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East Bay DSA Newsletter September 23, 2021
Godzilla, pure motherfucking filler; to get your eyes off the real killer.
Rage Against the Machine
Comrades,

There’s a class war going on and the frontline is everywhere. Capitalists have used the fragmentation and upheaval of the global pandemic to tighten the screws on workers, but we're standing together and taking the fight to them.
 
Look at HelloFresh: the company used the opportunity of COVID-19 to make enormous profits off meal delivery, while their warehouse workers in Richmond endured dangerous conditions, including a major outbreak of COVID at work. Well, now those workers are forming a union, and they're holding a community town hall today at 6 p.m. where you can hear their stories and learn how to support them.
 
Or take Instacart, who knew their workforce had limited job options during the pandemic, and used that leverage to successively decrease pay and improve their own (already bloated) bottom line; those workers are organizing a boycott of the platform, demanding occupational benefits and an end to Instacart's opaque and exploitative system of wages.
 
It's also true for AMPTP, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. Using COVID-era disruptions as pretenses, these huge companies are pushing a classic anti-worker agenda and stalling negotiations. So IATSE, the union for film and TV crews, is getting ready to vote on a strike for fair wages and working conditions.
 
When workers stick together and fight, we win - so join us! We have two major labor events this weekend (the Beer & Roses Social on Saturday and our monthly Labor Committee Meeting on Sunday) and a canvass on Friday for the AC Transit budget workers and riders deserve!
 
And if you do stay in one of these days or nights, do something for your fellow workers. Delete Instacart, get ready to support the HelloFresh union, and don't get so caught up in any on-screen drama that you forget about the villains off-screen, running the studios.
Our campaign for a Riders’ Budget continues tomorrow morning as we canvass riders in downtown Oakland! Together we can win the public bus system we need and deserve!
News and Information
Be sure to check out East Bay Majority, East Bay DSA's news source with a socialist perspective, for the latest news and information.

DEMANDING HAZARD PAY, TRANSIT WORKERS FORCE AC TRANSIT TO THE NEGOTIATING TABLE

All across California, frontline workers have demanded and won hazard pay during the pandemic, especially in grocery, retail and healthcare workplaces. Transit workers in the Bay Area, though, have not received one penny of extra compensation for continuing to work in life-threatening conditions. On July 28, over 40 AC Transit workers and riders spoke up at the AC Transit board meeting to demand transit workers be paid retroactive hazard pay.

Read more
Featured Events
While we are still mostly unable to meet face-to-face, events are still going on that you can be a part of. RSVP below to stay updated. You can also keep track on our Events page.

GREEN NEW DEAL FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS ORGANIZING MEETING

Tonight! September 23 | 6–7 p.m.
Online via Zoom ♿️
Join us to organize our campaign for the Green New Deal for Public Schools. Everyone is welcome--all skills, imagination, dogged determination needed.

Join on Zoom RSVP

RIDERSHIP CANVASS WITH THE PEOPLE’S TRANSIT ALLIANCE

Friday, September 24 | 9:30–11:30 a.m.
14th and Broadway, Downtown Oakland – RSVP here ♿️
Come join the People's Transit Alliance to build ridership power for a public transportation system that works for the working class of the East Bay! We are canvassing riders in Downtown Oakland to petition for a Riders' Budget. As riders and workers, we demand that:
  • AC Transit must spend the first $66 million of federal rescue funds now to hire and train transit workers, restore service (including paratransit), reduce fares, and provide hazard pay to the frontline transit workers who kept AC Transit moving throughout the pandemic.
  • AC Transit must make a plan for the next $44 million now, in public meetings that give transit workers and riders a democratic say in how and when those tens of millions of dollars are spent.
If you've never canvassed before, that's ok! We will have an optional prep Zoom call on Thursday, 9/23 at 5 p.m. (for those who can't make it, we'll also do a mini-training on Friday morning). The canvass itself is 9:30–11:30 am on September 24 in Downtown Oakland at 14th and Broadway. Please fill out the RSVP form linked in the button below attend.

RSVP

INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE STRIKE

Friday, September 24 | 10 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
Embarcadero Plaza, San Francisco Market & Embarcadero, San Francisco
EBDSA joins DSA SF to rally and march with Youth Vs Apocalypse for this International Climate Strike. We're showing up to support all the Climate Strike demands and to escalate our national DSA campaign for a Green New Deal for Public Schools. Join us; wear red!

Find out more:

https://www.youthvsapocalypse.org/

RSVP

INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY COMMITTEE MEETING

Saturday, September 25 | 10–11:30 a.m.
Online via Zoom – RSVP for info ♿️
Join us for our International Solidarity Committee meeting! We will discuss the state of international struggles, ongoing solidarity work with other organizations, and planning the future work of the committee.

