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East Bay DSA Newsletter November 28, 2019
Men, under socialism, will work and produce useful goods. But they will produce these for their mutual needs and for their mutual development… [They] 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
Comrades,

There's a lot to be thankful for. After decades of marginalization, the sun is rising once more on the socialist idea. Four in ten Americans say they favor socialism over capitalism — an astonishing figure right here in the beating heart of global capitalism. 

This sea change owes in large part to the self-identified democratic socialist running for president: Bernie Sanders. But it also owes to the tireless work of DSA members all across the country, who are organizing in our communities and showing working-class people through action that socialism means equality, democracy, and freedom.

We are living through a historic window of opportunity for class struggle, and we know which side we're on. Join our chapter as we campaign for a Bernie Sanders presidency, build a socialist presence in the labor movement, and strategize about new frontiers in the fights for racial and gender justice. The opportunity is ours to seize!
Nothing gets us more fired up than supporting workers fighting for what they deserve. We were honored to canvass with the amazing AC transit workers of ATU 192, demanding a safer and reliable bus system for all!
Featured Events
If you're ready to seize this opportunity, here's a list of upcoming events to do it at. RSVP to keep updated. You can also keep track on our Events page.

NEIGHBORHOOD CANVASS FOR BERNIE IN FRUITVALE

Saturday, November 30 | 11 a.m.–1 p.m.
RSVP for address
Come out and canvass for Bernie Sanders in your neighborhood, or wherever works for you! All are welcome and no experience is necessary. RSVP for the address of our meeting place.

RSVP

General meeting

Sunday, December 8 | 1–3 p.m.
Omni Commons, 4799 Shattuck Ave, Oakland ♿️
East Bay DSA's bimonthly voting meetings include deliberation and voting on member-submitted resolutions, member announcements, reports from our committees, and more.

With our new regular schedule, member-submitted resolutions will be accepted on a rolling basis. Please email them to [email protected]. The submissions deadline for each meeting is three weeks before the meeting.

General meetings are run by the Meetings Committee. For questions or comments, or if you are interested in joining the committee, write us at [email protected]!

Accessibility Information: The Omni Commons ballroom is wheelchair-accessible via a lift and has wheelchair-accessible restrooms, and we provide child supervision and wireless microphones with runners. It is also accessible by BART (1/2 mile walk from MacArthur Station) and by AC Transit bus lines 18, 88, and 12. See more information on Omni accessibility here.

See this month's agenda

SOCIALIST FEMINIST PANEL: SILVIA FEDERICI, JENNY BROWN, AND DANI BURLISON

Monday, December 9 | 7–8:30 p.m.
Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Ave, Berkeley ♿️
East Bay DSA is proud to co-sponsor this panel discussion featuring some of the leading socialist-feminists of our time. Silvia Federici is a feminist activist, writer, and teacher well known for her works Wages Against Housework and Caliban and the Witch. Jenny Brown is a National Women's Liberation organizer, former editor of Labor Notes, and author of Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now. Dani Burlison is the author of Some Places Worth Leaving (Tolsun Books, 2019) and Dendrophilia and Other Social Taboos: True Stories.

Silvia Federici—Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women and Re-Enchanting the World
Jenny Brown—Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight Over Women’s Work
Dani Burlison—All of Me: Stories of Love, Anger, and the Female Body

This event is free and wheelchair-accessible via elevator to event room. PM Press is a fellow co-sponsor.

RSVP
Upcoming Events

STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING

Sunday, December 15 | 2–5 p.m.

RSVP for location ♿️

See how your elected leadership works as we deliberate on current chapter issues. This meeting is open to all DSA members to observe the proceedings. Please RSVP for the address.

RSVP

RACIAL SOLIDARITY COMMITTEE MONTHLY MEETING

Monday, December 16 | 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

LABOR COMMITTEE MEETING

Sunday, December 29 | 6–8 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].

Accessibility Information: Entrance and bathroom are wheelchair accessible.

RSVP
Not a Member Yet? Let's Fix That.
DSA now has some 60,000 members, 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
Watch our Big Canvass Field team hit the books, then hit the streets! Stay tuned to our events page for more canvasses in December and beyond, and to @DSAEastBay on Twitter for photos of us getting the word out in other, more appropriate public spaces!
Caucus Corner
Aside from the events and announcements in this newsletter our caucuses organize events too! Check out 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
CODE FOR SOCIALISM: JOIN THE EBDSA TECH WORKING GROUP!
We're creating a socialist tech working group to support our organizing, and develop tools to challenge the capitalist class! Help us build and maintain our chapter technical projects, including eastbaydsa.org, eastbaymajority.com, and more!

Join our ranks!
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!
Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most—that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks—have the least.
Eugene Debs

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Men, under socialism, will work and produce useful goods. But they will produce these for their mutual needs and for their mutual development… [They] 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

Comrades,

There's a lot to be thankful for. After decades of marginalization, the sun is rising once more on the socialist idea. Four in ten Americans say they favor socialism (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/10/america-socialism-capitalism-poll-axios) over capitalism — an astonishing figure right here in the beating heart of global capitalism.

