Join the CA DSA Ecosocialist Working Group
Fires, floods and ferocious heatwaves—and the miserable failure of liberal, market-based solutions to the Climate Crisis. Where are socialists in this picture?
Can CA DSA’s newly minted Ecosocialist Working Group help amplify anti-capitalist understanding in the climate movement, and, with multi-racial working class muscle, help bring class consciousness, union power, and hope to this crucial struggle in California?
Help us organize for the answers we need. Join us here.
Our CA DSA Ecosocialist Working Group has been meeting to learn about California DSA chapters’ campaigns for a Green New Deal and other climate and environmental justice struggles. So far we’ve discussed the development of national DSA’s climate work from the 2019 adoption of the Ecosocialist Working Group’s Green New Deal Guiding Principles, to the formation of the national Green New Deal Campaign, and to our present Build for Power campaigns. We’re convinced that working class power is essential to fighting our fossil-fueled ruling class. Our Theory of Power demands organizing within unions and in working class spaces for the jobs and community protections a livable future requires.
We’ve held state-wide zoom meetings and learned about Ecosoc work in various chapters. We’ve heard about:
LA’s Green New Deal for Public Schools coordinating with their teachers’ union for green wins for workers and public school families.
East Bay’s People’s Transit Alliance. (check out their story in this issue) bringing union workers and riders together to fight for the increased hiring and better working conditions necessary for improved service.
San Francisco’s Free Muni Full Service campaign to meet needs of transit-dependent riders and transit workers while building a robust, climate just public transit system that can get more cars off the road.
East Bay & SF members working with Labor Rise Climate Jobs Action to build bridges between union and environmental justice organizing.
We need your help with organizing multi-racial working class power throughout the state to
scale up, coordinate, and expand what we are doing, and to imagine and organize beyond that
demand good union jobs to protect livelihood and life in a just transition
combat the fossil fuel bullies in Sacramento and the cowardly Democrats who hide behind them, prolonging environmental racism and deadly climate policy
amplify SEIU, CFT, USW and other unions’ climate justice work
insist that buckets of bucks now flowing into CA from IRA and other federal programs are used to create good union jobs for a fossil-free economy and are not captured by corporate
climate scams
All DSA members in California are welcome to join us (being a CA Council delegate is not required.) Whether you are a longtime ecosocialist or just imagining the socialist/environmentalist connection for the first time, we are eager to hear from you and connect with you to organize together. Fill in this interest form and we’ll be in touch! Towards green & red solidarity!