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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📋 Vote to Stop Cop City 📋
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Atlanta DSAers joined the Cop City Vote Canvassing Kick-off this past Saturday, June 24th!
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Our electoral committee is organizing events starting this week:
The Cop City Vote campaign is canvassing every day, and we encourage everyone to get involved wherever they can! Check out all the upcoming campaign events here.
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☎️Strike Ready Phonebank Today!☎️
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Come join members of 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 Today, 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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📽 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. Atlanta DSA is calling on 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!
Yesterday, ATL DSA's Labor Committee and members of UPS Teamsters hosted a live panel to discuss upcoming contract negotiations and what the community can do to support their fight. Sign the solidarity pledge and get involved at atldsa.org/ups-solidarity.
If you missed the UPS Strike live panel, you can watch it here.
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👥 How to Hold Meetings + Robert's Rules 101 👥
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Meetings are a tactic we use to strengthen effective campaigns and to increase our members’ ownership over the work. This training will help members structure meetings to support our on-the-ground organizing, facilitate political and strategic discussion, and engage attendees during and after the meeting.
The meeting takes place Tuesday, June 27th, 6PM – 7PM.
This is a remote event. Please RSVP at atldsa.org/goodmeetings to receive the meeting link.
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☕ Starbucks Strike with Pride ☕
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Ansley Mall's Starbucks is going on strike Wednesday from 5:30AM-12PM and the message is Strike with Pride.
We want to showcase Starbucks' performative progressiveness. Despite their outward image, the company has rolled back benefits for trans partners, stalled contracts, and regularly engages in union busting. Email [email protected] for more info!
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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 29th, July 13th, July 27th, and August 10th.
We encourage everyone to read ahead of time, but all are welcome to join the discussion!
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Save the date for a block party with Starbucks Workers United at the IBEW Hall! Come out and enjoy live music, food, drinks, and maybe even a bouncy castle! Support Starbucks workers in their fight against harassment and transphobic retaliation from the company.
We'll be celebrating Wednesday, July 12th, 6PM – 8PM. at IBEW Local 613, 501 Pulliam St SW #250, Atlanta, GA 30312,
Bring a friend and sign up at atldsa.org/blockparty!
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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, and 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 here and are due by July 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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