🗓 What's Going on This Week? 🗓
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Want to get more involved? Attend a committee meeting or upcoming event!
Looking for more events? See our monthly calendar! 📆
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📋 Abortion Rights Canvass 📋
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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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🌹 May General Meeting & Delegate Elections 🌹
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Join us Saturday, May 20th 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
Please wear a mask! For the health and safety of all, all ATL DSA event attendees must be fully vaccinated.
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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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Salting 101: Workplace Organizing for Beginners
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Want to help rebuild the labor movement by getting a job in a strategic industry? Check out our Salting 101 training May 13th at 711 Catherine St SW from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM. Hear from experienced organizers about their workplace organizing at Amazon, and learn the basics of what goes into an effecting salting effort!
Note: For everyone's health and safety, event attendees must be fully vaccinated.
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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. Fill out the survey to enter the raffle and win a prize at the May General Meeting!
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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 every third Monday of the month from 7:00 PM-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!
Plus, come and pick up yo copy of Secrets of a Successful Organizer for $15! 🎯📚
Note: For everyone's health and safety, event attendees must be fully vaccinated.
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🌹 May Day & The Haymarket Affair 🌹
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This article was reprinted from the Spring 2016 edition of Equality, an earlier version of ATLDSA's newsletter, and written by Milt Tambor.
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May Day, as a day to honor the international workers’ movement, was born out of the Chicago Haymarket tragedy and American labor’s struggle for an eight-hour day in the 1880s. At the time, it was quite common to work 10-to 16-hour days in unsafe conditions. Samuel Gompers, president of the newly formed American Federation of Labor, called the demand for an eight-hour day nothing less than a “second declaration of independence.” On May 1, 1886, 250,000 workers joined in a nation-wide strike demanding a shorter work day. Chicago, with its strong labor movement, had the largest demonstration as 80,000 workers marched up Michigan Avenue carrying union banners. On May 4, in response to the killing of picketing workers by Chicago police at the McCormick Reaper Plant, a protest meeting was held at Haymarket Square.
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🛩 ATL Summer Flying Kickoff Day of Action 🛩
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Join us to show Solidarity for organizing Delta workers later this month!
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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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