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🗓 What's Going On this Week? 🗓

Want to get more involved? Attend a committee meeting or upcoming event!

Looking for more events? See our monthly calendar! 📆
 

🎆Happy New Year, Comrades!🎆
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✊March in the MLK Day Parade!✊

Join our chapter at Atlanta's annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Parade on January 15, 2024. The parade begins at the corner of Peachtree Street and Baker Street downtown, and marchers are expected to arrive by noon. Can't make it? Help make posters or donate supplies for marchers instead.

 

More information, including the parade route, will be provided closer to the date - please contact [email protected] with questions!
 

🌹📅 Save the Date: ATLDSA Annual Convention 📅🌹

Save the date for our annual chapter convention on Saturday Jan. 27 at 2 PM!  We will discuss and debate resolutions to decide priorities for the next year, and also hold our annual officer elections. All members are encouraged to attend!

 

COVID Policy: As with all of our General Meetings, we expect all Convention attendees to be fully vaccinated and wear masks during all of Convention except while speaking at a microphone. Masks will be provided.

 

A few additional pre-convention gatherings:
 

🧤 Donate to ATLDSA's Winter Clothing Drive! ❄️
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Atlanta DSA is organizing our annual Winter Clothing Drive, and we need your help! The Winter Drive runs though January 30, 2024, and comrades will be collecting blankets, masks, medical supplies, hand warmers and more to be distributed to folks in need around metro Atlanta. 

 

If you have lightly used or new winter clothes or supplies to donate, please drop them off at the locations below (more locations TBD), or bring them to the next DSA event you attend. Look for the ATLDSA box!

 
Learn more about the winter drive here, or donate to fund supplies at atldsa.org/winterfunds.
 
Want to volunteer? Sign up here to be a Winter Drive Captain and take responsibility for a donation drop box location in the Metro Atlanta area.
 

🏠YDSA Convention Solidarity Housing!🏠
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YDSA's 2024 Conference will be in Atlanta, March 1-3! We're going to need help housing YDSA students from all over the country. If you're an Atlanta DSA member with room to spare, sign up to be a host using this form.
 

✊Union Reform 101✊
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All over the country, labor organizers are organizing on the shop floor to build strong, militant, and democratic unions. From Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU) to Unite all Workers for Democracy (UAWD), the impact of union reform movements is loud and clear. Labor union reform caucuses have helped elect union leadership that's willing to put up a fight - helping Teamsters secure a historic union contract, and leading UAW to launch an unprecedented strike led by the rank-and-file.

 

Join Atlanta DSA's labor committee for an info session and workshop on union reform caucuses. We'll cover topics like: What is the goal of union reform? What are some examples of successful union reform movements? How can you get involved in your local union reform efforts?

 

This workshop is open to anyone, although union members are strongly encouraged to attend.
 

📚Free In These Times Subscription📚
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Are you a member of Democratic Socialists for America? If so, you’re eligible for a free one year (10-issue) subscription to In These Times magazine.
 

🌹Donate 1% for the 99%!🌹
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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 — and get a limited-edition union-printed Solidarity Dues Bandana!

 

DSA members' dues money goes towards all our great work in labor solidarity, electing socialists to office, and more. Help us meet our fundraising goals by volunteering for a national solidarity dues phone bank!
 

✊ No Money for Massacres. Stand with Palestine! ✊
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The recent events in Gaza are alarming and risk spiraling into further violence and death.  Right now, US Congress is preparing to use our tax dollars to fund a genocide of Palestinian people. Please take action NOW to urge Congress to support a ceasefire and de-escalation in Gaza!

Though most aid organizations have been stalled at the Egyptian border, not allowed to enter the Gaza strip, donations can assist with much-needed future projects to rebuild Gaza and . If you're feeling generous this holiday season, consider donating to the following organizations: 
 

Atlanta Democratic Socialists of America - atldsa.org

Fighting for the many, not the few