RSVP

Phone Bank for the Green New Deal for Public Schools

Saturday, September 25 | 11 a.m.–2 p.m.
Online via Zoom — RSVP for info ♿️
Join our incredible New York comrade and author of "Red State Revolt" Eric Blanc for a special California-led phone bank on Saturday, 9/25, 11 AM PT to pressure Speaker Pelosi to include crucial funds for the Green New Deal for Public Schools in the reconciliation bill being considered this month!

Sign up here

BEER & ROSES LABOR SOCIAL

Saturday, September 25 | 1–3 p.m.
Snow Park, Harrison St. & 19th St., Oakland ♿️
Join the East Bay DSA's Labor Committee for our first Beer & Roses social in over a year and a half!

Meet, talk, and hang out with DSA members and fellow travelers who are interested in building worker power in the workplace and transforming the labor movement into a strong, militant, and democratic working-class force for change. Hear about what's happening in the EBDSA Labor Committee and learn how you can get involved.

Some food and beverage will be provided, but feel free to bring something to drink and share with your friends. Also feel free to bring yard games and wear your union shirt (or if you aren’t in a union, a shirt that says something about what you do for work).

Close to BART and bus stops. Accessible restrooms.

***In an effort to be safe and responsible with Covid, we ask that all attendees bring a mask AND their vaccination card. We will be keeping a record of all in attendance in case we need to communicate with you afterward about anything Covid-related.***

RSVP

LABOR COMMITTEE MEETING

Sunday, September 26 | 6–8 p.m.
Online via Zoom – RSVP for info ♿️
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].

RSVP

GREEN NEW DEAL FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS ORGANIZING MEETING

Thursday, September 30 | 6–7 p.m.
Online via Zoom ♿️
Join us to organize our campaign for the Green New Deal for Public Schools. Everyone is welcome--all skills, imagination, dogged determination needed.

Join on Zoom RSVP
Upcoming Events

CLASSROOM JUSTICE MONTHLY MEETING

Thursday, September 30 | 7–9 p.m.
Online via Zoom – RSVP for info ♿
Join the Classroom Justice Campaign! Classroom Justice is a locally-run campaign that seeks to fight against the injustices happening in our public school system by a cabal of privatizers, whose sole purpose is the dismantling of every public service in this country. If you want to join in the fight against these gentrifiers or merely have questions, sign up or send your inquiries to [email protected].

https://classroomjustice.org/en/

RSVP

MEMBERSHIP ENGAGEMENT COMMITTEE MONTHLY MEETING

Wednesday, October 6 | 7–9 p.m.
Online via Zoom ♿️
We need your help building a strong and active chapter! Join our next Membership Engagement Committee monthly meeting and learn how you can put your skills to work or grow new ones you never knew you had!

The Membership Engagement Committee was created for the purpose of initiating and sustaining our members' active and healthy participation in the chapter's work. We cannot grow our movement without engaging and fostering growth within our current membership. We strive to grow confident organizers and leaders as well as strong relationships between comrades in our chapter by supporting all committees in their work and creating spaces for learning and camaraderie.

Our committee builds and maintains projects such as (but not limited to) our mobilizers program, planning and execution of chapter socials, new member events, and Organizer's Toolbox Trainings, as well as managing the onboarding of new members. As our chapter grows we need to grow our efforts with it and would love to welcome new members to our committee.

Contact us at [email protected]

Join on Zoom RSVP
Catch up on Socialist Night School
CATCH UP ON NIGHT SCHOOL
Even with social distancing guidelines lifted, now's still as good a time as any to catch up on our Socialist Night School.

Catch up on past night school readings and videos below.

Watch past Night School videos

Catch up on Night School readings
Not a Member Yet? Let's Fix That.
DSA now has more than 90,000 members nationally, 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
Thanks to everyone who came out for our "Big Scary 'S' Word" Q&A on Saturday, especially our featured guests Yael Bridge, Claudia Jimenez and Vilma Serrano! If you missed out, you can catch the film and Yael at the Roxie next month: https://www.roxie.com/ai1ec_event/the-big-scary-s-word/.
Caucus Corner
Our caucuses organize events too! Check out the Caucus Corner of our website to learn more about the activities of East Bay DSA caucuses and how to participate.
Announcements
SIGN UP TO TALK TO A MOBILIZER!
Are you a new DSA member? Or are you looking to get more involved with East Bay DSA's projects and campaigns? Sign up to talk to a mobilizer!

