Want to get more involved? Attend a committee meeting or upcoming event!
** Email to receive Zoom meeting links.
Looking for more events? See our monthly calendar! 📆
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🤝 THIS SATURDAY: General Meeting 🤝
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Join us Saturday 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.
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🎸Friday 6/23: Labor Solidarity Fundraiser Show! ⚡
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Enjoy some tunes and fund raise for labor solidarity at our #Strike Solidarity fundraiser concert at Innerspace in Underground Atlanta.
Doors at 7, Music Starts at 8
Entry: $10+ sliding scale
To get in, show your receipt of donation to our solidarity fund or pay at the door.
Set list:
Hostage Pit
Broke
Phantom Limb
Alley Rainy
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⚡UPS Strike Ready Live Panel!⚡
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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 to show UPS – when we fight, we win!
Join ATL DSA's Labor Committee and members of UPS Teamsters to learn about their upcoming contract negotiations and what the community can do to support their fight. A Zoom link will be emailed to folks who RSVP. See you then!
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❤️ HELP NEEDED: Reach out City Abortion Fund! ❤️
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Tomorrow June 20th, the Atlanta City Council will vote on the annual budget.
We want to ensure the City Abortion Fund is expanded to $500,000 per year!
Please reach out to your City Council member and Mayor Dickens to urge them to renew and expand the fund to $500,000.
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📕📚 Book Club: NEW BOOK SERIES! 📚 📕
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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.
Starting Thursday June 29th at 7PM, we will begin a new book series - reading Sister Outsider by Black queer communist and poet Audre Lorde, author of I Am Your Sister: Organizing Black Women Across Sexualities.
The Sister Outsider series dates are at 7PM every other Thursday: June 29, July 13, July 27, August 10.
We encourage everyone to read ahead of time, but all are welcome to join the discussion!
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🤝 THIS SATURDAY: New Member Orientation 🤝
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What is Atlanta DSA?
Whether you just joined DSA, you’re a longtime member looking to get more involved, or you want to know whether DSA might be your political home, this info session and Q&A will be a chance to learn more about socialism and DSA and to get an overview of our chapter.
Join us to learn how you can get involved with fighting capitalism and building socialism in Metro Atlanta and beyond!
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📦 UNION NEWS: UPS to add AC in Trucks 📦
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UPS tentatively agreed to equip its delivery trucks with air conditioning for the first time following union negotiations between the company and the Teamsters.
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☎️Strike Ready Phonebank Mondays!☎️
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Come join members in the ATLDSA Labor Committee every Monday at 6PM to phonebank members and supporters about the upcoming UPS contract negotiations and potential strike!
Join our next phonebank Monday June 26th at 6PM at 711 Catherine St SW OR email [email protected] for the Zoom link. RSVP to attend at atldsa.org/phonebank! ☎️
Please bring a computer/tablet and a pair of headphones as we are using a dialer to make calls.
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🍽 Tickets Available for 2023 Douglass Debs Dinner 🍽
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Each year since our Atlanta DSA chapter formed in 2006–except for a two-year pandemic gap–we have invited Atlanta’s progressive community to our Douglass-Debs awards dinner, to help us honor outstanding role models and leaders, celebrate our accomplishments during the previous year, and enjoy an evening of comradeship. Last year’s dinner resumed this tradition with great success
In keeping with our tribute to organized labor, we will host the 2023 Douglass-Debs Dinner in the IBEW Hall Auditorium at 153 Richardson Street SW in downtown Atlanta on Friday, August 26, 2023.
The dinner is a great opportunity to meet with other community activists and hear from inspiring speakers. Ticket sales and patron contributions will raise funds for our coalition partners, local community organizing, labor union strike support. Reduced-cost tickets will be available for students and other low-income comrades. For more information contact us at [email protected]. We look forward to seeing you there!
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🎨 ATLDSA T-Shirt Contest 🎨
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Your art deserves to be seen by more people, and should serve a purpose. Does that sound like you? Make a submission to the Atlanta DSA T-Shirt contest and make it a reality! Help Atlanta organizers rep justice, democratic socialism, and good trouble wherever we go. Submissions can be submitted at here and are due by June 15th. If you have questions, get in touch!
Note: Designs submitted to the Atlanta DSA T-Shirt Contest become the property of Atlanta DSA if selected as a winning submission. The winning designs will be used, printed, and distributed on clothing by Atlanta DSA, and only Atlanta DSA.
The contest will run from June 1st thru July 15th, and final winners will be chosen on July 22nd by the General 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.
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