🗓 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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🌹 TONIGHT: Virtual Strike Ready Phonebank 🌹
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Join the ATL DSA Labor Committee to phonebank TODAY, Monday, May 8th from 6:00 - 7:00 PM on ZOOM. Help build support for UPS workers in their upcoming contract fight! We'll be calling DSA members and supporters and letting them to know how they can help support UPS Teamsters this summer. Please join on a computer!
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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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🌹 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, debate and vote on resolutions, and elect delegates to DSA's national convention in August! All members are encouraged to attend, and interested non-members are welcome.
This meeting will be held in person at the Teamsters 728 Local at 2540 Lakewood Ave SW. We'll start with an informal potluck/social at NOON, so bring your favorite dish, and a friend that's curious about getting involved with DSA! We'll also hear from UPS Teamsters about their contract fight, and how the community can help support!
Business will run from 1:00-3:00 PM. Please arrive ON TIME to the meeting to respect your comrades' time and allow us to get through will business in a timely manner. If you know there will be traffic, please leave early!
Agenda (updated approximately one week before meeting): atldsa.org/agenda
Please wear a mask! For the health and safety of all, all ATLDSA 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
Use the member portal to nominate yourself and read convention rules: atldsa.org/delegate
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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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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 18th at 7PM This week we’re reading Chapter 5, "The Political Economy of Late Imperial America". 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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📝 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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🛩 Solidarity Rally with Delta Workers!🛩
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Mark your calendars for May 25th! We'll be joining Delta workers at the Atlanta airport at 10AM for a solidarity rally. Wear your DSA shirt and bring a friend! Please send questions to [email protected].
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Atlanta Democratic Socialists of America - atldsa.org
Fighting for the many, not the few
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