The best thing about Biden‘s infrastructure plan? That he has an infrastructure plan. Now begins the work of turning the blueprint into legislation. A volatile dynamic underlies the process: the White House wants a bipartisan deal, but Democrats are preparing to move ahead alone. Solidarity Sundays takes a deep dive into the forces shaping the legislation and what disbursing $2 trillion will look like on the ground.

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The DA Barcelona book club has selected Stacey Abrams' Lead from the Outside for our next reading.

From the publisher: 

"National leader Stacey Abrams has written the guide to harnessing the strengths of being an outsider and succeeding anyway.

Leadership is hard. Convincing others—and yourself—that you are capable of taking charge and achieving more requires insight and courage. Lead from the Outside is the handbook for outsiders, written with an eye toward the challenges that hinder women, people of color, the working class, members of the LGBTQ community, and millennials ready to make change. Stacey uses her hard-won insights to break down how ambition, fear, money, and failure function in leadership, and she includes practical exercises to help you realize your own ambition and hone your skills. Lead from the Outside discusses candidly what Stacey has learned over the course of her impressive career in politics, business and the nonprofit world: that differences in race, gender, and class provide vital strength, which we can employ to rise to the top and create real and lasting change."

Join us for a lively discussion of what we can apply to grow and increase the impact of our chapter, our organization, and the progressive movement in our home country.  Zoom link will be sent shortly before the meeting to all who RSVP. 

All are welcome to attend. Join us.

“In this penetrating new study, Harvard University's Theda Skocpol and Vanessa Williamson go beyond images of protesters in Colonial costumesto provide a nuanced portrait of the Tea Party. What they find is sometimes surprising. Drawing on grassroots interviews and visits to local meetings in several regions, they find that older, middle-class Tea Partiers mostly approve of Social Security, Medicare, and generous benefits for military veterans. Their opposition to "big government" entails reluctance to pay taxes to help people viewed as undeserving "freeloaders" - including immigrants, lower income earners, and the young. At the national level, Tea Party elites and funders leverage grassroots energy to further longstanding goals such as tax cuts for the wealthy, deregulation of business, and privatization of the very same Social Security and Medicare programs on which many grassroots Tea Partiers depend. Elites and grassroots are nevertheless united in hatred of Barack Obama and determination to push the Republican Party sharply to the right. The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism combines fine-grained portraits of local Tea Party members and chapters with an overarching analysis of the movement's rise, impact, and likely fate.”

Participants need to know that if there are access, affordability, etc. problems for a book/books, they can contact co-leaders, John Esteban Rodriguez and Betsy Ettorre ([email protected]) who will help them with the listed books. Learn more about the proDA Book Club.

Join DAF Grenoble chapter and DAF Veterans and Military Families caucus in a Memorial Day Action Hour so special that we need TWO hours. You'll hear US veterans tell their stories, and we'll do an action item together to help our military. Don't miss this chance to honor our veterans. 

For June, we will be reading The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee. From Amazon:

One of today’s most insightful and influential thinkers offers a powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson that generations of Americans have failed to learn: Racism has a cost for everyone—not just for people of color.

Please join us even if you haven't read the book!

Additional information about this (and future) event(s) can be found here.

The June meeting will be held via Zoom. If you are not already on the Geneva Book Club mailing list, please send Sam an email letting him know you would like to be included.

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Join Political Forum host Jean-Pierre LaRochelle and leaders of Democrats Abroad France in a free-wheeling discussion of current events and news of the week, and share your views with other attendees. Send your questions to [email protected]

Join Democrats Abroad Berlin on Tuesday, June 1st at 7:30pm for a virtual roundtable with Democrats Abroad Caucuses. 

Politics is not a spectator sport! Join us every Wednesday every month as we join together to take political action -- to engage our elected officials and policy makers on the issues that matter!

We will start the first few minutes of every meeting with calls to our elected officials in House and Senate -- you can call Congress for Free from France at 07 555 3 6446 (or 07 555 DOGGO) -- this connects callers automatically to the US Capitol Switchboard, where you follow the prompts to be connected to your House Rep or Senators. 

Never made constituent calls before? Don't worry, we will walk you through what to do including a call script. Every meeting we will also have new actions to take on the issues, together -- postcarding, phonebanking, textbanking, and more.

Have an action to suggest? Contact Max Dunitz [email protected]

This social event is open to D.A. members only due to limited seating.  We welcome you all to come and interact with fellow Americans in the region and engage in American political discussions. So join us for a Zoom Political Wine! Pour yourself a glass of rosé, and let’s chat.  

We have updated how we manage our Zoom meetings, please RSVP quickly! The link to the Zoom meeting and password will be included in your RSVP confirmation - please do not delete it. If you have any problems, contact us at [email protected] so that someone can assist you.