Milwaukee DSA Voting Eligibility Rules

Milwaukee DSA bylaw 3.1 defines members as, “those individuals whose dues are paid in full to DSA, who reside and/or work in the Greater Milwaukee area (Milwaukee County and the surrounding counties of Kenosha, Ozaukee, Racine, Washington, and Waukesha). Individuals may not be Members without being DSA members.”

Milwaukee DSA bylaw 3.5 states, “All Members shall be eligible to … vote in all elections and matters brought before Members, after having been a Member for no less than thirty (30) days …”

According to the above Milwaukee DSA bylaws, a Member must meet the following criteria in order to vote in all resolutions and elections:

• A Member’s dues must be paid in full for the duration of the 30-day period leading up to the day they become eligible to vote.
  • Lower rates are available and encouraged for Members with less financial means; dues waivers are available in exceptional circumstances.

• A Member must live and/or work in or near the Greater Milwaukee area.
  • Note that a person cannot be a Member of Milwaukee DSA without being a Member of DSA national.

• A Member must have enrolled or renewed their membership in DSA at least 30 days prior to the date that a vote is held or the election is opened. 
  • In an instance when a person was a Member for at least 30 days in the past, canceled their membership or let it lapse, and then renewed their membership later than 30 days before the start of an election, that member is not eligible to vote in said election. 

If you are not already a voting Member of Milwaukee DSA, take the first step right now by joining DSA or renewing your membership.

If you have questions about membership or dues, DSA has a helpful FAQ page. You can also email membership@dsausa.org. 

Events & Actions

Events with a are especially new-member-friendly!

Tuesday, January 13 (6:30 PM – 7:30 PM): Ecosocialist Bi-Weekly Meeting (Zoom & in person at 1916 McAllister St)

Tuesday, January 13 (7:00 PM – 8:30 PM): EWOC Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing Training (Zoom & in person at 1916 McAllister St)

Wednesday, January 14 (6:45 PM – 9:00 PM): DSA SF General Meeting (Kelly Cullen Community, 220 Golden Gate Ave)

Thursday, January 15 (5:30 PM – 6:30 PM): Education Board Open Meeting (Zoom)

Thursday, January 16 (9:30 AM – 10:30 AM):  District 1 Coffee with Comrades (Breck’s, 2 Clement St)

Saturday, January 17 (6:00 PM – 8:00 PM): HWG Food Service (Castro St & Market St)

Sunday, January 18 (11:00 AM – 1:00 PM): No Appetite for Apartheid Consumer Pledge Canvass (Outer Sunset Farmer’s Market & Mercantile, 1994 37th Ave)

Sunday, January 18 (1:00 PM – 3:00 PM): SF EWOC Flyering (TBD)

Monday, January 19 (6:30 PM – 8:00 PM): Homelessness Working Group Regular Meeting (Zoom & in person at 1916 McAllister St)

Monday, January 19 (6:30 PM – 7:30 PM): DSA Run Club (McClaren Lodge)

Tuesday, January 20 (6:00 PM – 7:00 PM): Social Housing Meeting (Zoom & in person at 1916 McAllister St)

Wednesday, January 21 (6:00 PM – 7:30 PM):  What Is DSA? (In person at 1916 McAllister St)

Thursday, January 22 (6:30 PM – 9:00 PM): DSA Board Game Night (TBD)

Thursday, January 22 (6:30 PM – 7:30 PM): Public Bank Meeting (TBD)

Thursday, January 22 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM): Immigrant Justice Working Group Meeting (Zoom & in person at 1916 McAllister St)

Friday, January 23 (7:00 PM – 9:00 PM): Maker Friday (In person at 1916 McAllister St)

Saturday, January 24 (11:00 AM – 1:00 PM): Physical Education + Self Defense Training (In person at Kelly Cullen Community, 220 Golden Gate Ave)

Sunday, January 25 (5:00 PM – 6:00 PM): Tenderloin Healing Circle Working Group (Zoom)

Monday, January 26 (6:00 PM – 8:00 PM): Tenderloin Healing Circle (In person at Kelly Cullen Community, 220 Golden Gate Ave)

SF EWOC Flyering

Our next NA4A consumer pledge canvass will be on Sunday, January 18th from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM at the Outer Sunset Farmer’s Market! We’ll meet at 37th and Ortega. This will be the first consumer pledge canvass of 2026, so let’s kickstart the year on a high note and continue our momentum from 2025 on making SF apartheid-free! RSVP HERE.

Maker Friday

Come make with us on January 23rd from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM at the 1916 McAllister office! We’ll be making buttons and zines. Masks required and provided. All are welcome, no experience necessary, see you there!

