| From | East Bay DSA <[email protected]> |
| Subject | Newsletter: Solidarity isn't just a slogan |
| Date | October 7, 2021 6:10 PM |
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In the early stages of great struggles... something of this same burning wave of solidarity sweeps through vast categories of workers not directly in the fight. The dramatic struggles going on in their industry inspires them with a sense of their own wrongs, fires them to fight to redress their own grievances and those of their class brothers already in the fight. It is a strike contagion, a spreading revolt of the workers.
-- William Z. Foster
Comrades,
In what could be the largest strike since the 1997 Teamster UPS strike, 60,000 film workers across the country in the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) have voted to authorize a strike with a 98% yes vote and 90% turnout. A strike, if called, would be the first of its kind in the union’s 128-year history.
Driving the vote at the forefront is the fight against brutally long hours with no meal breaks and a lack of meaningful rest between shifts. Workers regularly ([link removed]) perform 16 to 20 hours shifts with no time to even do their laundry or get the mail let alone spend time with their friends, family, kids, and communities. It’s not uncommon for workers in the industry to know someone who’s gotten injured or died in a car crash on their way home from work due to sheer exhaustion and sleep deprivation. Just as important, the workers are fighting for living wages for the lowest paid among them and a share of the fruits of their labor in order to maintain their pensions and health plans in the form of residuals, payments to the workers when the content they make is licensed for different formats and usage, and which no longer comes adequately from DVD, Blu Ray, cable, and must now come from streaming services. Big tech, now having firmly extended its grip into the film industry with companies like Amazon, Apple, and Netflix, is continuing to press, squeeze, and crush its workers for all that they’re worth.
And yet the bosses in their employer association, the Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), aren’t budging, even in the face of a historic strike authorization vote for the union and unprecedented unity of its members. Though there would likely be little if any picket activity in the Bay Area, most of it concentrated in Los Angeles and other other production centers like Albuquerque and Atlanta, you can show solidarity with the workers by doing the following:
1. Share the IATSE strike tool kit ([link removed]) with your chapter and sign the petition ([link removed]) to the AMPTP.
2. Follow @ia_stories on Twitter ([link removed]) and Instagram ([link removed]) . Share their posts using the hashtag #iasolidarity.
3. If you’re a DSA member who’s also in IATSE, fill out this form to connect with other IATSE members and get organized ([link removed])
4. And if you’re an IATSE member who’s behind on dues, fill out this form for a member to member mutual aid fund ([link removed]) so you can vote!
Our 5th Labor Reading Group begins the week of 10/18! Join us to learn about the rise of public sector unionism in the 1960s–70s and its ties to the mass movements of the era. Feast your eyes on this reading list! ([link removed]) Then register here ([link removed]) !
News and Information
Be sure to check out East Bay Majority ([link removed]) , East Bay DSA's news source with a socialist perspective, for the latest news and information.
** DEMANDING HAZARD PAY, TRANSIT WORKERS FORCE AC TRANSIT TO THE NEGOTIATING TABLE
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All across California, frontline workers have demanded and won hazard pay during the pandemic, especially in grocery, retail and healthcare workplaces. Transit workers in the Bay Area, though, have not received one penny of extra compensation for continuing to work in life-threatening conditions. On July 28, over 40 AC Transit workers and riders spoke up at the AC Transit board meeting to demand transit workers be paid retroactive hazard pay.
Read more ([link removed])
Featured Events
While we are still mostly unable to meet face-to-face, events are still going on that you can be a part of. RSVP below to stay updated. You can also keep track on our Events page ([link removed]) .
** GREEN NEW DEAL FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS ORGANIZING MEETING
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Tonight! October 7 | 6–7 p.m.
Online via Zoom – register for info ([link removed]) ♿️
Join us to organize our campaign for the Green New Deal for Public Schools. Everyone is welcome--all skills, imagination, dogged determination needed. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Register on Zoom ([link removed])
** EAST BAY DSA ALL-COMMS MEETING
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Monday, October 11 | 6–7:30 p.m.
Online via Zoom ([link removed]) ♿️
Join your fellow East Bay Comms Committee for our monthly meeting of all who work on communications in our chapter. We'll do some Comms-specific political education, hear what our fellow comrades are up to and work together on a new chapter-wide campaign.
