It Is Time to Get Out the Vote On Our Resolutions

 Please assist.
 
The North Star convention planning committee , along with important volunteers, and our steering committee have been working hard to qualify our  resolutions for the convention.
Thank each of you who have already shown your support and signed the resolutions.
 
For our first resolution, we currently  have 280 signatures.  We need at least 50 more. The 280 count includes several duplicates and a few persons who are not DSA members. We need around 350 to be safe.
 
This is an important development within our grasp.  For prior conventions resolutions required 100 signatures and we qualified resolutions with 150 or so signatures.   We are almost double our past work—but we need a final push.  Will you assist?
 
We need our supporters to contact 3-5 additional DSA members each ( or more if you are willing).  We need these signatures prior to April 28.  Signature links below.
  
This week’s events in Tennessee and in the battle defend reproductive freedom show the vital necessity of working together with other groups to defeat the Right.  We should  encourage DSA chapters and individuals to participate in a popular front campaigns.   That is the first resolution.  You can make the difference.  
 
The North Star steering committee endorsed two resolutions and one amendment, which our members co-authored:
 
#16. Uniting Against the Ultra-Right resolution. https://tinyurl.com/dsa23UR  (This is our priority item.)
 
By this resolution DSA commits to engage in the electoral arena to fight the MAGA -Fascist Right wing in the U.S.  This resolution is an application of our NS strategy for DSA. We argue that DSA should contest campaigns in the electoral season, not stand outside of electoral politics.  There are competing views within DSA which we oppose. 
 
We propose that locals and individuals  work with a broad front of voters  against the US ultra-right which includes MAGA. neo confederates, Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, ALEC, militias, too many Republicans, and numerous reactionary super PACs, foundations, and think tanks.  The resolution also proposes improving cooperation among DSA  chapters and our sister organizations that is necessary in order to organize the broad front against the right. 
 
The Steering Committee also endorsed 
 
#17. Big Tent bylaws amendment to damp down the urge to purge.
https://tinyurl.com/dsa23BT

#20. On the Defense of Immigrants and Refugees
https://tinyurl.com/20DefenseofImmigrantRefugees
Resolution #20 has now achieved its 300 signatures. However, like our # 16 there are several duplicate signatures, so the campaign  for those last few signatures continues. 
 
You can use these links in outreach to your friends and allies.
 
Don’t wait another day.  Please  do not rely upon others to make this happen. It is up to us. You and I.   Please assist NS to make it over this hill. 
 
Duane Campbell
Co-Chair.  NS Steering Committee