and making calls to East Bay DSA members asking them to make a monthly investment for East Bay DSA to ensure we can keep running robust campaigns like the Oakland teacher's strike, Hayward rent control campaign and Let's Own PG&E.

We have more than 1,000 calls to make (!) so come by and help us raise the money we need to organize and fight! Please bring a computer if you can.

This venue is ADA accessible.

RSVP (https://www.eastbaydsa.org/events/823/2019-10-17-pledge-drive-phone-bank/)


** CROWD CANVASS FOR BERNIE AT LAKE MERRITT
------------------------------------------------------------
Saturday, October 19 | noon–4 p.m.
Empowerment Park, 462 Bellevue Ave, Oakland ♿️

A democratic socialist is a front-runner for the presidency, and DSA is building a mass movement for socialism behind him. Bernie Sanders's 2020 run offers an unprecedented opportunity for democratic socialists to reach thousands of ordinary people with our politics, build working-class power, and make sure that California—a crucial battleground state—goes to Bernie on Super Tuesday.

Join our movement for a weekend crowd canvass at Lake Merritt! We'll meet at Empowerment Park (462 Bellevue Ave. in Oakland) at noon for a canvassing training and then break into teams to canvass the lake and talk to hundreds of ordinary people about Bernie 2020 and democratic socialism.

12–1 p.m.: Introduction and Canvassing Training
1–3:30 p.m.: Break into teams and canvass the Lake
3:30–4 p.m.: Reconvene, debrief, and socialize together!

Don't forget your: Hat, Sunscreen, Sunglasses, Water Bottle, Comfy Shoes, DSA Pins, DSA and Bernie Shirts, and Friends, Family, or Coworkers!

RSVP (https://www.eastbaydsa.org/events/826/2019-10-19-crowd-canvass-for-bernie-at-lake-merritt/)

** DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM 101
------------------------------------------------------------
Sunday, October 20 | 1–3 p.m.
Marston Campbell Park, 17th Street & West Street, Oakland ♿️

Democratic socialist politicians like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are calling for Medicare for All and a Green New Deal. Teachers from West Virginia to Oakland are striking for public education and winning, and tens of thousands of people across the country are getting involved in the project of building democratic socialism in the US. But what is democratic socialism?

Let's talk about it.

If you're a new DSA member or just curious about democratic socialism, come out to Democratic Socialism 101 and find out how to get involved in DSA's fight for democratic control of the things that matter on the job and in your community and the things we all need to lead a dignified life. Look for the DSA banner and red t-shirts!

Event is located in an outdoor park.

RSVP (https://www.eastbaydsa.org/events/822/2019-10-20-democratic-socialism-101/)


** RACIAL SOLIDARITY COMMITTEE MEETING
------------------------------------------------------------
Monday, October 21 | 7–9 p.m.
Call / text 209-613-0810 for location

Our regularly-scheduled monthly meeting of the Racial Solidarity Committee!

Location and accessibility details may vary.

RSVP (https://www.eastbaydsa.org/events/757/2019-10-21-racial-solidarity-committee-monthly-meeting/)


** BEER & ROSES LABOR SOCIAL
------------------------------------------------------------
Thursday, October 24 | 6:30–8:30 p.m.
Aloha Club, 952 Fruitvale Ave, Oakland ♿️

Join the East Bay DSA's Labor Committee for their regular Beer and Roses social. Hang out with other members who are interested in the labor movement, hear about what's happening in EBDSA Labor Committee & learn how you can get involved.

Venue is wheelchair accessible.

RSVP on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/events/1005331769806934/)


** LABOR COMMITTEE MONTHLY MEETING
------------------------------------------------------------
Sunday, October 27 | 12–1:30 p.m.
Niebyl Proctor Marxist Library 6501 Telegraph Ave, Oakland ♿️

Please join the East Bay DSA Labor Committee for our regular monthly meeting. It's open to all DSA members who are interested in getting involved in labor work with their comrades! Learn more about how to get involved in the committee, our ongoing projects, and upcoming solidarity actions!

If you'd like to submit an item for the agenda, please email [email protected].

Entrance and bathroom are wheelchair-accessible.

Not a Member Yet? Let's Fix That.
DSA has 60,000 members nationally, and we're still growing. There's never been a better time to get involved than right now! Join our national organization by clicking below and become an official socialist organizer.

Join DSA (https://act.dsausa.org/donate/membership/)

Caucus Corner
Check out the Caucus Corner of the East Bay DSA website (https://www.eastbaydsa.org/about/caucuses/) to learn more about the activities of East Bay DSA caucuses and how to participate.

Announcements

EAST BAY DSA IN SEARCH OF OFFICE SPACE
Do you or someone you know have access to an office space that East Bay DSA could rent? Because we are a member-run organization with limited resources, we are looking for a low-cost, below market rate office space. Please contact [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) if you have any leads. Thank you!

Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.

--Evo Morales

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