March in the MLK Day Parade, and Distribute Winter Clothes!

🗓 What's Going On this Week? 🗓

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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!
 

📞 Phonebank - Sanchez for Georgia 📞
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Hybrid: Remote Zoom + In-Person at DSA Office, 711 Catherine St SW, Atlanta, GA 30308 US.

Join us for a night of phone banking to support our campaign!
 

✊ Workplace Organizer 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 Wednesday, January 10.

There are virtual trainings the next 4 Wednesdays 8-9:30 (1/10, 1/17, 1/24, 1/31)

 

Spots are limited to 200 participants, but you can always sign up for the next training series!

 

Week 1: Analyzing Your Workplace    
Wednesday, January 10
8:00–9:30 p.m. ET/5:00–6:30 p.m. PT


Week 2: Bringing Coworkers Together    
Wednesday, January 17
8:00–9:30 p.m. ET/5:00–6:30 p.m. PT


Week 3: Demands, Targets, and Escalation Tactics    
Wednesday, January 24
8:00–9:30 p.m. ET/5:00–6:30 p.m. PT


Week 4: Getting Over Fear and the Boss Campaign    
Wednesday, January 31
8:00–9:30 p.m. ET/5:00–6:30 p.m. PT
 

🌹📅 Save the Date: ATLDSA Annual Convention 📅🌹
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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:
 

🧤 Winter Clothing Drive: Distribution Event! ❄️
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Atlanta DSA is running our annual Winter Clothing Drive! While the City of Atlanta spends tens of millions of dollars building a fake Cop City training ground, the real citizens of Atlanta remain housing and food insecure. We've collected warm clothing through our clothing drive -- now we need to help distribute it to keep Atlantans safer and warmer this winter.

 

Come to Woodruff Park on Saturday, January 13th at 12:00 PP to help us give back and protect our homeless neighbors until our city government guarantees housing for all.
atldsa.org/distro
 
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You can still donate to the Winter Clothing Drive! 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.
 

✊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!
 

🍻 Thirsty Thursday Social: Eat, Drink, and Be Marxist 🍻
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Eat, Drink, and Be Marxist is BACK! Every Third Thursday, DSA members will gather at Red's Beer Garden, 1328 Boulevard SE, Atlanta, GA 30315 at 6 PM to socialize, make connections, and discuss the upcoming business for Saturday's General Meeting. Be prepared to meet someone new, and drink responsibly! This event will officially end no later than 9pm, but may end earlier -- however, the beer garden stays open until 10.

Since COVID is still a risk, we ask that you only attend if you're fully vaccinated. We'll be meeting up in the outdoor patio 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.
 

Atlanta Democratic Socialists of America - atldsa.org

Fighting for the many, not the few