I'd like to see if people are interested before bringing the idea to a recruiter. Lemme know, fam.

I'm thinking it'd probably be best on a Saturday.

I swear I'll flip if only 3 people ask questions and it's crickets for the rest of the time. lol

  • TransComrade69 [she/her,ze/hir]
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    4 years ago

    I thought you said you weren't going to be doing any explaining, lol.

    Alright, well, first things first. This is not a membership drive. That's not my goal. My goal is to have them come in and answer questions that people have about joining an organization. What they do, what people can do to get involved outside of joining an organization, how the joining process works, etc. I'd be equally inclined to help host any other organizational AMA. I don't give a bother. At this point any organizing is better than none and gatekeeping how people organize when there is already so little is some places isn't helpful either.

    If you could put me in contact or help facilitate communication with recruiters for other organizations to do something similar to this please be my guest.

    • heqt1c [he/him]
      2·
      4 years ago

      This is not a membership drive. That’s not my goal. My goal is to have them come in and answer questions that people have about joining an organization. What they do, what people can do to get involved outside of joining an organization, how the joining process works, etc

      What you've just described is a pseudo membership drive, the only thing missing is a goal. I think people should be encouraged to join any number of the organizations that are active and doing good work wherever they may be.

      I just happened to mention DSA since they fill essentially the same role, just with a larger foot print and more recognition. I do think we as a community do need to encourage each other to get active no matter what it is. There are definitely other groups that I think people would be interested in getting together with that would also benefit from discussion on here as well.

      I am not trying to discourage you from doing this, by any means :che-smile:

        • spectre [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          what would be the reason to focus our efforts on a less-developed vessel of doing electoralisms

          The foremost reason is that PSL does not center electoralism in the same way that the DSA does (as far as I know). Anytime I suggest joining the DSA though, it comes with a big asterisk that you need to jump into the Marxist caucus and advocate for the DSA to become something more useful (like the PSL). The biggest appeal that the DSA has is that there are people already there (given most of them are libs, but it's up to the Marxist caucuses to start selling their regional branches on another outlook, that's step 1).