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I'm going to be checking out the Austin DSA's next meeting, since they're only a 20min drive from where I work. I'll very probably be joining, and intend to try to get some sort of collaboration going on with the DSA and my county Democrat party, though we'll see how that goes (they're all old as gently caress here, help). Fellow goon GlyphGryph (OP of the DPP thread) also made a Discord server for helping out new folks join/create local parties. We currently have 47 people in it, and it tends to cycle between firey revolution and neurotic doomsaying depending on who's around, but I'd be more than happy to get some DSA folks in there to help get fellow goons active with the DSAr. Here's an invite to the server for anyone interested.
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Hey if there are any central Texas goons in here, I'm in the process of starting up a Williamson County DSA with some other organizers up here. If you're not busy on the evening of Sunday, April 2. We'll be meeting in the back room of Lamppost Coffee, so depending on how many people there are there may or may not be enough space for seating (we're expecting ~10 people, but it could be more). I'll make another post next week when I have the time confirmed. Is there any good resources for setting up DSA branches/chapters? While a good chunk of us are already members, I haven't actually been involved in much organizational efforts so this is all pretty new to me.
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Alright, so I said I'd update y'all and I am now: Wilco DSA will be having its first (unofficial) meeting this Sunday, April 2, at Kerbey Lane, 2120 N Mays St, Round Rock. We'll be meeting at 7PM out on the patio, and discussing organizing, plans, etc., so if you're in Williamson County, TX and want to join up, or from a nearby DSA chapter and want to help us out, please come by!
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So we held our first meeting yesterday, was really small, but I feel like it was productive. Had 8 people there, 5 of which are Wilco residents and DSA members and 3 from the Austin DSA chapter (both the co-chairs and another member). The meeting did end up going over by a lot (over half an hour!), mostly because it was extremely informal and we had a lot of conversations about what we could do to help build membership, what we wanted to focus on, and how we could create awareness. Overall, I think I'm fairly pleased with how the meeting went, and was glad I didn't have to try to make people actually speak up. Next step is to get in contact with existing DSA members in my county, find a better meeting location, and start looking into meeting up with local organizations to get a feel for the area. surfacelevelspeck has issued a correction as of 19:35 on Apr 3, 2017 |
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Ace of Baes posted:Libraries are a great place for meetings, free to reserve a space, accessible to all people and public transit, and a subtle reminder of how the gov can be a force for good, also safe. Unfortunately, the libraries in Williamson County aren't free, they cost $15/hr+. Right now we're looking at invading the IKEA food court, or if we're lucky we might be able to get a couple hours free at a hotel since one of the austin dsa co-chairs knows people that work there. surfacelevelspeck has issued a correction as of 19:45 on Apr 3, 2017 |
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:it's a pity Danny Fetonte sniped her idea. Lol he's the co-chair of my local. Did his name get put on there twice? Looks like the page got fixed already if so.
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MrWilderheap posted:Speaking of Texas, I'm in the Austin area and I'd like to get involved with the DSA but I haven't been able to make the Thursday meetings. It looks like there's a WilCo DSA now which is awesome! I guess they are still working on finding a place to meet but I'm totally excited to get involved. Hey, that's me! I'm the co-chair of Wilco DSA! Right now we're struggling on meeting places, yeah, because Williamson County loving sucks and has nowhere you can meet that isn't a crowded restaurant or cost $50/hr minimum. We're meeting at a member's house in Leander this Sunday if you want to drop by! Another member and I won't be there since we'll be in Chicago for the convention, but the meeting's gonna be headed up by my fellow co-chair and it should hopefully be pretty productive! EDIT: Speaking of the convention, is there any plans for a goon outing one night? I'll be bringing a couple board/party games since our delegation has a bunch of nerds in it and gently caress yeah board games, but I think it'd be kinda neat to go meet some goony neckbeards for a drink or something. surfacelevelspeck has issued a correction as of 16:37 on Aug 2, 2017 |
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jarofpiss posted:im an observer and we just had a point of order that observers are not allowed to speak This is some primo drama at least. Glad I'm observing.
