Happy June Comrades! Take a look at what Sacramento DSA has in store this month and see how you can get involved.
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- Primary Elections Update
- The Wretched of the Earth Reading Group with the Racial Solidarity Committee
- 6/19 | Socialist Picnic!
- Mutual Aid Fundraising
- Watch the Recording: Perspectives on Israel's Non-Zionist Left
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Primary Election Day is June 7th!
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There are just 5 days until the primary election! Two of our endorsed candidates, Alana Mathews for District Attorney and Mo Kashmiri for County Board of Education are on the ballot.
Contact our committee chair Seth ([email protected]) if you want to help get these two progressives elected! If you want to get involved in planning our further electoral work, join us at our monthly meeting on June 26th at noon!
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Join the Racial Solidarity Committee Reading Group!
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Interested in engaging in socialist topics with other people? First time in a reading group? Or just want to be in the same space as other socialists and observe? The Racial Solidarity Committee’s reading group is just for you! We are currently reading “The Wretched of the Earth” by Frantz Fanon. Here is the tentative timeline of the reading group. We meet every Tuesdays from 7-8pm via Zoom. Register below, we hope to see you then!
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Socialist Picnic with Sacramento DSA!
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Mark your calendars for a Socialist Picnic with Sacramento DSA on Sunday June 19th! Snacks and refreshments will be provided, you are welcome to bring your own food. We encourage folks to covid test before coming to the event, masks and hand sanitizer will be available on site. We will be outdoors, so dress appropriately for whatever weather there may be. Please bring your own folding chair and blankets. Expect more location and timing details about this event in your inbox soon!
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Next Mutual Aid Monday is 6/13!
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Join the Mutual Aid Committee for our next Mutual Aid Monday meal & supply distribution on Monday June 13th, at 5:30 pm! We meet at the corner of 10th & I st. at Cesar Chavez Park. Come find out what we're all about and how you can get involved! We have a variety of ways for you to help out in person.
Ongoing donations needed: tents (the larger, the better), sunscreen, tarps, bug spray/wipes, gently used clean/new bedding, gently used clothing & shoes for all adult sizes & genders, clean socks, underwear (all sizes & genders--especially larger sizes), deodorant, dry shampoo, baby powder (travel-sized please), self-defense tools, menstrual products, lotion, hair care products for all types of hair, floss, dog supplies, and more. We also go out to encampments from time to time and could always use help if that better fits your availability/capacity.
Can't make it out to distributions but want to support? You can make an ongoing donation here.
Email us if you have any questions or would like help coordinating a donation: [email protected]
We look forward to seeing you out there!
-The Mutual Aid Committee 🌹
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Watch the Recording: Perspectives on Israel's Non-Zionist Left
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In early May, DSA Sacramento held a teach in with Dr. Matan Kaminer and Yassar Dahbour on the history of Israel's non-Zionist Left. Following the teach-in, there was an open Q&A with Dr. Kaminer, David Mandel of DSA's BDS Working Group, Mr. Dahbour, and Sacramento DSA Organizer Claire. (Photo from Jolie Media)
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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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