Join on Zoom ([link removed]) RSVP ([link removed])
**
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REFINERY TOWN READING GROUP
Monday, October 11 | 6:30–8:30 p.m.
Online via Zoom ([link removed]) ♿️
Read & discuss with us. We're reading chapters 1 & 2 of Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of an American City by Steve Early, with a foreword by Senator Bernie Sanders. Refinery Town shows how our own Richmond, CA, a working-class company town, harnessed the power of local politics to reclaim their community.
Contact us at [email protected] if you need a PDF or hard copy of the book.
Join on Zoom ([link removed]) RSVP ([link removed])
** GREEN NEW DEAL COMMITTEE MONTHLY MEETING (VIRTUAL)
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Wednesday, October 13 | 6:45–8:45 p.m.
Online via Zoom – RSVP for info ([link removed]) ♿️
Our Green New Deal Committee meets on the second Wednesday each month. We will discuss eco-socialist issues, upcoming events and actions, committee priorities, and campaigns. All are welcome! Please RSVP to receive the URL to the meeting or email [email protected].
RSVP ([link removed])
** GREEN NEW DEAL FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS ORGANIZING MEETING
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Thursday, October 14 | 6–7 p.m.
Online via Zoom – register for info ([link removed]) ♿️
Join us to organize our campaign for the Green New Deal for Public Schools. Everyone is welcome--all skills, imagination, dogged determination needed. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Register on zoom ([link removed])
** EBDSA BRANCHES FORUM
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Thursday, October 14 | 6:30–8 p.m.
Online via Zoom – RSVP for info ([link removed]) ♿️
The East Bay DSA Branches Working Group has been tasked by the chapter Steering Committee to determine how to institute a branch structure.
From Fremont to Vallejo and Oakland to Antioch, East Bay DSA covers a wide range, not just in territory but in conditions and issues. In order to make sure all neighborhoods of our chapter are represented and engaged, we are considering a branch structure similar to what has been done in other DSA chapters including DSA LA, DSA Atlanta, and Metro DC DSA.
Branches can be formed in many ways and we want to get your input on how it should be done!
RSVP ([link removed])
** OCTOBER GENERAL MEETING
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Sunday, October 17 | 1–3 p.m.
Online via Zoom ([link removed])
Please join us for our October General Meeting! Stay tuned for more information. We'll post the agenda at the event link below when it's released.
Join via Zoom ([link removed]) Agenda/RSVP ([link removed])
** THE RISE OF PUBLIC SECTOR UNIONISM & THE MASS MOVEMENTS OF THE 1960s-70s
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Biweekly starting Monday, October 18 | 7–9 p.m.
Online – register for info ([link removed]) ♿️
Join the East Bay DSA Labor Committee this fall for a 5-part study series on the rise of public sector unionism in the 1960s–70s in the context of the radicalizing social movements for civil rights, student power, ending the Vietnam war, and women's liberation. Open to all and designed for anyone engaged or interested in workplace or non-workplace based movement work! Sign up here ([link removed]) .
Groups will start the week of Monday, October 18th, consist of 10 - 15 people, and will meet on a regular date and time every other week for a total of 5 sessions. Group meeting dates will be assigned based on the overall availability that participants indicate below. Organizers of this series will reach out to those that sign up a few weeks before the start week to inform participants of their group meeting dates and link them up with their group co-leads who will be facilitating the group.
Readings will be shared digitally at no cost and will average 25–30 pages every two weeks. The curriculum also features movies, some of which are assigned as essential curriculum and some of which are assigned as supplemental. A few of the movies will cost a small digital rental fee of $2 or $3 to watch.
Please email [email protected] with any questions or comments.
Readings ([link removed]) Sign up here ([link removed])
**
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RACIAL SOLIDARITY COMMITTEE MONTHLY MEETING
Monday, October 18 | 7–9 p.m.
Online – contact [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) for info ♿️
Join the Racial Solidarity Committee for our monthly meeting!
The Racial Solidarity Committee (RSC) is dedicated to fighting for the rights of BIPOC communities here in the Bay Area as well as around the world. We are committed to building a multiracial democratic socialist organization that reflects the diversity of the Bay Area working class. Our work ranges from immigration justice and open borders to workers' rights and access to fully-funded public education. In our general meetings, we hold political discussions and report on upcoming RSC campaigns and events. Join us and become a part of the fight for Racial Solidarity!
