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Charlotte Metro DSA @charlottedsa.org · 25/04/2026

We are celebrating May Day all weekend this year! | We hope you can join us and our allies at these events this year! If you are not already plugged into a local organization this is the best time to get involved. DM us if you have any questions about the events below. Solidarity forever!

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Charlotte Metro DSA @charlottedsa.org · 16/04/2026

After the reading officially ends at 8 we will have an informal social hour at Tip Top. Links to borrow and purchase the reading will be sent to RSVPs! RSVP HERE: actionnetwork.org/events/42026...

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CLTDSA Reading Group

We'll be meeting to discuss chapter 5 "Detention as Counterinsurgency". We picked a reading to discuss the history of immigration and immigration repression in the US. We encourage you to read ahead o...

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Charlotte Metro DSA @charlottedsa.org · 16/04/2026

We are reading Chapter 5 "Detention as Counterinsurgency" of Detention Empire by local professor and historian Dr. Kristina Shull. We picked a reading to discuss the history of immigration and immigration repression in the US. We're starting off from chapter 5 so you don’t have to catch up!

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Democratic Socialists of America @demsocialists.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

NO WAR WITH IRAN! NO TO IMPERIALIST WAR, YES TO THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE IRANIAN PEOPLE! 🌹 Read DSA's statement on the US-Israeli attacks on Iran (1/5)

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 12/12/2025

Starbucks workers are STILL on ULP strike in over 130 cities and growing. Support our fight for better pay, scheduling, and protections - as well as a resolution to all outstanding unfair labor practices - by NOT BUYING STARBUCKS at ANY location for the duration of our strike!

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Charlotte Metro DSA @charlottedsa.org · 04/12/2025

—Location— This is a hybrid event, meaning that you can attend both in person or virtually. In person: South Boulevard Library Online: Zoom RSVP here for full address and zoom link (actionnetwork.org/events/december-dsa-101-2). DM us if you have any questions!

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DSA 101

Join us for our monthly DSA 101 event, where you'll hear more about DSA nationally and in Charlotte, and get to know some of our chapter's members and projects better. RSVP to get your name on the li...

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Charlotte Metro DSA @charlottedsa.org · 04/12/2025

Join us for our December DSA 101 event, where you’ll hear more about DSA nationally and in Charlotte, and get to know some of our chapter’s members and projects better. Afterwards, we’ll meet up nearby for an optional social over a bite or drink.

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Charlotte Metro DSA @charlottedsa.org · 01/12/2025

Shout out to our comrades @inlandempiredsa.bsky.social for providing us the amazing artwork from their own reading of this text earlier this year!

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Charlotte Metro DSA @charlottedsa.org · 01/12/2025

Location: Lost Worlds Brewing (event room) Address: 1100 Metropolitan Ave #165, Charlotte, NC 28204 US RSVP here for a digital copy of the text and a confirmed space at the reading group. actionnetwork.org/events/readi...

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Monthly Reading Group (Collective Reading)

Come Join Charlotte Metro DSA in reading group. If you RSVP you will be emailed a link to a PDF of the book! This is our first session for the current reading, so we will be reading aloud and discuss...

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Charlotte Metro DSA @charlottedsa.org · 01/12/2025

What does it mean to be a socialist? What is historical materialism? We’ll work through these questions together in our collective reading of part 3 of the Marxist classic “Socialism: Utopian & Scientific” by Fredrick Engels. No prior reading is required to attend!

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This event will take place on December 4th, 2025 at 6pm.

This event is hosted by Charlotte Metro DSA

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Democratic Socialists of America @demsocialists.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Socialism won! Join DSA: dsausa.us/join-zohran 🌹

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Charlotte Metro DSA @charlottedsa.org · 16/11/2025

¡Estamos en contra de las acciones de Trump y la migra! Mire todo en CLTDSA.org/statements. Nuestros próximos eventos están en CLTDSA.org/events.

¡Chinga la migra! ¡Fuera de Charlotte NC!

Este fin de semana, la Oficina de Aduanas y Protección Fronteriza, fuerza policiaca personal de Trump, empezará a ocupar nuestra ciudad y secuestrar a nuestros vecinos para terrorizar a la comunidad inmigrante e intimidarnos a quienes nos oponemos. Charlotte Metro DSA condena esta invasión. Nos mantenemos en solidaridad con la clase trabajadora de todas las naciones . Lucharemos contra esta invasión con toda la gente de consciencia.

