Central Indiana Democratic Socialists of America

Coffee & Community 🌹
2025-03-30 09:30 - 11:30 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Dream Palace Books, 111 e. 16th st, Indianapolis, Indiana, 46202, United States
Enjoy your favorite morning beverage with some socialist solidarity. Our socials put the community in community organizing, and this one is for the early birds! Families welcome. Please RSVP so we know how many to expect.

A Night at Newfields Art Museum 🌹
2025-04-03 18:00 - 20:00
Join us for Newfields’ exhibition Käthe Kollwitz: Visions of Solidarity and Resilience. The exhibit features the German artist who advocated for social change through her images. There is no cost for admission.

Pothole Scouting & Fundraising
2025-04-05 10:00 - 15:00 | Rabble Coffee, East, 2119 E 10th St, Indianapolis, Indiana, 46201
The goal is to scout potholes in and around District #13. We will determine the fill type, amount of fill, report infrastructure needs to the city, and determine ways to fundraise for this project’s continued growth.

Socialism 101: Why the working class? 🌹
2025-04-06 14:00 - 16:00 | Office – 1915 W 18th St, 1915 W. 18th St., Indianapolis, IN, 46202, United States
In this seminar, we will use the following readings and media to understand why Socialists seek to build power through the Working Class and how best to do that.For the session, please take a look at the following works:

Why the Working Class?, Chibber

Background

Why Class Struggle is Central, Wood

Background

“Solidarity Is a Force Stronger Than Gravity”, Nelson

Background

Video

Transcript

Wage, Labor, and Capital, Marx

Background

Audio supplement, with commentary to aid comprehension

This event is hybrid. A Zoom link will be sent to everyone who signs up.

Tabling at Big Gay Spring Fling 🌹🏳️‍🌈
2025-04-12 16:00 - 2025-04-13 17:00 | The Amp, 1220 Waterway Blvd Container 1, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, United States
Stop by to talk socialism as you shop handmade arts and crafts at the all LGTBQIA+ market at the Amp at 16 Tech. Enjoy lots of nearby parking, a diverse food court, and a fully accessible building. Event hours are Saturday 4pm – 8pm and Sunday 1pm – 5pm.

POSTPONED: Socialist Social🌹
2025-04-12 17:00 - 20:00 | TBD
Due to the Big Gay Spring Fling occurring at the same time and same place, we will be meeting the following week for a potluck at the office

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Fully Funded Fully Public Community Meeting 🌹
2025-04-14 18:30 - 20:00 | Office – 1915 W 18th St, 1915 W. 18th St., Indianapolis, IN, 46202, United States
Central Indiana DSA is fighting for an public education system that is fully-funded and fully-public. Whether you are parent, a school teacher or staff person, or simply a believer in high-quality, public education for all, join us to help fight for the education system that our children deserve.

Meetings occur at the CINDSA office and on Zoom.

Steering Committee Meeting
2025-04-15 19:00 - 20:00, 2025-04-29 19:00 - 20:00, 2025-05-06 19:00 - 20:00, 2025-05-20 19:00 - 20:00, 2025-06-03 17:00 - 18:00
Regular business meeting of chapter leadership.

Direct Action Day #2 - Pothole Mutual Aid
2025-04-19 09:00 - 15:00 | Lowes @ Keystone and Kessler, 6002 N Rural St, Indianapolis, IN, INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, 46220, United States
Direct Action Day #2 – Members and non-members alike are encouraged to join other residents of Indianapolis to fill and repair potholes of their choosing. This is a mutual aid effort for the people of Indianapolis to see their power, and how it can supplement the failures of the State.

Home-Cooked Spring Social 🌹
2025-04-19 17:00 - 20:00 | Office – 1915 W 18th St, 1915 W. 18th St., Indianapolis, IN, 46202, United States
We all want to build community and fight for a better world, but the struggle to make ends meet and get through the day-to-day can be a major challenge. Everyone deserves community solidarity and to be part of the struggle. We are putting dinner on the table and providing childcare support so our neighbors can join us.

Whether you come for the food, fun, or the chance to connect with Socialists in your community, you and your family are welcome!

We’ll make the main meal, but feel free to bring side dishes, drinks etc, to make sure there are options for all. Monetary donations are welcome to support future events, but are neither required nor expected.

Please RSVP so we know how much to make!

