What’s better than an afternoon in the park with your local DSA chapter? An afternoon in the park with ✨three✨ local DSA chapters! Join Pinellas DSA, Tampa DSA, and Pasco-Hernando DSA for our first tri-chapter social 🌳⚽️🌭 RSVP and sign up to bring food here: bit.ly/DSACookout

What do St. Pete residents REALLY think about Duke Energy? St. Pete City Council Member Richie Floyd asked around at Halloween on Central a few weeks ago to hear what they had to say. Watch the full video on YouTube: bit.ly/3LVqPpK

Photos: In St. Pete, activists rally against US conflict with Venezuela www.cltampa.com/news/photos-...

New to DSA or interested in joining? Join us for a DSA 101 this Friday to learn about the history and structure of the organization and how to get involved in our local working groups and campaigns! 🌹 📆 Friday, November 21 at 6:30 PM 📍 Allendale United Methodist Church

Workers across the country are on strike because Starbucks refuses to settle a fair contract with @sbworkersunited.org Pinellas DSA flyered yesterday in downtown St. Pete to tell the public DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of the strike! 🚫☕️ @demsocialists.bsky.social @dsa-labor.bsky.social

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

Join us on November 22 at 4:00 PM for our Chevron protest. Chevron provides a major share of power to Israel—funding and fueling genocide. Bring your flags, keffiyehs, signs, and your principles that refuse to stand for apartheid, genocide, and ethnic cleansing. 🇵🇸⛽️

Pinellas DSA hosted an election watch party for Zohran Mamdani’s historic victory last Tuesday! We had a great time hanging out and chatting with both longtime DSA members and local community members inspired by Zohran’s campaign. 🔗 Fill out our interest form at link in bio!

Tampa Bay’s one socialist in office? Pinellas DSA member Richie Floyd! “Floyd’s place at the dais is living proof that a candidate who openly runs for local office as a democratic socialist is possible in a red state—if you have a solid agenda and can demonstrate that you’re not just all talk.”

Be a part of the movement! dsausa.org/join

☕️ Union baristas with @sbworkersunited.org voted to authorize an unfair labor practice strike on Red Cup Day (November 13th) if Starbucks does not agree to a fair contract. Come out to our Labor Committee meeting next Wednesday to learn how you can get involved with upcoming actions locally! ✊🪧

Mohammed is a child — an American citizen from Florida that has been taken and held in israeli military prison for over 8 months. He has no charges, no due process, and no protection. We are calling on the community to gather and demand that our government BRING MOHAMMED HOME. 🇵🇸

It's official: A democratic socialist (and Jacobin contributor) will be the next mayor of America's largest city. It’s proof that organizing around universal programs and working-class demands can still win big in the heart of capitalism.

Join us for an election night watch party in St. Pete as results roll in from New York City, where DSA candidate Zohran Mamdani is the frontrunner to become the next mayor. We’ll hang out with games, food, and friends while we watch for election outcomes!

Get involved this month by checking out our November events and meetings! Our complete calendar can always be found on our website. 🍁 New to DSA and not sure where to start? Click the link in our bio to fill out an interest form and an organizer will be in touch! 🔗

👻 A specter is haunting St. Pete—the specter of Pinellas DSA at Halloween on Central! Make sure to find our table on Central Ave today from 12 to 5 PM to learn about our current campaigns and grab some literature, stickers, and treats 🎃

Last week, we were honored to send a delegation of 40 DSA elected leaders and rank-and-file members from chapters big and small across the country to #Cuba, where they delivered hundreds of pounds of solidarity aid and learned about the achievements and challenges of Cuban socialism.

Curious about public power but not sure where to get started or have questions before you dive in? Join us for a morning of community gardening and space to ask questions or just learn more! 🪏RSVP at the link in bio! 🌱

🇵🇸 Last week we picketed outside the Chevron at 4th St and 22nd Ave S in St. Pete, calling out Chevron on their complicity in two years of genocide in Gaza. Get involved by joining DSA and coming to our next International Solidarity Working Group meeting on 10/21 at 6:30 PM on Zoom (link in bio)!

📕Join the second and final session of our reading group for a discussion on how medieval history and witch hunts shaped modern capitalism and misogyny🧙 We will be discussing from page 134 (part 3) to the end of the book!

🎃 Get involved this month by checking out our October events and meetings! Our complete calendar can always be found on our website. 🧙🏻‍♀️ New to DSA and not sure where to start? Click the link in our bio to fill out an interest form and an organizer will be in touch! 🔗

Join our Health Justice Working Group for a film screening! ⚖️🎥🍿 The Janes is a documentary about the Jane Collective, a group of women who performed thousands of abortions in Chicago between 1968 and 1973, when Roe v. Wade was passed into law. 🔗 RSVP: bit.ly/4nRWEgN

📸 Last week we had a great first discussion on Caliban and the Witch—Federici’s definition of primitive accumulation compared Marx’s, the feudal struggle, capitalism’s exploitation of women, and why all of these things are important for us to understand now in our fight.

It is once again time to touch grass ☘️ Come unplug with us on a tranquil nature walk at Brooker Creek Preserve on Saturday, October 11th! We’ll spend a couple hours walking through the park’s trails and then grab lunch together in Tarpon Springs 🧽🌊 Bring sunscreen, water, and comfortable shoes!

🇻🇪HANDS OFF VENEZUELA🇻🇪 Under the blatantly false pretext of fighting drug trafficking, the Trump admin has murdered 17 people within the last month, claiming that they are members of drug gangs with zero evidence. Join us to say NO to war & NO to imperialist aggression!

