Worcester DSA

📣Our club hike tomorrow has been rescheduled to this Sunday, same meetup time and place to avoid the rain!

WorcDSA is happy to announce our new Outdoors Club! Members will be able to hike, fish, and join other nature-related activities together once a month as planned by the Outdoors Club ☀️🏔️

This Saturday, the Outdoors Club will be hosting a spring hike! Members will meet at the Harrington Trail in Princeton, MA at 10am 🌲

RSVP: worcdsa.org/rsvp

Want to learn more about DSA? Join us this Saturday at 3 for DSA 101! Come ask questions, meet some of our members, and learn about how to get involved with DSA✊

🌹https://worcdsa.org/dsa101

WorcDSA is happy to announce our new Outdoors Club! Members will be able to hike, fish, and join other nature-related activities together once a month as planned by the Outdoors Club ☀️🏔️

This Saturday, the Outdoors Club will be hosting a spring hike! Members will meet at the Harrington Trail in Princeton, MA at 10am 🌲

RSVP: worcdsa.org/rsvp

Join us on Nakba Day, May 15, at 6:30pm for a screening of Palestine 36 to commemorate 78 years since the Nakba 🎥🇵🇸

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May 1st is International Workers’ Day! Join us in University Park at 6pm for a May Day celebration and hear from working people and union organizers about the labor struggle today ✊

Hope to see you there 🌹Solidarity forever!

This Saturday at 10, join Worcester DSA members for a nature walk through Purgatory Chasm 🥾🌲

RSVP for the meetup location 🌹worcdsa.org/rsvp

Want to know more about tenant organizing? Join us TOMORROW at 10am for a Know Your Rights info session at the Worcester Public Library 🏠

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This past weekend we celebrated five years since our chapter’s revival with our monthly General Meeting, candlepin bowling, and special anniversary buttons!

The old Worcester DSA effectively became inactive in 2020, and we decided to base the revived chapter’s fifth anniversary on its first renewed monthly General Meeting (April 11, 2021) because of member democracy’s central role in our chapter and GMs being its best expression

GMs are where we deliberate on and direct chapter work, and this month we debated a bylaws amendment, heard from our committees and DSA National Co-Chair Megan Romer, and got a finance update and chapter history presentation

Our anniversary button was inspired by a punny union button from the 2021-22 St. Vincent nurses strike, which our chapter rebuilt around with labor solidarity work, and by candlepin bowling, a classic working class New England sport invented in Worcester

12,000 workers once bowled in candlepin leagues at area employers like Norton and the then-Memorial Hospital, and after our General Meeting, we of course went out bowling (and recruited a new member!)

A few things that got us to 5 years:
📈 We’re a local group of a nationwide org
🫱🏼‍🫲🏽 We focus on struggle and engage with specific ones, but we’re not single-issue or open only to certain workers
📝 The members run this chapter and set collective action
🌹 We’re building a real political alternative for socialism

Don’t wait another five years — join us in the country’s largest socialist organization!
✨️worcdsa.org/join

This Friday, join Worcester DSA for a screening of Union Maids, and after the film, stay for a discussion with local union organizers and workers about the labor struggle today 🎥🌹

RSVP for the in-person location: worcdsa.org/rsvp

As we approach 5 years since the historic strike at St. Vincent’s hospital, hundreds of MNA nurses across 5 hospitals launched info pickets to demand fair contracts from UMass!🪧

Tons of DSAers walked the line with nurses, and we joined all 5 pickets across Central Mass!

UMass has spent the last several years building new hospital wings and paying millions to its president and CEO

Meanwhile, nurses aren’t asking for much: safe staffing and wages that actually keep up with their cost of living

We know whose side we’re on✊

Want to support working-class fights in Central Mass?

Want to learn how to fight for improvements at your own workplace?

worcdsa.org/join 🪧