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21 Aug

August Executive Committee Meeting Recap

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Thanks to everyone that made it to our August Executive Committee (EC) Meeting! After our chapter bylaws vote at our last convention, we are still welcoming new EC members! The August EC saw new EC members from our South Side Branch, serving as EC Representatives for their branch. We voted to approve the August meeting agenda and approved the

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17 Aug

Learn about Harold Washington at the Upcoming Red Ed Working Group

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This Sunday Chicago DSA’s Red Ed Working Group is hosting a reading group discussion on Harold Washington. While not explicitly socialist, Washington was drafted from a grassroots effort to take on the Democratic machine in Chicago, and we can learn much from his campaign as CDSA approaches the 2019 Mayoral and Aldermanic elections, and as

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14 Aug

Socialist Feminism 101 Recap

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By Sean Duffy Last month CDSA’s Socialist Feminist Working Group hosted their first educational event, Socialist Feminism 101. A crowd of roughly fifty gathered at the Manning Branch Library, a midpoint between the North Side, South Side, and West Cook branches, and were led by members of the SocFem WG through a robust primer covering the

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12 Aug

This Week in the CDSA (August 12 – August 19)

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Good Morning Chicago DSA, I want to start out by giving some major kudos to everybody who was out in the heat yesterday. Whether it was those who were out at train stops talking to people about Medicare for All and CPAC, or the folks who showed up to march in the Bud Biliken Parade, you all are amazing. I wasn't there myself, but I'm assuming

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05 Aug

This Week in the CDSA (August 5 – August 12)

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Good Morning Chicago DSA, We had over 100 socialists at the New Member Orientation last week, which, if you're one of those new member's and you're getting this email for the first time: welcome! We've grown so much as an organization just in the last couple months and it's been amazing seeing so many new people stepping up and getting

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29 Jul

This Week in the CDSA (July 29 – August 4)

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Good Morning Chicago DSA, We just finished up a very busy week of socialism. There were lots of working group meetings throughout the week and then we capped it off yesterday with SocFem 101 and a Lift the Ban canvass. Hopefully you were able to make it out to at least one thing. I know that's always my goal for the week, get to at least one

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25 Jul

July Executive Committee Meeting Recap

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We recently held our first CDSA Executive Committee (EC) Meeting with our newest officers and under our new chapter bylaws! The meeting started with a review of feminist process, before we voted to approve the July meeting agenda and approved the minutes from the previous EC meeting in June. You can find the approved minutes from June’s

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22 Jul

This Week in the CDSA (July 22 – July 29)

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Good Morning Chicago DSA, If you're one of my many loyal (aka somewhat involuntary) readers, you may notice that the TWITCDSA email looks a little different than it normally does.  Not only does it now have some fancy images but the email address is different too. That's because it's being sent out with Action Network instead of the

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15 Jul

This Week in the CDSA (July 15 – July 22)

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Good Morning Chicago DSA, Wow, what a week. If you missed it, Cynthia Nixon, progressive candidate for governor in NY and star of Sex and the City, declared that she was a democratic socialist and reached out to NYDSA for endorsement. While this definitely seems a bit opportunistic surrounding the Ocasio-Cortez victory, it's really good

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08 Jul

This Week in the CDSA (July 8 – July 15)

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Good Morning Chicago DSA, If you haven't noticed, the DSA and talk of democratic socialism in the US has been everywhere the last few weeks. Whether it's Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's rise to fame or DSA's Abolish Ice actions (huge props to all of our activists that shut down a deportation flight on Friday, btw), we're getting talked about! And

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