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jarofpiss posted:this fucken owns lol im so glad i have no responsibility here Yo where you sitting I wanna comiserate
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jarofpiss posted:im standing by the entry wall observing quietly Come to the Austin table we're 2nd from front, 3rd from left Dude with the dalek hat is at my table
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jarofpiss posted:im back at my houston table are you danny fetonte Nah he's the co-chair of my local. We can chat in the Texas workshop
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Kristian Steffany loving owns, yeah.
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an actual dog posted:Marxist at my table incredibly angry at Kristian Steffany lol Lol where? I wanna see her tear him apart
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Lol so goodbye to most of our members, monthly dues are in.
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So last night a bunch of us from Texas teamed up with Metro Atlanta DSA and projected poo poo on and pissed on Trump Tower. Was some good fun poo poo. I also am immensely impressionable and got my first tattoo: 
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Triangle Shirt Factotum posted:Yeah, I looked at what was going on in the Texas Statewide DSA facebook group, and they closed the thread when somebody asked about it. Danny is and always will be a staunch supporter of the cause. He would never say or do anything if he believed for a microsecond that it could potentially harm DSA. I am not a part of Austin DSA leadership, just a member, but knowing Danny, he's talking to the NPC so they can determine what is the best possible way forward. It's loving sickening to see so-called comrades, whom I just spent 4 days in solidarity with, completely throw everything we're supposed to be out the window to race to be the first to condemn someone without information.
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Ruzihm posted:https://twitter.com/statesman/status/894983526864609280 I know a lot of leftie Texans (myself included) have been trying to get Jim Hightower to run, but he seems pretty resistant sadly. I can't think of any other left-leaning person that would remotely have the name recognition to make a run against Abbot.
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TrilliontonNixon posted:I have to say I'm disappointed that there hasn't even been an official statement yet. Really aside from a few tweets from Austin they've beem pretty much silent about this. I hope the NPC dosen't think they can just sweep this under the rug. National Steering Committee (made up of 5 members of the newly-elected NPC and 2 members of YDSA) released this statement: https://twitter.com/NortheastGADSA/status/894975724712591362 It's not even been 2 days yet, chill your pill man.
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jarofpiss posted:after reading that bio again he didn't obscure anything and this is the DSA being guilty of high twitter.com crimes As an Austin member, obviously 100% agreed. However, you're not completely accurate. While the absolute vast majority of his work was in organizing non-police state workers like EMT and prison staff (cooks, not guards), and helped prevent prisoners being forced to have tattoos identifying them as HIV+, in his capacity as a CWA organizer, he also did in two instances organize a sheriff's office that was asking for collective bargaining powers. He's done an obscene amount of good, and I in no way think he was "guilty of omission" in his bio, but in his 40-year stint as an organizer for labour organizations he did end up organizing cops. It's also noteworthy imo that he hasn't been associated with CLEAT in any capacity for 4+ years, and the LinkedIn profile that shows up when you google his name was created immediately before the convention and is most assuredly fake. It shows him as a current CLEAT organizer (not true), shows that as his only work (not true), and shows his only connections as CLEAT (not true). Danny doesn't use the internet, period, and even his emails are done by someone else.
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The most active members of my local are basically some degree of libsoc or anarchocommunist, and since joining I've gone from "I think Socialism is pretty cool I guess" to "Revolution now! Smash the capitalists and burn their institutions of oppression to the ground!" under their tutelage. Hell, a good chunk of our delegation voted in favour of the amendments and resolutions that called for disengagement from the Dems.
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Dmitri-9 posted:That is a real position of the DSA? I thought someone was just being cheeky when they tweeted that out during the conference. To me it seems like a naive reaction to American style mass incarceration that swings so far to the other extreme resulting in stupidity. Not all crime is caused by material deprivation so I wouldn't be in favor of abolishing prisons and the police even in a Utopian post-scarcity society. The stance "calls for" the abolition of police and private prisons, but when you actually read it it calls for criminal justice reform, iirc. I think it was part of the Praxis slate.
