Upcoming Maine DSA Events

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https://actionnetwork.org/events/portland-tenants-union-april-general-meeting

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Join MDSA's Portland Local Campaign Committee and Portland Tenant's Union for the April 2025 General Meeting!

Topics of discussion are:

• Membership and Dues
• Recap of our March Zillow audit and next steps
• Portland tenants who have been gravely harmed by their landlord and how we can help
• Upcoming PTU Elections

Reach out with any questions or concerns ahead of time to info@portlandtenantsunion.org

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If this event is in-person and you would like this to be a masked event, please contact a Maine DSA Accessibility Officer at accessibility@mainedsa.org at least 3 days ahead of time. For complete details about this policy, click here.

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https://actionnetwork.org/events/tabling-first-friday-april-4th

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MEMBERS ONLY join us for our monthly tabling at Portland's First Friday event! This is a monthly activity that is an easy way to get involved with the chapter. We table along Congress Street in Portland (usually try to post up near SPACE gallery) and chat with passers by about our organization, the important work we're up to, offer folks merch, and get folks signed up! It's a great way to help out that doesn't require any experience. By signing up, you're signaling that you would like to help us out on this specific day.

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If this event is in-person and you would like this to be a masked event, please contact a Maine DSA Accessibility Officer at accessibility@mainedsa.org at least 3 days ahead of time. For complete details about this policy, click here.

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https://actionnetwork.org/events/bodily-autonomy-working-group-meeting-5

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Come organize with us on trans and reproductive rights!

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If this event is in-person and you would like this to be a masked event, please contact a Maine DSA Accessibility Officer at accessibility@mainedsa.org at least 3 days ahead of time. For complete details about this policy, click here.

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https://actionnetwork.org/events/may-day-planning-meeting-6

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International Workers’ Day (May Day) is less than a month away. The federal government is coming after workers’ rights, threatening and violating the safety of all people across this land. Organized labor must lead the way against these violations, defending workers, immigrants, queer and trans people, women, people of color, and all those under attack.

How, on this May Day? We invited you to decide with us.

Leaders and rank-and-file members from across labor organizations in Maine are gathering to plan how we will celebrate, rally, protest, and mourn this May Day. All are welcome, participation from both union members and officials encouraged. If you can’t attend, please send a representative from your union, your bargaining unit, or your workplace.

Maine Labor Rising!

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If this event is in-person and you would like this to be a masked event, please contact a Maine DSA Accessibility Officer at accessibility@mainedsa.org at least 3 days ahead of time. For complete details about this policy, click here.

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https://actionnetwork.org/events/lyd-portland

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4/15, 5:30 doors, 6:30 show
Suggested donatation $20 at the door.
No one turned away for lack of funds.

Director/Producer Rami Younis will be in person for a live Q+A after the film.
Made by a Palestinian from Lyd and a Jewish American, Lyd provides much-needed context for this moment, as it goes deep into the history of the Nakba from the perspective of Palestinians who survived. The film imagines an alternate reality where Palestine was never occupied and Palestinians of all religions (Muslims, Christians, and Jews) live in a liberated Palestine. Narrated by Palestinian actress Maisa Abd Elhadi who personifies the city, the viewer is guided through the lifespan of a five-thousand-year-old city and its residents.
Directed by Rami Younis and Sarah Ema Friedland, the film Lyd (the Arabic name of Lod, a city now in Israel) is about a 5,000-year-old bustling Palestinian town that was conquered when the State of Israel was established in 1948, and the film Lyd is the story of that city’s rise and fall. An exploration of what it once was, and what it is now, in the context of the continuing conflicts and the war in Gaza, Lyd’s excavation of one community’s complex history offers us not only lessons but possible futures.
As the film unfolds, a chorus of characters creates a tapestry of the Palestinian experience of this city and the trauma left by the massacre and expulsion, while vivid animations envision an alternate reality where the same characters live free from the trauma of the past and the violence of the present. Using never-before-seen archival footage of the Israeli soldiers who carried out the massacre and expulsion, the personified city explains that these events were so devastating that they fractured reality, and now there are two Lyds — one occupied and one free. As the film cuts between fantastical and documentary realities, it ultimately leaves the viewer questioning what future should prevail.
Rami Younis is a Palestinian filmmaker, writer, journalist and activist from Lyd. He was a 2019-20 Fellow at the Harvard Divinity School. As a journalist, he mainly wrote for the online magazine +972 and served as both writer and editor of its Hebrew sister site, “local call”, a journalistic project he co-founded, designed to challenge Israeli mainstream journalism outlets. Rami served as a parliamentary consultant and media spokesperson for Palestinian member of Knesset (Israeli parliament) Haneen Zoabi. Rami is also co-founder and manager of the first-ever Palestine Music Expo, an event that connects the local Palestinian music scene to the worldwide industry. Younis is the host of the Arabic-language daily news show, “On the Other Hand.”

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If this event is in-person and you would like this to be a masked event, please contact a Maine DSA Accessibility Officer at accessibility@mainedsa.org at least 3 days ahead of time. For complete details about this policy, click here.

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https://actionnetwork.org/events/april-portland-pub-night

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Join us for our monthly Portland Pub Night which is once again at Novel on Congress Street. Drinks, books, and camaraderie are readily available so come celebrate the nicer weather with your comrades!

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If this event is in-person and you would like this to be a masked event, please contact a Maine DSA Accessibility Officer at accessibility@mainedsa.org at least 3 days ahead of time. For complete details about this policy, click here.

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https://actionnetwork.org/events/benjamin-balthaser

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Get the book:

Citizens of the Whole World
Anti-Zionism and the Cultures of the American Jewish Left

Please join JVP and Maine DSA for a conversation with Professor of Literature and Social Movements Benjamin Balthaser.

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If this event is in-person and you would like this to be a masked event, please contact a Maine DSA Accessibility Officer at accessibility@mainedsa.org at least 3 days ahead of time. For complete details about this policy, click here.