Here are three reasons to sign up to talk to a mobilizer:

  1. Meet a fellow socialist organizer
    We want to build a movement of millions of working class people and change the exploitative and oppressive system in which we live, but we do that first and foremost by building one-to-one connections with each other.
     
  2. Answer your questions
    Learn more about DSA, the local East Bay chapter, and our different committees and projects.
     
  3. Get more involved
    The main thing a mobilizer will help you with is getting more involved in DSA. Maybe there’s a campaign or project you’re particularly interested in, or maybe you’re a blank slate and you don’t really know what to do. Either way, a mobilizer will help you figure it out.
Sign up to talk to a mobilizer!
Solidarity is not a matter of sentiment but a fact, cold and impassive as the granite foundations of a skyscraper. If the basic elements, identity of interest, clarity of vision, honesty of intent, and oneness of purpose, or any of these is lacking, all sentimental pleas for solidarity, and all other efforts to achieve it will be barren of results.
Eugene Debs

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-- Rage Against the Machine

Comrades,

There’s a class war going on and the frontline is everywhere (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Shelter) . Capitalists have used the fragmentation and upheaval of the global pandemic to tighten the screws on workers, but we're standing together and taking the fight to them.

Look at HelloFresh: the company used the opportunity of COVID-19 to make enormous profits off meal delivery, while their warehouse workers in Richmond endured dangerous conditions, including a major outbreak of COVID at work. Well, now those workers are forming a union, and they're holding a community town hall today at 6 p.m. (https://unitehere.jotform.com/212528155952155) where you can hear their stories and learn how to support them.

Or take Instacart, who knew their workforce had limited job options during the pandemic, and used that leverage to successively decrease pay and improve their own (already bloated) bottom line; those workers are organizing a boycott (https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgxjbj/instacart-workers-are-asking-users-to-deleteinstacart) of the platform, demanding occupational benefits and an end to Instacart's opaque and exploitative system of wages.

It's also true for AMPTP, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. Using COVID-era disruptions as pretenses, these huge companies are pushing a classic anti-worker agenda and stalling negotiations. So IATSE, the union for film and TV crews, is getting ready to vote on a strike (https://iatse.net/amptp-film-and-television-negotiations-stalled-union-to-hold-nationwide-strike-authorization-vote/) for fair wages and working conditions.

When workers stick together and fight, we win - so join us! We have two major labor events this weekend (the Beer & Roses Social on Saturday (https://www.eastbaydsa.org/events/1998/2021-09-25-beer-roses-labor-social/) and our monthly Labor Committee Meeting on Sunday (https://www.eastbaydsa.org/events/1655/2021-09-26-labor-committee-meeting/) ) and a canvass on Friday for the AC Transit budget workers and riders deserve (https://www.eastbaydsa.org/events/2000/2021-09-24-ridership-canvass-with-the-people-s-transit-alliance/) !

And if you do stay in one of these days or nights, do something for your fellow workers. Delete Instacart, get ready to support the HelloFresh union (https://unitehere.jotform.com/212528155952155) , and don't get so caught up in any on-screen drama that you forget about the villains off-screen, running the studios.


News and Information
Be sure to check out East Bay Majority (https://eastbaymajority.com/) , East Bay DSA's news source with a socialist perspective, for the latest news and information.


** DEMANDING HAZARD PAY, TRANSIT WORKERS FORCE AC TRANSIT TO THE NEGOTIATING TABLE
------------------------------------------------------------
All across California, frontline workers have demanded and won hazard pay during the pandemic, especially in grocery, retail and healthcare workplaces. Transit workers in the Bay Area, though, have not received one penny of extra compensation for continuing to work in life-threatening conditions. On July 28, over 40 AC Transit workers and riders spoke up at the AC Transit board meeting to demand transit workers be paid retroactive hazard pay.

Read more (https://eastbaymajority.com/ac-transit-jovanka-beckles-covid-hazard-pay-bus-drivers/)
Featured Events
While we are still mostly unable to meet face-to-face, events are still going on that you can be a part of. RSVP below to stay updated. You can also keep track on our Events page (http://eastbaydsa.org/events/) .


** GREEN NEW DEAL FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS ORGANIZING MEETING

------------------------------------------------------------
Tonight! September 23 | 6–7 p.m.
Online via Zoom (https://dsausa.zoom.us/j/97938031177) ♿️
Join us to organize our campaign for the Green New Deal for Public Schools. Everyone is welcome--all skills, imagination, dogged determination needed.

