Seattle Democratic Socialists of America

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Seattle Democratic Socialists of America is a Washington affiliate of Democratic Socialists of America

Resolution to establish political education

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2023. Authored Duncan Huntsinger. Signed Lucas Carpenter, Amy Wilhelm, Michael Berryhill, Ryan Cooper, Keir Hichens, Kent S, Mel A, Justin Roll, Ramy Khalil, Sean Case, Chris W, Fernando Medina-Corey, Spencer R, Merah W, Susumu Okano, Guillermo Zazueta, Zach R, Harris Liebermann.

Local Council candidates, 2023

Co-Chairs (3 Slots)

Secretary

Treasurer

Organizer (4 Slots)

2022 Leadership contenders

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Co-chair: Amy Wilhem, Chris Wang, RoseLynn McCarter.

Elected-Organizers: Michael Parker, Olivia Maren, Richard O'Neill

Socialism 2022

Resolution: Let’s Send Seattle DSA Members to the Socialism 2022 Conference'

Co-signers: Amy Wilhem, Bryan Watson, Chris Natale, Chris Wang, Kate Conroy, Lucas Carpenter, Ramy Khalil, Sean Case, Stephanie Gallardo, Yasmine K

Evergreen Slate 2021

We are a multi-tendency group of experienced organizers running to represent Seattle as delegates at the national DSA convention this summer. We strongly believe that the choices made at the national convention can have clear benefits for our local chapter.

  • Aly Bryson, Former Chapter Co-Chair and Internal Organizer
  • Annalisa G, DSA Member since 2017, 2017 DSA National Convention Observer
  • Chris P, Chapter Internal Organizer, Member Engagement Team, DivestSPD
  • Chris Wang, 2021 SDSA Convention Chair, 2017 and 2019 DSA National Convention Delegate
  • Dane N, Chapter Healthcare Working Group Co-Chair
  • Izzy Baer, Tech Team, ARC Co-Chair, Member Engagement Team
  • Joey S, Electoral Committee, Member Engagement Team
  • Justin Roll, Former Chapter Vice Chair
  • Megan H, AfroSOC Co-Chair, D3 Member
  • Oliver Miska, Chapter At-Large Organizer, ARC Co-Chair[2]
  • Olivia Lintz, Chapter Vice Chair, Divest SPD, former AfroSOC Co-Chair
  • Roy Zuniga, Former Chapter External Organizer, National Electoral Committee, AfroSOC member
  • Sunny R, SDSA PRO Act Campaign Lead
  • Wesley Sales, Chapter Co-Chair, Member Engagement

Contacts

In 2016 Bill Yates was contact for Seattle Democratic Socialists of America. In most of 2017 it was Andrej Markovcic.

Co-chair resigns

In May 2018, one of Seattle Democratic Socialists of America co-chairs, KJ Moon, made the decision to resign from his position for personal reasons.[3]

Later in French Socialist Party.

Seattle DSA Town Hall

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DSA should not support Howie Hawkins

Justin Roll Seattle Democratic Socialists of America co-chair.

By now, you’ve most likely read the Howie Hawkins resolution, titled “Joe Biden, Howie Hawkins & the Presidential Election — A Class Struggle Strategy to Fight Trumpism” that will be voted on at the Seattle DSA business meeting in August. The resolution would have Seattle DSA encourage DSA members and socialists to vote for Howie Hawkins in safe states, to point towards “building the left,” while not committing money or volunteers to the Hawkins campaign. It would also request the DSA National Political Committee to organize a national discussion around voting for Howie Hawkins. This resolution not only hurts our credibility with the working class, but also our ability to build power. As such, it is harmful towards the Democratic Socialists of America’s stated goals of building a mass working-class organization. We encourage you to vote NO on this resolution.[4]

Joe Biden, Howie Hawkins & the Presidential Election - A Class Struggle Strategy to Fight Trumpism. Co-signers: Philip Locker, Deepa Bhandaru, Aram Falsafi, Connor Rauch, Melissa Schade, Bryan Watson, Stephan Kimmerle, Manuel Carrillo, Sean Case, Mark Rafferty, Phillip Rudd, Brian Weitzner, Sundar Sharma, Ramy Khalil, M. Harris.[5]

At the 2019 convention, DSA National Delegates passed a Bernie or Bust resolution, and we meant it. With its strong endorsement and campaign for Bernie Sanders, the DSA showed its commitment to real, material changes for the working class of this country. Lending any support to the Howie Hawkins campaign would accomplish the opposite, and signal to working people, unions, and other left-leaning organizations that we are un-serious about gaining and wielding power.

