Upcoming Maine DSA Events

More Info and RSVP:
https://actionnetwork.org/events/bangor-working-group-meeting-16

Description:

The Bangor Working Group is organizing DSA members in Bangor and the surrounding areas. Our group is focused on building working class solidarity through educational events, forming coalitions, and participating in actions. Each meeting we discuss upcoming events we'll host, updates on what other organizations are doing, and how we want to specifically organize in Bangor.

Mask Policy:
If this event is in-person and you would like this to be a masked event, please contact a Maine DSA Accessibility Officer at accessibility@mainedsa.org at least 3 days ahead of time. For complete details about this policy, click here.

More Info and RSVP:
https://actionnetwork.org/events/special-gm-endorsement-of-lewiston-campaign

Description:

All Chapter members in good standing are invited to attend a Special General Meeting on September 14th to consider a proposal by our Lewiston/Auburn Local Campaign Committee. The Committee is seeking approval for a campaign to defeat Lewiston Municipal Question 1 & to formally endorse a “NO on Question 1” position.

This meeting is for Chapter members in good standing only. Please RSVP to receive a Zoom Registration link. Filling out the Zoom registration link is required to attend the meeting.

Mask Policy:
If this event is in-person and you would like this to be a masked event, please contact a Maine DSA Accessibility Officer at accessibility@mainedsa.org at least 3 days ahead of time. For complete details about this policy, click here.

More Info and RSVP:
https://actionnetwork.org/events/public-housing-and-public-banking-engels-and-the-housing-question

Description:

Maine DSA is running a four-part series on public housing and public banking. Session one is a screening and discussion of Finding the Money. Session three covers how deregulation gutted public credit and housing starting in the 1970s. Session four makes a focus on a state public bank and a Vienna-style public housing model, where the city builds and owns housing directly instead of subsidizing private developers to do it.

This session, before we get into history and solutions, sets the theoretical groundwork: what's actually broken about housing under capitalism.

We're reading Friedrich Engels' The Housing Question. Engels wrote it in 1872 to demolish the reformist idea that better landlords, better regulation, or workers buying their own homes could fix a housing crisis that's built into capitalism itself. That argument still holds up, and it's a helpful foundation for everything else this series will cover. You can read it free here.

Reading it beforehand will help with the discussion, but it's not required. Come whether you've read the whole thing or none of it.

RSVP to get the Zoom link

Mask Policy:
If this event is in-person and you would like this to be a masked event, please contact a Maine DSA Accessibility Officer at accessibility@mainedsa.org at least 3 days ahead of time. For complete details about this policy, click here.

More Info and RSVP:
https://actionnetwork.org/events/bodily-autonomy-working-group-meeting-40

Description:

Come organize with us to protect our access to reproductive and trans healthcare!

Mask Policy:
If this event is in-person and you would like this to be a masked event, please contact a Maine DSA Accessibility Officer at accessibility@mainedsa.org at least 3 days ahead of time. For complete details about this policy, click here.