This sea change owes in large part to the self-identified democratic socialist running for president: Bernie Sanders. But it also owes to the tireless work of DSA members all across the country, who are organizing in our communities and showing working-class people through action that socialism means equality, democracy, and freedom.

We are living through a historic window of opportunity for class struggle, and we know which side we're on. Join our chapter as we campaign for a Bernie Sanders presidency, build a socialist presence in the labor movement, and strategize about new frontiers in the fights for racial and gender justice. The opportunity is ours to seize!


Featured Events
If you're ready to seize this opportunity, here's a list of upcoming events to do it at. RSVP to keep updated. You can also keep track on our Events page (http://eastbaydsa.org/events/) .


** NEIGHBORHOOD CANVASS FOR BERNIE IN FRUITVALE
------------------------------------------------------------
Saturday, November 30 | 11 a.m.–1 p.m.
RSVP for address

Come out and canvass for Bernie Sanders in your neighborhood, or wherever works for you! All are welcome and no experience is necessary. RSVP for the address of our meeting place.

RSVP (https://www.eastbaydsa.org/events/855/2019-11-30-neighborhood-canvass-for-bernie-in-fruitvale/)


** General meeting
------------------------------------------------------------
Sunday, December 8 | 1–3 p.m.
Omni Commons, 4799 Shattuck Ave, Oakland ♿️

East Bay DSA's bimonthly voting meetings include deliberation and voting on member-submitted resolutions, member announcements, reports from our committees, and more.

With our new regular schedule, member-submitted resolutions will be accepted on a rolling basis. Please email them to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) . The submissions deadline for each meeting is three weeks before the meeting.

General meetings are run by the Meetings Committee. For questions or comments, or if you are interested in joining the committee, write us at [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) !

Accessibility Information: The Omni Commons ballroom is wheelchair-accessible via a lift and has wheelchair-accessible restrooms, and we provide child supervision and wireless microphones with runners. It is also accessible by BART (1/2 mile walk from MacArthur Station) and by AC Transit bus lines 18, 88, and 12. See more information on Omni accessibility here.

See this month's agenda (https://docs.google.com/document/d/14M927x4spreGKEG2ouhF98-zSd4U0gIRDopbSkDho3c)


** SOCIALIST FEMINIST PANEL: SILVIA FEDERICI, JENNY BROWN, AND DANI BURLISON
------------------------------------------------------------
Monday, December 9 | 7–8:30 p.m.
Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Ave, Berkeley ♿️

East Bay DSA is proud to co-sponsor this panel discussion featuring some of the leading socialist-feminists of our time. Silvia Federici is a feminist activist, writer, and teacher well known for her works Wages Against Housework and Caliban and the Witch. Jenny Brown is a National Women's Liberation organizer, former editor of Labor Notes, and author of Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now. Dani Burlison is the author of Some Places Worth Leaving (Tolsun Books, 2019) and Dendrophilia and Other Social Taboos: True Stories.

Silvia Federici—Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women and Re-Enchanting the World
Jenny Brown—Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight Over Women’s Work
Dani Burlison—All of Me: Stories of Love, Anger, and the Female Body

This event is free and wheelchair-accessible via elevator to event room. PM Press is a fellow co-sponsor.

RSVP (https://www.eastbaydsa.org/events/838/2019-12-09-socialist-feminist-panel-silvia-federici-jenny-brown-and-dani-burlison/)
Upcoming Events


** STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING
------------------------------------------------------------
Sunday, December 15 | 2–5 p.m.

RSVP for location ♿️


See how your elected leadership works as we deliberate on current chapter issues. This meeting is open to all DSA members to observe the proceedings. Please RSVP for the address.

RSVP (https://www.eastbaydsa.org/events/786/2019-12-15-steering-committee-meeting/)


** RACIAL SOLIDARITY COMMITTEE MONTHLY MEETING
------------------------------------------------------------
Monday, December 16 | 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/759/2019-12-16-racial-solidarity-committee-monthly-meeting/)


** LABOR COMMITTEE MEETING
------------------------------------------------------------
Sunday, December 29 | 6–8 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] (mailto:[email protected]) .

Accessibility Information: Entrance and bathroom are wheelchair accessible.

RSVP (https://www.eastbaydsa.org/events/869/2019-12-29-labor-committee-meeting/)

Not a Member Yet? Let's Fix That.
DSA now has some 60,000 members, 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
Aside from the events and announcements in this newsletter our caucuses organize events too! 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

CODE FOR SOCIALISM: JOIN THE EBDSA TECH WORKING GROUP!
We're creating a socialist tech working group to support our organizing, and develop tools to challenge the capitalist class! Help us build and maintain our chapter technical projects, including eastbaydsa.org, eastbaymajority.com, and more!

Join our ranks! (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeFuP5oY5vnyv4ztjKgfdNMEVJUgqOCzjC11cNa83Tt3Wy4PQ/viewform)

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]?subject=Office%20space) if you have any leads. Thank you!
Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most—that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks—have the least.
Eugene Debs

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