🗣Tonight: Workplace Roundtable 🗣
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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 TONIGHT! 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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🍺 Eat, Drink, & Be Marxist 🍺
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Join us on Saturday the 20th, at our in person socialist social - Come for dinner, drink, and conversation. Enjoy comradeship and a brew with DSA and friends!
We'll be at the Georgia Beer Garden, 420 Edgewood Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30312, from 8 PM to 11 PM.
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!
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🎬 Film Screening: The Janes 🎬
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Join us at our in-person socialist social "Eat, Drink, & Be Marxist" August 20th for a screening of "The Janes" - a documentary on an underground network of pro-abortion activists.
The film screening starts at 9.00 PM at Georgia Beer Garden, 420 Edgewood Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30312
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🖌 Support the Painter's Union! 🖌
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Join IUPAT this Wednesday, August 17th 11 am at 1750 Haygood Dr NE. Atlanta, Ga to
rally for workers rights at Specialty Finishes, Inc. Specialty Finishes is one of the largest painting contractors in metro Atlanta, and is engaging in worker misclassification and discrimination! Email [email protected] if you're interested in attending.
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✊ Building Beyond Roe: Organizing for Reproductive Freedom in Georgia ✊
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This weekend! Atlanta DSA will be joining members and allies of the Amplify Georgia Collaborative for an online reproductive justice webinar to bring together Georgians looking to organize around reproductive rights!
This event will kick off 8:30 on Friday night (August 19th) for a welcome session, then reconvene Saturday noon-7PM August 20th for a full day of workshops, panels, and more! Join us to build relationships with activists across the state, learn about abortion rights organizing work, and gain practical skills training!
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🌹 Read: Building a Socialist Labor Movement 🌹
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The 2022 Labor Notes Conference, a gathering of “troublemakers” and labor activists from across the United States and beyond, took place in Chicago during a mild mid-June weekend. Attendance was a jam-packed whirlwind of panels, workshops, training sessions, and socials. Over 4,000 organizers and activists commingled – including educators, baristas, newsroom workers, Amazon warehouse organizers, and Teamsters. Labor Notes marked an unforgettable four days of learning, connecting, and building solidarity between wildly diverse groups, and the lessons I learned from comrades across the country will stick with me for years to come. Below, I recount the experiences from Labor Notes, then outline a path forward for Atlanta DSA in light of them. [Read the full article at RedClayComrade.org]
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☎️ Call City Council! Close the Jail! ☎️
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TODAY, Monday August 15, the Atlanta City Council will vote on whether to lease the Atlanta City Detention Center (ACDC) to Fulton County, despite years of promises from the Mayor and City Council to close and repurpose the jail.
ACDC only holds 30-50 people per night, and costs $16 million per year to run. Organizers are demanding that the building be transformed into a community resource center, where communities can access services, housing, job training, child care, pre-arrest diversion, and other supportive services.
Call the Mayor and Atlanta City Council TODAY and tell them to fulfill their promise to close the jail. The City should fund public services like health care and housing - not incarceration of working-class and homeless folks! Learn more here.
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Atlanta Democratic Socialists of America - atldsa.org
Fighting for the many, not the few
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