Trainings, Seminars, and Screenings
What is Social Housing? With DSA
Want to learn more about social housing? Join DSA’s House the Future campaign to learn about the core principles of social housing and how you can get involved in fighting for publicly funded, permanently affordable housing for every New Yorker.
Students Rise Up: Training for May Day 2026 with Sunrise NYC
On May Day 2026 we are fighting to tax the rich so our families, not their fortunes, come first, to demand ICE Out and end the private army serving authoritarian power, to expand democracy, not corporate rule, it's up to us to organize and act together.
Join the twice monthly NYC-DSA 101 to learn about NYC-DSA's structure, how to get plugged in to priority campaigns and working groups, and what it means to be part of a mass membership organization like DSA.
All are welcome to attend!
DSA 101
Let’s Get Billionaires, AI Money, & Warmongers Out Of Our Elections
Join this national call to find out more about our fight to stop Big Tech and AI billionaires from buying our elections and provoking deadly wars. Hear from community activists, surveillance experts, immigrant rights groups, and members of Congress about why this fight is central to stopping authoritarianism, driving down the cost of living, and building a democracy where we can all thrive. Come learn how to take action during this April recess to tell your member of Congress to reject donations from billionaires and Big Tech.
Art Facilitation Workshop with Hands Off NYC and Many Hands Workshop
Learn how to facilitate community art using Hands Off Stencils in order to make create flags, banners, t-shirts and signs! This is a workshop for people who want to either bring these art projects to your students, community group, church, girlscout troup or any other group of neighbors!
Nodutdol NYC - Living Along the Fenceline Screening
Join us for a screening and discussion of Living Along the Fenceline (2011), a film featuring seven women reflecting on life near U.S. military bases around the world.
Ethical Culture Society NYC - 'Activists to Terrorists' - Trump's Attack On Civil Liberties'
Join us to hear from targeted activists facing down domestic terrorist threats, to learn how we can–and must–work together to protect each other, protect our civil liberties, and protect our climate in the face of fossil-fueled authoritarianism.
Train for Swing Left's Ground Truth canvassing: Listening to Win with Upper West Side Action Group
Politics is about persuasion—reaching out, person to person, and bringing others along. But persuasion doesn’t mean you’re rattling off statistics, arguing about policy, or convincing someone to do a 180º . Persuasion starts with listening.
Authoritarian Attacks on Public Schools and How We Resist
History teaches us that authoritarian movements only succeed when people comply in isolation and that they fail when communities organize and refuse.
This training is for individuals and organizations–both to say no and resist and to build the public schools we deserve.
Hands Off NYC Mass Trainings in April
Hands Off NYC is doing another 5-borough tour in April, dedicated to ensuring communities know their rights, understand the authoritarian takeover, and are equipped to take action in their communities.
Sign up to get first notice when dates are solidified, and to stay in the loop about how federal incursion is impacting New Yorkers.
Come to our twice monthly Organizing 101 to learn about the basics of organizing - things like doing listwork, identifying and developing leaders, moving people from supporter to activist, having organizing conversations with friends, family, and coworkers, and more.
Organizing 101 with DSA
Anti-War Labor Organizing: How to Talk to Workers at JFK with Break the Chain
Break the Chain (NYC-DSA's chapterwide campaign organizing for a citywide arms embargo) will be conducting a thoughtful workshop on how to best speak with JFK workers about weapons transport through our city's airport.
This is a worker safety issue, as well as one that maintains NYC's complicity within the ongoing war crimes and genocide within the Middle East. We'll discuss how to best introduce yourself to new demographics of workers around this sensitive issue, as well as foster more long-term organizing relationships with them around bread and butter issues.
Mass Organizing Call For Healthcare For All
We must act urgently to protect all New Yorkers — particularly immigrant, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, disabled, retired, and low-income residents — from attacks on our health and lives through federal cuts to healthcare and corporate greed.
UWS Neighborhood Training
Join the UWS neighbors for a training and workshop on how to protect our community and respond to this unique moment in history.
Join the faith based training for members of congregations looking for Know Your Rights information.
Join Central Queens Mutual Aid and Queens Says No Kings for a Mutual Aid 101. Learn about Mutual Aid and the many ways neighbors can help neighbors – building community in solidarity, not charity!
Mutual Aid 101
Indivisible-Lower East Side/Lower Manhattan Training & Business Canvassing
Training on Know Your Rights starts at 11 am - 12 noon. Business canvassing follows from 12 -1:30 pm Debrief at 2:00 pm.
UWS Immigrant Protection for Businesses --Training and Canvass
We'll learn (or review, if you've already been to a training) how to do outreach to help businesses and their workers prepare in advance for the possibility of ICE visits. After training and Q&A, we'll go out in pairs to visit UWS businesses that have not already been canvassed. Then we'll regroup to debrief and plan how to carry this work forward on the UWS. Indivisible Harlem and Hands Off will provide training and materials.
JFREJ Anti-Oppression Workshop
In partnership with the New York City Anti-Violence Project (AVP), JFREJ is hosting an Anti-Oppression workshop on April 21 (in-person) and May 5 (virtual). Learn about JFREJ & AVP's work, with a dive into gender & sexuality, power, privilege and oppression. Walk away with an understanding of criminalization, how oppression manifests, and how we can play a role in fighting against oppressive systems.
Hands Off Our Vote Online Townhall - Common Cause NY
TOWN HALL Hands Off Our Vote – The Threats to Our Elections, How We Got Here and What We Can Do About It in New York.