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Hope you had a festive & safe Mardi Gras, comrades! Here's some chapter updates and upcoming events.
DSCC Electoral Working Group Update
Our chapter’s membership has voted to endorse all six of the DSA New Orleans candidates for DSCC! Here are the results, along with the candidates’ websites and ways to support:
- 23A - Laurie Hebert Constantinou (website / Venmo / Paypal): 88 Yes, 0 No, 23 Abstain
- 23B - Jack Sweeney (website / Paypal): 94 Yes, 2 No, 18 Abstain
- 78A - Lauren Jewett (website): 97 Yes, 0 No, 18 Abstain
- 90A - Miranda Burbridge (website / Venmo): 90 Yes, 0 No, 23 Abstain
- 91B - Britain Forsyth (website): 89 Yes, 1, No, 22 Abstain
- 99A - Page Gleason: 88 Yes, 1 No, 23 Abstain
Congratulations to our members who are running for office — now let’s get them elected!
Chapter members are encouraged to support the candidates’ campaigns and get involved with the Endorsement Campaign Group. Join the #endorsement-campaign-group on Slack to get updates on meetings and volunteer events. If you’re interested in joining the campaign group’s efforts to recruit DSA members & coordinate with the candidates, contact [email protected]. Otherwise feel free to contribute some cash to the candidates and spread the word!
March Election Deadlines:
UPCOMING EVENTS:
TOMORROW, February 15th, 7-8:30pm: Political Education Working Group Meeting. At each session we'll talk about something meaty (this time Eddie Glaude Jr.'s book Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own), but we'll also cover something that will take less time to consume (this time the movie Judas and the Black Messiah). Even if you don't get a chance to do the reading or watch the film, you should still come by and take part in the conversation. We'd love to see you in person at Parish Hall (2533 Columbus St), but you can also Zoom into the meeting with this link.
SATURDAY, February 17th, 11am-2pm: Join us at the upcoming Brake Light Clinic and Health Fair at A.L. Davis Park (2600 Lasalle St)! We'll be offering free brake light changes, hot food, cool beverages, blood pressure checks, connections to community resources, and great conversation. If you want to join us, please fill out this volunteer form (or show up day of!) We'll also be painting a banner and signs for the upcoming Gulf Coast March, so come out for creative fun as well!
SUNDAY, February 18th, 11:30am -- the Gulf Coast March for Palestine: the Masjid Omar Community presents the Gulf Coast Rally & March for a Free Palestine in partnership with thirty organizations across the Gulf South (including the DSA chapters in New Orleans and Corpus Christi!) It will feature incredible guest speakers as well as a procession led by the Congo Square Preservation Society and NOLA Musicians for Palestine. It starts at Armstrong Park -- Let's come out Sunday and show the world we will not be silent until there is an end to the occupation!
MONDAY, February 19th, 7-8:30pm -- Membership Admin Meeting: Come work on developing the membership and administration infrastructure of the New Orleans DSA chapter. Join via Zoom link here!
SATURDAY, February 24th, 12pm-2pm -- General Meeting: Join us for our monthly chapter-wide General Membership meeting, where we’ll hear updates on organizing efforts, take up formal business, and make collective decisions about the political work we are doing. These meetings are open to all, so please feel free to join us! This month’s meeting will be at Nora Navra Library (1902 St. Bernard Ave). Prefer to meet online? Register here!
Sunday evenings at 6pm -- Emma Goldman Gathering at Holy Ground: Come talk politics with us and test out how well you believe the things that you think you believe. Reading books is all well and good, but you have to practice pulling it out of your head and putting it into your own words. Beer can sometimes help that process.
Read more about our Palestine solidarity updates and calls to action in our prior email (which is also available on our website as a blog post!)
Hope to see y'all soon!
Solidarity forever,
New Orleans DSA
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