Sunday – November 22 at 2 PM PDT

Join the DSA Ventura County book club for discussions about selected readings. If you love history, the written word, or the world around you, then you belong here!

This will be a friendly, inclusive event open to all, regardless of prior experiences or familiarity with the topic.

YDSA National Co-Chair James Hernández observed Brazil’s Presidential election last month. They explain how student mobilizations secured Lula’s victory and the lessons socialists in the US should learn from that experience.

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A post-election victory call showcased newly elected DSA endorsees from all over the country. They agreed on one thing: The work is just getting started. 

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Seattle DSA stands in solidarity with trans youth and condemns the passage of Initiative 638, which cruelly targets trans girls and further harms their ability to live safe and fulfilling lives.

This year, reactionary MAGA millionaires sponsored three initiatives on the 2026 Washington state ballot. Unfortunately, one of those initiatives, I-638, passed in part due to their ability to buy an election with millions in spending and deceptive rhetoric. This means Washington state will soon require invasive medical tests and genital examinations as a condition before girls can play school sports. The initiative sponsors promote that horrifying policy, leveraging a moral panic about excluding trans girls, as ensuring “fairness” in girls’ sports. There is nothing “fair” about controlling people’s bodies, so Seattle DSA and our other statewide DSA chapters urged a No vote on I-638 in defense of trans rights, feminism, and workers’ democracy in general.

Now, I-638 will impose harmful consequences for youth in Washington state:

• Most critically, I-638 is a further assault on the dignity of trans girls, who already face a level of contempt and hatred that no child should be forced to endure. Trans girls belong in girls sports, period.
• Furthermore, the trade I-638 offers for girls in sports is a devil’s bargain. In exchange for the “fairness” of targeting a vulnerable minority, girls are told that violating their dignity and bodily autonomy with humiliating genital examinations and nosy, unnecessary medical testing should be a normal expectation in life. 
• Perversely, the time and energy spent discussing I-638 derailed sorely needed attention from real problems harming girls, like the epidemic of adult male coaches sexually abusing the girls in their care, inequality in girls’ access to sporting resources, and Washington state’s chronic underfunding of K-12 education in general. 
• Finally, while the initiative presents a misleading message about sex “verification” as an orderly process in a doctor’s office, the real-life experience spells a different story—one of trauma and class conflict. Medicalizing youth sports stokes the paranoia of competitors, coaches, and bystanders that any girl who does not present within a narrow feminine stereotype is inherently suspect or cheating. Girls of color already disproportionately bear the impact of this prejudice, and we fear I-638 will make that scrutiny worse. And the testing process itself reveals the actual character of these initiatives: I-638 forces families to choose between either expensive blood tests, or the lower cost genital examination. Presenting a choice to purchase dignity makes yet another way that the working-class are punished in Washington state.

Seattle DSA rejects I-638’s false conflicts and false solutions, and we stand with both the trans girls directly excluded by I-638 and the girls who remain to suffer. Our work does not end with one election result: we will explain why Washington residents should reject its implementation, and we will continue to advocate in the months and years to come for why trans, feminist, and Black liberation are an essential part of our collective socialist liberation. Together, in solidarity, we will beat back the fascists and show a better world is possible.

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Date: Thursday, November 12 at 5:30 pm

Monthly Steering Committee Meetings are open to members to observe but, generally, only Steering Committee members may vote and participate.

Written by Janette Zahia Corcelius & Jane Léonie-Bellay who interviewed students Smeal, Léon, Hamet, & Julia Introduction By Janette Corcelius Janette Zahia Corcelius is a member of the Twin Cities Democratic Socialists of America. Her background includes being a public school music educator and a union organizer.  What started as students striking for better learning […]

Date: Thursday, November 19, 6 pm PDT

Many hands make light work.

Please reference our Slack’s events channel, or general, for the Agenda.

Zoom Meeting link will appear upon RSVP.

This past Tuesday’s election results were a stunning popular repudiation of Trump’s neofascist MAGA movement and the GOP’s vicious brutality over the past two years.

A “Blue Tsunami” and across-the-board leftward shifts have overwhelmed voter suppression, gerrymandering, violent intimidation, and hundreds of millions of dollars in corporate spending to break 20 years of Republican control of the state government.

With the fascists routed, demobilized, and disorganized, we now have a historic opportunity to course correct and advance an agenda that centers the working class to reclaim our democratic, reproductive, and economic rights.

Democrats have won decisive majorities of the statewide popular vote, meaning our state government has a crucial responsibility and moral imperative to live up to the democratic mandate laid down by the people. The new Bottoms administration must seize the moment and deliver the transformative policy change that Georgia workers deserve.

Georgians deserve a state government that: 

• passes the Reproductive Freedom Act to end the abortion ban
• transitions to a 100% renewable green energy economy with publicly owned utilities so that the necessities for life are not tools for corporate profit and reliable public transportation across the state
• protects communities from ICE terror by ending the 287(g) program so that immigrants and communities of color can live in the peace that every American deserves
• guarantees healthcare, including trans and reproductive healthcare at all ages, as a human right because healthcare should not be tied to a job in an economy that is focused on replacing workers
• provides reparations for slavery to Black communities to make up for the systemic inequities Black communities still experience to this day
• repeals anti-labor right-to-work laws and makes it easier for workers to unionize, collectively bargain and strike, including in the public sector
• ends partisan gerrymandering and corporate spending in elections through fair, proportional, publicly-financed elections because elections should be about policy, not about how much money corporations and billionaires can spend
• divests from and concretely opposes war and genocide abroad through ending the GILEE program amongst others
• alleviates the burden of the cost of living for working families through deeply-affordable social housing, paid family leave, and a living minimum wage of $20 per hour so that having a family doesn’t mean financial hardship.

The people of Georgia have just delivered a historic refutation of corruption for the ultra-rich billionaire elite, and deserve a state government that works for working people to make everyone’s lives better.

Make no mistake: right-wing forces are already working to sabotage and undermine the people’s mandate. Despite decisively losing the popular vote for State Senate, the Republicans have held onto the chamber by a single vote through their extreme gerrymandering.

The GOP’s continued control of the State Senate runs contradictory to basic democratic principles, is fundamentally illegitimate, and must be shattered and broken through mass popular action.

But these Republicans will not be the only ones standing in the way: the corporations, lobbyists, and billionaires typified by The Atlanta Way will do everything they can to prevent this working class agenda from becoming a reality by leveraging the many moderate cowards, corporate stooges, and sell-out opportunists embedded throughout the Democratic Party to obstruct and co-opt the will of the people.

Over the coming weeks and months, Atlanta DSA and other grassroots organizations will continue organizing to ensure that we overcome resistance from reactionaries in both parties and clear the path for transforming Georgia for working people.

We are entering a new era for our state, and our struggle for social, racial, ecological, and economic justice is only just beginning. 

A better Georgia is possible, but only if we work for it. 

DSA is growing a mass movement of the working class by building worker power beyond the ballot box, in our streets, communities, and workplaces, and we need your help to do it.

Join DSA today to be part of the fight for a democratic socialist future!

DSA members and endorsed candidates racked up wins all over the country from local school boards to the U.S. Congress amid a historic rejection of reactionary politics and aggressive wars. This and more in “Red All Over,” Democratic Left’s occasional news roundup.

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