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October 24, 2025 |
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A Sneak Peak at Tomorrow’s General Meeting -Brodie L Hello again, dear comrades! By now you have received your link to RSVP to our General Membership meeting this Saturday at 12:00 in our socialist and progressive community organizing hub, Suite 258 in The New Orleans Healing Center. Even if you don’t plan on coming, please RSVP NO and ask to have your proxy assigned. This helps us make quorum. A proxy does not hold you to anything. Unless otherwise directed it will be used to abstain. We have one exciting piece of New Business, and two reports on our chapter’s extraordinary work. Our new business is an exciting motion to embark on a Fall Membership Drive. How do we win the world unless we enlighten our friends about the possibilities of socialism? We’ll have lots of opportunities to get involved in our chapter, its work, and to get to know your comrades! Our first report will survey our electoral efforts and preview a larger debriefing. The second report will break down DSA’s participation in No Kings. Spoiler alert, it was a vital one. Come one! Come all! Catch up on what we’ve been up to, and scope out your opportunity to get involved in the coming weeks! New Orleans needs y’all!
The Lie That You Accept Is Your Own Undoing Believing something that you know to be untrue needlessly internalizes a contradiction and uses up the mental bandwidth that you need to fight for a better future for all of us. Going forward, say to yourself at least once a day: “That is a load of horseshit.” You don’t have to say it out loud (yet), but you do need to break down the reasons why you feel that way. Right then. Take a few minutes and really think about it. You can’t just think it smugly and move on with your day; sit with it, fight it, and defeat it. If you can’t do it right then, then set an alarm for later and go through the process then. Every day. Identify and engage. These are muscles that you need to develop, and you can only do it well with daily practice. We live in the heart of the empire, so it’s our job to get the boot of the US government off the necks of the international community, our neighbors, families, and friends. A huge part of that task is helping people see through the lies that separate us from each other. You just need a little bit of courage and a lot of practice. As our good friend Lenin reminds us, “People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be until they have learnt to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political, and social phrases, declarations, and promises.” Always watch out for those who would separate you from your fellow human beings. If they are trying to divide you, then they are trying to dominate you. |
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DSA Coalition Partner Eye on Surveillance Hosts Zoom Teach-In As New Orleans faces the end of the consent decree, coupled with occupation by the National Guard and ICE, local organizations continue to fight back against attempts from the City Council and NOPD to approve live facial recognition, a tool which will be used by any and all law enforcement agencies in our city. The threat of mass surveillance is a danger to both New Orleans and the entire nation. Learn about resources and strategies from community organizations fighting against live facial recognition. Wednesday, October 29, 6:00 pm. Register for the Zoom here.
Fork & Knife Club Returns Join us Saturday, November 8th, at 11:00 am for the bimonthly Fork & Knife Club at the Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude #258. Last month we had 23 volunteers donate over 157 meals and stock 6 community fridges. Not a master chef? No problem! Volunteer to package meals to drop off at local community fridges. Can’t make it to the event and still want to donate food? We will come to you and pick up any donated meals or snacks! Sign up here to donate, package, or drop off meals.
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. |
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Community Calendar |
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Friday, October 24 Free Palestine! Abolish ICE! Weekly Lunch Hour Rally Krewe of Zeitoun Presents En Masse: A Dance Party ft. Sirocco Brass
Saturday, October 25 New Orleans DSA General Meeting
Sunday, October 26 Poets for Palestine: Polly Sawabini & Thafer Abu Qamir DSA Comms Meeting Chapter Orientation
Monday, October 27 Fight for Fair Maps Mobilization SHS YDSA Kickoff and Orientation Local Council Meeting
Wednesday, October 29 Indivisible Wednesday ICE Protest Eye on Surveillance: No to Racist Surveillance Teach-In Stop the Grain Train Weekly Meeting Mid-City DSA After Dark
Friday, October 31 Free Palestine! Abolish ICE! Weekly Lunch Hour Rally Queer Soc Planning Meeting
Sunday, November 2 Coffee with Comrades Poli-Ed Planning Meeting Chapter Orientation
Down the Road November 8 Fork & Knife Club |
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