Racial Solidarity Committee is open to all, and we especially welcome self-identified BIPOC folx. BIPOC facilitators take progressive stack, and we maintain community agreements.
RSVP ([link removed])
Upcoming Events
** SOCIAL HOUSING COMMITTEE MEETING
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Wednesday, October 20 | 7–8:30 p.m.
Online via Zoom ([link removed]) ♿️
Monthly meeting for the EBDSA Social Housing committee. Come to hear updates about our upcoming projects, and have a political discussion about the decommodification of housing in the Bay Area!
Join on Zoom ([link removed]) RSVP ([link removed])
CATCH UP ON NIGHT SCHOOL
Even with social distancing guidelines lifted, now's still as good a time as any to catch up on our Socialist Night School.
Catch up on past night school readings and videos below.
Watch past Night School videos ([link removed])
Catch up on Night School readings ([link removed])
Not a Member Yet? Let's Fix That.
DSA now has more than 90,000 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 ([link removed])
Caucus Corner
Our caucuses organize events too! Check out the Caucus Corner of our website ([link removed]) to learn more about the activities of East Bay DSA caucuses and how to participate.
Announcements
SIGN UP TO TALK TO A MOBILIZER!
Are you a new DSA member? Or are you looking to get more involved with East Bay DSA's projects and campaigns? Sign up to talk to a mobilizer!
Here are three reasons to sign up to talk to a mobilizer:
1. Meet a fellow socialist organizer
We want to build a movement of millions of working class people and change the exploitative and oppressive system in which we live, but we do that first and foremost by building one-to-one connections with each other.
2. Answer your questions
Learn more about DSA, the local East Bay chapter, and our different committees and projects.
3. Get more involved
The main thing a mobilizer will help you with is getting more involved in DSA. Maybe there’s a campaign or project you’re particularly interested in, or maybe you’re a blank slate and you don’t really know what to do. Either way, a mobilizer will help you figure it out.
Sign up to talk to a mobilizer! ([link removed])
Men, under socialism, will work and produce useful goods. But they will produce these for their mutual needs and for their mutual development… Men, no longer fettered by the necessity of working not only for their own material maintenance, but for the bosses’ even more material profits, will be freed to live more fully. The time that each must work will be small, yet the goods produced for all to enjoy will be plentiful.
-- Grace Lee Boggs
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Comrades,
In what could be the largest strike since the 1997 Teamster UPS strike, 60,000 film workers across the country in the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) have voted to authorize a strike with a 98% yes vote and 90% turnout. A strike, if called, would be the first of its kind in the union’s 128-year history.
Driving the vote at the forefront is the fight against brutally long hours with no meal breaks and a lack of meaningful rest between shifts. Workers regularly ([link removed]) perform 16 to 20 hours shifts with no time to even do their laundry or get the mail let alone spend time with their friends, family, kids, and communities. It’s not uncommon for workers in the industry to know someone who’s gotten injured or died in a car crash on their way home from work due to sheer exhaustion and sleep deprivation. Just as important, the workers are fighting for living wages for the lowest paid among them and a share of the fruits of their labor in order to maintain their pensions and health plans in the form of residuals, payments to the workers when the content they make is licensed for different formats and usage, and which no longer comes adequately from DVD, Blu Ray, cable, and must now come from streaming services. Big tech, now having firmly extended its grip into the film industry with companies like Amazon, Apple, and Netflix, is continuing to press, squeeze, and crush its workers for all that they’re worth.
And yet the bosses in their employer association, the Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), aren’t budging, even in the face of a historic strike authorization vote for the union and unprecedented unity of its members. Though there would likely be little if any picket activity in the Bay Area, most of it concentrated in Los Angeles and other other production centers like Albuquerque and Atlanta, you can show solidarity with the workers by doing the following:
1. Share the IATSE strike tool kit ([link removed]) with your chapter and sign the petition ([link removed]) to the AMPTP.
2. Follow @ia_stories on Twitter ([link removed]) and Instagram ([link removed]) . Share their posts using the hashtag #iasolidarity.
3. If you’re a DSA member who’s also in IATSE, fill out this form to connect with other IATSE members and get organized ([link removed])
4. And if you’re an IATSE member who’s behind on dues, fill out this form for a member to member mutual aid fund ([link removed]) so you can vote!
