Join the NYC-DSA Brooklyn Electoral Working Group for our 2021 City Council endorsement discussion and recommendation vote!

For the past two months we've been studying Brooklyn City Council districts and hearing from candidates seeking NYC-DSA's endorsement. On Oct. 1, we’ll be holding the final discussion and vote on which candidate(s) the Brooklyn Electoral Working Group should recommend for endorsement. This is your opportunity to make your voice heard and exercise your vote in one of NYC-DSA's most consequential democratic processes.

This will be the final Brooklyn EWG meeting in Endorsement-a-Palooza 2021. After Oct. 1, the process will move to NYC-DSA's geographic branches in Brooklyn, and from there to the chapter's Citywide Leadership Committee. You can read more about our full endorsement process here: https://www.socialists.nyc/getting-our-endorsement

IMPORTANT NOTE:

You must be a DSA member in good standing (i.e. you are up to date on your national DSA dues or have a dues waiver) to join this meeting. New members are welcome! If you need to become a member or renew your dues, you can do so at https://dsausa.org/join.

To participate in the votes that will take place during this meeting, you must be additionally be a voting-eligible member of the Brooklyn Electoral Working Group. That means you must meet two criteria:

1. You must have been a member of DSA in good standing (i.e. you are up to date on your national DSA dues or have a dues waiver) for at least three months, meaning that you joined DSA before July 2020. If your dues have expired, you must renew them prior to the meeting. (This requirement is consistent with the voting eligibility proposal that passed as an amendment to the NYC-DSA Constitution at the Citywide Convention in August 2020. You can read the Bulletin with the full details here.)

2. You must have attended at least one meeting of the Brooklyn Electoral WG in the past 12 months, not counting our recent endorsement meetings. A meeting could be: a general body meeting, such as the strategy meeting this summer; a specific committee meeting, such as the Communications Committee reflection meeting after the state races wrapped up; a training, such as the Field Organizer training or the VAN training.

This meeting will NOT be recorded, and you must attend the meeting the participate in the votes.

We ask that candidates being considered for endorsement and their staff do not attend this meeting, regardless of their DSA membership status or voting eligibility.

If you are not sure if you qualify as a voting-eligible Electoral Working Group member, email the Organizing Committee at bk.electoral@socialists.nyc.

Note: We ask that you RSVP no later than Wednesday, Sept. 30 at 7 p.m., to leave enough time for the BK EWG Organizing Committee to verify your membership and voting eligibility in advance of the meeting on the following Thursday. We will verify late RSVPs as quickly as possible, but you may miss part of the meeting.