Cleveland Democratic Socialists of America

Join us on Sunday 6/28 from 1:30-3:30pm to discuss Silky Shah’s Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition. This book discusses the intricate connections between the prison industrial complex and the state of immigrant justice in our country, and argues that in order to reach true justice for immigrants, we must also abolish the prison system as we know it.

Session 5 will cover Chapter 7: Abolitionist Approaches to System Change and Chapter 8: Beyond “Abolish ICE”.

A free pdf is available on the calendar of our website.

Happy Juneteenth, America!

This year on Juneteenth, we look back across history and find it very much still with us.

This is a day of celebration, but also of memory.

Cleveland DSA's Black and Brown Alliance wants to remind all of us that history is not past, it is present in more ways than one.

250 years of history. Of pain. Of struggle. Of victory. Of loss. Black Americans carry all of it with them everyday. Still they persevere; they flourish. They fight for a future worth believing in. They rise.

Frederick Douglass asks the eternal question: "What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?"

250 years later, we still are waiting for an answer. Meanwhile, we will celebrate. We will experience joy.

1 week from today is the Citizenship & Naturalization Clinic! https://form.jotform.com/261436313077050

Cleveland is NOT renewing their Flock contract. We are calling on City of Cleveland Heights, Ohio - City Hall to cancel theirs too! Surveillance of residents' movements from outside agencies is not safety.

read the story here: https://www.cleveland.com/news/2026/06/cleveland-council-committee-rejects-250000-flock-surveillance-contract-renewal-amid-privacy-concerns.html

Today, we remember the 49 lives taken ten years ago at Pulse nightclub in Orlando.

Join us Sunday, 6/14 at 1:30 pm to discuss on Silky Shah’s Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition. This book discusses the intricate connections between the prison industrial complex and the state of immigrant justice in our country, and argues that in order to reach true justice for immigrants, we must also abolish the prison system as we know.

We will be covering chapters 5 and 6.

A free pdf of the text is available on the calendar of our website.

Our statement on the cowardly deal that Cleveland Clinic cut with the transphobic Trump DOJ.