Events

RSVP here: https://actionnetwork.org/events/make-calls-for-independents-for-collective-power-carl-redwood-sam-schmidt-for-allegheny-county-council-4
 

Ready to help elect our endorsed candidates, Carl Redwood and Sam Schmidt to Allegheny County Council?

Join us to help make calls to talk with voters about voting for Carl, Sam, and their vision of putting people over profits in Allegheny County!

If you’ve never phonebanked for a campaign before, don’t worry—our phonebanks always begin with a training. We’ll make sure you know what to do, and we'll be there to help if you have questions. This event is remote. We'll begin by meeting over Zoom for a training.

Carl and Sam are united in their belief that capitalism is the problem, and socialism is the solution. They believe the crises Allegheny County faces – housing, food access, union busting, pollution, and climate change — are caused by a system where our right to basic needs for survival is violated if we can’t afford them — and where our County prioritizes those who run corporations, or profit from them.

Together the campaigns present an incredible opportunity in county politics to take a big step toward reprioritizing our government around socialist principles, and when we’re able to talk with people about them, voters overwhelmingly are excited to support Carl and Sam. The only question is whether enough people will know they have the opportunity to choose Carl and Sam in the November 7th Election.

Will you join us to talk with voters on our phonebank?

RSVP to let us know if you can make it and get dial-in info!

RSVP here: https://actionnetwork.org/events/knock-doors-to-get-out-the-vote-for-redwood-for-council-in-bloomfield-with-pittsburgh-dsa/

Join us Thursday evening for a Bloomfield canvass for Carl Redwood! We'll be meeting at Whitney Playground and start with introductions, the app we will be using to talk to voters, and the talking points and best practices that will make us the best canvassers we can be!

Welcome to the Jane McAlevey Reading Group! We will start by reading through Raising Expectations, a chapter at a time. Please acquire the book if you have not already done so. We will be reading and discussing chapter two at this particular meeting, our third meeting.

It's Election Day! Polls are open from 7:00 am to 8:00 pm. We need all hands on deck to hand out literature at polling locations, call voters, and send out texts. Once polls close there will be an election night watch party, location TBD.

A happy hour for the leftist community of Pittsburgh! Not a DSA member? No problem! Come be social with some socialists!

For November we are hanging out Nico's Recovery Room in Friendship.

Hello! Come see a screening of the movie Jenin, Jenin , directed by Mohamad Bakri. It follows the near immediate aftermath of a Palestinian town bombed and invaded by Israeli troops in 2002. Although it happened so many years ago, the messages of its people and the film are as true today as they were then. To help the Palestinian people as they stand now, there will be suggested donations collected at the event, as well as an online donation link in the next screen. It will be going to Pious Projects, a local team in Gaza doing direct material assistance to combat the horrific effects of the complete siege. They take no admin fee from the donations. A brief, informal discussion will be held after the movie to reflect on its content.

RSVP here: https://actionnetwork.org/events/november-ecosoc-meeting/

Join the Pittsburgh DSA Ecosocialism Committee for our monthly meeting. Discussion will include the creation of our new Free Pantry as well as any other business brought before the committee.

This group will be reading How to Blow Up a Pipeline, by Andreas Malm. Each biweekly session will read a different section. For this session, we will read chapter one, which is entitled "Learning From Past Struggles". For more information about this group as well as the full schedule, refer to the document here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16jDZ-L9rAaFh5puEiTd57yHGcYuf645ZuX5E4mEqP3s/edit

Join Pittsburgh DSA for its November General Meeting! At 6 PM there will be a "Comradesgiving" potluck and social hour before the meeting business starts at 7:00. We hope to make this a permanent feature of our General Meetings moving forward, bring friends and family who want some free food and drinks. If you want to show what you are bringing you can fill out the spreadsheet here​​ (or surprise everyone!)

Once the meeting gets going we will have committee report backs, a political education segment, and discussion over any business brought to the chapter internally and externally.

After the meeting ends there will be a post-meeting hangout at Nico's Recovery Room (178 Pearl St, Pittsburgh, 15224)

This meeting will be hybrid--the in-person portion will be at Community Forge, 1256 Franklin Ave., Wilkinsburg, PA 15221. To access the virtual portion, RSVP for the Zoom login!

This is the first meeting of the Discussion Group. Generally, we take two shorter socialist works(usually an article) that have differing views on the same topic. We then compare and contrast these works and determine the relevancy of each to the chapter's current issues. Our first two works are Socialism Is Not Charity: Why we are against mutual aid by Black Flag Sydney and Reclaiming Power: Mutual Aid in the United States by Daniel Parker. We have a zoom option and an in-person option now. Please take a look at this document for more information, as well as links to the works:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_AipLPlEsiQ_HTxWNrrLtAbXdTdueVpC3MNdHS9us5k/edit

This is the November meeting of the Political Education Committee. We have a lot of business to discuss as the chapter orients itself after elections, so I hope you can make it! Be sure to attend if you have any interest in the PolEdCom and its work.

Please join us over Zoom for the monthly Elections & Pressure Committee meeting! This month we'll be focusing on a debrief of the 11/7/23 elections.

Join the Pittsburgh DSA's Queer Socialism Committee for our regular monthly meeting for November. At this meeting, we will continuing to plan out future projects and events with a focus on uniting our work around a broader campaign. Please RSVP to see the full agenda, as well as Zoom info for those joining remotely.

Bloomcraft accessibility info:
At the main entrance there is one step at the front door of the building leading to a landing, two steps leading to another landing and five more steps into the lobby. There is a side entrance that has 2 steps leading to a 5 foot long landing where the door to the building is. Once inside the building there are another six steps and a door to enter the lobby. The physical meeting space is small, and high-quality (KN95, N95, KF94, elastomeric, etc.) masks will be required during the meeting.

Join us for our first meeting of the relaunched Internal Organizing Committee; the administrative committee that oversees the onboarding, orientation, retaining, growth, and development of the chapter membership. This meeting will be fully virtual; zoom link and agenda will be provided to those that RSVP