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I Am A Robot posted:I 100% agree with this and I find people's propensity to form firm conclusions before details are investigated and confirmed to be both disturbing and unsurprising. It's surprisingly easy for things to appear one way and in actuality be another. Where was this posted? Wanted to share it with my Austin comrades.
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Impermanent posted:good poo poo This is some good poo poo. Do you have any suggestions for OCs that are incapable of meeting in any of the 6 types locations you mentioned? Wilco is a lovely place with no union buildings and conservative churches, and our public libraries are $50/hr for a room. Right now we just invade some random establishment and hope they don't kick us out, and our last meeting was held at a member's house in Leander because it was the only place we could find.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:i would hope they would hide it better than the dude who's linkedin was the second result for googling him To be fair, the LinkedIn is fake and was created less than a week before the convention, so... yeah.
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hi liter posted:It would help if Danny made a statement. I agree that he deserves the right of reply, but it's been almost a week and there's still mostly radio silence from him. I understand he's not very online, but it shouldn't be too hard to come up with a statement explaining his choices for others to distribute. The longer he waits, the more antsy people are getting. I'll agree this is a valid concern. I think Danny should've made a statement back on Monday or Tuesday, but he's been asked to not make statements and to Trust The Process™, and by extension he's asked the Austin chapter to not make statements on his behalf, and I trust his judgement in this completely. Unfortunately for me, though, I'm also red mad and nude so I'm gonna post anyways. In my opinion all that his silence and acquiescence to the requests of the interim committee has succeeded in doing is allowed for gross misrepresentation of the situation, with members of the interim committee attacking his character and equating him to a racist murderer. Calling him anti-democratic and passive-aggressively attacking him while claiming to investigate the situat- oh, sorry, investigating the extent of his "uncomradely, anti-democratic, and misrepresentative behavior" is a hosed up thing and has destroyed any legitimacy of the committee for me. EDIT: I should qualify this by saying that if they had kept their statements neutral or had given Danny the opportunity to speak instead of asking him to keep quiet and then attacking him, I would have fully accepted any judgments from the steering committee. It's the unofficial statements of their members that make seriously question their commitment to the democratic process. surfacelevelspeck has issued a correction as of 15:37 on Aug 11, 2017 |
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Zikan posted:Danny is just a test run of the new strategy for the DSA, "log off, comrades" not empty quoting
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jarofpiss posted:literally last night he was like "you know im not on the twitter like all of the young people and maybe i should..." and i had to jump in and be like "no dont do it god dont do that" could you imagine what his tweets would be like though? they would be amazing(ly long)
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jarofpiss posted:heard rumors of southern caucus working on taking down confederate statues which would be a real good campaign yep yep yep, if you want I'll pm you an invite so you can be in the (temporary) southern caucus discord
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Iridium posted:oooooooohhh danny fetonnnnnteeeeee
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bump_fn posted:someone get danny to run for governnor of texas god I was gonna say no but holy poo poo I want him to now
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jarofpiss posted:im ordering red folding chairs with dannys face printed on them so i can toss one to him at the npc hearing I need like 10 of those
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jarofpiss posted:the statement is unironically getting better every time i read it not empty quoting
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Business Gorillas posted:Having read that statement not only is Danny totally redeemed but he's also my dad now he was already my dad but now he's my other dad too. danny is two dads socialist dad and angry texas dad surfacelevelspeck has issued a correction as of 18:46 on Aug 11, 2017 |
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MrWilderheap posted:Every confederate statue should be replaced with one of Malcom X imho
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Tricky Dick Nixon posted:DSA's picking up some Dannymentum now. Where is this posted? Is it official? It's not on their twitter.
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Grand Prize Winner posted:i'm an outsider looking in more than a useful comrade right now but I have the same feeling. I hope most of us feel the same way, regardless of copghazi. dannygate
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Whatever made you join, however you got here, however long it took, it doesn't matter. Welcome to the fight, comrades. We're glad you're here.
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ThndrShk2k posted:Except for one thing: aw gently caress ya got me
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