All MoCo DSA members:

REMINDER: This Sunday at 2 pm is our monthly MoCo DSA branch meeting, at the Silver Spring Library. Maryland state delegates and DSA members Gabriel Acevero and Vaughn Stewart will be guest speakers! They will share their experiences in the General Assembly and discuss plans for the upcoming legislative session that starts in January, including bills on police accountability, funding public housing, and more. RSVP here - don't miss it!

Also, tomorrow night is a phone bank for DSA's own Mckayla Wilkes, who is running to unseat Steny Hoyer in Maryland's 5th district. She's been endorsed by DSA and Brand New Congress, just like AOC! Check out her Twitter feed - she's fabulous. And she needs our support to win! More here.

"There is no reason that electricity - something that is so critical to the modern world and the functioning of daily life - should be owned by a private industry." DSA members and many residents of California are rightly demanding a public takeover of private utility PG&E, which gave $11 million in bonuses to executives instead of properly maintaining power lines... Read more below.

Another common good is public transportation, which should be available to everyone. Kansas City just voted to make all its buses free - this should be the standard across the U.S....Read more below.

Upcoming DSA events:
 Sunday, December 15 from 2 pm-4:30 pm at Silver Spring Library: MoCo DSA Branch Meeting
Please join us at our monthly branch meeting to hear about state-level legislation from DSA members and state delegates Gabe Acevero and Vaughn Stewart! Details and RSVP here. 

 Wednesday, December 18 from 7 pm-9 pm in downtown Silver Spring: Rent Control campaign meeting
We'll meet to discuss the next steps in our rent control campaign - including making plans for our public launch of the campaign in 2020! Email us for exact location info.

Good Reads:
 From In These Times: "Our Biggest Enemy is PG&E: Inside the Fight to Put Utilities Under Public Control" by Nuala Bishari. "As wildfires have become a seasonal norm in California, pressure has risen for a public takeover of the shareholder-owned PG&E, mirroring calls across the nation for utilities to be placed under public control. "

 From Common Dreams: "Now Let's Do This Everywhere: Kansas City, Missouri Approves Free Public Transit for All" by Julia Conley. "Lawmakers in Kansas City, Missouri took a visionary step by unanimously voting to make public transportation in the city free of charge, setting the stage for it to be the first major U.S. city to have free public transit."

 A four-part series from The Intercept: "The Condemned" by Liliana Segura and Jordan Smith. "Forty-three years after the Supreme Court reversed course and reinstated the death penalty, reliable data on the individuals sent to death row is maddeningly difficult to obtain. The Intercept set out to compile a comprehensive dataset on everyone sentenced to die in active death penalty jurisdictions since 1976. Our findings show that capital punishment remains as arbitrary and capricious as ever."


In solidarity,