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Coming up this week:

Monday

 
✊  7:00pm: Just Transition for Georgia Campaign Meeting: Zoom meeting (for passcode, email [email protected] or ask in #wg-ecosocialism on Slack)
 

🐷🥓  7:00pm: Defund APD, Refund Communities (DARC) Campaign: Zoom meeting  (for passcode, email [email protected] or ask in #wg-defund-apd on Slack)

🗳  8:00pm: Electoral Meeting: Zoom meeting (for passcode, email [email protected] or ask in #wg-local-elections on Slack)



Tuesday

 

📕  6:30pm: Midtown Branch Reading Group: Mask Off: Crisis & Struggle in the Pandemic. Discord link here.

 

⚒ 8:00pm: Labor Campaign Meeting: Zoom meeting (for passcode, email [email protected]g or ask in #wg-labor on Slack)


🏠  8:00pm: East Atlanta Branch: Zoom meeting (for passcode, email [email protected] or ask in #branch-east-atlanta on Slack)



Wednesday 

 

🤑  5:00pm: RALLY: Cancel the Rent, Extend the CDC Moratorium!: The Federal eviction moratorium is set to expire on March 31. Meanwhile millions of renters are thousands of dollars in debt and facing continued unemployment. Masks and social distancing required. Let's keep each other safe! We will have masks available for anyone in need. We will also have water. Bring signs! RSVP Here.

 

🏠  6:30pm: Cobb-Cherokee Branch: Zoom meeting (for passcode, email [email protected] or ask in #branch-cobb-cherokee on Slack)

 

🏠  7:00pm: Midtown Branch: Zoom meeting (for passcode, email [email protected] or ask in #branch-west-midtown on Slack)

 

🏠  7:00pm: North Fulton Branch: Zoom meeting (for passcode, email [email protected] or ask in #branch-north-fulton on Slack) Also, join the North Fulton branch in volunteering with local mutual aid organization Solidarity Sandy Springs. Sign up here.

 

📕  7:30pm: DARC Reading Group: Join ATL DSA's Defund APD, Refund Communities campaign as we read through Alex Vitale's The End of Policing! (email [email protected] to RSVP)

 

🧠 8:00pm: The Big Scary ‘S’ Word: Socialists Fighting for Universal Healthcare during COVID and Beyond: Join the Democratic Socialists of America Fund, Dissent magazine, DSA’s Medicare for All campaign, Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP), and In These Times for the first installment in a series of virtual events  inspired by The Big Scary “S” Word. This month’s discussion will focus on the fight for universal healthcare during COVID and beyond. RSVP here!

 

📕  8:00pm: East Atlanta Branch Reading Group: Zoom meeting (for passcode, email [email protected] or ask in #branch-east-atlanta on Slack)

 

 

Thursday

 

🏠  6:00pm: Greater Decatur Branch: Zoom meeting (for passcode, email [email protected] or ask in #branch-greater-decatur on Slack)

 

🌈🌹  7:00pm: Rainbow Roses LGBTQ Caucus: Zoom meeting (for passcode, email rainbowroses@atldsa.org or ask in #caucus-rainbow-roses on Slack)

 

💪🌹 8:00pm: Chapter Steering Committee: Zoom meeting (email [email protected] for information)

 

 

Friday

 

🏠  7:00pm: Northwest Georgia Branch: Zoom meeting (for passcode, email [email protected] or ask in #branch-northwest-ga on Slack)

 

🌍  8:00pm: Organizing Overseas: Migrant Domestic Worker Organizing in the Asia - Pacific Region: A webinar featuring leaders from domestic worker federations and unions in Asia who will talk about their experiences organizing and empowering some of the most underrepresented and undervalued women workers to stand up and fight for their lives and livelihoods in a moment of unprecedented crisis. The featured speakers are Fish Ip, Regional Coordinator of the Asia-Pacific Region of the International Domestic Worker Federation (IDWF), Shiella Grace Estrada the Chairperson and founder of Progressive Labor Union of Domestic Workers' - Hong Kong (PLU-HK), Novelita Palisoc, who is organizing migrant domestic workers as well as local domestic workers in the Philippines, and Liezel Galdo, a migrant domestic worker organizer in Malaysia. The event will be in English and recorded and shared live on the DSA Facebook page. Please join us! RSVP Here.

 

 

Saturday

 

🌹 12:00pm: DSA National Convention Delegate Applications and Nominations:

The DSA National Convention, the highest decision-making body of DSA, will be held online August 1 - 8, 2021. Atlanta DSA members will elect 19 delegates and 4 alternates to represent Atlanta DSA at the 2021 National Convention. To declare your candidacy, please fill out the Delegate Application Form. To nominate a member to run for delegate, please fill out the Delegate Nomination Form. Submissions are being accepted from April 10th at 12:00 PM to April 30th at 11:59 PM. Please read Atlanta DSA Delegate Election Rules before submitting an application or nomination.

 

😄 7:00pm: Afrosocialist Social: Atlanta area BIPOC - please join the Afrosocialists for a weekly social! RSVP here!

 

 

Sunday

 

📱 3:00pm: Tech Circle Meeting: Zoom meeting (email [email protected] for passcode)

🛸 6:00pm: Sci-Fi Reading Group: Join the North Fulton Branch in reading Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler. Email northfulton@atldsa.org for more information. RSVP here!

 

👶🌹 7:00pm: New Member Intro Session: Welcome to Atlanta DSA! We're thrilled to have you on board, but you may be wondering where to get started. This info session and Q&A will be a chance for new members to learn more about socialism and DSA and to get an overview of our chapter. Please email any questions or comments to membership@atldsa.org. RSVP here!
 

Help us get delegates to the 2021 DSA National Convention!

The DSA National Convention, the highest decision-making body of DSA, will be held online August 1 - 8, 2021. Atlanta DSA members will elect 19 delegates and 4 alternates to represent Atlanta DSA at the 2021 National Convention.

To declare your candidacy, please fill out the Delegate Application Form.
To nominate a member to run for delegate, please fill out the Delegate Nomination Form.
Submissions are being accepted from April 10th at 12:00 PM to April 30th at 11:59 PM

Please read Atlanta DSA Delegate Election Rules before submitting an application or nomination.
 

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