Our 5th Labor Reading Group begins the week of 10/18! Join us to learn about the rise of public sector unionism in the 1960s–70s and its ties to the mass movements of the era. Feast your eyes on this reading list! ([link removed]) Then register here ([link removed]) !
News and Information
Be sure to check out East Bay Majority ([link removed]) , East Bay DSA's news source with a socialist perspective, for the latest news and information.
** DEMANDING HAZARD PAY, TRANSIT WORKERS FORCE AC TRANSIT TO THE NEGOTIATING TABLE
------------------------------------------------------------
All across California, frontline workers have demanded and won hazard pay during the pandemic, especially in grocery, retail and healthcare workplaces. Transit workers in the Bay Area, though, have not received one penny of extra compensation for continuing to work in life-threatening conditions. On July 28, over 40 AC Transit workers and riders spoke up at the AC Transit board meeting to demand transit workers be paid retroactive hazard pay.
Read more ([link removed])
Featured Events
While we are still mostly unable to meet face-to-face, events are still going on that you can be a part of. RSVP below to stay updated. You can also keep track on our Events page ([link removed]) .
** GREEN NEW DEAL FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS ORGANIZING MEETING
------------------------------------------------------------
Tonight! October 7 | 6–7 p.m.
Online via Zoom – register for info ([link removed]) ♿️
Join us to organize our campaign for the Green New Deal for Public Schools. Everyone is welcome--all skills, imagination, dogged determination needed. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Register on Zoom ([link removed])
** EAST BAY DSA ALL-COMMS MEETING
------------------------------------------------------------
Monday, October 11 | 6–7:30 p.m.
Online via Zoom ([link removed]) ♿️
Join your fellow East Bay Comms Committee for our monthly meeting of all who work on communications in our chapter. We'll do some Comms-specific political education, hear what our fellow comrades are up to and work together on a new chapter-wide campaign.
Join on Zoom ([link removed]) RSVP ([link removed])
**
------------------------------------------------------------
REFINERY TOWN READING GROUP
Monday, October 11 | 6:30–8:30 p.m.
Online via Zoom ([link removed]) ♿️
Read & discuss with us. We're reading chapters 1 & 2 of Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of an American City by Steve Early, with a foreword by Senator Bernie Sanders. Refinery Town shows how our own Richmond, CA, a working-class company town, harnessed the power of local politics to reclaim their community.
Contact us at [email protected] if you need a PDF or hard copy of the book.
Join on Zoom ([link removed]) RSVP ([link removed])
** GREEN NEW DEAL COMMITTEE MONTHLY MEETING (VIRTUAL)
------------------------------------------------------------
Wednesday, October 13 | 6:45–8:45 p.m.
Online via Zoom – RSVP for info ([link removed]) ♿️
Our Green New Deal Committee meets on the second Wednesday each month. We will discuss eco-socialist issues, upcoming events and actions, committee priorities, and campaigns. All are welcome! Please RSVP to receive the URL to the meeting or email [email protected].
RSVP ([link removed])
** GREEN NEW DEAL FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS ORGANIZING MEETING
------------------------------------------------------------
Thursday, October 14 | 6–7 p.m.
Online via Zoom – register for info ([link removed]) ♿️
Join us to organize our campaign for the Green New Deal for Public Schools. Everyone is welcome--all skills, imagination, dogged determination needed. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Register on zoom ([link removed])
** EBDSA BRANCHES FORUM
------------------------------------------------------------
Thursday, October 14 | 6:30–8 p.m.
Online via Zoom – RSVP for info ([link removed]) ♿️
The East Bay DSA Branches Working Group has been tasked by the chapter Steering Committee to determine how to institute a branch structure.
From Fremont to Vallejo and Oakland to Antioch, East Bay DSA covers a wide range, not just in territory but in conditions and issues. In order to make sure all neighborhoods of our chapter are represented and engaged, we are considering a branch structure similar to what has been done in other DSA chapters including DSA LA, DSA Atlanta, and Metro DC DSA.
Branches can be formed in many ways and we want to get your input on how it should be done!
RSVP ([link removed])
** OCTOBER GENERAL MEETING
------------------------------------------------------------
Sunday, October 17 | 1–3 p.m.
Online via Zoom ([link removed])
Please join us for our October General Meeting! Stay tuned for more information. We'll post the agenda at the event link below when it's released.
