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🗓 What's coming up in April? 🗓
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🌹 April General Meeting & Potluck 🌹
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Join us for Atlanta DSA's monthly General Meeting! We will hear the latest from our chapter's campaigns and committees, discuss current events in the chapter, and debate and vote on resolutions. All members are encouraged to attend, and interested non-members are welcome!
This meeting will be held in person, with an informal potluck/social starting at NOON, and business running from 1:00-3:00 PM. So bring your favorite dish, and a friend that's curious about getting involved with DSA.
Agenda (updated approximately one week before meeting): atldsa.org/agenda
Attendees can look forward to hearing from Delta Flight Attendants as wells as a presentation and discussion breakouts on The Tyranny of Structurelessness led by our Political Education committee. Plus, come to our new member orientation starting at noon!
Please wear a mask! For the health and safety of all, all ATL DSA event attendees must be fully vaccinated.
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✊ TONIGHT: Workplace Roundtable ✊
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Ever thought about organizing your workplace, but don't know where to start? Join ATL DSA's labor committee for an in-person workplace roundtable at 711 Catherine St SW April 17th (every third Monday of the month) from 7:00-9:00 PM.
This roundtable will be an informal discussion on workplace organizing strategies, and what challenges people are facing in their own workplaces. Be prepared to introduce yourself, and share your experiences and advice with comrades on having workplace organizing conversations, strategies, and more! This event is open to members and non-members of all levels of experience!
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🌹 Book Club this Thursday 🌹
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Atlanta DSA's Book Club explores a range of topics in socialist theory. We discuss big picture ideas about history, economics, and politics. Our next meeting is Thursday April 20th at 7PM This week we’re reading Chapter 3 "The Fall of the House of Labor" of Prisoners of the American Dream by Mike Davis. We encourage everyone to read ahead of time, but all are welcome to join the discussion! join our next meeting!
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☎️ Join our Strike Ready Phonebank 4/24⚡
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UPS Teamsters all across the country are gearing up to fight for better pay and treatment on the job when their contract expires on August 1, 2023. If the company doesn’t respond to workers’ demands, they’ll prepare to launch the largest strike in decades. We are calling all Atlanta workers to stand in solidarity with UPS Teamsters this Summer when and if they decide to strike. It's time for us to organize and get #StrikeReady!
Come join members in the ATLDSA Labor Committee Monday, April 24 at 6:00 PM
at the AFSC Office, 711 Catherine St. phone members to let them know about the possible UPS Strike and how they can prepare to mobilize by signing our Strike Solidarity Pledge. Please bring a computer/tablet and a pair of headphones as we are using a dialer to make calls.
Learn more about the UPS contract fight and how you can help!
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🌹 DSA @ Kirkwood Artist Market 🌹
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Georgia needs a Reproductive Freedom Act to protect the right to safe abortions! Abortion is healthcare and a human right and our state legislators have a responsibility to stand up for working people and fight back against anti-democratic assaults on our reproductive rights.
Join us for tabling and crowd canvassing at The Kirkwood Artist Market. Sunday, April 23, 10:30 AM - 6:30 PM Pullman Yards 225 Rogers St NE, Atlanta We'll be handing out literature on the Reproductive Freedom Act, which would enshrine fundamental protections for reproductive freedom into Georgia law, repeal medically unnecessary and harmful abortion restrictions that create barriers to care, and expand access to abortion care. We'll also be selling buttons and signs and talking with the community about abortion rights and DSA. Sign up for a 2-hour shift or join us for the full day!
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🍎🌞 May Day Picnic and Social! 🌹🚩
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You know what sounds nice? Food, cold drinks, and great company with your comrades. Come celebrate the summer with Atlanta DSA! Bring snacks, refreshments, games, towels, chairs... however you best enjoy a Sunday afternoon picnic. This is a no-strings-attached, chilled out afternoon in the sun.
This event will start at the Adair Park 1 pavilion starting around 1pm Sunday, April 30. It's an all-ages event. If you have a suggestion, comment, or concern, email [email protected] and we'll do our best to arrange things.
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📝 Fill Out the 2023 Labor Survey 📝
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At the 2022 Atlanta DSA Chapter Convention, members decided to prioritize our Chapter's labor work. We are building the labor movement by showing up for workers on the picket line, building relationships with rank-and-file union members, and helping our own members organize their workplaces.
But to do this, we need your help! Fill out our 2023 Labor Survey to tell us about yourself, your workplace, and the ways you'd like to help get involved in our work.
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🌹 DSA National Convention Update 🌹
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Mark your calendars for Saturday, May 20th! During our May General Meeting, we'll hold elections for seventeen (17) delegates and two (2) alternates to DSA's 2023 National Convention. Interested in running? Note the important dates and deadlines below, and keep reading our weekly newsletter for announcements and updates.
Update: dates have been moved up a week to avoid conflicting with Memorial Day weekend
Important Dates:
- Wednesday, May 3rd, noon - Delegate Nominations Open
- Monday, May 15th - First Candidate Bulletin
- Wednesday, May 17th - Zoom Candidate Forum
- Wednesday, May 17th, 11:59pm - Delegate Nomination Deadline
- Thursday, May 18th - Second Candidate Bulletin
- Saturday, May 20th - Delegate Elections
- July 13th - Convention Registration Deadline
- August 4-6th - National Convention
Read the full National Convention timeline at convention2023.dsausa.org/timeline
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Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee
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In four sessions, you will learn the fundamental principles of effective organizing live with workplace organizers and other workers. Register now to attend the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee's Foundational Training Series, starting on Wednesday, May 4th and occurring weekly, ending on Thursday, May 25th. Sessions will be held from 8:00-9:30PM EST.
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Atlanta Democratic Socialists of America - atldsa.org
Fighting for the many, not the few
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