Dearest Comrades,
Following our new social & business meeting pattern, September features a regular business meeting (with a special guest)! Below you'll find a handful of announcements about what the chapter is up to right now - and how you can get involved!
Here are some details about the business meeting first:
Monday - September 13th, 2021 | 6:00pm to 8:00pm on Zoom | Register here!
The work:
- Green New Deal for Public Schools
- Abolition Resolution
- Motion to Oppose the "Let's Do Better" ballot initiative
- Report backs, announcements, community welfare and...
Our special guest from national - regional organizer Glenn :) - will be leading a training during the second half of the business meeting. Here's a quick blurb about the training - which should be particularly interesting to new/ish members! See you there!
Building a Mass Working Class
Organization
Description: Why build a mass organization and what will it take?
This training includes historical context, discussions, and breakouts to
explore the idea of building a mass organization, and why DSA is committed to
becoming a mass working-class organization.
What you will take from it: a base level understanding of Y/DSA as a political
project, the fundamentals of our uniting politics, and more clarity around what
we’re trying to build together.
CHAPTER ANNOUNCEMENTS & UPCOMING EVENTS
🌹 DSA Orientation
Next meeting: Wednesday, September 15th & 29th | 7:00 - 8:30 PM
Join us here for the 15th and here for the 29th.
New member? Been around but not sure what's new? Find out how to get plugged in here!
🌹 Abolition Working GroupNext meeting: Wednesday, September 15th | 6:00 - 7:00 PM
Join us here!
On September 13, Denver City Council will consider extending a contract with Environmental Hazmat Services (EHS), a contractor responsible for the "clean up" aspect of traumatic displacements of unhoused encampments. While the displacements themselves are objectionable, we're particularly concerned about EHS because they're abusive to our neighbors, bad at the job they're contracted to do, and actively work with DPD to overcharge the city for security services.
Check out
this video about EHS, then use this
handy list of talking points to contact your
City Council member (plus the two at-large members) and ask them to vote no on this contract.
🌹 {Newly Minted} Palestine Working Group (#wg-palestine on Slack)
Next meeting: Monday, September 13th & 20th| 6:00 - 7:00 PM Join us here!
The
Palestine working group met for the first time this
past week. A large coalition of groups was represented at the meeting and we discussed
possible campaigns/targets we could pursue locally. Join us and get involved!
🌹 EcoSocialist Committee
Next meeting: Monday, September 13th & 20th| 7:00 - 8:00 PM Join us here!
The committee meets every other Monday over Zoom with in-person options in the works. We are taking the lead here in Denver for the nationwide Green New Deal for Public Schools campaign so teachers, school staff, parents- and youth especially - join us!
🌹 Electoral Committee Meeting/Social Hour
Next meeting: Monday, September 20th | 6:00 - 7:00 PM Join us here!
This Sunday (9/12) at 3pm we'll be kicking off a canvass for Bryan Lindstrom for Aurora City Council hosted by current Aurora City Council members Alison Coombs and Juan Marcano! We'll be meeting at Hinkley HS parking lot in Aurora. For more info, email [email protected]
🌹 NEWR Fundraising & Signature Gathering Canvass
Next meeting: Monday, September 20th | 7:00 - 8:00 PM
Join us here!
As we prepare for a
wave of evictions across the country in the coming weeks and months - we invite you to canvass alongside us or
donate if you are unable to join.
We are hoping to use these donations to hire another full-time
canvasser to take us through to the deadline. Help stop unjust evictions in Denver with NEWR! (And don't forget to follow the campaign on
Instagram &
Twitter)!
🌹 Housing Justice Committee
Next meeting: Wednesday, October 6th | 7:00 - 8:00 PM Join us here!
The Housing Justice Committee is partnering with the Covid 19 Eviction Defense Project
to coordinate emergency outreach and aid responses to the coming wave
of evictions as CDC protections expire. If you will have some spare time
in September and want to help mitigate the crisis, please email Wren at
[email protected]!
🌹 Steering Committee Meeting
Next meeting: "Organizing Council" for all members, Steering and Committee Chairs.
Wednesday, September 16th | 6:00 - 7:00 PM Join us here!
Our chapter's Steering Committee meets every 2nd and 4th Monday to help guide the chapter at large and promote cohesion between committees and working groups.
These meetings are open to all, so please come with any questions or concerns! Members are heavily encouraged to attend steering meetings - which are often a good way to learn about what all parts of the chapter are doing.
🌹 Labor Committee Meeting
Next meeting: Saturday, September 18th | 10:00am - 11:30am Join us here!
The Labor Committee is partnering with the EcoSoc Committee to coordinate actions centered around the Green New Deal for Public Schools! We're also supporting the Nabisco workers striking who have requested folks turnout on Mondays & Fridays at noon primarily, but attending any day prior to 6pm is helpful! Picket line is at 17775 e 30th Ave. Aurora, CO.
🌹 Tech Committee Meeting
Next meeting: Tuesday, September 28th | 6:30 - 8:00 PM
Join us here!
🚨NEW MERCH ALERT🚨
Did you see that DDSA now has a store up on the site? Head there now to see a couple of shirts designed by your very own comrades and pick one up if you fancy it.
"A world without police or prisons where we can all be safe"
In solidarity,
Matthew Rambles, Communications Chair
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Donate directly to Denver DSA
If you like the work we're doing, please consider donating directly to the chapter so we have the financial means to keep doing it! While we receive quarterly dues shares from National, your direct donation to Denver DSA gets money into organizers’ hands quicker. We have one-time and monthly options of virtually any amount available. Give us socialist cash to beat capitalist trash!
https://denverdsa.org/donate
P.S. Ready to fight to improve the material conditions of our community? Not sure what DDSA is doing or what campaigns are happening? Check out http://bit.ly/DDSA-running-info for up to date information on actions like this one and our ongoing campaigns.