Get Involved

How to Participate

Milwaukee DSA offers a myriad of ways to participate. We have working groups, committees, caucuses, and coalitions, as well as campaigns. We invite you to find a group or campaign that focuses on topics that you are interested in and reach out to them to get involved! You can find out when meetings are on our calendar. To reach out to individual groups, see group pages (linked below).

Calendar

About Group Types

Working Group | Works to achieve specific finite goals
      Campaign | A working group/committee/caucus project with specific strategies and objectives
Committee | Serves ongoing function within organization
Caucus | Officially-recognized group of self-organized DSA members who advocate for themselves in internal decision-making
Coalition | Connects Milwaukee DSA to external groups with common goals


Campaigns

LSC Lead Free MKE

About The LSC Lead Free MKE campaign and working group is led by the Libertarian Socialist Caucus ...
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Power to the People

Campaign calling on the City of Milwaukee to replace We Energies with a municipally owned and operated ...

Working Groups

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Ecosocialist Working Group

Welcome to the Ecosocialist Working Group of the Milwaukee Democratic Socialists of America. Check for meeting updates ...
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Electoral Working Group

About The Electoral Working Group is dedicated to contesting elections with viable candidates to win office, raise ...
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International Working Group

This working group is working on international solidarity with people around the world working to end imperialism ...
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Labor Solidarity Working Group

The Labor Solidarity Working Group focuses on workplace organizing and wielding the power of organized labor against ...
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Podcast Working Group

The Podcast Working Group works together to produce a bi-weekly podcast representing Milwaukee DSA. The show features ...

Starting a Working Group

Any three (3) Members may create a Working Group. Each Working Group must submit its name, specific purposes, and plans to advance the general purposes of the Chapter to the Secretary.

Following are former or inactive Milwaukee DSA Working Groups.

  • Abolition Speak Out | abolitionmke@gmail.com (formerly Abolition Working Group)
    Abolition Speak Out (ASO) is a collective that hosts events around Milwaukee that aim to educate about prison and police abolition.
  • Housing Working Group | chris@housing4.us
  • Medicare for All Working Group | m4amke@gmail.com
  • Socialist Feminist Working Group | mke@dsawi.org

Committees

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Education Committee

Capitalism has taught us that a society structured around an endless quest for profit and the pursuit ...
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Executive Committee

The Executive Committee steers the direction of the chapter by organizing events, tending to the administration of ...
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Outreach Committee

The Outreach Committee focuses on membership growth, new member on-boarding, and social media. Among other things, the ...

Caucuses

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Bread and Roses Caucus

The Bread and Roses Caucus (B&R) is a Marxist, national DSA caucus organizing for a democratic socialist ...
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Ethical Socialist Caucus

Ethical socialism refers to the view which holds that one ought to be a democratic socialist because human ...
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Latinx Socialist Caucus

The Latinx Socialist Caucus exists to empower Latinx members of the Milwaukee chapter of the Democratic Socialists ...

Libertarian Socialist Caucus of Milwaukee

Who We Are The Libertarian Socialist Caucus is an organization of members of the Democratic Socialists of ...

Starting a Caucus

A Caucus will be recognized by the Chapter if no less than five (5) Members sign a mission statement that includes the name and purpose of the Caucus. The Secretary will be responsible for recording such mission statement in Chapter records.

Following are inactive Milwaukee DSA Caucuses which may be restarted under the same criteria as for new Caucuses.


Coalitions

Close MSDF

dsamkemutualaid@gmail.com
closemsdf.org
Milwaukee DSA is a member of the #CLOSEmsdf coalition, led by Ex-Prisoners Organizing (EXPO). The campaign aims not only to close the Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility and end crimeless revocation, but to reimagine how we invest in people caught in the penal system.

Get the Lead Out

leadfreemke@gmail.com
leadfreemke.com
As a member of the Get the Lead Out coalition, DSA Milwaukee is fighting for the right of all people to have access to safe, clean drinking water. Along with a variety of other groups in the city, we are demanding that lead infrastructure is removed from our pipes and our homes.

≫ Learn about our active projects here: LSC Lead Free MKE

Milwaukee Autonomous Tenants Union

outreach@matunion.org
matunion.org
facebook.com/mkematu
The Milwaukee Autonomous Tenants Union is an all-volunteer organization fighting to end housing insecurity and the commodification of housing altogether. Through direct action, we organize to challenge evictions, win demands from negligent landlords, and work towards community control of housing for everyone.