Join on Zoom (https://dsausa.zoom.us/j/97938031177) RSVP (https://www.eastbaydsa.org/events/1980/2021-09-23-green-new-deal-for-public-schools-organizing-meeting/)


** RIDERSHIP CANVASS WITH THE PEOPLE’S TRANSIT ALLIANCE

------------------------------------------------------------
Friday, September 24 | 9:30–11:30 a.m.
14th and Broadway, Downtown Oakland – RSVP here (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdyKRtDlY49yCIoaiuB4ICJ-JijR06nipROjiQ2V1jY8H4ZIg/viewform) ♿️
Come join the People's Transit Alliance to build ridership power for a public transportation system that works for the working class of the East Bay! We are canvassing riders in Downtown Oakland to petition for a Riders' Budget. As riders and workers, we demand that:
* AC Transit must spend the first $66 million of federal rescue funds now to hire and train transit workers, restore service (including paratransit), reduce fares, and provide hazard pay to the frontline transit workers who kept AC Transit moving throughout the pandemic.
* AC Transit must make a plan for the next $44 million now, in public meetings that give transit workers and riders a democratic say in how and when those tens of millions of dollars are spent.

If you've never canvassed before, that's ok! We will have an optional prep Zoom call on Thursday, 9/23 at 5 p.m. (for those who can't make it, we'll also do a mini-training on Friday morning). The canvass itself is 9:30–11:30 am on September 24 in Downtown Oakland at 14th and Broadway. Please fill out the RSVP form linked in the button below attend.

RSVP (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdyKRtDlY49yCIoaiuB4ICJ-JijR06nipROjiQ2V1jY8H4ZIg/viewform)


** INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE STRIKE
------------------------------------------------------------
Friday, September 24 | 10 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
Embarcadero Plaza, San Francisco Market & Embarcadero, San Francisco
EBDSA joins DSA SF to rally and march with Youth Vs Apocalypse for this International Climate Strike. We're showing up to support all the Climate Strike demands and to escalate our national DSA campaign for a Green New Deal for Public Schools. Join us; wear red!

Find out more:

https://www.youthvsapocalypse.org/

RSVP (https://www.eastbaydsa.org/events/2009/2021-09-24-international-climate-strike/)


** INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY COMMITTEE MEETING

------------------------------------------------------------
Saturday, September 25 | 10–11:30 a.m.
Online via Zoom – RSVP for info (https://www.eastbaydsa.org/events/1999/2021-09-25-international-solidarity-committee-meeting/) ♿️
Join us for our International Solidarity Committee meeting! We will discuss the state of international struggles, ongoing solidarity work with other organizations, and planning the future work of the committee.

RSVP (https://www.eastbaydsa.org/events/1999/2021-09-25-international-solidarity-committee-meeting/)


** Phone Bank for the Green New Deal for Public Schools

------------------------------------------------------------
Saturday, September 25 | 11 a.m.–2 p.m.
Online via Zoom — RSVP for info (https://actionnetwork.org/forms/phone-bank-for-a-green-new-deal/) ♿️
Join our incredible New York comrade and author of "Red State Revolt" Eric Blanc for a special California-led phone bank on Saturday, 9/25, 11 AM PT to pressure Speaker Pelosi to include crucial funds for the Green New Deal for Public Schools in the reconciliation bill being considered this month!

Sign up here (https://actionnetwork.org/forms/phone-bank-for-a-green-new-deal/)


** BEER & ROSES LABOR SOCIAL

------------------------------------------------------------
Saturday, September 25 | 1–3 p.m.
Snow Park, Harrison St. & 19th St., Oakland ♿️
Join the East Bay DSA's Labor Committee for our first Beer & Roses social in over a year and a half!

Meet, talk, and hang out with DSA members and fellow travelers who are interested in building worker power in the workplace and transforming the labor movement into a strong, militant, and democratic working-class force for change. Hear about what's happening in the EBDSA Labor Committee and learn how you can get involved.

Some food and beverage will be provided, but feel free to bring something to drink and share with your friends. Also feel free to bring yard games and wear your union shirt (or if you aren’t in a union, a shirt that says something about what you do for work).

Close to BART and bus stops. Accessible restrooms.

***In an effort to be safe and responsible with Covid, we ask that all attendees bring a mask AND their vaccination card. We will be keeping a record of all in attendance in case we need to communicate with you afterward about anything Covid-related.***

RSVP (https://www.eastbaydsa.org/events/1998/2021-09-25-beer-roses-labor-social/)


** LABOR COMMITTEE MEETING

------------------------------------------------------------
Sunday, September 26 | 6–8 p.m.
Online via Zoom – RSVP for info (https://www.eastbaydsa.org/events/1655/2021-09-26-labor-committee-meeting/) ♿️
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].

