Events

Field Events:

This skillshare covers talking with our neighbors (in person and on the phone!), building a field team, and welcoming & training canvassers during a successful field event.

What: We want to help spread skills and experience about the work involved in running for office or running campaigns to help elect people, particularly on doing so to elect socialist politicians. We also want to attempt doing these trainings in a way that utilizes trainings that already exist and experiment with different ways to make our organizing more accessible to the working class through recognizing people have varying schedules and learning styles.

How: We will ask people to watch a recording training video on your own time, and then participate in an asynchronous discussion document and/or attend a live discussion session with varying times for each training for participants to discuss, ask questions, and share insights and lessons from the training. We will also follow those discussion sessions with continued discussion on the Pittsburgh DSA slack to continue the conversation and make space for those who couldn’t attend the discussion. The asynchronous discussion documents will be sent after registration.

Join Soc Fem for our February meeting. We'll be chatting about abortion fundraising, expose fake clinics and our anti capitalist feminist coalition work.

Join us for our labor committee meeting!

Join us for our Internal Organizing Meeting, where we will discuss the current state of member engagement, onboarding, workshops, trainings, and more!

Join us for our April General Meeting!

Relational Organizing:

This session talks about reaching specific community groups, partnering with local organizations, friend banking, and meeting people on social media.

What: We want to help spread skills and experience about the work involved in running for office or running campaigns to help elect people, particularly on doing so to elect socialist politicians. We also want to attempt doing these trainings in a way that utilizes trainings that already exist and experiment with different ways to make our organizing more accessible to the working class through recognizing people have varying schedules and learning styles.

How: We will ask people to watch a recording training video on your own time, and then participate in an asynchronous discussion document and/or attend a live discussion session with varying times for each training for participants to discuss, ask questions, and share insights and lessons from the training. We will also follow those discussion sessions with continued discussion on the Pittsburgh DSA slack to continue the conversation and make space for those who couldn’t attend the discussion. The asynchronous discussion documents will be sent after registration.

April Housing Committee Meeting

If you’ve wondered what religion and socialism have to do with each other, we invite you to our Pittsburgh DSA religious socialism working group brainstorm. It is dedicated to growing the coalition of people in Pittsburgh who are interested in faith and a better world.

Join the Elections & Pressure Campaigns Committee to discuss ongoing projects like Defund the Police, budget analysis, ongoing relationships and pressure work, and in particular to help plan our work to support our three recently-endorsed candidates!

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