Please vote NO on “Joe Biden, Howie Hawkins & the Presidential Election — A Class Struggle Strategy to Fight Trumpism.”

Co-signers (add your name here): Aly Bryson, BoJohn McLung, Dave Benvenuti, Munya Chiro, Roy Zuniga, Andrew Gehl, Carolyn Brotherton, Hannah A, Jeff B, Katie Eiler, Mel A, Paul A, Andrej Markovcic, Elisabeth M, Stephen C, Justin Hutchinson, Joanna Magner, Kelli Branch, Chuck McKeever, Nikita Minkin, Brian F, Hillary Haden, Wale Ogundipe, Sue Hildreth, Oliver Miska, Jay P, Christian Medico, Erik Shaw, Joe D, Gage Irving, Ryan Goelzenleuchter, Tim Mackie, Samir.[6]

Seattle DSA National Convention Delegate Candidates 2019

2017 National Convention delegates

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Timothy Sears, back table Hawaiian shirt, Andrej Markovcic white t shirt , Ash Clark, tattoos, front table.

Defending Chinese "working class"

In April 2018, a group of Seattle Democratic Socialists of America activists was upset with a Democratic Left article on China by long time comrade Daniel Adkins.[8]

As organizers, members, and officials within DSA, we affirm a commitment to internationalism. We insist on solidarity with the working class and oppressed people everywhere, regardless of nationality. We assert that Democratic Left’s recent publication of “The Future China-U.S. Competition and Democratic Socialism” by Daniel Adkins was both irresponsible and morally inexcusable. Furthermore, it flies in the face of DSA’s express opposition to national chauvinism.
In its public statement “Where We Stand”, DSA proclaims the need for socialism within the U.S. to “adopt the internationalism of the socialist tradition” and calls for a “humane international social order.” Further on, it states that the “basis of cooperation for fighting [transnational capital] must be forged across borders from its inception. Economic nationalism and other forms of chauvinism will doom any expanded anti-corporate agenda.” In other words, DSA expressly opposes national chauvinism and embraces the internationalist perspective.
It’s therefore shocking that Democratic Left would publish a piece that bills democratic socialism as a means to solidifying U.S. global domination in the face of China’s growing influence. In the opening to his piece Adkins asserts his thesis: “The US will become second if left to its current politics and the goals of its 1%. To compete with mercantilism, our nation needs to be organized by democratic socialism whose goal is to empower its entire people, not just the 1%”. This statement not only makes troubling allusions to our nation and its people, but calls for empowering them in order to not fall second to China. Further on, Adkins insists again that a “democratic socialist US would compete better with a mercantilist China.” This America First stance is national chauvinist to the core. It pits the U.S. working class against the Chinese working class.
We hereby demand the following:
  • An immediate removal of the piece from Democratic Left and any other DSA publication
  • A full accounting of the editorial process that allowed such a piece to be published in the first place and a plan to prevent such missteps in the future
  • A statement published on DSA’s blog in due time affirming a commitment to internationalism, acknowledging that the Adkins piece should not have been published, and refusing to publish pieces promoting national chauvinist or anti-Chinese perspectives in the future

Working Group/Caucus signatories

Individual Member signatories

Seattle DSA Monthly General Meeting

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Seattle DSA Monthly General Meeting Hosted by Seattle Democratic Socialists of America.

Thursday, May 4 2017 at 7 PM - 9 PM PDT

Washington Hall, 153 14th Ave, Seattle, Washington 98122

Invited on Facebook

Interested

Went

El Salvador meeting

A 1990 DSA general meeting heard Doctors Dan Erikson and Susan Doederlin, who were in El Salvador last fall, and Wayne Iverson of Seattle CI5PES, speak about new efforts to oppose US intervention in that country,[10]

Anti War Forum

Seattle Democratic Socialists of America held a forum February 10, 1991 on "The Impact of the Middle East War in the United States: The Economy, Communities of Color, Health Care."

Speakers included DSAer Steve Rose, economist and Juan Bocanegra, director, Downtown Human Services Council.[11]

References

  1. ↑ https://seattledsa.org/chaptercon/]
  2. ↑ [1]
  3. ↑ ]https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/163b709b3524d786]
  4. ↑ [2]
  5. ↑ [3]
  6. ↑ [4]
  7. ↑ [5]
  8. ↑ [6]
  9. ↑ Open letter to Democratic Left
  10. ↑ DEMOCRATIC LEFT MARCH- APRIL 1990, page 13
  11. ↑ DEMOCRATIC LEFT MARCH-APRIL 1991, p 15
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