Hi everyone,

This week, our comrades at Orleans Parish Prison Reform Coalition are launching a five-week Defund NOPD organizing and story telling workshop. The first session will be this Wednesday at 5:30 PM. Our stories are our superpowers. Our lives and past experiences help shape, define, and guide our work. It is with that thought that OPPRC created this series to cultivate change. During this workshop, we will discuss the current media landscape and its handling of the call to defund the police, as well as ways to share our stories and advocate for police alternatives. Register for the call here ([link removed]) !

Then, join us this Friday for our second Green New Deal Strategy Summit meeting!

At our last General Meeting, we voted to send Grace T. as the New Orleans DSA delegate to the National Green New Deal Summit. At this summit, delegates will review and discuss research done by the GND research subcommittee for the last few months to determine DSA's strategy for fighting for a Green New Deal in the coming years.

We want New Orleans DSA members' input as well as input from other community members. The New Orleans DSA Ecosocialist Working Group is hosting an online info session on September 11th ([link removed]) from 6 to 7pm to share more about the Summit, the significance of its work, the need for southern and Louisiana perspectives, and to generate questions and ideas that you'd like Grace to bring as a delegate. The GND is an expansive and broad policy platform and vision. Whether you organize around affordable housing, racial justice, healthcare, environmental justice, labor, economic justice, or anything else - chances are it already is or can be included in the GND. We encourage anyone who can to attend and bring your perspectives so that they can be represented in the National GND Summit. Please share outside of DSA membership as well!

Lastly, many of our members are continuing to travel to Lake Charles and participate in Hurricane Laura relief work. Are you interested in getting connected with DSA members in Lake Charles and contributing to hurricane relief work? Fill out this form to get connected as a volunteer ([link removed] ) !

Solidarity,

Local Council
New Orleans DSA

P.S. New to DSA? Check out our chapter's new member resources here ([link removed]) . You can also always email [email protected] with questions about how to get involved or about the work our chapter is doing.

P.P.S. Save the date - Our next General Meeting is September 26th at 2 PM. These are the most important meetings each month! Our General Membership Meetings are the highest decision making body in our whole chapter. Register for the call here ([link removed]) , and if you are interested in submitting a proposal for consideration by the chapter, email [email protected].
New Orleans DSA Upcoming Events

Worker Power Louisiana Meeting. Join our biweekly Labor Committee meetings to discuss workplace organizing, transformative justice, and building worker power. Register for the call here. ([link removed]) (Password: 954179). Tuesday, September 8th @ 6:30 PM.

Direct Service Committee. Every other Wednesday, our Direct Service Committee will be meeting to discuss ongoing mutual aid and neighborhood organizing projects, including our Brake Light Clinics. Everyone is welcome to join! Register for the meeting here. ([link removed]) Wednesday, September 9th @ 6:30 PM.

Municipal Action Committee. The Municipal Action Committee will be meeting to work on our next voter guide and work around the city budget. We'd love your help or suggestions for other local projects. Register for the call here ([link removed]) . (Password: Mac). Thursday, September 10th @ 7 PM.
Green New Deal Strategy Summit Info Session. On September 12th and 13th, our chapter will participate in a national Green New Deal Strategy Summit being led by the national DSA Ecosocialist Working Group. This informational session is an opportunity for anyone interested to meet our chapter's delegate, to share your views on ecosocialism and the Green New Deal, and to hear about the upcoming summit. Register for the training here ([link removed]) . Friday, September 11th @ 6:30 PM.

DSA: How We're Fighting! Not sure where to plug in to our organizing? New to DSA? Have you heard about us through our coalition partners but not sure what we are about? This is our weekly check-in call. We'll get brief updates about campaigns and projects. We'll hear from our coalition partners on what they're working on, and have open discussion about different issues. Register for the call here ([link removed]) . Saturday, September 12th @ 2 PM.

Political Education Planning Call. Whether you're new to DSA or have been around for years, one thing's for sure: the learning never stops! Join us to help develop a political education program for the chapter so we can better apply lessons from history and theory to our contemporary lives and organizing work (and vice-versa!). Register for this recurring call here ([link removed]) . Sunday, September 13th @ 11 AM.

Electoral Organizing.
Join us for a discussion of electoral organizing within our DSA chapter. How can we learn from other chapters in the South? How should we structure electoral work within our chapter? How should we approach electoral endorsements? Register for the call here. ([link removed]) Sunday, September 13th @ 2 PM.
National DSA Upcoming Events

A Green New Deal for Safe Public Schools. Classrooms have emerged as an urgent arena of class struggle, as educators resisting a return to work in unsafe conditions are connecting the dots between the COVID-19 pandemic, a deeply unequal educational system, crises of racial injustice and social reproduction, and the climate crisis. Several teachers unions, along with left social movements and coalitions like DSA and CPD, have joined together under the banner of “Demand Safe Schools,” and the AFT has authorized preemptive “safety strikes.” Join us for a panel discussion featuring union organizers, teachers, parents, and DSA-endorsed electeds, on the theme of a Green New Deal for safe schools, centering a holistic vision of “safety” that includes staff, students, and the broader communities in which schools are embedded. Moderated by Daniel Aldana Cohen, co-author of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal, panelists Jollene Levid, Hannah Allison, Nikil Saval, and Jabari Brisport will
discuss, for instance, how a Green New Deal for schools will benefit the labor movement and secure a more just future for our families.
RSVP here. ([link removed]) Thursday, September 10th @ 7 PM CST.

A Roundtable on Rank & File Labor Reform Movements. The DSLC is excited to give DSA members a chance to hear about both past and current union reform efforts to better understand how and why union activists go about revitalizing the labor movement. The Roundtable will feature leaders from important union reform efforts in healthcare, auto and transportation. The moment is now for a reform movement inside the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). The Housestaff for a Democratic Union is running a slate of candidates for the leadership of the SEIU Committee on Interns & Residents (CIR), a union that represents nearly 20,000 graduate medical trainees who work in many of the nation’s safety-net hospitals.

Ballots are out now and will be counted in October. Several DSA members are part of their campaign for union democracy, commitment to high-participation organizing, and support for reforms like Medicare for All. Join us for an evening of discussion and debate. Chair: Ashley Payne – DSLC Steering Commission and SEIU 1021 leader. Lily Ostrer, Candidate for Florida Regional Vice President and Greg Gabrellas, Candidate for Secretary-Treasurer – CIR Housestaff for a Democratic Union. Scott Houldieson, United Auto Workers Local 551 and Steering Committee Member of Unite All Workers for Democracy (UAWD). Ken Paff – Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU) National Organizer. RSVP here. ([link removed]) Thursday, September 10th @ 7 PM CST.
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