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Oh apparently Felix Biederman and Will Menaker of Chapo Trap House will be there too.
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jarofpiss posted:anyone know of a good union printshop that ships? got some orders to put in for some yardsigns and stuff. would be good if we could get union made and printed shirts too. I think NYC DSA uses a union shop in PA. Might take me a day or two to get details, since we have some protests here that everyone will be at, but I can try.
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There's no DSA chapter in my state. I did get control of the Facebook page from the college student who had made it and have been making daily posts. I set up an informal meet up at a Dunkin Donuts for DSA members and those interested for this Friday. I hope people show up.
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Deified Data posted:Yes, I'll try - their web presence isn't robust but I might get lucky. It's a start! OhFunny posted:There's no DSA chapter in my state. I did get control of the Facebook page from the college student who had made it and have been making daily posts. This is also a start!
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for St Louis people--there's organizing stuff going down on Weds at 7 pm. their new twitter (@stlouisdsa) has the details. it's on Cherokee St, so you can go out and get your drink on afters. i'll be there, because the city that birthed Michael Harrington (hell, he and I went to the same high school--there's a little display about him in our library as a famous alum) deserves to do right by his memory. (also in honor of @larrywebsite, i propose that any DSA gang-tag has the phrase "Trust The Process" in it.)
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i like the gang tag for dsa members but also propose a second more shameful tag for older members that are dues arrears
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By the way, I'm going to bed so obviously this is outside of my ability, but people should advertise this thread in, like, relevant threads. Proposals: -DP thread -"effective" leftism thread -Chapo Trap House thread in podcast whatever forum -redundant Chapo Trap House thread in other forum -marxy thread -your fitness log cabin log thread
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If anyone is in CO, DSA is participating in a Muslim/Immigrant support rally in Denver next saturday.
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if you guys all wanna post what state you're in if youre in the DSA and have it added to the OP, qtp
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Ace of Baes posted:if you guys all wanna post what state you're in if youre in the DSA and have it added to the OP, qtp tx
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Ace of Baes posted:if you guys all wanna post what state you're in if you're in the DSA and have it added to the OP, qtp NH
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Ace of Baes posted:if you guys all wanna post what state you're in if youre in the DSA and have it added to the OP, qtp Florida, center of the hellswamp
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definitely a long shot but if anyone is in the I.E. even tho there isn't a local chapter on the site map (http://www.dsausa.org/chapters) there is a Facebook group with 220+ members (?!). Since there's no official chapter I'm assuming no one goes to meetings, but the leader of the Facebook page seems pretty active so I'll be going to the next one. I have the form to create a chapter from the national office, so it should be happening soon. Please show up!
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Venom Snake posted:Florida, center of the hellswamp I came here just to see this  I'm still down to work with any DSA in Chicago though
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Just joined in DC. Have been a socialist for as long as I can remember. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.resurgam40 posted:DC, joined a week and a half ago. See you at the next gathering.
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organized an action sat night at bush intercontinental airport http://www.texasmonthly.com/the-daily-post/refugee-ban-affecting-texas/ quote:Organized in part by the Houston chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America and promoted on social media... tom perez showed up at the thing too quote:Monitoring the protest from one side of the immigration hall was a group of about ten officers from the Houston Police Department. A police representative said that the protest was technically illegal since no one had applied for a permit, but that they would allow it to continue as long as it didn’t get any larger or more disruptive. then we came back the next night and filled the terminal up.
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I'm involved with the Boston DSA. if you'd like to be put on our mailing list for events let me know, and I can get you on there. Either post in this thread or send me a PM.
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The DSA chapters seem to very... city centric, right now. Is that just a consequence of that being where people have started chapters, or do they prefer as an organization those larger more condensed organizational meetings?
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my understanding is that you can start an organizational committee with 5 people just about anywhere but that you likely will be under the umbrella of your closest city chapter. you have your own meetings and plan your own work and everything though.
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NC DSA member here. I'm working on getting a chapter organized in Asheville. Do any of y'all know what other socialist groups think of the DSA? I'm pretty new to the leftist circular firing squad, so I wanted to get a feel for what the other socialist groups in town are going to accused me of.
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Eustace posted:NC DSA member here. I'm working on getting a chapter organized in Asheville. Do any of y'all know what other socialist groups think of the DSA? I'm pretty new to the leftist circular firing squad, so I wanted to get a feel for what the other socialist groups in town are going to accused me of. collaboration with the democrats and trying to reform the bourgeois party. might even get called a liberal.
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Eustace posted:NC DSA member here. I'm working on getting a chapter organized in Asheville. Do any of y'all know what other socialist groups think of the DSA? I'm pretty new to the leftist circular firing squad, so I wanted to get a feel for what the other socialist groups in town are going to accused me of. don't worry about it so much, imo
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Karl Barks posted:I'm involved with the Boston DSA. if you'd like to be put on our mailing list for events let me know, and I can get you on there. Either post in this thread or send me a PM. I too am (newly) part of Boston DSA. Like what I've seen so far, excited for the next meeting.
