this is crazy tbh

i should note that, after she talked a lot of shit, sarah lost to me 4-2 in our field goal competition, so she’ll be calling in for an upcoming @bostondsa.org reading group for aziz rana’s THE CONSTITUTIONAL BIND. come hang with us! bdsa.us/rana

I think chapters that take on mutual aid projects can learn a lot from how Palm Beach advertises DSA and recruits through their projects. If tied together with a party building project, and a strong rank and file strategy, I think mutual aid can help build up our socialist party!

I think DSA chapters can do a lot to use mutual aid. In strike support, homeless defense and jail support it can be mobilizing for members and help us build a brand. But to do it right, we have to make sure it also builds our movements!

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I was really impressed by the curiosity of the chapter and how much they wanted to engage with national work. We spent two hours talking about questions from caucuses to Cuba.

there are elections like this across the country! Races like this will be a pivotal part of the dirty break. An election that can be won with 2,000 votes is a race that we can 100% win with a strong independent campaign.

we talked about elections and the dirty break. Some of the elections in their region have only a few thousand or a few hundred voters!!

Luckily that’s exactly something we’re working on with comms (news on that very very very soon BTW!) so that should be coming soon!

I asked comrades what could most help their chapter and one of the big responses I heard was that we need developed written materials on things like housing for chapters to hand out at tables.

They’ve also been putting together a pretty strong new member mobilization effort. Between these two things they’ve actually punched above their weight with recruitment and mobilization. They had one of the biggest turnouts for any chapter we visited!

There’s a few things that are important here. For a chapter that’s smaller and seeking to grow, it’s absolutely vital to have a regularly occurring event or campaign that can help mobilize members consistently

Like a lot of cities, Palm Beach has a housing crisis and an aggressive anti-homeless rich people. DSA has been working to set themselves at the center of the opposition.

Palm Beach comrades taught me about their mutual aid work. They’ve taken the lead in running a food network that was once a food not bombs program. Twice a week they hold food distribution, with DSA banners, flags and flyers, to help out the poorest residents in their county

first thing off the bat, I want to stress how important and impactful it is for people from national to meet with chapters like Palm Beach. People were excited! they wanted to learn more about convention, caucuses and national strategies