🗓 What's Going On in August? 🗓
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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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🍽 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 Saturday, August 26, 2023.
This year, we plan to honor the contributions of:
- The Feminist Women’s Health Center, an abortion clinic fighting to keep its doors open while Georgia’s six-week ban remains in place
- WRFG-FM, Atlanta’s progressive noncommercial community radio station, which is celebrating its 50th year on the air.
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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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Also, we look forward to celebrating Teamsters 728's impactful year as we are joined by guest speaker Elizabeth Laster, part time UPS package handler and Union Steward.
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🎯August Workplace Roundtable🎯
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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 7:00-9:00 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!
This month, we will review Lesson 3 of Secrets of a Successful Organizer, which you can purchase at your next DSA event for $15. Sign up for the August Roundtable here.
Plus, in September, we're also hosting an official Labor Notes Secrets of a Successful Organizer Training Saturday Sept. 16 from 9AM-3:30PM. If you're a union member or actively organizing your workplace, sign up for the September training here:
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📢 Rally with SAG-AFTRA & WGA!📢
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Come show solidarity with writers and actors on strike, TOMORROW Tuesday 8/22 from 7-9PM to rally at the Teamsters 728 Hall at 2540 Lakewood Ave SW, Atlanta, GA 30315. Wear your Atlanta DSA shirt and contact [email protected] if you'd like to attend with our group!
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🌈March in the October Pride Parade!🌈
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March with us in the 2023 Atlanta Pride Parade on October 15 alongside the Atlanta-North Georgia Labor Council, United Campus Workers, and other unions! If you're an Atlanta DSA member, we want you there!
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Come climb with us August 27th at Stone Summit Atlanta Bouldering! Tickets are $23 for a day pass or $28 if you need to rent shoes. We will meet at 3176 Marjan Dr, Doraville, GA 30340 at 2:00 and we can all go to PONKO chicken afterwards!
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🚗 Brake Light Clinic in South Cobb with Atlanta DSA 🚗
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Come volunteer with us September 2nd from 10am - 2pm at the Family Life Restoration Center in Mableton. We will be replacing brake lights for folks in our community free of charge. If you or someone you knows wants to volunteer or needs their lights replaced come and see us!!!
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Atlanta DSA's Book Club explores a range of topics in socialist theory. In our biweekly meetings, we discuss big picture ideas about history, economics, and politics. This week we are reading "The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House" from Audre Lorde's Sister Outsider. Join us Thursday August 24th at 7PM to join in the conversation. Hope to see you there!
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✊ Support The Reproductive Freedom Act! ✊
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Atlanta DSA has officially joined Amplify Georgia’s Reproductive Freedom Act campaign. As a coalition member, we’ll continue our work to spread awareness and garner support from citizens and legislators for the RFA, which enshrines fundamental protections for reproductive freedom into Georgia law, repeals medically unnecessary and harmful abortion restrictions, and expands access to abortion care. If you haven’t already, please sign a petition of support for the RFA, here. To learn more about the Reproductive Freedom Act, read our article in the Red Clay Comrade, and be on the lookout for future actions around our work with the RFA Campaign.
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📚 ATL DSA Fall Book Club 📚
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There can be no revolutionary movement without revolutionary theory! Join us Thursday, Sept. 7 at 6pm for our first reading in the revolutionary reading series: “What is to Be Done” by Lenin. The revolutionary reading series will be held weekly for 3 months with a new reading assigned each week. There will also be biweekly in person meetups. Sign up with Atlanta DSA Book Club to stay up to date! atldsa.org/bookclub
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