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November 7, 2025 |
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New Orleans DSA Fall 2025 Voter Guide: Runoff Supplement🌹 🌹 🌹 New Orleans DSA Recommends Clerk of Criminal District Court: Calvin Duncan #7 Council District A: AGAINST Holly Friedman #34 🌹 🌹 🌹 Read our full Voter Guide Runoff Supplement here Today and tomorrow are the last days for early voting. You can go to any of these locations between 8:30 am - 6:00 pm:
Fork and Knife Club Returns Tomorrow at 11:00 am!Now more than ever, we must rely on each other. On Wednesday, the Louisiana Department of Health announced that SNAP recipients will receive half their usual SNAP benefits. Many households in Louisiana struggle to put food on the table, with 16.2% of households living in food insecurity, 18.9% living below the poverty line including 25% of children, and 14.2% of seniors living below the poverty line. This means roughly 847,000 of us will be short on food this week. This is on top of the 32,000 federal workers and 700 state employees going without paychecks during the longest government shutdown in history. The Louisiana Department of Health says to ask the food banks for help, but food banks across the country are already stretched thin due to budget cuts. Many folks are already budgeting down to the last dollar, meaning receiving only half of their monthly SNAP benefits can be devastating. Make no mistake, the choice to cut SNAP benefits before the holiday season was another premeditated move to stoke fear. That’s why we are asking for volunteers for Fork and Knife Club’s bimonthly food drive tomorrow at 11:00 am at The Healing Center, 2372 St Claude, room 204. At our last event we had 23 volunteers donate over 157 meals and stock 6 community fridges. We have more signed up this time, so get in where you fit in. There are over 15 New Orleans Community Fridges spread throughout the city. Let’s come together to stock as many as we can. Canned goods, home cooked meals, shelf-stable foods, produce, snacks, your mom’s red beans. 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.
The Moral Imperative to LearnReading “The Lie That You Accept is Your Own Undoing” last month reminded me of the old Voltaire adage, “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” People deride the left for supposedly always suggesting a reading list. But I was once a teacher, and the number of students who convince themselves they are unable to grapple with material, or just say, “I’m not a math person,” is immense and disheartening. This self-sabotaging viewpoint keeps so many of us from reading or educating ourselves, and leaves us vulnerable to internalizing the propaganda all around us. America is probably the most entertained and propagandized nation in history. Part of our work as socialists has to be, in the words of Montesquieu, “to augment the excellence of our nature, and to render an intelligent being yet more intelligent.” We cannot educate if we cannot explain. We cannot fight what we cannot name. The only way we free ourselves from the chains of propaganda is by growing our own class consciousness, and growing that consciousness in the working class around us. People know something is terribly wrong in our society. Without the words, tools, and ideas to interrogate that, however, we are susceptible to being swindled by selfish populists who will not actually address our class concerns. When swindled, we can be made to commit atrocities because we don’t understand where the true enemy lies and are susceptible to semantic subterfuge. We absolutely must engage with our deep, beautiful, intellectual history as socialists if we are to steer our inevitable revolution in a direction that finally uplifts all people. |
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Come to Queer Soc Gayme Night Tomorrow!Come join Queer Soc for our first ever Gayme Night! We’ll gather at The Save Point, 2211 Barataria Blvd, in Marrero. For those who can’t make it in person, please join us online! We’ll be playing “Alice is Missing”! Please be aware that, in order to support the venue, there is a $5 entry fee paid to the venue itself.
UMC Nurses on Strike!UMC nurses in New Orleans continue to negotiate their first contract. They are fighting to have a voice in patient care that improves healthcare for Louisiana and the Gulf South as a whole. Their fight can be a financial burden for many as they take a stand to fight for their patients and against corporate greed. They will rally and picket from November 11-13 at Galvez and Canal.
Eye on Surveillance Community Scouting DayJoin us on a walk around downtown to get trained on how to scout, identify, and map out some of the hundreds of Project Nola cameras that spy on our community every day. Be part of a community-led effort to map out these secret cameras, which pose a danger to our privacy and well being. Meet at Washington Square at the corner of Royal and Frenchmen, November 15, at 2:00 pm.
Poli-Ed Reading SeriesThe Reading Group meets every third Sunday, from 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm, at the Healing Center #258. Our current reading series focuses on Palestine. See you at the next meeting! November 16 December 21 January 18 February 15
Get Chevron Out of French Quarter FestDSA and others are launching a campaign to kick Chevron Out of French Quarter Fest in April 2026. Chevron is the title sponsor for the event, where they will have stages covered with their branding, despite being antithetical to the stated purpose of French Quarter Fest. If you would like to learn more about Chevron and why they oppose the interests of New Orleanians, make sure to check out the campaign website at https://www.chevronout.org/ (which is also where you can sign the petition). We will be meeting at the New Orleans Healing Center for our first Teach In event on November 18th at 6pm. Make sure to come out and learn from expert speakers about Chevron's impact directly. We'll also have stickers! If you would like to sign the petition and be added to our mailing list for this event and further organizing, sign up here.
Socialist Night School: Delivering a MessageOn November 21 at the Healing Center, 2372 St Claude #258, our Political Education Committee will be hosting Socialist Night School on public speaking: Delivering a Message. Come for a fun, comradely session to develop the skills to teach, persuade, and motivate.
Join Up With Your Neighborhood CircleNeighborhood circles connect us to comrades where we live, work, or otherwise spend time. Use your circle to host gatherings, plan events, and organize around issues in your neighborhood. Opt in here to join yours today. Neighborhood circles follow the chapter's code of conduct and guidelines for respectful discussion.
Sign the Petition to Say No to Angola’s Camp J for ICE DetentionGovernor Landry re-opened the Camp J area of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola as an ICE detention center. Known as "the dungeon," Camp J is a site so brutal and inhumane that it was shut down due to its deplorable conditions. This is part of Landry and Trump’s broader, deeply racist, and anti-immigrant agenda. They want to further criminalize, cage, and dehumanize Black, Brown, and immigrant communities in order to enrich their donors and hold on to power. Sign the petition to shut it down at bit.ly/NO-ANGOLA.
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 from the link on Discord. |
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Community Calendar |
Friday, November 7Early Voting DSA Neighborhood Social
Saturday, November 8Early Voting Fork & Knife Club Queer Soc Presents: Gayme Night
Sunday, November 9Municipal Action Committee Meeting
Monday, November 10🌹 🌹 🌹
Tuesday, November 11UMC Nurses Strike Direct Service & Health Justice Meeting Critical Mass Ride for Environmental Justice
Wednesday, November 12UMC Nurses Strike Nov 11-13 Stop the Grain Train Weekly Meeting
Thursday, November 13UMC Nurses Strike Nov 11-13 Friday, November 14Southern Solidarity Street Medic Training Queer Soc Planning Meeting
Saturday, November 15Election Day: Municipal Runoff Eye on Surveillance Community Scouting Day
Sunday, November 16Palestine Benefit Show Municipal Action Committee Meeting
Down the RoadNovember 18 Chevron Out of French Quarter Fest Teach-In |
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