Come canvass with DSA Sacramento’s Racial Solidarity Committee and be a voice for your community in the city’s participatory budgeting pilot project! Sacramento is a majority-minority city -- for far too long the city’s budget has not reflected this.

With your help canvassing, DSA Sacramento can learn the true needs of our communities and amplify their voices in Sacramento's Participatory Budgeting Pilot Program. Join us from this Saturday 4/23 at Susan B. Anthony Elementary School (7864 Detroit Blvd, Sacramento) at 10 am to canvass the neighborhood until noon. Food and training will be provided to canvassers! This canvass will recur at different locations in the city every Saturday 10 am - 12 pm through May 14th.

Join Sacramento DSA this Saturday, April 23rd at 2PM at Southside Park for our DSA for Alana campaign kickoff canvass! Alana Mathews is running a progressive campaign for Sacramento County District Attorney. She is running to change the culture of justice in Sacramento by pursuing alternatives to incarceration, police accountability, and interventions that address the root causes of crime.

Sacramento DSA will provide training for first-time canvassers before knocking doors, so all experience levels are welcome. After a couple hours of canvassing, canvassers will reconvene to debrief over some food and get to know each other. Bring a friend and help us build a working class movement for real public safety in Sacramento!

Join us at 7pm next Friday (4/29) at Organize Sacramento, where writer and filmmaker Fred Glass will screen We Mean to Make Things Over: A History of May Day in partnership with Sacramento DSA and the Sacramento Central Labor Council. Doors open at 6pm with the film screening at sundown at approximately 7pm in Celebration of May Day! Refreshments & Desserts will be available throughout the evening. We will be outdoors, so dress appropriately for whatever weather there may be. Please bring your own folding chair!

Organize Sacramento is located at 1714 Broadway, Sacramento, CA 95818. There is street parking available in the land park neighborhood immediately behind the property along Burnett Way and surrounding streets.

RSVP for the We Mean to Make Things Over Screening

Teach-in with William Burg: African American Resistance and Organization in Sacramento History

Sacramento's African American community faced many crises since the city's founding. Approximately every fifty years, these crises culminated into points of decision where this community took action to defend their rights. Using case studies from the 1850s-60s, 1910s-20s, and 1950s-60s, we will examine the actions taken by the African American community to organize for political power and community defense. The class will compare and contrast these approaches with contemporary social issues, explore questions of historical agency and cultural hegemony, and introduce the students to important figures and organizations in Sacramento's African American history.

William Burg is the author of seven books and approximately one hundred articles about Sacramento history, architecture, culture, and politics. His latest book, Wicked Sacramento, includes some of the stories that will be discussed in this presentation, along with materials from Sacramento's K Street and Sacramento Renaissance. Join us on Zoom at 4pm on Saturday 4/30 for this teach-in!

This International Workers Day, DSA Sacramento will join NorCal Resist's May Day Creative Resistance and Block Party! Join us on May Day (Sun. 5/1), 11am - 6pm outside the Downtown Ice Building at 650 Capitol Mall for food, drinks, live music, art, and community solidarity!

The History of Israel's Non-Zionist Left, Then and Now; a teach-in with Dr. Matan Kaminer followed by an open Q&A

Join DSA Sacramento at 6pm on Tuesday, May 10th at Organize Sacramento for a teach in with Dr. Matan Kaminer on the history of Israel's non-Zionist Left. Following the teach-in, there will be an open Q&A with Dr. Kaminer, David Mandel of DSA's BDS Working Group, and Yassar Dahbour, President of the Palestinian American League.

In Israel, the 1970s and '80s saw the emergence of an "independent" left which rejected both Zionism and Soviet Communism. Though destroyed as a coherent force by the Oslo Accords and their aftermath, the legacy of the independent left continues on Israel's beleaguered radical scene, which Dr. Kaminer argues is the most consistent force pressing for democratic decolonization within Israeli society.

Dr. Matan Kaminer is an anthropologist and a political activist. A fellow at the Martin Buber Institute, Hebrew University Jerusalem, his ethnographic research on migrant workers from Thailand in Israeli agriculture addresses colonial dispossession, capitalist exploitation and ecological degradation. He is also a longtime political activist and a co-editor of a book on the history of Israel's "independent" non-Zionist left, as well as a member of the board of Academia for Equality, a grassroots organization of over 700 radical academics in Israel and abroad.

Yassar Dahbour was born in a refugee camp in Syria where his family had resided after they were evicted from Palestine in 1948. In the course of the Palestinian diaspora, he settled in Sacramento, California in 1991 where he pursued an education in political science, business administration and technology. Having grown up in a refugee camp, he became a human rights activist fixated on the Palestinian cause from a young age. Following this passion, Mr. Dahbour served as a member and later President of the General Union of the Palestinian Students in his undergraduate and graduate academic career; moreover, he cofounded the Political Students Forum at California State University, Sacrament. He later co-founded the Sacramento Regional Coalition for Palestinian Human Rights where he still serves as a board member. Currently, he is the president of the Palestine American League (PAL) and the Political Director and cofounder of Democrats for Justice in Palestine.

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