Estos ataques son parte de una historia larga del estado fomentando la división entre personas de la clase trabajadora para debilitar y amenazar a nuestras comunidades con agentes armados cuando parecemos demasiado fuertes.

Previamente en este año, iniciamos nuestra campaña para boicotear a Avelo. La aerolínea Avelo es una aerolínea de bajo costo que está bajo contrato con ICE para llevar a cabo vuelos de deportaciones. Estamos pidiendo a la gente que participe en el boicot para generar presión a la empresa y la Ciudad de Concord, ciudad de donde despegan los vuelos, para que cesen el contrato. Con este fin llevaremos a cabo una protesta el día 29 alrededor del aeropuerto Concord-Padgett, les invitamos a que se nos unan.

Otros grupos de la comunidad están trabajando activamente para luchar contra este fenómeno.

Por favor revisen y utilicen la red de migrantes de las Carolinas @carolina_migrant_network y utilicen su línea directa para reportar secuestros (704) 740-7737

Y también visiten @siembranc para obtener detalles sobre el entrenamiento en vigilancia de ICE el 17 de noviembre.

Nuestro objetivo es organizar y unir a la ciudad para resistir estos secuestros. Por favor acérquese a nosotros para colaborar o involucrarse.

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Charlotte Metro DSA @charlottedsa.org · 16/11/2025

We oppose Trump and his lackeys terrorizing our communities. See CLTDSA.org/statements for the full statement. See CLTDSA.org/events for details on our upcoming protest against Avelo Airlines, ICE’s airline of choice.

Today, Customs & Border Patrol, Trump’s personal police force, will begin occupying our city and abducting our neighbors to terrorize the immigrant community and cow domestic opposition. Charlotte Metro DSA condemns this invasion. We stand in solidarity with the working class of all nations. We will fight this invasion with all people of conscience.

These attacks are a part of the long history of capital & its state fomenting divisions among the working class to keep us weak and siccing armed agents on us and our communities when we appear too strong.

Earlier this year we began our Boycott Avelo campaign. Avelo airlines is a budget airline that has a contract with ICE for deportation flights. We are asking people to boycott the company and help us put pressure on the company and the City of Concord where they fly out of to get them to drop the contract. To that end, we’ll be having a protest on the 29th by the Concord-Padgett airport. We invite you to join us.

Other groups in the community have also been actively fighting back. Please check out the @carolina_migrant_network and use their hotline to report abductions: (704) 740-7737.
And see @siembranc for details about their upcoming ICE Watch training on Nov. 17th.

We aim to organize and unite the city to resist these abductions. Please reach out to collaborate or get involved.

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Charlotte Metro DSA @charlottedsa.org · 12/11/2025

Our statement on the passage of the 1% sales tax on mecklenburg county this month.

On November 4th, a 1% sales tax was passed (52% to 48%) in Mecklenburg County to fund the P.A.V.E. Act.
We remain opposed to the sales tax increase. The working class had no say in the P.A.V.E. act, yet we are those with the most to lose. With the current $20 billion transit plan, we will also gain the least.

We will not be able sit on the new governing Transit Authority Board of Trustees, but we're free to be harassed and kicked off transit by the new transit police force. There are no guarantees that these transit expansions will be completed, and that this tax money will actually go towards transit or bike infrastructure.

We support transit when it serves the working class. This Bill does not It serves to support corporations.
Bills like the P.A.V.E. act get passed because these politicians don’t care about workers, only their corporate donors.

We're building an organization by and for the working class that can stand up to the capitalist class and fight for reforms like fast, free, reliable, and comprehensive public transit.
Join DSA Today!

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Democratic Socialists of America @demsocialists.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

DSA stands in absolute opposition to the proposed deal to pass Trump's billionaire budget. Healthcare is a right, not a bargaining chip.

“DSA stands with working people as democrats sell out to the right”

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Democratic Socialists of America @demsocialists.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

DSA campaigns are run by people just like you who believe in a better world. 🌹 Join DSA today and build a world for the rest of us, not just billionaires and developers: dsausa.org/join 2/2

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Democratic socialists have an historic opportunity and responsibility to play a central role in continuing the political revolution for the long term. As a democratic, grassroots organization, DSA is ...

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Democratic Socialists of America @demsocialists.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Stopping SNAP benefits is an attack on poor people. Detener los beneficios del SNAP es un ataque a los pobres. Full statement in English and Spanish at the link here: www.dsausa.org/statements/s...