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Ace of Baes posted:if you guys all wanna post what state you're in if youre in the DSA and have it added to the OP, qtp Boston, MA
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jarofpiss posted:my understanding is that you can start an organizational committee with 5 people just about anywhere but that you likely will be under the umbrella of your closest city chapter. you have your own meetings and plan your own work and everything though. a local group thats actually close enough to attend easily and often but is under the umbrella of the city group would be perfect really. Its just looking at a lot of these states theres lots of dead space for hours and hours outside the major cities.
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I've been reading about the DSA's stances both on their website and on Wikipedia. I think I would ultimately like to join, and I would like to go to a local chapter meeting to find out what they are working on locally, but I am also curious about something that I would like to get opinions on from people in the thread. Wikipedia says that the DSA doesn't always endorse a presidential candidate but when they do their endorsements historically seem to have been Democrats and usually not particularly left-leaning Democrats at that. Why is that? Why not Socialist candidates?
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jarofpiss posted:my understanding is that you can start an organizational committee with 5 people just about anywhere but that you likely will be under the umbrella of your closest city chapter. you have your own meetings and plan your own work and everything though. GlyphGryph posted:a local group thats actually close enough to attend easily and often but is under the umbrella of the city group would be perfect really. That said, I think there is a lot of value in starting suburban or rural chapters. The distances might be an issue, but it's important that suburban or rural issues aren't drowned out by city issues. In my dream system, DSA is broken down into a dozen or so regional areas that aren't necessarily bounded by state lines and chapters exist below that. Chapters would be typed as urban/suburban/rural/reservation and have representatives sent up to some kind of regional organizing/steering committee that meets, say, quarterly. Representation would be proportional and all, but rural and suburban issues wouldn't be drowned out by urban issues even at the regional level. And Standing Rock makes me think that it would be smart to form chapters on reservations, so that if something like that happens again (which it will), we have a destination (and established leadership) for fundraising/supply-raising efforts and a place to be a point of contact for temporary volunteers/activists that want to assist.
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I'm the Miller to Venom's Snake. Florida, center of the hellswamp.
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owl_pellet posted:I've been reading about the DSA's stances both on their website and on Wikipedia. I think I would ultimately like to join, and I would like to go to a local chapter meeting to find out what they are working on locally, but I am also curious about something that I would like to get opinions on from people in the thread. Wikipedia says that the DSA doesn't always endorse a presidential candidate but when they do their endorsements historically seem to have been Democrats and usually not particularly left-leaning Democrats at that. Why is that? Why not Socialist candidates? I'm not really familiar with the history of endorsements beyond Bernie Sanders. That said, my guess is that it had to do with specific policies these candidates proposed that DSA wanted to support. As to why they didn't support socialist candidates...well, there mostly haven't been any. Yeah, I think SPUSA puts someone up for President every year, just like the Greens, but these aren't really movements or realistic candidates. On the ground level, DSA has definitely supported socialist candidates. There was a big push by DSA for this one socialist running for (I think) city council in Brooklyn, which unfortunately failed, for instance. Any lack of action you've probably seen in the past was likely due to lack of numbers....which isn't seeming like a huge limitation in the future.
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Sup thread I joined yesterday. Felt p drat good. NC
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owl_pellet posted:I've been reading about the DSA's stances both on their website and on Wikipedia. I think I would ultimately like to join, and I would like to go to a local chapter meeting to find out what they are working on locally, but I am also curious about something that I would like to get opinions on from people in the thread. Wikipedia says that the DSA doesn't always endorse a presidential candidate but when they do their endorsements historically seem to have been Democrats and usually not particularly left-leaning Democrats at that. Why is that? Why not Socialist candidates? I believe the general attitude is to only endorse candidates that realistically could win on the national level. keep in mind the DSA is very decentralized, so individual chapters can disagree with national's decisions. as far as I know, they've only endorsed presidential candidates like 4 times - mondale, jackson, kerry (which is the most suspect one, but given what was going on in 2004...), and obama. they also endorsed bernie.
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GlyphGryph posted:The DSA chapters seem to very... city centric, right now. Is that just a consequence of that being where people have started chapters, or do they prefer as an organization those larger more condensed organizational meetings? I asked about places where there's no city and the membership is spread out and was told the New Jersey DSA rotates it's meetings between towns to help people not have to travel to far every month.
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OhFunny posted:This came up on an organizing call last Friday. A woman in northeastern Mass. was interested in starting a local chapter, but was nervous about "stepping on the Boston DSA's toes". She was told to go for it. That the Boston DSA would be happy to see another chapter in the state and that's it important to have chapters in the communities where you live working on local issues. I think that's just the Central Jersey chapter (which I want to say is Larry Website's home chapter). North Jersey is static, though I think it switched from somewhere else to Jersey City recently
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I filled out the info form (a google form) for the NYC DSA the other day but haven't heard a response. Was hoping to check things out before deciding if paying dues and joining was the right fit for me. I probably won't' be able to make the Chuck Schumer event tonight due to childcare responsibilities but am interested in seeing if this is a good fit for me! Assume there's just a huge wait in reviewing and processing those forms but if anyone knows if there's anything else i can do to get on emails/in the loop faster, let me know.
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