Sidebar Calendar

Monthly health justice meeting

This is a meeting of members interested in helping plan a chapter-wide strategy session in mid-August to guide our electoral work. This planning meeting will discuss dates for the strategy session, topic ideas, turnout/invite plans, and more.

Join us for an in-person meetup with EPC folks and our endorsed City Councilwoman, Deb Gross!

https://pghdsa.solidarity.tech/social-meetup-with-councilwoman-deb-gross-epc?r=xczeFBMy

Panel on UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE especially in PA. No RSVP needed

Join us as we collect pledge signatures and talk to people about how they can be Apartheid-free! We will be at the Bloomfield Farmers Market this week.

Join us as we write letters of solidarity to the Prairieland Defendants. 

RSVP Here: https://pghdsa.solidarity.tech/letterwriting-for-praireland-defendents

Workers have tremendous power to fight back against a system that treats them like dirt. As socialists, we believe the workplace is a key site of struggle that connects members of the working class and shows them the collective power they have to win a better world.

Pittsburgh DSA supports labor organizing through:

-Solidarity with workers (Supporting their picket lines, rallies, and other calls to action)
-Helping to mentor workers looking to organize their workplaces (through EWOC)
-Connecting socialists and union members who want to make their unions stronger, militant fighting organizations
-Developing and training our members and the community.

RSVP for the Zoom link!

Please join use for our first session of reading "Love in a F*cked-Up World" by Dean Spade

https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/dean-spade/love-in-a-fcked-up-world/9781643756462/  

Book Summary:

In this inspiring self-help handbook, a trans activist dares us to be the change we want to see—both out in the world, and amongst our closest connections.

Lifelong activist and educator Dean Spade dares us to decide that our interpersonal actions are not separate from our politics of liberation and resistance. Many activist projects and resistance groups fall apart because people treat each other poorly, trying desperately to live out the cultural myths about dating and relationships that we are fed from an early age. 

How do we divest from the idea that one romantic partner will be the solution to all our problems? How do we bring our best thinking about freedom and justice into step with our desires for healing and connection?  

Love in a F*cked-Up World is a resounding call to action and a practical manifesto for how to combat cultural scripts and take our relationships into our own hands, preparing us for the work of changing the world. 

https://pghdsa.solidarity.tech/cuba-italy-film-screening-fundraiser-social

Join us for a fundraiser screening of the new film by Belly of the Beast, From Cuba to Calabria. This short documentary follows a group of Cuban doctors who leave their families behind to serve a two-year medical mission in Calabria, Italy’s most impoverished region. From Cuba to Calabria offers rare inside access to a Cuban medical mission in Europe — revealing the human stories behind a program that has become both a lifeline for underserved communities and a flashpoint in international politics.

Join us as we canvass businesses to join the NA4A campaign! We will be in the Southside area this week.

Pittsburgh DSA hosts a monthly happy hour for workers to gather, build bonds across workplaces, and talk about organizing. Bring a co-worker, invite your unionized friends and your yet-to-be-organized friends, and enjoy the solidarity!

Please join us for our Political Education Committee Meeting on August 6th at 6:30 PM. We will be discussing about current reading projects and planning our monthly General Body Meeting political education segment.

Monthly Electoral Research Subcommittee Meeting (https://pghdsa.solidarity.tech/electoral-research-subcommittee-meeting).

Join us for a New Member Orientation, open to non-members! Learn what DSA is doing to meet the current political moment and how you can get involved in our movement.

The orientation will be a quick hour and a half with opportunities to hear from members and ask questions. We will follow it with a social hour afterwards. 

RSVP here: https://pghdsa.solidarity.tech/new-member-orientation