Eve Seitchik
Eve Seitchik is a community organizer, democratic socialist, tech worker, and data scientist.
I have lived in the area my entire life, and in Somerville for seven years—four as a renter and three as a homeowner on the top floor of a triple-decker in Winter Hill with my partner and our large dog. I am transfeminine, which means I am a transgender non-binary person, and I use "they/them" pronouns.
For the last two years, I've helped run the Boston chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), a community organizing group with nearly 3,000 members in Eastern Massachusetts and over 300 in Somerville, as one of its two co-chairs. Together with DSA, I fought alongside the paraprofessionals of the Somerville Educators Union to win a living wage and a respectful contract, organized in City Hall to make developers pay their fair share, and campaigned for police accountability and budget justice. I'm a progressive independent and I take my political inspiration from the labor movement and workers' parties throughout history, like the UK Labour Party and Eugene Debs' Socialist Party of America.[1]
DSA conference resolutions
Signatories to MUG and R&R's Joint Resolutions for the 2023 DSA National Convention "On the votes of DSA Congressmembers to fund the Israeli military and ban a railway workers strike" included Eve Seitchik of Boston Democratic Socialists of America.
"They Don’t Speak For Us"
Signatories to 3 DSA Members in Congress Vote to Ban Railroad Strike – They Don’t Speak For Us included Eve Seitchik Boston Democratic Socialists of America.
Somerville for All slate
Willie Burnley, Jr., Charlotte Kelly, Eve Seitchik.
"Today, we have a Somerville that will move mountains for developers to remake entire neighborhoods. The Somerville For All slate has a vision of our city that will move mountains for working families, that will make investments in a thriving community, and that will ensure big developers and corporate landowners pay their fair share."
Boston DSA endorsed candidates
In late May, Charlotte Kelly spoke to a half-dozen volunteers ready to knock doors for her City Council of Somerville campaign.
Kelly is one of seven candidates running for Somerville City Council who has been endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). This slate of campaigns is bound not just by the idea of winning socialism in a general sense, but specific, concrete reforms to pave the way. To get there, the candidates demonstrate intricate knowledge of policy battles and embed themselves in community organizing, but it’s more than that, too: their proposals for the future drill down to the details. According to Spencer Brown, co-chair of Boston Democratic Socialists of America, the election centers on three issues of daily life—affordable housing, climate change, and public safety—and in addressing those issues the DSA-endorsed candidates move seamlessly from broad-stroke abstractions to net zero stretch code and idling police cruisers. The slate in Somerville has the potential to translate the grand aim of socialism into the minutiae of city politics.
Besides the mayor, Somerville’s municipal government includes an 11-seat city council, with four at-large and seven district seats. Two of the incumbent district councilors are also endorsed DSA members: JT Scott in Ward 2 and Ben Ewen-Campen in Ward 3. Beyond the incumbents, the socialist slate features five candidates running in open races, including three for the four at-large seats—Charlotte Kelly, Eve Seitchik, and Willie Burnley, Jr.—and two more for district seats—Tessa Bridge for Ward 5 and Becca Miller for Ward 7. According to a spreadsheet by Calla Walsh, data from the Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance shows that, as of the end of June, all seven DSA district candidates lead their races in fundraising (though Miller leads what may be the tightest district race by less than $2,000).
But it’s important to consider the slate collectively, Boston DSA co-chair Brown said. For some, the decision to run itself was collective and contingent on others’ running, but also prompted by the disappointments of the current Council’s governance. On paper, the Council looks like a fairly left-leaning legislative body. Besides the two socialist incumbents, a clear majority identify as “progressive.” Back in 2017, coming off of Bernie’s first run, Our Revolution secured a wave of victories in the city. But amid the uprising against police brutality sparked by the state murder of George Floyd, the Council failed to implement a full 10 percent cut to police spending, a decision some candidates cite as something a socialist-majority Council would have done differently.[2]
DSA convention delegate
In 2021 Eve Seitchik was a National Convention Delegate Candidate for Boston Democratic Socialists of America.[3]