Upcoming Maine DSA Events

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https://actionnetwork.org/events/brunswick-renters-org-hybrid-bi-weekly-meeting-31825

Description:

The Brunswick Renters Org is meeting to discuss our plan to expand our work! Please come by and give us your thoughts.

We will be meeting in person at the Electric Cottage Collective coworking space! The business portion of this meeting will be hybrid, and the Zoom link will be shared upon RSVP. Please note that the meeting time is earlier than usual, from 4:00pm - 5:30pm.

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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.

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https://actionnetwork.org/events/rally-for-mahmoud-khalil

Description:

Join people from across Maine at a rally & press conference on Trump's lawless repression against pro-Palestine activists and migrants & refugees across the US.

Speakers include Portland city leaders, members of Jewish Voice for Peace Maine, Presente! Maine, the Maine Coalition for Palestine, and other civil rights advocates.

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.

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https://actionnetwork.org/events/south-portland-local-politics

Description:

This will be the second SoPo Local Politics meeting! Please join us to shape how we want to engage politically in South Portland. On the 18th, we'll be collaborating to co-create a stakeholder and power map! This event will be hosted at Second Rodeo Coffee (after hours, so just for this group!).

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.

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https://actionnetwork.org/events/reading-group-discussion-abolish-rent-part-2

Description:

We will be discussing the book Abolish Rent, learning about the history of the Los Angeles Tenants Union and what lessons tenants in Maine can apply to our organizing.
We will have two discussion dates to discuss the first and second halves of the book. This is the RSVP for the second date on March 19th, 2025 at 6:00pm.

This event is hybrid. The in-person event will happen in Room 206 at Curtis Memorial Library in Brunswick, ME. The Zoom link to attend virtually will be emailed to you upon RSVP.

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.

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https://actionnetwork.org/events/monthly-member-social-at-novel

Description:

Join us for our (Monthly???) member social at Novel in Portland, Maine! We've picking a new location each month, so join us this month at Novel on Congress Street!

Members and allies of Maine DSA will gather for a fun evening of getting to know each other, sharing stories and ideas, enjoying beverages, and growing closer as a committed community.

Since Novel is a book-bar, there's all kinds of drinks not just alcohol. And bring a book bar, bring a book you've been reading if you want to share it with the group!

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.

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https://actionnetwork.org/events/planning-for-march-art-build

Description:

This is a planning meeting for the March 29 art build at SPACE Gallery.

At this meeting we will:

• Sign people up for helping at the event, assign roles
• Make sure we have enough materials
• Decide on what fancy design
  • If you want to propose a design, please bring a t-shirt sized design to this meeting in PNG format so it can be considered. We will cast them into screens soon after this meeting.

Our planning document is right here.

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.

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https://actionnetwork.org/events/may-day-learning-from-our-past-fighting-for-our-future

Description:

Every year on May 1, the vast majority of countries around the world celebrate Labor Day, but the United States is not one of them.
The story of May Day, originating here in the US in Chicago, has survived and inspired generations of working-class organizers ever since 1886. For instance, on May 1, 2006, several millions of immigrant workers all over the US walked off their jobs and marched in cities large and small in what was the largest coordinated strike action in more than half a century. This year, Maine DSA is working with a coalition of labor and community organizations to bring the traditions of May Day back to Maine as the working class faces a concerted attack from Trump and his billionaire quislings.

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.

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https://actionnetwork.org/events/name-change-birth-certificate-amendment-clinic

Description:

Join us to get support with legal name changes and birth certificate amendments on March 23rd from 11a-4p. Event will be hosted at Maine DSA office in Portland. Address will be sent after RSVP-ing.

• Free notaries available
• Financial assistance for forms & postage available

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.

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https://actionnetwork.org/events/maine-dsa-movie-night-2

Description:

MEMBERS ONLY
Maine DSA is putting on a movie night for its members. We are starting with the Soviet animated flic, Return to Treasure Island.

This film was made to emphasize health, good diet, and exercise to the young people in the Soviet Union. Dr. Livesey is a larger than life character, a big upgrade from his minor role in the American film, who encourages abstention from alcohol and tobacco, while promoting good diet and exercise. The straight-edge heroes who follow his advice easily best their pirate combatants.
Celebrate a late Valentine's Day with your comrades! Bring a friend, a new perspective member, and/or your significant other.

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.

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https://actionnetwork.org/events/march-general-meeting-35

Description:

Please join us in person or online for our March General Meeting! The in-person event will take place at the Friends Meeting House in Portland, or you can also join online via Zoom. We have much to discuss, with updates from our Bodily Autonomy Working Group, to planning May Day activity, to discussing this year's national convention and much more!
AGENDA HERE (subject to change)

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.

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https://actionnetwork.org/events/palestinian-land-day-rally-and-march

Description:

On March 30th Palestinians around the world observe Land Day or Yom al-Ard to commemorate the 1976 protest in response to the Israeli government’s confiscation of 2,000 hectares of land belonging to Palestinians in the Galilee. The protest was met with violent repression from Israel. Six people were killed and over 100 were injured.

As the violence of the illegal occupation only increases, and Palestinians continue to be forcefully displaced from their land, the people of the world stand with them in opposition to the ongoing genocide by Israel and the U.S. and in defense of their right to remain on their land and their right to return to all their lands from the river to the sea.

As this is a coalition event, there is no mask requirement but we recommend you wear one to protect yourself and others.

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.