POSTPONED: Fully Funded Fully Public Community Planning Meeting
2025-04-21 18:30 - 20:00
This event has been POSTPONED. Please stay tuned for updates on its new date!

Central Indiana DSA is fighting for an public education system that is fully-funded and fully-public. Whether you are parent, a school teacher or staff person, or simply a believer in high-quality, public education for all, join us to help fight for the education system that our children deserve.

CINDSA Labor Committee Callout!!!
2025-04-25 18:00 - 19:00 | Office – 1915 W 18th St, 1915 W. 18th St., Indianapolis, IN, 46202, United States
We will get the Central Indiana DSA Labor Committee up and running again, Please join us, comrades! A Zoom link will be sent to those who RSVP

Direct Action Day #3 – Pothole Mutual Aid
2025-04-26 09:00 - 15:00 | Lowes @ Keystone and Kessler, 6002 N Rural St, Indianapolis, IN, INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, 46220, United States
Direct Action Day #3 – Members and non-members alike are encouraged to join other residents of Indianapolis to fill and repair potholes of their choosing. This is a mutual aid effort for the people of Indianapolis to see their power, and how it can supplement the failures of the State.

CINDSA April Arts & Culture Social
2025-04-26 13:00 - 19:00 | Monument Circle, Meridian St. & Market St., Indianapolis, Indiana, 46204, United States
Central Indiana DSA April Arts & Culture Social

The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra will be joining with countless other performance groups in the area for an exciting day of music and dancing!

This is a free, family-friendly, and ticketless event, so folks are welcome to come and go as they please throughout the day (1pm-7pm).

The Saturday evening Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra performance will be projected live in Monument Circle beginning at 5:30pm for anyone interested.

Symphony on the CircleSaturday, April 26th from 1pm-7pmCost: FreeMonument Circle1 Monument Circle Indianapolis, IN 46204

For more information about the event:https://www.indianapolissymphony.org/event/symphony-on-the-circle/

Central IN DSA General Chapter Meeting @ 12pm 🌹
2025-04-27 12:00 - 14:00, 2025-05-18 12:00 - 14:00 | Office – 1915 W 18th St, 1915 W. 18th St., Indianapolis, IN, 46202, United States
Join the Central Indiana DSA at our monthly General Meeting on the 3rd Sunday of the month (typically), including committee updates and voting on proposals put forward by members.
The face-to-face meeting (masks required for the good of our comrades, and we’ll provide one if you forget yours!) will be at the CINDSA Office. Check Slack for more details. And for those who aren’t able to make it in person, you can join over Zoom.
We look forward to seeing you there. Chapter meetings are open to the public, so invite any friends or family who may be interested!
If you are not a member, join us at centralindsa.org/join

*ONLINE* Rainbow Book Work Session
2025-05-03 14:00 - 16:00
*UPDATE* Please note: This event is now online only. If you are not on Slack, please email stonewall@centralindsa.org to get the Zoom link.

Work with the Stonewall Solidarity Committee to expand the Rainbow Book, a list of safe stops for Google mapping that will help LGTBQIA+ folks and people seeking reproductive healthcare traveling through our regressive state find safe places to stop in their travels. This will be a hybrid event, but if you will be joining us in the office, please bring an electronic device (phone, laptop, tablet) that allows you to get online so you can research businesses around the state. Drinks and snacks will be provided. The zoom link will be posted in the Stonewall channel on Slack or email Stonewall@centralindsa.org.

Socialist Sunday School: The History of US Labor 🌹
2025-05-04 14:00 - 16:00 | Office – 1915 W 18th St, 1915 W. 18th St., Indianapolis, IN, 46202, United States
RSVP Here!

This event will by hybrid, with both in-person and Zoom options

Study Module for May 4th

As Labor Notes founder Kim Moody has said, “The labor movement is the critical institution for the left. Socialists should root themselves in it.”

This course focuses on two concepts of particular importance for socialists to understand:

1. The vital role socialists of various kinds have played (and can still play) in the US labor movement. To thrive, labor needs a strong socialist movement.

2. The critical role powerful labor organization and strikes play in shifting the power balance between labor and capital to realize political and social objectives. A thriving socialist movement needs a powerful labor movement.

Recommended Reading

Eric Blanc, “Liberals Get the New Deal Wrong: Why Voting is Not Enough,” Pt 1. Labor Struggle from Below and Above: Lessons from the 1930s, Labor Politics, May 7, 2022.

