Coming up this week:

Monday 

✊🏽  6pm: Defund the APD Working Group Zoom meeting (PW: 5hqHDw)

🗳  8pm: Local Elections Working Group Zoom meeting

Tuesday

📢  5:30pm: Labor Working Group Google meeting

🌏 7:30pm: Just Transition Georgia Working Group Zoom meeting (PW: 405114)

🏠  8pm: East Atlanta (Inner & Outer) Block Zoom meeting (PW: 184349)

Wednesday

🏠   6:30pm: OTP Northwest Block Zoom meeting (PW: 7tR2ce)

🏠   7pm: West Midtown Block meeting (Email [email protected] for call info.)

For more info on MADSA Blocks, check out the Google map on our COVID-19 page.

Thursday

🏠   6pm: Greater Decatur Block meeting

🏳️‍🌈  7pm: Rainbow Roses: MADSA LGBTQ Caucus Zoom meeting (PW: 250576)

✊🏾  7:30pm: Building an Inclusive Movement for Economic Justice with Rev. Andrew Wilkes and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis National DSA event

Some news on the Douglass-Debs dinner:

Ever since our founding in 2006, MADSA has held a “Douglass-Debs Awards Dinner” each November to honor leaders of Atlanta’s progressive community and bring the community together. The dinner has also been our main fundraiser, to support our coalition partners and good causes such as bail for protesters and food aid to people impoverished by the health and economic crisis, as well as our chapter’s operations.

It will not surprise you that we have decided to postpone the 2020 event, at least until the spring of 2021, and may conduct it online if a vaccine is not yet available. We don’t want too much time to go by without honoring our role models and leaders! Fortunately, the chapter is in good shape financially. Our expenses are lower since we closed the office and began meeting online, and our membership’s dues and donations continue to grow.

Of course, we would like to contribute much more to the community and pay for more member activities such as flyering, so we continue to welcome your donations at www.madsa.ga. Our greatest regret is that we will miss the opportunity we look forward to each autumn for in-person fellowship and celebration with our progressive comrades – especially those in the civil rights, labor, civil liberties, peace, and housing justice movements.

We will strive to revive this tradition in 2021 to the greatest extent possible, with your support. Meanwhile, please feel free to suggest who should receive the next Douglass-Debs awards, by emailing [email protected] 

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