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 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)

💻  7pm: Digital Committee Google meeting

Member spotlight: Barbara Joye

We often say DSA is a “big tent”. It’s true that we all come from different backgrounds, but every one of our unique experiences has brought us to the same conclusion: A better world is possible, and it is ours to build. The following is the first in a series of stories told by our members about the events and experiences that led them to the Left.

I was raised a Liberal Democrat in New York City, but learned much later that I was really a “Red Diaper Baby”. (In the McCarthy Era, many parents kept things from their kids so they wouldn’t say anything that could get the family in trouble.) My father had spent two years in the Communist Party until he and my mother visited the USSR in 1938, and found that things there were so bad that his Russian relatives were too terrified to meet with them in public. Though my father’s medical practice thrived in the ’50s and I enjoyed a great deal of privilege, my parents passed on enough of their idealism that I knew it was simply my luck – and that everyone deserves a good life.

Read the rest of Barbara's story on madsa.ga

Get ready for Steering Committee elections

Per the bylaws, "Nominations for Steering Committee shall be opened 10 days before and closed at the Convention." The convention will be Saturday, September 26, so the officer nomination form will open on September 16. Although the form will not open until then, we recommend having your bio and candidate statement ready to go by then. That way, once the form is live, you'll be able to submit everything quickly so that MADSA membership can have adequate time to review candidate profiles and consider who to vote for.

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