If time permits: Paul Prescod, “To Fight Racism, Organize with Your Coworkers,” Jacobin, August 15, 2021.

Supplemental Reading for Further Study

Paul Prescod, “A Religion of Unity,” Jacobin, June 30, 2019. The United Packinghouse Workers of America (UPWA) fought discrimination on the job, challenged racist attitudes, and took on civil rights initiatives.

Barry Eidlin, “What is the Rank-and-File Strategy, and Why Does It Matter?,” Jacobin, March 26, 2019.

Ahmed White, “Memorial Day, 1937,” Jacobin, May 29, 2017. Story of the violent crushing of Little Steel Strike in 1937 and the limits of New Deal legislation

Howard Kimeldorf, Reds or Rackets? The Making of Radical and Conservative Unions on the Waterfront (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), [for CP & Waterfront strike: Ch 4].

Socialist Social🌹
2025-05-10 17:00 - 20:00 | The AMP
Join your fellow socialists on the second Saturday of (most) every month to eat, drink, and socialize. All ages are welcome.

Labor Meeting
2025-05-11 10:00 - 11:00 | Dream Palace Books, 111 e. 16th st, Indianapolis, Indiana, 46202, United States
We will construct our official proposal to restart the Labor Committee!!! RSVP here please

Who Owns Indianapolis?
2025-05-17 12:00 - 14:00 | Office – 1915 W 18th St, 1915 W. 18th St., Indianapolis, IN, 46202, United States
Our elected officials are already bought and paid for by big donors, and we can prove it.

Not content to own our government officials, monied interests want to take over our public schools, too.

Not. On. Our. Watch.

Join Central Indiana DSA for our third Who Owns Indianapolis session, as we research, transcribe, and compile campaign finance information to highlight the way big donors subvert our democracy. This session will focus on gathering information on the monied interests who are working to destroy public schools and turn schoolchildren into a profit stream.This is a hybrid event. The Zoom link will be provided to those who RSVP.

Coffee & Community 🌹
2025-05-25 09:30 - 11:30 | Dream Palace Books, 111 e. 16th st, Indianapolis, Indiana, 46202, United States
For those early risers out there, we’re brewing up community the last Sunday of every month at Dream Palace Books & Coffee! We look forward to seeing you!

FFFP Committee Meeting
2025-05-28 19:00 - 20:30
Preparation for the next month of work in the fight for fully funded, fully public schooling. [Zoom, DSA Members only]

Socialist Sunday School: Race and Capitalism in the US
2025-06-01 14:00 - 16:00 | Office – 1915 W 18th St, 1915 W. 18th St., Indianapolis, IN, 46202, United States
Material for the session: Race and Capitalism in the United States: An Introduction

This event will by hybrid, with both in-person and Zoom options

RSVP here and you will be provided a Zoom link along with emails regarding our upcoming session

Racism permeates every institution in the US. From policing, to the courts, to education, the economy, housing, political power, and the Constitution, it has been built into the structure of American society. This is further realized by genocidal wars against indigenous people, slavery, the unjust invasion waged against Mexico that stole two-thirds of its national territory, and the continued intervention of the US into the rest of the Global South.

Labor and oppressed ethnicities and nationalities face a common enemy in capitalism. These two forces are more than allies; they are comrades in the struggle to liberate humanity and build a multi-racial socialist democracy. While facing a common struggle against capitalist institutions, ethnic and national groups within the multi-racial working class often experience oppression differently. People of color face more severe forms of state violence and are more vulnerable to poverty and premature death. For example, although the majority of those in prison in the U.S. are white (52% of all prisoners), Black people are incarcerated at over double their percent of the US population (37% of all prisoners and 13% of the US population), according to the Prison Policy Initiative.

To investigate the relationship between race and capitalism we’ll use two sources: a video of a short lecture on racial capitalism by philosopher and DSA member Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò and an interview with historian Barbara Fields and sociologist Karen Fields. These sources offer two distinct frames for understanding the relationship between race and capitalism. In our discussion, we can explore their differences and contributions. As this is a complex topic, we hope these materials serve to introduce important concepts and questions in a balanced manner.

Labor Committee
2025-06-08 12:00 - 13:00 | Office – 1915 W 18th St, 1915 W. 18th St., Indianapolis, IN, 46202, United States
There will be a meeting of the Labor Committee it noon at the CINDSA office.
