There's never been a more exciting time to be in DSA. As you may have heard, a democratic socialist recently won the New York City mayoral primary.

33-year-old Zohran Mamdani's unexpected victory over former governor Andrew Cuomo in America's biggest city demonstrates the power of politics that centers the material needs of the working class. Amid numerous reasons for despair, it shows that DSA can offer a path forward. It's a moment of national significance, and now we need to take the model nationwide.

You can play a part by joining DSA and getting involved in your local chapter. Scroll down for our calendar of meetings in July.

You'll notice that it doesn't include a chapter or branch meeting. Instead, we've planned a couple outdoor social events for the summer. One of them is tomorrow (6/29)!

Come to Waterbury Center State Park (177 Reservoir Rd.) at 9:30 a.m. or to Stowe's Sterling Pond Trailhead (6443 Mountain Rd.) at 10 a.m. and spend a day in nature with other socialists. You can hang out with us again on July 20 at Burlington's Oakledge Park (11 Flynn Ave.), where a picnic will begin at 4:30 p.m. Feel free to email us at this address if you have any questions about either event.

We're getting folks together in part because we're trying to raise funds for our chapter's elected delegates in advance of the 2025 DSA National Convention in Chicago, where they'll debate resolutions and help choose a new National Political Committee. If we want our chapter's voice represented in August, we need to make sure that our representatives can afford the trip. You can donate here.

Finally, you may have heard that downtown Burlington is getting a new movie theater in the fall. If you noticed its name or read about its democratic governance, you may guessed that socialists had something to do with it. GMDSA has endorsed Partizanfilm, a cooperative, grassroots project to build a not-for-profit cinema for the people. Consider becoming a member! And please tell them we sent you on their signup form.

GMDSA MEETINGS
🚲 GMDSA's Urbanism Committee will meet on Monday, July 7, at 6 p.m. on Zoom.

🧑‍🏭 Talk about your job and learn about shop-floor organizing from peers at Workers' Circle (co-hosted by the Green Mountain IWW) on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month, including July 9, at 6 p.m. at Migrant Justice (179 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington).

🔨 Our Labor Committee will hold its next meeting on Monday, July 14, at 6 p.m. on Zoom.

🗳️ The next meeting of our Electoral Committee will take place on Wednesday, July 16, at 6 p.m. on Zoom.

🏳️‍⚧️ Our Gender & Sexuality Committee will meet on Monday, July 21, at 7 p.m. on Zoom.

🤝 Find out how you can help our Membership Committee improve recruitment and involvement in our chapter on Tuesday, July 22, at 6 p.m. on Zoom.

🎥 Socialist Film Club will temporarily go remote next month. July's pick is the Italian drama The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971), available via Solidarity Cinema. After watching it individually at home, we'll discuss it together at Zero Gravity (716 Pine St., Burlington) on Friday, July 25, at 8 p.m.

🍉 Our Palestine Solidarity Committee will meet on Monday, July 28, at 7 p.m. on Zoom.

STATE AND LOCAL NEWS
📰 About 16,500 protesters rallied against President Trump in Burlington on No Kings Day, which may have been the state's most active day of political demonstrations ever.

📰 The Vermont Progressive Party needs a new executive director.

COMMUNITY FLYERS

A review of Malcolm Harris' recent ecosocialist proposals.

Has the US Left's failure to unite around a Black presidential candidate damaged trust and relations of solidarity?

Review of Mark Fisher's dissertation and the strategic limits of Marxist cultural criticism.

Boycotts to protect DEI and workplace diversity are strengthened by lessons from the Black civil rights movement

Speaking to a renewed age of public-sector austerity, a history of US postal worker organizing

Metro DC has elected a range of political tendencies to represent the chapter at the 2025 convention; a brief analysis.

An empathetic understanding of a recent DSA social-media discourse and questions about caucuses and representation

Hear from union leaders, DSA campaign organizers, and socialists in office who are continuing the fight for a better future. Given the hostile federal terrain we now face, local pressure campaigns in our communities and bargaining for the common good in our union contracts are the most viable pathways for winning a socialist Green New Deal this decade.

Speakers

• Thea Riofrancos (author, A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal)
• Ashik Siddique (DSA National Political Committee, Co-Chair)
• Sarahana Shrestha (Mid-Hudson Valley DSA, Assembly District 103)
• Kelsea Bond (Atlanta DSA, council candidate)
• Alex Brower (Milwaukee DSA, Common Council District 3 representative elect)
• Michael B (Louisville DSA)
• Sam Z (DSA Los Angeles)

The post Mass Call: The Fight for a Socialist Green New Deal appeared first on Building for Power.

The Milwaukee Democratic Socialists of America [DSA] condemn the U.S. and Israel’s war with Iran and demand that U.S. leaders move towards disengagement instead of continuing the destruction of the region. 

After decades of crying “nuclear,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and American President Donald Trump have sparked a hot war that will directly impact 90 million Iranians, 10 million Israelis and 4 million Palestinians living in the region. It will also indirectly affect people around the world, including those in Milwaukee, as the economic impact takes hold. 

“This is yet another example of unnecessary American intervention in the Middle East,” Milwaukee DSA leader Pamela Westphal said. “While thousands of Americans every day struggle to have adequate access to food, shelter, water, education and transportation, the U.S. government uses the same taxpayer dollars that could alleviate these problems to bomb innocent civilians in Iran.”

Though Trump has characterized this initial attack as necessary to bring peace, we recognize the self-fulfilling nature of a nuclear nation baiting and bombing another nation over unproven claims of that nation’s combative intentions.

Already, Israel, the U.S. and their allies have spent decades destabilizing the region. In the past three years, Israel’s escalated ethnic cleansing of Palestine alone has led to international charges of war crimes and condemnation from countries around the world.

“To our Iranian brothers and sisters in Milwaukee and beyond, I pray for your safety and healing as this war is reignited,” Westphal said. “And to our Muslim neighbors here in Milwaukee, we stand in solidarity with you against Islamophobia and U.S. intervention in the Middle East.”

Just a generation after the horrific occupation of Iraq, Americans should know better than to beat the drums of regime change or to join a war that has already cost hundreds of civilian lives. Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen and Afghanistan remain battered by American and allied meddling, their communities facing some of the world’s worst living conditions. We hope U.S. leaders will do the right thing and move towards immediate peace instead of continuing down a long road of death and destruction.

Milwaukee DSA is Milwaukee’s largest socialist organization fighting for a democratic economy, a just society, and a sustainable environment. Join today at dsausa.org/join.