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🗓 What's coming up in April? 🗓
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🌞Sunday 4/30: May Day Picnic!🌹
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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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☎️ Join our Strike Ready Phonebank TODAY!⚡
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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 Today 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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✊⚡READ: UPS Teamsters Gear Up for the Contract Fight of a Lifetime! ⚡📦
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Many of us frequently interact with United Parcel Service (UPS) workers in our daily lives. You see them driving down your street in their emblematic brown trucks. You count on them to deliver birthday gifts to far-flung family members. You may even chit-chat with the UPS worker who regularly delivers packages to your door. UPS is the third largest company headquartered in Atlanta, and it employs nearly 400,000 essential workers who are responsible for transporting 25 million packages and documents daily, across 220 different countries and territories. Millions of us rely on the hard work of UPS drivers and warehouse workers. But did you know that these workers are currently gearing up for a critical contract fight to win better wages, hours, and respect on the job?
All 350,000 non-management UPS workers throughout the U.S. are covered under a national contract, known as the National Master Agreement (NMA), that the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) has with UPS. This contract governs their wages and working conditions. Some UPS workers — but not all! — are also covered by a local “supplement,” which is a second contract negotiated by local or regional bargaining committees that often has stronger language than the NMA. So while all UPS Teamsters have some baseline protections, there is a lot of variation in the level of protection members receive depending on location. That’s why it’s crucial to have a strong NMA.
Read the full article by Olivia H. at RedClayComrade.org🌹
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Abortion is healthcare and a human right! We are campaigning to pressure the City of Atlanta to renew funding for abortion care and enshrine support for abortion access in this year's City Budget. Our city council members have a responsibility to stand up for working people and fight back against anti-democratic assaults on our reproductive rights. Atlanta must put people before profits and fund healthcare not cops!
We'll be reaching out to people about our Abortion Fund petition and also sharing abortion resources and information. Wear a mask and bring a friend. Make sure to download the free MiniVAN canvassing app ahead of time (App Store / Google Play). Water and snacks will be provided! No experience needed. This event will happen rain or shine, so please bring an umbrella and raincoat in case of rain.
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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 May 4th 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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🌹 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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🛩 Delta Flight Attendant Questionnaire 🛩
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Do you know a Delta Flight Attendant who might want to get involved in the Delta AFA Campaign? Fill out this form and we'll get in touch with them!
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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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✊ Labor Power and Strategy, A Book Discussion ✊
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Join the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) Thursday at 8 PM for a discussion about the timely new book Labor Power and Strategy, a rich reflection on how the working class can exercise its potentially mighty power in various industries and sectors.
In Labor Power and Strategy, renowned labor historian John Womack advances a proposal that unions should focus on organizing workers in the strategic positions and “choke points” within the economy that have maximum potential leverage and power. The book’s editors invited responses from 10 of the most thoughtful organizers and scholars in the labor movement, with a diverse range of ideas on ways forward for labor.
This discussion will feature Professor Womack, book editor Peter Olney, and respondents Melissa Shetler and Gene Bruskin. This event will be 90 minutes to allow for plenty of time. Register now for this lively and important discussion!
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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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