✨ Tonight! Workplace Canvassing Training ✨
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From Starbucks to Amazon, workplace union drives are popping up all around the country! Aside from organizing our own workplaces, how can we as DSA support the labor movement and show solidarity with these workers challenging some of the biggest corporate giants?
Join ATL DSA's Labor Committee for a workplace organizing canvassing training tonight, August 8th at 7 PM at the AFSC Office (711 Catherine St. SW). Come learn how to canvass workplaces to find organizing leads, speak to workers about union organizing, and help workers gain access to the resources and support they need. We'll discuss canvass raps and how to have effective organizing conversations.
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Republicans are banning and restricting abortion across the country, and Biden is hardly fighting back. Why is this happening when the overwhelming majority of Americans support abortion rights and the Democrats run the federal government? How should Socialists fight back at federal, state, and local levels of government? And what can ordinary people do to win back abortion rights? Join us for an Abortion Rights Strategy Roundtable this Thursday August 11th - 6:00 PM at 711 Catherine St. SW to discuss these questions and more!
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📕 Marxism & Politics Reading Group 📕
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Our Marxism & Politics Reading Group is having our next meeting this Thursday, August 11, 8pm – 9pm
Our discussions focus on big picture ideas, unpacking fundamental concepts of historical, political, and economic analysis.
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🌹 Emergency Workplace Organizing Training 🌹
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The eighth series of the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee's Organizing Training Series starts virtually on this Wednesday, August 10th at 8 PM and continues weekly every Wednesday until August 31st. Topics discussed include Analyzing Your Workplace, Bringing Coworkers Together, and Getting Over Fear and Taking Action. Support for workplace organizing is also available before August 10th, so if you need one-on-one assistance, don't hesitate to sign up!
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🤝 8/13: Georgia Worker Power Workshop 🤝
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Are you fed up with low wages, bad working conditions, and no respect or voice on the job? Are you ready to do something about it?
Come learn how to organize your workplace at our Georgia Worker Power Workshop in Atlanta on Wednesday, August 13th! Fast food, healthcare, retail, and other low wage workers are coming together across the south to make a change on the job– you in?
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Ever thought about organizing your workplace, but don't know where to start? Join ATL DSA's labor committee for an in-person workplace roundtable at 711 Catherine St SW next Monday 8/15 from 7:00-9:00 PM.
This roundtable will be an informal discussion on workplace organizing strategies, and what challenges people are facing in their own workplaces. Be prepared to introduce yourself and share your experiences and advice with comrades on having workplace organizing conversations, strategies, and more! This event is open to members and non-members of all levels of experience!
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💖 Virtual Self-Managed Abortion Info Session 💖
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Join us August 17th at 7:00 PM for a virtual information-sharing session about self-managed abortion. Abortion pills are safe, effective, and private! In this session, we'll go over what a medication abortion is, talk about the history of self-managed abortion with pills, and share the publicly available World Health Organization protocols for individuals self-managing their abortions. This session is not medical or legal advice!
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🎉 Atlanta Wins a City Abortion Fund 🎉
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On Monday August 1st – following a coordinated push from Amplify Georgia, reproductive justice advocates, and on-the-ground community outreach by Atlanta DSA – the Atlanta City Council passed a $300,000 abortion fund resolution. This fund will be allocated toward ARC Southeast, and go towards covering abortion care and logistics costs for those who can't afford it. This victory represents one step towards the larger goal of securing the right to abortion and winning Medicare for All!
We want to extend a huge thank you to everyone who helped canvass, gather petition signatures, and do outreach for this campaign! Thanks also to the organizers who attended the Monday City Council meeting for public comment. Watch footage from Monday's meeting here!
To get involved in our abortion rights organizing work, check out atldsa.org/abortion and email [email protected] to attend a weekly Electoral Committee meeting Thursdays at 6:00 PM.
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⚖ Read: Fighting Their Court From Below ⚖
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The Supreme Court’s last term ended with a batch of extreme right-wing opinions. The Roberts Court has lurched sharply to the right, but the Supreme Court’s fidelity to conservative elites is nothing new. Of all the counter-majoritarian mechanisms in our constitutional system (Senate, Electoral College, etc.), none has protected the minority of the opulent as reliably as the Supreme Court has. The only way to protect our rights is through mass mobilization outside of the legal system.
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Atlanta Democratic Socialists of America - atldsa.org
Fighting for the many, not the few
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