Speak Up for Fulton County Abortion Fund & Stop Cop City!

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🎨 Pride Parade Art Build! 🎨
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The Atlanta Pride Parade is only 2 weeks away! Join us for our second art build on Sunday Oct. 8 at 711 Catherine St SW. We'll be making and finishing up posters, banners, sign and props for our contingent at the Atlanta Pride  Parade. Bring your own supplies, and a comrade!
 

🌈 March in the October Pride Parade! 🌈
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We're 2 weeks away from the Atlanta Pride Parade! Sign up to march  on October 15 with Atlanta DSA, Starbucks Workers United, United Campus Workers, Teamsters and more! If you're an Atlanta DSA member or union member, we want you there!
 
Sign up here to to reserve your place in the Atlanta Pride parade with us, and if you want, volunteer to help us plan art builds and other events leading up to the date. Time be be gay and organize!
 

📣Join the UAW Picket Line! 📣

United Auto Workers are on strike! Last week, we joined UAW workers on strike at the Stellantis Parts Distribution Center in Morrow, GA. Workers at the Big 3 auto companies are on strike around the country for higher wages, a shorter work week, and a just transition to electric vehicles.

 

Join us on the picket line at 1149 Citizens Pkwy, Morrow, GA 30260! Fill out our availability here, or email [email protected] if you'd like to attend with a group! Feel free to bring snacks, drinks, or other supplies to the picket to support workers.
 

🛑 Stop Cop City! 🛑

LET THE PEOPLE DECIDE! The Vote to Stop Cop City campaign has submitted 116,000 signatures from City of Atlanta voters who support putting Cop City on the ballot for a referendum this November. Atlantans overwhelmingly support their right to have a say in whether $67 million of their taxpayer money is spent on a militarized police training facility that would destroy vital green space in the South River Forest. The people of Atlanta have spoken and now we must hold City Council members accountable to our democratic mandate.

 

Please call and write your Council Members to ask them to accept our petition and support putting Cop City on the ballot!

 

Atlanta DSA's next Stop Cop City canvass will be Saturday, October 7th at 10AM. We're reaching out to District 2 voters to build support for the Stop Cop City movement and put pressure on City Council members to accept the 116,000 petition signatures, call a referendum, and let the people decide on Cop City. No experience needed. Bring a friend!
 

💰 Fulton County Abortion Fund 💰

Last year, Atlanta City Council signed legislation to allocate $300,000 of city funds to support the efforts of Access Reproductive Care (ARC) Southeast, a nonprofit that provides funding assistance for costs associated with abortion. Now, we’re calling on Fulton County to do the same! 

 

Find out who your County Commissioner is and contact them about passing an abortion fund:
Chair: Robb Pitts at 404-613-2330 and [email protected]
District 1: Bridget Thorne at [email protected]
District 2: Bob Ellis at 404-612-8216 and [email protected]
District 3: Dana Barrett at [email protected]
District 4: Natalie Hall at 404-612-8226 and [email protected] 
District 5: Marvin Arrington Jr. at 404-613-0202 and [email protected] 
District 6: Khadijah Abdur-Rahman 404-612-8222 and [email protected]

 

Find talking points & more at atldsa.org/abortion. After you’ve contacted your County Commissioner, make a plan to attend the October 4th Board of Commissioners meeting to give public comment in support of the Fulton County Abortion Fund! We are meeting at 9:45AM at the Fulton County Courthouse at 141 Pryor St SW Atlanta GA 30303. 
 

📚 ATL DSA Fall Book Club 📚

There can be no revolutionary movement without revolutionary theory! Join us this Thursday at 6:30 pm for our second reading in the revolutionary reading series!  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 and find our schedule and all upcoming readings at: atldsa.org/bookclub
 
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