RSVP (https://www.eastbaydsa.org/events/1655/2021-09-26-labor-committee-meeting/)


** GREEN NEW DEAL FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS ORGANIZING MEETING

------------------------------------------------------------
Thursday, September 30 | 6–7 p.m.
Online via Zoom (https://dsausa.zoom.us/j/97938031177) ♿️
Join us to organize our campaign for the Green New Deal for Public Schools. Everyone is welcome--all skills, imagination, dogged determination needed.

Join on Zoom (https://dsausa.zoom.us/j/97938031177) RSVP (https://www.eastbaydsa.org/events/1981/2021-09-30-green-new-deal-for-public-schools-organizing-meeting/)
Upcoming Events


** CLASSROOM JUSTICE MONTHLY MEETING
------------------------------------------------------------
Thursday, September 30 | 7–9 p.m.
Online via Zoom – RSVP for info (https://www.eastbaydsa.org/events/1983/2021-09-30-classroom-justice-monthly-meeting/) ♿
Join the Classroom Justice Campaign! Classroom Justice is a locally-run campaign that seeks to fight against the injustices happening in our public school system by a cabal of privatizers, whose sole purpose is the dismantling of every public service in this country. If you want to join in the fight against these gentrifiers or merely have questions, sign up or send your inquiries to [email protected].

https://classroomjustice.org/en/

RSVP (https://www.eastbaydsa.org/events/1983/2021-09-30-classroom-justice-monthly-meeting/)


** MEMBERSHIP ENGAGEMENT COMMITTEE MONTHLY MEETING

------------------------------------------------------------
Wednesday, October 6 | 7–9 p.m.
Online via Zoom (https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89946522456?pwd=TDJ0Tzh3K0sxNzlGdHZlREdzMm96UT09) ♿️
We need your help building a strong and active chapter! Join our next Membership Engagement Committee monthly meeting and learn how you can put your skills to work or grow new ones you never knew you had!

The Membership Engagement Committee was created for the purpose of initiating and sustaining our members' active and healthy participation in the chapter's work. We cannot grow our movement without engaging and fostering growth within our current membership. We strive to grow confident organizers and leaders as well as strong relationships between comrades in our chapter by supporting all committees in their work and creating spaces for learning and camaraderie.

Our committee builds and maintains projects such as (but not limited to) our mobilizers program, planning and execution of chapter socials, new member events, and Organizer's Toolbox Trainings, as well as managing the onboarding of new members. As our chapter grows we need to grow our efforts with it and would love to welcome new members to our committee.

Contact us at [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])

Join on Zoom (https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89946522456?pwd=TDJ0Tzh3K0sxNzlGdHZlREdzMm96UT09) RSVP (https://www.eastbaydsa.org/events/2002/2021-10-06-membership-engagement-committee-monthly-meeting/)


CATCH UP ON NIGHT SCHOOL
Even with social distancing guidelines lifted, now's still as good a time as any to catch up on our Socialist Night School.

Catch up on past night school readings and videos below.

Watch past Night School videos (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeMYhhCCTFq1jGdOt6lcF8l7HQJwnJndD)

Catch up on Night School readings (https://www.eastbaydsa.org/night-school/)


Not a Member Yet? Let's Fix That.
DSA now has more than 90,000 members nationally, 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 (http://dsausa.org/join?source=East%20Bay)


Caucus Corner
Our caucuses organize events too! Check out the Caucus Corner of our website (https://www.eastbaydsa.org/about/caucuses/) to learn more about the activities of East Bay DSA caucuses and how to participate.


Announcements


SIGN UP TO TALK TO A MOBILIZER!
Are you a new DSA member? Or are you looking to get more involved with East Bay DSA's projects and campaigns? Sign up to talk to a mobilizer!

Here are three reasons to sign up to talk to a mobilizer:
1. Meet a fellow socialist organizer
We want to build a movement of millions of working class people and change the exploitative and oppressive system in which we live, but we do that first and foremost by building one-to-one connections with each other.

2. Answer your questions
Learn more about DSA, the local East Bay chapter, and our different committees and projects.

3. Get more involved
The main thing a mobilizer will help you with is getting more involved in DSA. Maybe there’s a campaign or project you’re particularly interested in, or maybe you’re a blank slate and you don’t really know what to do. Either way, a mobilizer will help you figure it out.

Sign up to talk to a mobilizer! (https://forms.gle/np21b7Jt225z4xmq5)


Solidarity is not a matter of sentiment but a fact, cold and impassive as the granite foundations of a skyscraper. If the basic elements, identity of interest, clarity of vision, honesty of intent, and oneness of purpose, or any of these is lacking, all sentimental pleas for solidarity, and all other efforts to achieve it will be barren of results.

-- Eugene Debs

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