Political Education 2024 Collective Internal Campaign
In December 2023, Tampa DSA passed a Collective Internal Campaign for Political Education.
The primary goals of this Collective Internal Campaign (CIC) are as follows:
- Develop Tampa DSA members’ understanding of core organizing and socialist principles
- Document all resources, discussions, political education events, book and movie summaries as references
- Add these documents to an internal database
- Host 3 documentary/movie screenings and discussions
- Collectively read and discuss two socialist books
- Host 2 “Lunch and Learn” educational discussions around key socialist definitions
- Host 2 trainings on incorporating socialist theory into practical organizing
Action Plan/Timeline: Essential Socialist Values & Definitions
- January 2024: Palestine Documentary Political Education Event
- February 2024: Socialist Camping and Campfire Discussion 1: Why You Should be a Socialist
- March 2024: Lunch and Learn – Key Socialist Definitions: Historical Materialism And Dialectics Introduction
- April 2024: Why You Should Be a Socialist Discussion 2
- May 2024: Training: Applying Dialectics to Organizing Conversations
- June 2024: The Young Karl Marx movie screening
- Intro to July’s discussion: Wage Labour and Capital
- July 2024: Wage Labour and Capital Discussion 1
- August 2024: Lunch and Learn – Key Socialist Definitions: Political Economy
- September 2024: Wage Labour and Capital Discussion 2
- October 2024: Training – More than just voting: Organizing movements and campaigns for social change
- November 2024: Mental Health Under Capitalism / Potluck Social
- December 2024: Judas and the Black Messiah movie screening + Discussion on the US Protests and the Struggle for Black Liberation (BLM)
Look out for our upcoming sessions in our calendar!