The New Member Cohort is a 3 week in-person educational forum for brand new or newly active DSA members to learn and discuss the biggest issues underpinning our organization and our mission.

In our second session, we discuss our shared theory of change, our personal and organizational motivations for organizing, and best-practices for how to imagine and execute a successful campaign.

No preparation is required, but if you're excited for this topic, please consider these recommended resources for your own education:

• “Spadework: On Political Organizing”, Alissa Battistoni, N+1. Link

• No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age, Jane McAlevey

• Secrets of a Successful Organizer, Alexandra Bradbury, Mark Brenner and Jane Slaughter

• Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care, Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba

• Hegemony How-To: A Roadmap for Radicals, Jonathan Smucker

• I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, Charles Payne

• Poor People’s Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail, Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward