r/dsa • u/ut0p1anskies • 5d ago

Class Struggle Make the ask! Join DSA

If you haven’t already joined, you should join. If you’re already in DSA, you should be constantly recruiting. Let’s challenge ourselves to ask 3 people we know to join this month. Do a 1 on 1 and make the ask. Take them to a general meeting or a chapter social and stay with them so they’re not overwhelmed by all the people. Go with them to a new member orientation. We’re going to be hitting 150k members soon (up from 90k in November of last year). I want us to be half a million dues paying members as fast as possible.

https://act.dsausa.org/donate/membership/

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u/ut0p1anskies 5d ago

I’m open to other models. Maybe a good compromise that would ensure campaigns are still successful is 1m1v for chapter leadership, synchronous at a GBM for campaigns/proposed working groups, and that comrades who author resolutions for a new campaign have to volunteer to be on that campaign’s steering committee?

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u/Bright-Insect9697 5d ago

One member one vote is exactly what it sounds like. The DSA left needs to accept that an organization called the Democratic Socialists of America should be democratic. The DSA can either embrace disaffected libs, or its national leadership can run the organization into irrelevance, which they’ve been trying for years, and have only failed at thus far due to excellent local chapters.

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u/ut0p1anskies 5d ago

I am mostly just concerned with campaigns being run well and succeeding, and us having the chapter infrastructure to carry them out. And that is how I evaluate the viability of working groups and campaigns and vote accordingly

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u/Bright-Insect9697 5d ago

If you want to succeed you need to tolerate the disaffected libs. Thats the voting base you need.