Southerners for solidarity.
Block Flock!
Our Priority campaign of 2026 is getting Flock out of our communities. Flock’s cameras and Automatic License Plate Readers perpetuate the surveillance state, target immigrant, working class and communities of color, and waste our community resources. Come join us in demanding Mayor Avula cancel the contract with Flock.
About Us
The Richmond Democratic Socialists of America (RDSA) reject an economic order based solely on private profit, alienated labor, gross inequalities of wealth and power, discrimination based on race and sex, and brutality and violence in defense of the status quo.
Are you passionate about building a more just and equitable society in Richmond? Join the Richmond chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America! We’re a community of activists working together to advance progressive causes and create positive change in our city.
Together, we can work towards a Richmond that puts people over profits and ensures everyone has the opportunity to thrive. Join Richmond DSA today and be part of the movement for positive change in our community!
Working Groups
Working Groups form the backbone of our organizations work. Working Groups are volunteer run and centered, and organized by volunteers passionate about making their community better.
Want to start a campaign or Working Group to make Richmond a better place? Contact us
Block Flock!
Learn More: Block Flock!Learn about our campaign to get the surveillance state out of our communities, and learn how to take action!
Migrant Solidarity Working Group
Learn More: Migrant Solidarity Working GroupThe migrant solidarity working group is dedicated to getting ICE and surveillance out of Richmond. With an abolitionist approach that centers migrant voices and advocacy through allyship and mutual aid, we work with coalition partners to support and uplift the most impacted communities in central Virginia.
Electoral Working Group
Learn More: Electoral Working GroupThe Electoral Working Group of Richmond’s DSA chapter aims to mobilize support for local politicians who have demonstrated a commitment to championing progressive causes. It recognizes that endeavors to transform our communities through electoral avenues can coexist in symbiosis with other means of dismantling the status quo.
Ecosocialist Working Group
Learn More: Ecosocialist Working GroupThe Eco-Socialist Working Group of the Richmond chapter of DSA was organized for the purpose of empowering those concerned about our quickly-warming climate and the deteriorating state of the environment. We advocate for climate and environmental justice in and around Richmond, through a variety of means including supporting candidates for office who pledge support for…
BDS Working Group
Learn More: BDS Working GroupPalestine is an Anchor of struggle in our chapter. Our Palestine working group is dedicated to bringing a lasting ceasefire to Palestine. Our working group has been hard at work building a coalition in Richmond to deliver: Our working group is mainly driven by our Antizionist Jewish community members. Our Work We have spent the…
Tenant Organizing Working Group
Learn More: Tenant Organizing Working GroupRDSA’s Tenant Organizing Working Group works in close-collaboration with the Richmond Tenants’ Union to assist Richmond-area renters in building counter-power against their landlords through tenant unions and associations.
Solidarity Fund
Learn More: Solidarity FundRDSA is building a member solidarity fund to provide material support comrades when times our tough. We reject an economic order based solely on private profit and are committed to applying mutual aid principles to combat the immiseration our present system naturally creates.
Labor Working Group
Learn More: Labor Working GroupThe Richmond DSA’s Labor Working Group is a worker-first, action-oriented program to make connections with and support workers in the Richmond area.
Socialist Reading Group
Learn More: Socialist Reading GroupEveryone is welcome to join us as we collectively read and discuss selected works covering left-wing theory, history, and practice from a variety of diverse authors. Members and non-members welcome!
News
Richmond City Voter Guide 2024
Richmond 3rd District City Council Richmond DSA endorses Kenya Gibson Kenya Gibson is running to replace Ann Lambert as the 3rd district’s representative on City Council. Public records indicate that Lambert accepts hefty donations from developers and corporations, including Dominion Energy. In contrast to the many city council members who craft the city budget at…
Richmond DSA Endorses Kenya Gibson for City Council
Richmond DSA is excited to officially announce our endorsement of Kenya Gibson to represent Richmond’s Third District on the City Council. Kenya is a local leader who shares our commitment to supporting educators, bolstering labor movements, and fighting to ensure accessible housing for all of Richmond’s citizens. We believe that Kenya will shed light on important issues…
How do you build community?
Community building is hard. We spent the previous Thursday working on our organization bylaws. It’s boring and dry work, but I love the community that comes with every general meeting. You get to meet people from all walks of life, working class folks who are dreaming of a better world. I got to meet two…
Condemned to Crisis
Disclaimer: This work is an opinion-piece piece written by an individual member of RDSA. The content does not necessarily reflect positions taken by RDSA, the membership, or steering. By Violet Rose, RDSA Member You might encourage a philosophy where you embrace each positive moment and seize whatever benefits you can. This approach can only be…
4 Reasons Access to Abortion Must Be Protected
Disclaimer: This work is an opinion-piece piece written by an individual member of RDSA. The content does not necessarily reflect positions taken by RDSA, the membership, or steering. By Violet Rose, RDSA Member Many in the country are reacting to or desperately trying to cope with the impact of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn…
DSA Richmond on the COVID-19 Crisis
In this time of the COVID-19 pandemic, DSA Richmond would like to remind everyone to be safe by practicing social distancing and stricter personal hygiene measures. We have all been caught unprepared by this outbreak, and the structure of our society – capitalism – has exacerbated it. We can build the alternative to capitalism now…
See you at the General Meeting!
Join us Tuesday, June 18th for our monthly General Meeting. Doors open at 6:30pm. We will meet downstairs in the Metropolitan Community Church (2501 Park Avenue). Learn how to get involved in your local chapter! AGENDA
Communities Over Coliseums!
The Richmond Coliseum is already the busiest such arena in the state, and the notion that replacing it will somehow address Richmond’s worst problems, such as poverty and the underfunding of our school system, is a farce.
RVA Magazine, Retract the October 24 Piece by E. Draim
At a time when violence against transgender people is on the rise in the United States, we need to, at the very least, recognize the active threat the policies and rhetoric of the Trump administration pose to the transgender community.
Who’s Afraid of the Working Class? (Pigs Are)
Police will do whatever they can to stifle the working class’s self determination. Nothing frightens them more. Nothing reminds them more of their complicity in state violence and class warfare than a holiday that celebrates the working class’s martyrs, achievements, and culture.