Emergency Tenant Organizing Committee (ETOC) Fundamentals of Tenant Organizing Watch Party

Join DSA SF’s Tenant Organizing Working Group for the Emergency Tenant Organizing Committee (ETOC) Fundamentals of Tenant Organizing course. We will gather to watch this training over four Saturdays in February. The first session is Saturday, February 7th 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM at 1916 McAllister.

NO ICE, NO WAR – DSA Brings Out Hundreds in San Francisco Protest

On Saturday, our chapter co-organized an emergency protest against Trump’s illegal and imperialist war on Venezuela and to demand the abolition of ICE. Alongside our comrades in East Bay DSA, we organized the rally and march within 72 hours, following a national call by the Democratic Socialists of America where our own chapter member, Savannah K., spoke.

This was the first local DSA-led protest and march since 2019. We sent out an email and text message to all chapter members, and organized flyering throughout the Mission, Bernal Heights, Divisadero, Civic Center, the Sunset, and parts of Oakland. Over 1,000 people showed up to attend the rally and march that began at 24th Street BART Plaza San Francisco. The plaza was flooded with red banners, handmade protest signs, and roaring chants in a powerful display of international solidarity with the Venezuelan people. Hazel W. from our chapter and NPC member kicked off the speeches that tied the imperialist attack on Venezuela with the violence playing out on our streets at home. “That same empire reaping violence abroad brings terrorism back home. They murdered Renee Good in Minneapolis. A mother shot down by ICE. They kill our mothers here and bomb mothers in Caracas. They jail our fathers here at home and murder them in Gaza. This is not a coincidence. This is a strategy. They divide us by borders so we don’t see our common enemy.”

We hosted speakers from the Party for Socialism and Liberation, Palestine Youth Movement, Nodutdol, Trabajadores Unidos Workers United, autonomous court defenders, San Francisco Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines, Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, Haiti Action Committee, and BAMN. The entire march, we saw a news helicopter circling above, and received coverage from ABC 7 News, KQED, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Our comrades produced our own media posted on our social media channels featuring protest attendees and DSA members.

While a nearby protest organized by Indivisible centered on ICE violence at home, protesters at the No War, No ICE protest emphasized the interconnectedness of both struggles. The No War, No ICE protest sent a clear message that ICE is doing exactly what it was designed to do: terrorize vulnerable workers with impunity. ICE operates hand in hand with the U.S. military and prison industries to create displacement through sanctions, austerity, and war, and then re-victimize migrants as exploitable labor once they arrive in the United States.

The San Francisco and East Bay DSA chapters, along with chapters nationwide, pledge to continue organizing against U.S. imperialism, to oppose unchecked executive war powers enabled by Congress, and to stand in unwavering solidarity with the Venezuelan people, immigrants, workers, and oppressed communities everywhere. To learn more about Venezuela, view this F.A.Q. There has never been a greater moment to join the Palestine Solidarity and Anti-Imperialist working group within our chapter. Join the #palestine-solidarity channel on Slack to get started.

Reportback: EWOC Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing Week #1

Last Tuesday we held our first session of the four-week-long Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) course Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing. Our group met in person at 1916 McAllister to watch the course plenary before diving into a discussion about the material we covered. This week’s topic was “Developing Leadership” and we heard from a federal worker organizer at Glacier National Parks. They spoke about the challenges of organizing in such a large geographic area with little cell service and how identifying leaders in each spread out department was absolutely key. Part of the lecture talked about the importance of charting your workplace, and it was interesting to hear how Glacier National Parks has different charts for the summer and non-summer seasons due to changes in the number of seasonal workers.

The next session will take place on Tuesday, January 16th at 7:00 PM, hosted at 1916 McAllister. It’ll cover the steps of the organizing conversation, a critical skill for organizing in any environment!

If you’d like to get involved with the SF local chapter of EWOC, reach out to the lead coordinator Caitlin S or email labor@dsasf.org. EWOC is a standing topic at meetings of the Labor Board, which are held every other Monday at 7:00 PM, both in-person at 1916 McAllister and over Zoom. Anyone is welcome to attend, and we’re always looking for people interested  workplace lead canvassing, organizer trainings, and volunteer outreach. If you’re interested in organizing your workplace and would like to be connected with an EWOC organizer, fill out the request form here.

A labor lockout is an effort by bosses to block workers from working in the midst of a labor dispute.

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Author: Mike Z

On Wednesday in Minnesota an innocent poet, journalist, and mother of three children was murdered in cold blood by a masked ICE thug. Renee Nicole Good was acting as a legal observer to the ICE raid in question, taking on an extremely important role in documenting the abuses our government inflicts upon us. This woman was just like you or me — an average person who is doing their part to try and help their neighbors in these dark and tumultuous times as our rights and liberties are stripped away and infringed upon daily.

