Colorado Springs DSA 🌹

The Sept 28 General Meeting is our chapter's governing body—your chance to help shape our direction. Stay for the social hour afterward!

Want to connect with comrades or meet like-minded people? This is a great place to start. Follow us for updates!

The Book Club meets Sept 22 to discuss section one of "An Inheritance For Our Times" (up to p. 62). Bring your questions!

The Sept 26 Happy Hour at COATI Uprise is respectfully for BIPOC members only. Then, reconnect with your family’s language and culture at the Chinook Center on Sept 27.

Join your Colorado Springs comrades this September! Here's what's happening:

📕 Sept 22 @ 6pm - Another Leftist Book Club 🍸 Sept 26 @ 7:30pm - Afrosocialists & Socialists of Color Happy Hour 🌌 Sept 27 @ 1:30pm - Reconnection Hours w/ AfroSOC 🗣️ Sept 28 @ 5pm - Monthly General Meeting

A graphic for a strike solidarity pledge. Text reads: "SIGN THE PLEDGE TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR D11 EDUCATORS, SHOULD THEY GO ON STRIKE WHILE THEY FIGHT FOR A FAIR LABOR CONTRACT. WORKING CLASS SOLIDARITY IS RESISTANCE!" The handle @cospringsdsa is at the bottom.

Sign the pledge! Support Colorado Springs teachers after the school board canceled their contract. Show solidarity & help with strike support.

bit.ly/D11StrikeSol...

50501 is hosting another No Kings rally on October 18th!

Happy Labor Day! Come visit us at Big Bill’s Dance Party!

A graphic for a strike solidarity pledge. Text reads: "SIGN THE PLEDGE TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR D11 EDUCATORS, SHOULD THEY GO ON STRIKE WHILE THEY FIGHT FOR A FAIR LABOR CONTRACT. WORKING CLASS SOLIDARITY IS RESISTANCE!" The handle @cospringsdsa is at the bottom.

Sign the pledge! Support Colorado Springs teachers after the school board canceled their contract. Show solidarity & help with strike support.

bit.ly/D11StrikeSol...

Following the Orr v. Trump ruling, trans and gender nonconforming people are allowed to apply for a passport with their preferred gender marker again: M, F, or X. This could be temporary with Trump’s shameless war on trans people.

Please RSVP and show solidarity!!! bit.ly/PassportArtD...

Profit over people is the norm. But caring for strangers isn't strange. Join others who hold onto hope & are building a better future. Meet us at DSA 101, Aug 22, 6pm.

Join your Colorado Springs comrades at these events in August!

📢 August 5 @ 6pm - Forum with Convention Delegates
📕 August 6 @ 6pm - Socialist Summer School
🗣️ August 16 @ 1pm - Structured Organizing Conversation Speed Dating (platonic)
📕 August 20 @ 6pm - Socialist Summer School

PALANTIR OUT OF DENVER TUESDAY AUGUST 5 12:30 PM SKYLINE PARK 17TH AND ARAPAHOE

Join us at Skyline Park on Tuesday, August 5 to launch the PALANTIR OUT OF DENVER CAMPAIGN! 💥📢

Palantir is an AI firm that has collaborated with the Trump administration, ICE, and even the Israeli Occupying Force to facilitate mass deportations and genocide—and they’re headquartered at the (1/2)

Join us Wednesday, August 6th at 6pm at the Chinook Center for an exciting co-learning session where we will work together as a group to analyze the local conditions in Colorado Springs and identify opportunities for change!

OBBBA cuts healthcare for 16M Americans, hurting vulnerable groups to benefit the wealthy 1%. Join our Disability Rights Working Group July 14, 7pm at Chinook Ctr/virtually to fight back! Disability ≠ inability!

How do you mean? Like can folks do it in their own?

Join the Colorado Springs Migrant Rights working group Tuesday July 15th at the Chinook Center to help make some Know Your Rights cards to pass out to the community.

Help us inform our neighbors of their constitutional rights and keep them safe! SOLIDARITY MELTS ICE!

Join us tomorrow for the How to Lead a Working Group training!

Learn how (and why) to start a working group in the chapter, facilitate effective meetings, become a committee and more.

1pm at the Chinook Center. This training is open to members only! You can join the DSA at dsausa.org/join

🌻 Picnic social July 20 @ Fox Run Park! Food, games, fun. Bring a dish, blanket, or yard games. All welcome—new & old members, friends! Find us with the red roses 🌹

Put on your best champagne socialist glam and join us for a Poker Night fundraiser!

We’ll be playing for chips but solidarity is the real jackpot!

Snacks and drinks provided. There will be a photo booth 📸 so you can cherish your luxe fits.

Friday, July 18th at 6pm at the Chinook Center

Join us Sat 12th at 1pm for 'How to Chair a Working Group' training! Learn leadership skills to organize & win change. Members only—join at dsausa.org/join

Nature is on our side 🦋

Remember when Washington state democrats refused to tax the rich? And instead raised taxes on YOU? Again. Remember when they allowed lobbyists to influence them to change the cap on rent increases? I do. You shouldn’t forget either. Find a local DSA chapter for change. www.dsausa.org/chapters/

again, amazing dsa graphic design!

💥 🐢 Who is the best Mario Kart player in the chapter? Is it you? Then prove it! 💥

Come to the Mario Kart Convention Fundraiser tomorrow night at 6pm at the Chinook Center!

$2 a round, winner takes 1/2 and the other half goes to convention fundraising!

Bring some cash! (card ok, cash preferred!)

Safeway workers in Colorado are on strike! Come support them and stand on the picket line!

Help our growing chapter! Learn to conduct new member 1-on-1s at Chinook Center, Fri 6/27 @ 6pm. Great way to engage newcomers & build organizing skills. Don’t miss it!

Congratulations to Zohran Mamdani and the NYC DSA from the Colorado Springs DSA!

Come build with us!
dsausa.org/join

Join us tomorrow for an afternoon of art, song and food to support the Palestine Red Crescent Society!

Come learn about the country’s largest socialist organization. We have plans to win real material changes for the working class and we need your help to do it!

Who is this event for?
🌹Anyone curious about DSA
🌹New members or anyone considering joining
🌹Existing members who want to get more engaged

TONIGHT: Learn about socialists in the labor movement!

6/19: Discover CO Springs DSA’s work
6/21: Support Palestine relief efforts
6/22: Join our governing body & working group updates

Don’t wait—get involved now! ✊

We’re halfway through June! 😱 The fight continues with so many ways to get involved, build community, and stand up for yourself & loved ones!

🧠 June 18 - Socialist Summer School
🌹 June 19 - DSA 101: New Member Orientation
🇵🇸 June 21 - Artists for Palestine
📣 June 22 - General Meeting + Social