What we do: The Boston DSA Ecosocialism Working Group aims to promote a socialist analysis amongst environmentalists and an ecological analysis among socialists. It does this by organizing winning campaigns that: 1) build solidarity among community members and key allies; 2) recognize and challenge the capitalist origins of our modern environmental crisis.
When we meet: First Thursday of the month, 7pm
E-mail: ecosocialism@bostondsa.org
What we do: We seek to influence electoral politics in the greater Boston area. Borrowing from the success of the NYC DSA electoral model, we are building the structure we need to run our own independent field operations, and we are starting to gear up to run some serious challenges, bringing the strength of our membership to bear on electoral campaigns.
When we meet: Second Thursday of the month, 7pm
E-mail: electoral@bostondsa.org
What we do: Boston DSA’s Housing Working Group is concerned with organizing around one of our most fundamental rights—the right to a stable and affordable home. In Boston, this right has come increasingly under attack as rent prices skyrocket, rising by 25% in the last five years. The Housing Group works closely with City Life Vida Urbana, a local tenants rights organization, as well as other community groups, to fight rent increases and evictions in the neighborhoods where these trends are most acutely felt. During the pandemic, we are building a Greater Boston Tenants Union to bring together tenants across the city, and organizing eviction defense canvasses to let tenants know how to fight back.
When we meet: Third Monday of the month, 7pm
E-mail: housing@bostondsa.org
What we do: The Healthcare Working Group is committed to the decommodification of healthcare. We are working on the long drive organizing in favor of a Medicare for All in Massachusetts bill.
When we meet: Fourth Monday of the month, 7pm
E-mail: healthcare@bostondsa.org
What we do: Labor solidarity is at the core of democratic socialist politics. Without a strong and organized working class movement we can’t hope to build the power necessary to challenge capitalism. To that end, the Labor Working Group works to identify ways DSA can work to support our comrades involved in local labor struggles, to talk with DSAers in unions about what it means to be a democratic socialist in the labor movement, and to work with new DSAers to help form unions in their workplaces. We are involved with the Emergency Worker Organization Project, an initiative of National DSA to help any worker who wants to organize their workplace.
When we meet: Third Wednesday of the month, 6:30pm
E-mail: labor@bostondsa.org
Internationalism & Immigration
What we do: The Internationalism & Immigration Working Group aims to build global solidarity for global liberation. We oppose globalized capitalism, imperialism, militarism, settler colonialism, and all forms of oppression wherever they occur. Capitalism is global — to defeat it, we must be too.
When we meet: Third Thursday of the month, 7pm
E-mail: internationalism@bostondsa.org
What we do: The goal of the Palestine Working Group is to advance Palestinian liberation.
When we meet: Every other Saturday, 4pm
E-mail: palestine@bostondsa.org
What we do: The Gender Justice Working Group organizes around issues relating to socialist feminism, bodily autonomy, and gender liberation in the greater Boston area and seeks to advance socialist feminist theory and praxis within the chapter.
When we meet: Not yet established
E-mail: socialistfeminism@bostondsa.org