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Thanks to the Hunter Gatherer meetup organized on June 30th, DSA Columbia’s Mutual Aid Working Group has now gone two-for-two on successful outreach events. Seven new contacts are now keeping up with DSA Columbia’s newsletter, and a potential collaboration with Time Bank is in the works!    The main branch of our working group, Columbia […]

We appreciate all our donors and volunteers who are helping make a big difference in the lives of Columbia’s growing unhoused population. These donations allow us to provide both survival supplies and material comforts for the folks we serve. During the winter, a hot cup of coffee (supplies for which were purchased by your donations!) […]

DSA at the national level has been going through a rough time. The current National Political Committee (NPC) has been hard at work preparing the budget for the next fiscal year. Unfortunately, this has been a much harder time than anyone could have expected. The NPC elected at our latest convention inherited a financial deficit […]

2023 was a watershed year for the city of Columbia’s hostile response to the rising unhoused population. Spearheaded by Republican mayor Daniel Rickenmann, the city has passed several ordinances that only make life more difficult for this vulnerable population. Condemned by the SC ACLU and a large group of local advocacy groups, these new rules […]

Columbia DSA expresses unequivocal and unwavering solidarity with the Palestinian people in their struggle for national liberation. For decades, Palestinians have endured settler colonial violence and apartheid at the hands of the Israeli government. Confined in the world’s largest open-air prison, where 97% of fresh water has been deemed undrinkable.   We now look on […]

In response to the recent decision by the South Carolina Supreme Court to uphold a six-week abortion ban we urge you to give to the Palmetto State Abortion Fund, an organization dedicated to ensuring that financial barriers do not impede access to essential reproductive healthcare services. Your contributions will directly aid those affected by this […]

Columbia DSA unequivocally denounces the South Carolina legislature’s latest attempt to deprive trans people in the state of their healthcare and basic human rights. Senate Bill 274—like the repeated and failed attempts to entirely ban abortion in the state—seeks to place personal medical decisions into the hands of corrupt politicians acting in defiance of both […]

For months preceding the 2022 midterm elections conservative pundits predicted a red wave. With inflation at the highest rates in decades and many voters across the political spectrum frustrated with the inactivity of the federal government, on top of the historical precedent of the president’s political party losing seats in the midterms, it was hard […]

Columbia DSA stands in solidarity with the workers of the Millwood, SC and Sumter, SC Starbucks in their bid to unionize under Workers United. We believe not only in the right of working people to unionize, but that it is imperative to achieving better working conditions and a living wage. We also know that Starbucks […]

Gas prices in the United States are rising at an alarming rate with the average price of gas in South Carolina cresting $4 a gallon this week, matching the previous highest gas prices ever recorded in September 2008. The media is attributing this rise in prices to the continuing war of invasion by Russia in […]