Hey y'all! Here's what's going on with the chapter this week —

Our Entergy Municipalization campaign is heating up! Our members joined coalition partners outside of Entergy's headquarters this Monday to protest rate hikes and shutoffs, both in New Orleans and Statewide. You might have even seen us on the news! You can take immediate actions today by signing on to our petition to end shutoffs — go to EvacuateEntergy.com today to email New Orleans City council or your Lousiana Public Service Commissioners. We won't pay for their negligence. Join us at our new meeting time on Thursday at 7pm as we discuss next steps. Link to join that call is here.
In City Council tomorrow, there will be another surveillance ordinance up for a vote, this time to put some specific language in place for oversight, data reporting, and explicitly prohibiting surveillance regarding abortion and same-sex relationships. Our coalition partners from Eye on Surveillance are asking for us to come out in support of these amendments. You can show up tomorrow in City Council Chambers at 11am, or submit commens online here now. Item is "Regular 19. CAL. NO. 33,809 - BY: COUNCILMEMBERS MORENO, HARRIS AND MORRELL."
This Saturday! Our Brakelight Clinic and Health Fair returns to Andre Cailloux Park on Bayou Road. Event is from 1-4pm! There will be free brake light changes, community health resources, food, and more! Want to volunteer? Fill out this form, and come through at 12:30 for a quick training demo — we'll get you trained and assigned a role. Even if you don't need your brake light changed, come by and meet some comrades!
In other news our monthly meeting of the Local Council, our chapter's elected leadership body, will be on Monday (8/8) at 6pm. Everyone is welcome to attend these meetings! If you have questions, or want to submit agenda items for consideration by the Local Council, please email [email protected].

Finally, our Westbank Campaign will be gearing up soon — if you're on the Westbank we want to hear from you! Give us a shout by emailing [email protected] to help us plan our upcoming events on Greater New Orleans' better side.

Solidarity,

New Orleans DSA Local Council

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