Join via Zoom ([link removed]) Agenda/RSVP ([link removed])
** THE RISE OF PUBLIC SECTOR UNIONISM & THE MASS MOVEMENTS OF THE 1960s-70s
------------------------------------------------------------
Biweekly starting Monday, October 18 | 7–9 p.m.
Online – register for info ([link removed]) ♿️
Join the East Bay DSA Labor Committee this fall for a 5-part study series on the rise of public sector unionism in the 1960s–70s in the context of the radicalizing social movements for civil rights, student power, ending the Vietnam war, and women's liberation. Open to all and designed for anyone engaged or interested in workplace or non-workplace based movement work! Sign up here ([link removed]) .
Groups will start the week of Monday, October 18th, consist of 10 - 15 people, and will meet on a regular date and time every other week for a total of 5 sessions. Group meeting dates will be assigned based on the overall availability that participants indicate below. Organizers of this series will reach out to those that sign up a few weeks before the start week to inform participants of their group meeting dates and link them up with their group co-leads who will be facilitating the group.
Readings will be shared digitally at no cost and will average 25–30 pages every two weeks. The curriculum also features movies, some of which are assigned as essential curriculum and some of which are assigned as supplemental. A few of the movies will cost a small digital rental fee of $2 or $3 to watch.
Please email [email protected] with any questions or comments.
Readings ([link removed]) Sign up here ([link removed])
**
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RACIAL SOLIDARITY COMMITTEE MONTHLY MEETING
Monday, October 18 | 7–9 p.m.
Online – contact [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) for info ♿️
Join the Racial Solidarity Committee for our monthly meeting!
The Racial Solidarity Committee (RSC) is dedicated to fighting for the rights of BIPOC communities here in the Bay Area as well as around the world. We are committed to building a multiracial democratic socialist organization that reflects the diversity of the Bay Area working class. Our work ranges from immigration justice and open borders to workers' rights and access to fully-funded public education. In our general meetings, we hold political discussions and report on upcoming RSC campaigns and events. Join us and become a part of the fight for Racial Solidarity!
Racial Solidarity Committee is open to all, and we especially welcome self-identified BIPOC folx. BIPOC facilitators take progressive stack, and we maintain community agreements.
RSVP ([link removed])
Upcoming Events
** SOCIAL HOUSING COMMITTEE MEETING
------------------------------------------------------------
Wednesday, October 20 | 7–8:30 p.m.
Online via Zoom ([link removed]) ♿️
Monthly meeting for the EBDSA Social Housing committee. Come to hear updates about our upcoming projects, and have a political discussion about the decommodification of housing in the Bay Area!
Join on Zoom ([link removed]) RSVP ([link removed])
CATCH UP ON NIGHT SCHOOL
Even with social distancing guidelines lifted, now's still as good a time as any to catch up on our Socialist Night School.
Catch up on past night school readings and videos below.
Watch past Night School videos ([link removed])
Catch up on Night School readings ([link removed])
Not a Member Yet? Let's Fix That.
DSA now has more than 90,000 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 ([link removed])
Caucus Corner
Our caucuses organize events too! Check out the Caucus Corner of our website ([link removed]) to learn more about the activities of East Bay DSA caucuses and how to participate.
Announcements
SIGN UP TO TALK TO A MOBILIZER!
Are you a new DSA member? Or are you looking to get more involved with East Bay DSA's projects and campaigns? Sign up to talk to a mobilizer!
Here are three reasons to sign up to talk to a mobilizer:
1. Meet a fellow socialist organizer
We want to build a movement of millions of working class people and change the exploitative and oppressive system in which we live, but we do that first and foremost by building one-to-one connections with each other.
2. Answer your questions
Learn more about DSA, the local East Bay chapter, and our different committees and projects.
3. Get more involved
The main thing a mobilizer will help you with is getting more involved in DSA. Maybe there’s a campaign or project you’re particularly interested in, or maybe you’re a blank slate and you don’t really know what to do. Either way, a mobilizer will help you figure it out.
Sign up to talk to a mobilizer! ([link removed])
Men, under socialism, will work and produce useful goods. But they will produce these for their mutual needs and for their mutual development… Men, no longer fettered by the necessity of working not only for their own material maintenance, but for the bosses’ even more material profits, will be freed to live more fully. The time that each must work will be small, yet the goods produced for all to enjoy will be plentiful.
-- Grace Lee Boggs
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