Boston DSA has a variety of working groups for you to be involved in, whatever your interests. Below are the names, descriptions, and contact e-mail of our current working groups.
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Immigration
The Immigration Working Group works in solidarity with (im)migrant-led groups in Boston to help build a broad cultural and legislative campaign in the name of dignity, respect, and political protection for the (im)migrant working class.
Labor
Labor solidarity is at the core of democratic socialist politics. Without a strong and organized working class movement we can’t hope to build the power necessary to challenge capitalism. To that end, the labor sub-working group works to identify ways DSA can work to support our comrades involved in local labor struggles, to talk with DSAers in unions about what it means to be a democratic socialist in the labor movement, and to work with new DSAers to help form unions in their workplaces.
Electoral
The Electoral Working Group seeks to influence electoral politics in the greater Boston area through endorsing candidates, volunteering for campaigns, and training on skills and issues.
Healthcare
The Healthcare Working Group is oriented around the goal of achieving a decommodified healthcare system. The group is launching a Medical Debt Relief campaign in the second half of 2018 and plans to support national organizing efforts around Medicare for All.
Ecosocialism
The Boston DSA Ecosocialism Working Group aims to promote a socialist analysis amongst environmentalists and an ecological analysis among socialists. It does this by organizing winning campaigns that: 1) build solidarity among community members and key allies; 2) recognize and challenge the capitalist origins of our modern environmental crisis.
Political Education
The goal of the Political Education Working Group is to provide our members with the practical skills and theoretical knowledge to undertake effective organizing work and to educate the general public on DSA’s vision of a socialist future, our approach to achieving, and our perspectives on relevant issues.
Mental Health
The mental health working group aims to investigate, discuss, and confront the deleterious effects of capitalism on mental health. We address the material and emotional needs and respect and support the autonomy of neurodivergent individuals & those who struggle with substance use disorders.
Housing
Boston DSA’s Housing Working Group is concerned with organizing around one of our most fundamental rights — the right to a stable and affordable home. In Boston this right has come increasingly under attack as rent prices skyrocket, rising by 25% in the last five years. The Housing Group works closely with City Life Vida Urbana, a local tenants rights organization, as well as other community groups, to fight rent increases and evictions in the neighborhoods where these trends are most acutely felt.
Internationalism
The Internationalism Working Group aims to build global solidarity for global liberation. We oppose globalized capitalism, imperialism, militarism, settler colonialism, and all forms of oppression wherever they occur. Capitalism is global — to defeat it, we must be too.
Socialist Feminism
The Socialist Feminism Working Group organizes around issues relating to socialist feminism, bodily autonomy, and gender liberation in the greater Boston area and seeks to advance socialist feminist theory and praxis within the chapter.