There was a doctor on the scene who was denied access to Renee Good and held at gunpoint. Had the doctor been allowed to reach her, potential life saving care could have been performed. When the paramedics arrived, much like how Israel does when they brutalize a population in the West Bank or Gaza, they were denied access to Renee. They were then forced to walk on foot to retrieve her limp body to transfer to a location where she could be given treatment on the way to the hospital. She was pronounced dead upon arrival, succumbing to her wounds.

Renee Good’s life was stolen. Make no mistake with how the media is trying to spin this narrative, there was no justifiable reason to brutalize this woman, much less murder her in cold blood. There is no conceivable way to interpret the evidence we have in any other way than willful execution of a civilian by the state. 

It is a tragedy that three children, ages 6, 12, and 15, will now grow up without their mother. A six year old child has been made an orphan as a result of this sick transgression. This is someone who could have been the person in front of you in line as you wait in the grocery store checkout with your food for dinner. This family and the communities they inhabit will feel this loss for the rest of their lives. It is an abject tragedy that we cannot come together in the wake of such senseless violence to condemn an action that never should have happened in the first place. Her absence will be felt by many.

Renee Good is not the first person to have been brutalized or slaughtered by ICE and will assuredly and unfortunately not be the last. While other instances of violence lack the damning video documentation that Good’s execution had, that does not diminish the impact of them in any way. Just one day after her murder ICE agents opened fire on 2 civilians in Portland and wounded them – luckily as of now both victims have survived.  On New Year’s Eve an off duty ICE agent murdered a man in Los Angeles for firing off gunshots in celebration. All of this and more happened just in the first two weeks of 2026!

2025 was the deadliest year in the history of ICE – no less than 32 innocent people were murdered by their hands. And that doesn’t even begin to touch on the other various heinous crimes committed on the civilian population from sexual assault to unlawful and brutal incarceration. No doubt more incidents such as these are happening right now. I wish I could tell you things were going to get better, but I think the hard reality is we are in for things to get much worse. The state will be ever emboldened by this development as large swaths of the nation seemingly have been propagandized into not believing their own eyes. As the media manufactures consent for further acts of brutality on the civilian population we enter a new and frightening chapter of the fascist takeover of the United States of America.

With the imperial boomerang quickly finding its way back home, now more than ever we need to be standing with one another as community members with intertwined destinies. It should be clear to us with these startling developments in our country that no single individual will be able to stop these masked thugs from going neighborhood to neighborhood, door to door, acting with unaccountable impunity against our friends and family. The only way we can demand justice for these heinous crimes is collectively. Our government does not care about our outcry as individuals, but together we can make our voices heard in ways that none of us could ever hope to do on our own.

The most important thing for us to be doing at this moment is bolstering the human connections that bind our communities together. If our government will not defend us from an armed Gestapo, we must work to build those defenses together. Find local protests in your area to make your righteous anger known, join in on pressure campaigns to demand condemnation of ICE from our elected officials, help with rapid response networks tracking ICE’s actions in your area, engage in mutual aid to help the families of victims in your neighborhoods, or join an organization working to change the political character of this nation like the Democratic Socialists of America. Together we must stand as one in our quest for justice and rebuke this blatant assault on our base freedoms. We must refuse to allow the tragic martyring of those victims of ICE like Renee Good to be for nothing and ensure that it not be allowed to happen again.

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Avelo Airlines announced it will cease its Department of Homeland Security (DHS) charter service that transports detainees for the Trump administration, closing its Mesa, Arizona base on January 27. The budget carrier said the program had delivered only “short‑term benefits” but failed to provide enough predictable revenue to offset the operational complexity and costs involved. Avelo’s spokesperson, Courtney Goff, confirmed the move in an email to the New Haven Independent, noting that the airline began running deportation flights from Arizona last May amid growing backlash.

The decision follows months of protests and a boycott movement led by groups such as Connecticut Students for a Dream (C4D), the New Haven Immigrants Coalition, Unidad Latina en Acción, and the Democratic Socialists of America. Activists condemned the airline’s participation in what they described as “sloppy, dangerous” deportation flights, citing an American Prospect report that highlighted safety lapses. Pastor Jack Perkins Davidson warned that “human suffering is not profitable,” while Tabitha Sookdeo emphasized how community organizing and refusal to patronize harmful practices can force corporations to change. CEO Andrew Levy had previously defended the contracts on financial grounds, arguing they were essential to keep Avelo’s New Haven operations running.

https://www.newhavenindependent.org/2026/01/07/avelo-to-exit-deportation-biz/