NWI DSA February 2025 Recap

Hello comrades! It’s Jackie, your friendly neighborhood Social Media Coordinator- here to present the February 2025 recap for our chapter. 

Chapter Announcements

• The chapter Steering Committee has openings for a new chapter Treasurer and chapter Secretary.
• Next General Meeting for the chapter will be on April 1st, 6PM CST, location TBD.

Campaigns and Events

During mid-February, we hosted the NWI Organizing Fair at Joy Bomb Social Center in Lake Station, IN. In a bittersweet state of affairs, we unfortunately had some big cancellations from groups who realized they were unable to make it, but despite this we still observed a pleasantly surprising turnout of around 30 people! We thank our attending groups NWI Green Party and NWI Medicare for All for their presence and respective speakers who made the event special for our individual attendees. NWI DSA member Brandon Dothager also gave a few encouraging words to our small crowd. To any readers who attended yourselves, thank you again for coming, and we plan on hosting some more fun events soon! Stay tuned.

Notable Internal Developments

The proposed Chapter Bylaws amendment has been reworked into an entirely new set of proposed bylaws by chapter Co-Chair Eve, co-signed by several other members of the chapter. This set of bylaws aims to give fresh, more fleshed-out definitions for the structure of the chapter, overhauling the comparatively modest reforms of the previous amendment drafts. 

The NWI DSA Steering Committee is gearing up to host several trainings in the near future, including another session of DSA 101 for our new members since the last general meeting as well as a possible DSA 102 and Robert’s Rules 101. These trainings will provide introductions to DSA and basic principles of running meetings, which aim to help members get comfortable with DSA and develop their organizing skills.

Our chapter has a new opening for a Chapter Treasurer position on the Steering Committee. If you are a Member and have any experience in accounting, treasury, or related activities, please consider reaching out to the Steering Committee at northwest.indiana.dsa@gmail.com. NWI DSA is not separately incorporated as a 501(c)4, so the level of work is not as high as a full-on separate legal entity.

Other Local Action

Several members of the chapter have continued working in collaboration with other local organizers regarding anti-deportation.* As our fascist state makes plays to attack undocumented people in our communities, we must do what we can to help protect them from the clutches of special bodies of armed enforcers. 

Undocumented People Have Rights!

https://www.cliniclegal.org/issues/know-your-rights

*At the time of writing there was a recent coalition protest organized by the local Hispanic Student Association that NWI DSA partially participated in organizing. This event will be covered in next month’s March newsletter.