🗓 What's Going On this Week? 🗓
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🗒 Last day to sign up for Labor Notes! 🗒
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Are you interested in organizing your co-workers? Do you want to solve problems that you see around you? Perhaps something unfair has happened to you or a co-worker and you want to do something about it? For us, that means getting organized.
Join Atlanta DSA for an official Labor Notes Secrets of a Successful Organizer Training Saturday Sept. 16 from 9:00 AM-3:30 PM. $25 covers lunch and materials, and a low cost option of $15 is offered for students and anyone who needs it!
The event will be at Little 5 Points Community Center, 1083 Austin Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30307.
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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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🍽 Douglass-Debs Dinner Recap 🍽
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Last week we celebrated Atlanta DSA's 15th annual Douglass-Debs awards dinner and fundraiser with labor and community activists from around the city. Thanks to our silent auction, this year's event raised over $4,000, and we attracted even more attendees than last year! Our awards ceremony honored the people’s radio station, WRFG, for its 50th year on 89.3FM with the Milt Tambor Long Distance Runner Award. We also issued an award to Feminist Women’s Health Center for its advocacy for reproductive justice and health care since 1976. We also heard a moving speech about labor organizing and the Teamsters' contract fight from Teamsters 728 steward Elizabeth Laster, plus radical poetry from Alice Lovelace and Theresa Davis. Finally, rank-and-file Teamster Walter Reeves sang about labor hero Shaun Jack Maloney. The rest of the night was full of good food (with vegan options!), laughter, and comradeship! Best of all, we were able to provide many of our DSA and YDSA members with free or cut-rate tickets, which helped us share the night with more DSA members than ever before. Overall it was a great experience, and we are happy to continue the tradition going forward in honor of the events' and our chapters' original founder, Milt Tambor!
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🍻 September NW GA Branch Social Information 🍻
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Join your comrades in Northwest Georgia at our September Social! We're meeting at 7pm at Bernie’s Social Bar! It's a chance to mix and mingle and discuss socialism and how we can talk about it with others!
It's going down at Bernie's Social Bar, 2825 S Main St, Kennesaw, GA 30144, Saturday, September 9, from 7pm – 9pm!
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🤑 Solidarity Income-Based Dues 🤑
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Our economy must be built democratically, by and for working people, not by billionaires for profit. As working class people, we build power when we come together and organize, and power comes from organized people and organized money. Commit to Solidarity Dues today by giving your 1% for the 99% to grow our mass movement and build the working class power we need to win!
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✊ Sign Up for Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee Training ✊
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Want to organize your workplace but don’t know where to start?
How to talk to your coworkers? How to build a team of organizers out of your coworkers? How to build your campaign? What to do when the boss responds badly to your organizing?
Join us for the next Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee’s Foundational Training Series, starting on Saturday, September 9.
In four sessions, you will learn the fundamental principles of effective shop-floor organizing live with workplace organizers and other workers.
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Pride @ Work is A Roundtable Discussion on LGBTQ-Plus Issues & the
Labor Movement.
Featuring
Evette Avery
Treasurer, Teamsters LGBTQ-Plus Caucus
Joseph Hyde
Political/Education Trainer, Georgia State AFL-CIO
Rachel McLendon
President, Atlanta Chapter of Pride at Work, and International Representative, International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE)
This event is happening Monday, September 18, 2023 11:30 AM - 12:45 OM at Georgia State University-Perimeter College, Room CN-2220, 555 North Indian Creek Drive Clarkston, GA.
You can attend in person or virtually!
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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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Atlanta Democratic Socialists of America - atldsa.org
Fighting for the many, not the few
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