The government shut-down will mean that poor people in the United States will no longer receive SNAP benefits beginning November 1, 2025. This is class war, and as socialists it is necessary to fight back. Although our government has endless funding to commit genocide abroad, it claims poverty when it comes to feeding our own children here at home. Approximately 62% of SNAP recipients are in families with children, meaning that we are quite literally starving children right now. Why? Because the class that is in power right now thinks that starving children, whether in Gaza or in the United States, is an acceptable thing to do, and further thinks that it can get away with it without a fight. 1/3

As socialists we understand this is a feature and not a bug in the current political system of the United States. The Republican Party actively wants to starve this population, using dehumanizing language to describe individuals receiving public assistance. Food stamp recipients are victims of capitalism, not “parasites.” At the same time, the Democratic Party only wants to draw attention to this horror to the extent that it might benefit them electorally. If the Democratic Party wanted to do something, then it would exercise the power that it actually has at the local level. All across the country, in states led by Democratic governors, however, the response has been absolutely anemic. Even though the Democrats can choose to spend state funds to feed the children frozen out of the SNAP program, they have so far chosen to dodge the issue instead. As socialists, we need to increase the pressure on the individual states to exercise the power that they have right now. 2/3

Across the country, we have the ability to agitate within individual states and cities to fill the gaps that are being created by an utterly horrific federal government, and to make sure that everyone responsible — whether through action or inaction — for literally starving children faces the consequences of their decisions, rather than passive acceptance.

This is why we also strongly encourage chapters to utilize existing DSA mutual aid and tenant networks to check on neighbors and connect them with resources. We cannot sit on our hands, because solidarity means showing up and actively fighting tooth and nail.

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Charlotte Metro DSA @charlottedsa.org · 20/10/2025

At our October 2025 general meeting, our chapter voted to endorse the vote against campaign against the mecklenburg county sales tax referendum this year. See some of our reasons why below!

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Charlotte Metro DSA @charlottedsa.org · 16/10/2025

We’ll be in the back patio, weather permitting. You can get there through the door by the bathrooms or by the board games. DM if you have any questions!

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Charlotte Metro DSA @charlottedsa.org · 16/10/2025

Come join us for our monthly social at Hattie’s (+21 establishment)! This is a great opportunity for new folks interested in DSA/socialism to meet some comrades and get an idea of what our chapter has been up to! Since it’s Halloween season we encourage folks to wear costumes!

Bud (DSA’s anthropomorphic rose mascot) walking into a bar with a ghost and pumpkin. Post advertising CLTDSA’s monthly social. This month it is on October 23rd at 7pm ET at Hattie’s Tap and Tavern in Charlotte North Carolina.

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Charlotte Metro DSA @charlottedsa.org · 15/10/2025

Want to scare the capitalist class? Come join us in reading Chapters 1 & 2 of the Communist Manifesto. You do not need to read the book before showing up to this event, just make sure to bring a copy and something to take notes on! We recommend getting a pdf off of www.marxists.org.

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Democratic Socialists of America @demsocialists.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

DSA affirms our fundamental right to free speech and assembly. We will not be intimidated by the Trump administration’s cronies, and we will continue our struggle for democracy to the end. If you want to live in a free society, join DSA today. dsausa.org/join

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Join DSA. Become a member today.

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DSA Political Education @education.dsausa.org · 06/10/2025

Listen to NPEC's Michaela and Guy chat about Talking to Non-Socialists here ⤵️ ... education.dsausa.org/class-the-np...

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Class: The NPEC Podcast – DSA Political Education

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Charlotte Metro DSA @charlottedsa.org · 07/09/2025

We encourage you to check out our organizations to get involved in building a city that serves its people. CLTDSA: charlottedsa.org/events Charlotte Urbanists: www.clturban.ist/support Cooperation Charlotte: discord.gg/bHH6kAS4ry Charlotte Mask Bloc: cltmaskbloc.org

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Charlotte Metro DSA @charlottedsa.org · 07/09/2025

With our benches we hope to have made riding the bus from those stops a better experience, and demonstrate to Charlotte that our collective community action can bring the change that our city government officials and donors continue to block.

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Charlotte Metro DSA @charlottedsa.org · 07/09/2025

We believe bus transportation plays a crucial role in building a healthy and thriving city, and to be viable it has to be accessible and convenient for everyone.

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Charlotte Metro DSA @charlottedsa.org · 07/09/2025

Yet, the city continues to mismanage bus transportation, even while the city grows more than ever. The city’s disinvestment and neglect of working class transit produces more traffic, lower ridership, and more pollution and shows they don’t give a damn about the folks who make this city run.

