This Week in Atlanta DSA
 
 

✏️ Committee applications are OPEN! ✏️

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Want to help our chapter become the best it can be? Organize for socialism in Atlanta through our chapter committees! Onboarding new members, campaigning for Housing For All or labor solidarity, spreading political education throughout our chapter — all of it happens through committees, and all members can now apply to join the committee of their choice!

 

🤝 This Saturday: Eat, Drink, And Be Marxist! 🤝

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Join us at our in-person socialist social to learn more about the Housing for All campaign - Come for dinner, drink, and conversation. Enjoy comradeship and a brew with DSA and friends!

 

Since COVID is still a risk, we ask that you only attend if you're fully vaccinated. We'll be meeting up in the back garden area!

 

ATL DSA for Rogelio Fundraiser

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It's time to Get-Out-the-Vote for Rogelio, and we need you help! Join the Atlanta DSA chapter for a fundraiser for Rogelio to ensure we can contact every voter who wants to see a new city council in Atlanta!

 

DSA Stands in Solidarity with IATSE Workers

IATSE Basic & Area Standards Agreements. Aggregate Strike Authorization Vote Results. 59,478 Registered Eligible Voting Members across 36 Local Unions. 89.66% Turnout. 53,411 Total Votes. 98.68% Yes Votes. 52,706 Votes to Authorize a Strike.

IATSE Members in TV and Film Production Voted to Authorize the first nationwide industry strike in our 128-year history. 98.68% voted yes, and voter turnout among eligible members was nearly 90%. This means that a strike may begin in the new few weeks. DSA's Labor Committee is organizing members to support IATSE workers in this historic effort; sign up below to get involved with strike solidarity work!

 

Wednesday, October 20th: Tenant Power Organizing 🏠

October 20 at 5:30pm Online. atldsa.org/tenant-organizing . Housing For All Tenant Power Training.

The purpose of this training is to educate tenants of their rights and motivate them to understand the power that we all possess through organizing, effective planning, and political education. This training will offer insight on the laws governing the city of Atlanta centered around housing, changes we are facing within our city with increasing homeless rates, and inaccessible government funding. We will also review how to fight landlord evictions and access resources and how to organize and get into the tenants’ power movement. If you are interested in learning more ways to get involved and raise awareness for these pressing issues, this training is for you.

 

Our mission is to create safe, healthy, and affordable housing for all. Housing is for people not land developers that earn a profit. People create homes not the buildings themselves.

 

This workshop will be held online. Please RSVP to receive a Zoom link in your email.

 

Monday, October 25th: Housing for All Workshop 🏘

Join us for "Housing for All: An Introduction to the U.S. Housing Crisis and its Impacts on Atlanta." We'll discuss the history and perpetual crisis of affordable housing, the impacts of the housing crisis in Atlanta, and the next steps we can take to organize for Housing for All.

 

This workshop will be held online. Please RSVP to receive a Zoom link in your email.

 

Canvass for Rogelio!

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Join the Vote Rogelio campaign for upcoming canvasses and phonebanks! Election day is just over a month away, so we are at a critical point for engaging voters and we cannot do it without you! Get #TeamRogelio campaign gear when you sign up to phonebank or canvass. Free food is provided at each canvass, and no experience is required!

 

Atlanta DSA Member Survey

Trying to find your place in the chapter? Whether you have 1 hour a week or 1 hour a day for DSA, take our member survey to get plugged in!

 

Looking for more?

Our chapter calendar at atldsa.org/calendar has even more meetings and events!