Reminder: November Chapter Meeting
Tuesday, November 19 @ 7pm //
Quaker Meetinghouse, 2012 Chapala St, Santa Barbara
Join us on Tuesday for one of our last chapter gatherings of the year for chapter business, including some important discussions about the next few months, as well as a potential endorsement. We'll go over chapter updates, discuss ramping up for Bernie 2020 and how YOU can get involved through the chapter. We're also pleased to have two special guests! The first is the newly-hired Central Coast Area Director for Bernie 2020. We'll also have a visit from Jonathan Abboud, a young, progressive activist who's running for the 37th district Assembly. RSVP on Facebook.
Students: Sign up for Young DSA at Bonfire Café Sunday
Sunday, November 17 @ 12:30pm (we'll stay as long as we can!) //
Bonfire Café, Merton Co-op, 777 Camino Pescadero, Isla Vista
Attn: students!! We'll be tabling after 12:30pm with our friends Bonfire Collective (and Food Not Bombs) Sunday at their cafe at Merton Co-op for those interested in organizing with YDSA, Young Democratic Socialists of America. This is a great opportunity to come out and learn about opportunities for socialist organizing that start on campus and connect with the greater Santa Barbara area. See you there! ❤ Original Facebook Event for Bonfire Café
Next Working Group Meetings:
Get involved in a working group or strategic campaign:
- Climate Justice
- Wednesday, 12/4 @ 6:45pm (Quaker Meetinghouse - Room A)
- Social Housing (Relaunching)
- Wednesday, 12/4 @ 6:30pm (Quaker Meetinghouse - Room B)
- Electoral Strategy (New)
- TBD (Interested in getting involved? Email us)
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Did you hear the big news? AOC and Bernie Sanders unveiled a Green New Deal for Public Housing Act (co-sponsors include Elizabeth Warren). Read more about it in Jacobin here:
"Earlier this year, Daniel Aldana Cohen, who contributed research to the new legislative effort, wrote in Jacobin about the need to merge the Green New Deal with a bold housing vision. “A huge build-out of high quality, beautifully designed, meticulously financed public housing,” he wrote, “would meet millions of people’s housing needs and create tens of thousands of skilled jobs in the no-carbon construction sector for decades.” Taking cues from the People’s Policy Project’s social housing plan, Cohen proposed that we aim to build 10 million new public, no-carbon homes in ten years, and then do it again over the next ten years, and so on, until we’ve effectively implemented “a low-carbon housing guarantee.”" |
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Have You Joined Our Chapter Chat Yet?
SB DSA uses an optional digital platform for sharing info, discussions within working groups, coordinating last minute volunteer requests and more. Members who wish to get more involved in the chapter are strongly encouraged to join!
- First, install WhatsApp to your mobile device (download here) and set up your account. There is also an app available for desktops (Mac and PC). Open the app and set it up with your phone number.
- After WhatsApp is set up, click this link to join our default Chapter Chat. Welcome! We can help you get set up if you have any technical difficulties (Text: 805-881-3081 / or send us an email).
- Join additional channels: Bernie 2020 / Social Housing / Climate Justice / Electoral Strategy (Coming Soon)
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Building a better future
Organize with us as we fight to build a Santa Barbara that works for Santa Barbarans.
In solidarity,
DSA Santa Barbara
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