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October 10, 2025

Features

We Have a World to Win! Endorsements and Recommendations for Tomorrow’s Election

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Clerk of Criminal District Court: Calvin Duncan
Assessor: Casius Pealer
Council At-Large Division 2: Pastor Gregory Manning
Council District A: Bob Murrell
Council District C: Jackson Kimbrell
Council District D: AGAINST Eugene Green
Council District E: Danyelle Christmas
Home Rule Charter Amendment (Fair Chance Amendment): Yes
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Election Day is tomorrow!

  • Read our full voter guide.

  • Volunteer with us through EndorsementHQ.

  • Find your polling place.

  • Join comrades at our Election Watch Party at The Courtyard Brewery, 1160 Camp St, starting at 8:00 pm.

 

Join New Orleans DSA and Support Our People's Platform

The work doesn’t end with Election Day. Our chapter has committed to a united electoral front that advances a high-level vision for the future of New Orleans, and supports candidates who can fulfill that vision. Our candidates promise to pursue, without compromise, specific policies and laws that reflect the following values:

  • Dismantle white supremacy & racism

  • Oppose fascism, neoliberalism, privatization, and austerity

  • Abolish the criminal punishment system

  • Climate justice and sustainability

  • Abortion rights and access for all

  • LGBTQ+ liberation

  • Free, quality public schools for all

  • Support unionized labor & all unorganized workers

  • Support immigrants, undocumented people, and oppressed and colonized nations

  • Affordable quality housing and utilities

  • A living wage for all workers

  • Healthcare for all

  • Safe routes for all mobility and robust, reliable mass transit

  • No tax breaks for billion dollar companies

Join DSA. Create a better, greener, more compassionate society for everyone.

 

Bulletins

Rent Party! Raffle & Music Show to Support Community Room #258

Please join DSA, FRSO, and the New Orleans Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression on Friday, October 10, 6PM–10PM for a rent party at Okay Bar, 1700 Port St, to raise money for our new community office space in the Healing Center! Support the fight against Trump by raising money for a secure space for community organizing available to progressive groups throughout the city. There is a suggested donation of $10–20 at the door, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

Come listen to some music and buy a raffle ticket to support the space—prizes with a value of over $600! Please enter the raffle via donorbox at tinyurl.com/fund258. All raffle submissions must contain your name, contact info, and the items you choose in the comment section.

See y'all there!

 

DSA + FRSO + Indivisible Safety Coalition Training

DSA, FRSO and Indivisible NOLA have teamed up to build collective capacity for the increasingly frequent need to take to the streets. Our goal is to develop a large pool of New Orleanians trained in security and de-escalation that can be activated to keep our community safe during free speech events. This is the last training opportunity if you'd like to volunteer for the Safety Team for No Kings NOLA 2.0. Meet at the New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Av, on Sunday, October 12, from 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm. Sign up here.

 

Sign Up for Neighborhood Circles

We’re making neighborhood circles to connect people where they live, work, and anywhere else they spend time. Use your circle to host gatherings, plan events, and organize around issues in your neighborhood. If you're interested in joining our newly formed neighborhood circles, opt in here. Neighborhood circles will follow the chapter's code of conduct and guidelines for respectful discussion.

 

2025 DSA Membership Survey

Members in good standing are encouraged to fill out our quick 2025 Membership Survey for us to get a better sense of who our membership is overall and to guide our actions as a chapter.

 

Do It Jewett for US Congress District 1

Union teacher and New Orleans DSA member Lauren Jewett is running for US Congress, LA-01. Lauren has been a public school special education teacher for 17 years, standing up for the things that working people in Louisiana deserve: dignity, a life we can afford, thriving opportunity, and actual protection and recovery from major storms and disasters. She knows that workers are the hands, hearts, soul, and backbone of our state and our country. We deserve a representative who believes that and acts like it. Stay tuned for more campaign updates for Lauren, and help us kick off her candidacy with your financial support.

 

Write Like a Socialist: We Have a World to Win!

Have an update from your committee or working group? That’s a Bulletin! Want to tell us about an upcoming event? Add it to the Community Calendar! Got some opinion or analysis to share for the good of the membership? Write us a Feature! Make your contribution to the next edition of Solidarity Means Action in the Comms Discord channel.

 

Community Calendar

Friday, October 10

Free Palestine! Abolish ICE! Weekly Lunch Hour Rally
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm (every Friday)
Immigration Court, 365 Canal St

Knock Doors with Bob Murrell, Council District A
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Get involved

Rent Party!! Raffle & Music Show
6:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Okay Bar, 1700 Port St ($10-$20 suggested)

 

Saturday, October 11

Election Day: Municipal Primary
7:00 am - 8:00 pm
Polling Places, Sample Ballots, Election Information

Unhoused Sweep Legal Observer Training & Advocacy Meeting
10:30 am - 12:00 pm Legal Observer Training
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Advocacy Meeting
Healing Center Room 258, 2372 St Claude

New Orleans DSA Election Results Watch Party
8:00 pm
The Courtyard Brewery, 1160 Camp St

Check in with our candidates at EndorsementHQ for post-primary campaign schedules

 

Sunday, October 12

DSA + FRSO + Indivisible Safety Coalition Training
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Healing Center Room 258, 2372 St Claude - Signup

 

Wednesday, October 15

Indivisible Wednesday ICE Protest
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm (every Wednesday)
ICE Field Office, 1250 Poydras St

No Kings Safety Runthrough
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Healing Center Room 258, 2372 St Claude

Stop the Grain Train Weekly Meeting
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm (every Wednesday)
Art Conscious, 6601 St Claude Av

 

Friday, October 17

Free Palestine! Abolish ICE! Weekly Lunch Hour Rally
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm (every Friday)
Immigration Court, 365 Canal St

Queer Soc Planning Meeting
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm (biweekly)
bit.ly/dsa-queersoc

 

Saturday, October 18

No Kings
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Lafitte Greenway, between N Prieur and N Galvez

Sunday, October 19

Poli-Ed Reading Group: The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South, by Vijay Prashad
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm (third Sunday)
Healing Center Room 258, 2372 St Claude - Meet

 

Down the Road

October 23 Purrsday Karaoke for DSA at Twelve Mile Limit
October 25 New Orleans DSA General Meeting
October 27 Local Council Meeting
November 2 Coffee with Comrades
November 15 Election Day: Municipal Runoff
November 16 Poli-Ed Reading Group
December 6 Labor Notes New Orleans Troublemakers School

Complete Calendar

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