*|MC:SUBJECT|* *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Steering Committee Elections & General Meeting Our next annual general meeting will be held at The Colorblock Miami on Sunday, August 19th at 3 PM. We suggest that new & prospective members come an hour early at 2 PM for our membership orientation. We’ll also be electing a new Steering Committee and all… Read more »
People’s History: The Diggers
People’s History: The Diggers On this day in 1649, a working-class movement, that would come to be known as the Diggers, believing that the land belonged collectively to all, arrived on St. George’s Hill in Surrey, England and began to communally sew crops in defiances of the landlords. “This Declares likewise to all Laborers, or such as… Read more »
People’s History: Students on Strike!
Today is the anniversary of the longest strike in UK history when young primary school students went on strike for 25 years after the sacking of their two socialists teachers. Soliciting donations from all over the country the students along with their former teachers founded an alternative school known as the Burston Strike School to… Read more »
YDSA FIU Confronts Turning Point Members
Today, Turning Point USA was tabling on campus. They displayed a poster which can be seen down below. Our chapter Chair decided to also post a flyer (the one that begins “17 High school”) next to theirs countering their belief which can also be seen below. A Turning Point USA member can be seen in… Read more »
People’s History: Vive La Commune!
On this day in 1871, the workers and the dispossessed of Paris, France took fate into their own hands and liberated themselves from wage slavery by establishing the Paris Commune. For 72 days they worked cooperatively to provide a glimpse of what society could look like if organized in a radically democratic way. The project… Read more »
The Red Tide – Week of March 27, 2018
Click here to read The Red Tide for the week of March 27, 2018.
Join us in the fight against disenfranchisement!
Miami DSA and friends will be canvassing in Hialeah & Brownsville to support Florida’s proposed Amendment 4 (the restoration of voting rights for most people convicted of felonies who have completed their sentences), which will be on the ballot this November. We will be providing the doors we knock with a pledge card that they can… Read more »
Miami DSA at The Death of Stalin
Join Miami Democratic Socialists of America this Thursday evening at The Landmark at Merrick Park to watch The Death Of Stalin, a comedic treatment of the Soviet leaders’ final days and the chaos that erupts after his death. We’ll congregate afterward at Yard House for food, drinks, and discussion. Details: facebook.com/events/188361538617440 Trailer: youtu.be/ukJ5dMYx2no
People’s History: Remembering Triangle
Today marks one of the most abominable industrial disasters in the history #NewYorkCity and the country. On 25 March 1911, poor working condition led to a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. The tragedy was made more deadly due to the doors of the stairwells and exits being kept locked by owners, allegedly to prevent theft and… Read more »
People’s History: ACT UP, Fight AIDS, Fight Back!
On this day in 1987, at least 250 people, some of whom were living with the AIDS virus, halted traffic on Wall Street for several hours and passed out thousands of fact sheets about the disease. It was the first action of the radical, direct-action group AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP), which had… Read more »