Join Pinellas DSA to keep up the fight for a #FreePalestine and the pressure up against Chevron - the largest producer of natural gas for Israel and the largest multinational corporation with a significant stake in Israel's energy sector. Bring Palestine flags, signs, keffiyehs, and your energy!

🏠 FIGHT LANDLORD GREED! Build the tenants union! Join SPTU and Pinellas DSA for our upcoming canvasses at The Elements and The Morgan in St. Pete to fight back against corporate landlord Lurin Real Estate (dates and times in next post). ✊

Join our Labor Committee THIS Thursday to learn about the labor movement and how you can participate through actions such as getting a rank-and-file union job and showing solidarity with workers organizing to demand more! 🗓️ Thursday, 9/25 at 7 PM 📍 Allendale United Methodist Church

New Poll: Democratic Socialism Is Now Mainstream A national poll from Jacobin, DSA Fund, and Data for Progress finds broad support for democratic socialist leaders and left-wing policies.

⭐️🪩🎴🇨🇺🔥 Join us on Saturday, September 27th starting at 5 PM at Allendale UMC (3803 Haines Rd) for a night of karaoke, trivia, tarot, and food & drinks to raise money for an International Committee delegation to Latin America! Donation is NOT required for entry!

🍂 Get involved this month by checking out our September events and meetings! Our complete calendar can always be found on our website. New to DSA and not sure where to start? Click the link in our bio to fill out an interest form and an organizer will be in touch! 🔗

Join us Saturday, September 20th for our Dump Duke canvassing fall launch! We'll meet at Wildwood Park and spend some time doing an overview on how to canvass before heading out to knock doors and speak to neighbors about our campaign for public power in St. Pete. 🔗 RSVP at link in bio

Join us for feminism fall 🍁🧙 Caliban and the Witch by Marxist feminist scholar Silvia Federici explores the historical transition from feudalism to capitalism, and how the witch hunts that accompanied that period served to reshape the role of women within the new capitalist society.

Last week the campaign to #DumpDuke secured a critical achievement! By a vote of 5-3, St. Pete City Council approved a resolution calling for the Mayor to begin the process for a feasibility study on establishing a publicly owned municipal electric service to replace Duke Energy.

🇻🇪 Join our reading group discussion to learn about Venezuela's fight against coups, sanctions, & hybrid warfare THIS Sunday, August 24th at 1 PM at Allendale UMC!

From day one, DSA chapters across South Florida recognized the incredible threat that the detention camp in the Everglades poses to our fragile environment, the indigenous peoples of South FL, our immigrant communities, and we celebrate the ruling of Judge Kathleen William to dismantle it.

Thanks to your voices the St. Pete City Council just voted to move forward a feasibility study for public power! And now Mayor Welch has the opportunity to take a bold step toward affordable, transparent energy for everyone in our city. ➡️ bit.ly/askwelch

LURIN REAL ESTATE HOLDINGS & CORPORATE LANDLORDS: GET OUT OF ST. PETE ‼️ Look below to read our full statement on the water situation at The Morgan and join our next housing working group & tenants union meeting Tuesday, August 26th at 6:30 PM at Allendale UMC or on Zoom.

The St. Petersburg Tenants Union will be holding an emergency protest on Thursday (08/21) at 12:30 PM outside St. Pete City Hall (175 5th St N) to demand a halt to the impending utility shutoff at The Morgan. Stay for the city council meeting at 1:30 PM to speak at open forum.

SHUT IT DOWN! On Sunday Pinellas DSA members were proud to join faith leaders from around the state led by Allendale UMC Pastor & DSA Member Andy Oliver for a vigil at the illegal & inhumane "Alligator Alcatraz."

"’We must seek solutions... We must fight for full rights for immigrants,' said Nick Carey, political coordinator for Faith in Florida, a coalition of over 900 congregations throughout Florida, and co-chair of Pinellas Democratic Socialists of America." www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

🇵🇸 Last week we picketed outside the East Bay Chevron in Largo to make it known that Chevron supplies the terrorist state of Israel with 70% of its energy, and is a major partner in the ongoing Palestinian genocide!

PDSA delegates represented our chapter’s 200+ dues-paying members at the 2025 @demsocialists.bsky.social National Convention! We met with socialist organizers from across the country working on public power campaigns, electing socialists to office, and fighting to protect immigrants🌹

Yesterday, Pinellas DSA comrade & St. Pete City Council member @richiejfloyd.bsky.social joined the vigil for Sayfollah "Saif" Musallet-a Palestinian Tampa resident who was brutally murdered at the hands of Israeli settlers-to demand an investigation and accountability for those responsible.

Join our Municipal Power campaign Dump Duke for a social in response to the St. Petersburg official "Duke Energy Day". At a time when our energy bills are at their highest, the city has chosen to recognize Duke Energy - the company charging us the highest rates in Florida.

Join us this Friday at Allendale at 6:30 PM for the latest in our Summer Organizing Series. This one will be centered on developing strong leaders like @richiejfloyd.bsky.social and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. We need leaders to organize the working class. Join us!

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done. My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it. I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

Join us for our first reading group on Viviremos: Venezuela vs. Hybrid War, hosted by the ISWG. This book charts the character of the sanctions imposed on Venezuela, and analyzes both how this hybrid war is being waged by the US and how it is being resisted by the people. 📖🇻🇪

Get involved this month by checking out our June events and meetings! 🌈 New to DSA and not sure where to start? Click the link in our bio to fill out an interest form and an organizer will be in touch! 🔗