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15Apr

Good Morning Chicago DSA To start, I'd like to offer a huge congratulations to the Bowletariats who, despite the rain, threw a great party last night and ended up raising over $900 for abortion access and reproductive justice. I know I had a great time hanging out with my comrades, although the trade off is that I'm writing this email with a

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08Apr

  Good Morning Chicago DSA I hope everyone had a most excellent week. I know quite a few of you are currently attending the Labor Notes conference this weekend and, let me just say, your social media posts are making me jealous. It's really exciting to see such a large DSA presence there. Socialism isn't going to win without the labor

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05Apr

A message from one of CDSA’s 2018 Bowletariats bowlers & CDSA Socialist Feminism Working Group Co-Chair, Rachel Zibrat: It surprises many people to learn that there are anti-abortion protesters outside abortion clinics in Chicago. Surely, they say, this can’t be a problem in a huge and notably liberal city. This is a misconception:

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01Apr

  Good Morning Chicago DSA   We've got a light schedule this week. A couple of working group meetings. A panel on Food and Socialism (Highly recommend, btw!). And that's it! If I'm being honest, I kinda appreciate that, at least for just one week. It makes writing this email a lot easier, that's for sure. But! Since you all have so

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30Mar

A message from one of CDSA’s 2018 Bowletariats bowlers, Laura Colaneri: March 10 was National Abortion Provider Appreciation Day. Doctors and nurses that provide abortion often do so under not just pressure and stigma, but threat of violence from anti-choice extremists. Their courage and dedication to providing necessary healthcare puts me in

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22Mar

A message from CDSA’s 2018 Bowletariats Co-Captains, Adriana Scurto and Mimi Stern: Come to any general membership or branch meeting and it quickly becomes clear - Chicago Democratic Socialists of America is a big tent organization, baby! It’s part of what makes us so strong, part of what reminds us of just how powerful collective unity and

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27Dec

The Chicago Democratic Socialists of America are proud to announce our endorsement of Carlos Ramirez-Rosa in his run for the 4th Congressional District of Illinois. Carlos has been a loyal comrade of CDSA for several years, and, during his time as alderman for the city’s 35th Ward, has repeatedly demonstrated that he both believes in and

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20Dec

by Patrick Quinn and Eric Shuster             Bill Pelz, a well-known socialist activist and prolific scholar in the field of European and comparative Labor History died at the age of 66 in Chicago on Sunday, December 10, 2017, following a heart attack.  Bill was born into a working class family on the South Side of Chicago. After

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19Dec

On Sunday December 10, 2017, we held our best-attended general meeting yet! 142 members were physically present and 23 voted by proxy. At the meeting, membership had the chance to review and revise the decisions made by the Executive Committee since June of this year and to hear updates from the campaigns that are ongoing in our chapter and in the

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