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Charlotte Metro DSA @charlottedsa.org · 07/09/2025

For decades, our city government has neglected our bus system and the Charlotteans it serves. Faced with frequent service disruption and constant delays, working people often wait at stops without any basic amenities such as seating or shelter.

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Charlotte Metro DSA @charlottedsa.org · 07/09/2025

We joined Cooperation Charlotte and @clt-urbanists.bsky.social to stain, paint, and assemble, nearly 40 bus benches across Charlotte! Thank you everyone who joined us, @makerspaceclt.bsky.social for hosting and Charlotte Maskbloc for providing N95 masks to everyone while we made these benches.

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Democratic Socialists of America @demsocialists.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

We're proud to endorse People’s Conference for Palestine in Detroit, Michigan. Join us and the broader movement for Palestinian liberation from August 29-31st!! Register to attend at peoplesconferenceforpalestine.org/register #PeoplesConferenceforPalestine2025

Democratic Socialists of America, official endorser. People's Conference for Palestine. Detroit, MI, August 29-31.

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Charlotte Metro DSA @charlottedsa.org · 18/08/2025

Join DSA today to join the fight for our collective liberation! Check out Charlottedsa.org/events to see what we’re up to!

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Charlotte Metro DSA @charlottedsa.org · 18/08/2025

As with the fights to free Palestine, guarantee access to abortion, and protect our undocumented neighbors from exploitation/deportation, queer liberation can only be secured by the defeat of capitalism.

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Charlotte Metro DSA @charlottedsa.org · 18/08/2025

As socialists, we recognize that so long as we exist under capitalism, LGBTQ+ rights will always be at the whims of the economy and opportunistically weaponized by the ruling (capitalist) class.

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Charlotte Metro DSA @charlottedsa.org · 18/08/2025

It’s no secret that the LGBTQ+ Community is facing increased hate under the new administration. In times of backlash we have to come together to protect each other.

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Charlotte Metro DSA @charlottedsa.org · 18/08/2025

🏳️‍🌈Happy pride Charlotte! 🏳️‍🌈 Thank you all for stopping by our booth to write down what pride, queer joy, and solidarity mean to you. We had some great discussions with you all about queer liberation, bodily autonomy, and meeting the moment in this time of crisis.

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Charlotte Metro DSA @charlottedsa.org · 15/08/2025

We’ll be at pride this weekend! Stop by our booth and say hi :)

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HasanTheHun (automated mirror) @hasanabirepeater.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

IM LIVE EARLY FROM CHICAGO FOR THE DSA CONVENTION WHERE I'LL BE INTERVIEWING @RashidaTlaib !! LATER ILL ROAM THE HALLS AND THEN LINK UP WITH SPECIAL SECRET GUESTS TO DO A BACK TO SCHOOL SUPPLY RUN AND SO MUCH MORE! GET IN NOW!! TWITCH.TV/HASANABI

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Democratic Socialists of America @demsocialists.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Wed 7/30, 8pm ET: hear how DSA members are defending trans and migrant communities, standing with workers and against Trump's billionaire coup, and more — and what you can do to fight against fascism and for a world where we all have dignity and liberation! dsausa.us/trumprespons...

Fight Fascism, Build Socialism. Mass Call Wednesday, July 30 at 8pm ET. Speakers: Daniel Denvir, Host, The Dig Podcast. Eman Abdelhadi, Professor and Author. Astra Taylor, Director and Author. Ashik Siddique, DSA Co-Chair. Megan Romer, DSA Co-Chair. Olivia Katbi, Co-Chair Portland DSA, BDS Organizer. And organizers of federal workers, trans rights, & migrant rights!

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Charlotte Metro DSA @charlottedsa.org · 14/07/2025

Come join us in learning and discussing the importance of fighting against patriarchy and capitalism for the liberation of all members working class! Discussion and criticism is encouraged and essential! RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/socialist-night-school-intro-to-socialist-feminism

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Socialist Night School: Bodily Autonomy

Join us for the first lesson in our current semester of Socialist Night School! This semester we will be focusing on themes related to our priority campaign, Decide Your Future, which targets an an...

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Charlotte Metro DSA @charlottedsa.org · 13/07/2025

Join our monthly DSA 101 to learn about our chapter, meet local organizers, and talk about the work we're doing here in Charlotte. RSVP Here: actionnetwork.org/events/july-...

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