🗓 What's Going On this Week? 🗓
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Looking for more events? See our monthly calendar! 📆
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For nearly six months, the City of Atlanta has refused to count 116,000 signatures for the Cop City referendum. The referendum would put Cop City on the ballot and Let the People Decide. Mayor Dickens is blocking the referendum review process and denying Atlanta citizens their right to vote.
Today, the Atlanta City Council will vote on Ordinance 24-O-1007, which will formalize a transparent and fair process for current and future referendums in Atlanta. The ordinance follows best-practices from across the nation and was constructed by leading voting rights and election litigators. It ain’t over till THE PEOPLE DECIDE!
Atlanta City Hall, 55 Trinity Ave SW, Atlanta, GA 30303
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✊ HB 362 Rally at Capitol! ✊
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Join ATLDSA, the Atlanta-North Georgia Labor Council and local unions so protest Brian Kemp's union busting bill, HB362. This bill would make it harder for workers seeking to unionize in the State of Georgia.
Meet us outside Tomorrow, Feb 6th at Liberty Plaza at 9AM. Please bring signs and wear your DSA or union shirts. See you there!
Contact [email protected] for more info.
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☎️ Phonebanking & Canvassing - Sanchez for Georgia ☎️
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Join us to knock doors and build support for our campaign! We will provide snacks and water.
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After our Saturday canvass we will have a fun social afterward!
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Join us for a night of phonebanking this Wednesday from 6-8 PM to help elect our comrade Gabriel Sanchez to the Georgia State House!
Please note that this is a hybrid event, held both in-person at the DSA office and via Zoom. To attend virtually, email [email protected] for the Zoom link.
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🛩 Through February 7 - IAM Delta House Calling Blitz 🛩
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Support Delta Ramp, Cargo, and Tower union organizers as they connect with their coworkers and have conversations, at the door, without interference from Delta! This week of action will take place from January 31 through February 7. Union members, Delta workers, and community allies are all welcome.
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💡 Black Socialist Spotlight 💡
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A. Philip Randolph (1889-1979) was an American labor unionist, civil rights activist, and socialist politician. In 1925, he organized and led the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first predominantly African American labor union. In 1963, Randolph co-organized the March on Washington.
In 1925, as founding president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Randolph began organizing that group of Black workers and, at a time when half the affiliates of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) barred Blacks from membership, took his union into the AFL. Despite opposition, he built the first successful Black trade union; the brotherhood won its first major contract with the Pullman Company in 1937.
A. Philip Randolph died on May 16, 1979. Activist Bayard Rustin stated, “No individual did more to help the poor, the dispossessed and the working class in the United States and around the world than A. Philip Randolph”.1
Learn more about A. Philip Randolph in these links
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/randolph-philip
https://aflcio.org/about/history/labor-history-people/asa-philip-randolph
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/a-philip-randolph
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🧤 Winter Clothing Drive: Distribution Event! ❄️
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Atlanta DSA is running our annual Winter Clothing Drive! While the City of Atlanta spends tens of millions of dollars building a fake Cop City training ground, the real citizens of Atlanta remain housing and food insecure. We've collected warm clothing through our clothing drive -- now we need to help distribute it to keep Atlantans safer and warmer this winter.
Come to Woodruff Park, 91 Peachtree St, Atlanta, GA 30303 on Saturday, February 10th at 12:00 PM to help us give back and protect our homeless neighbors until our city government guarantees housing for all.
Donate to atldsa.org/winterfunds
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🗣 Service Worker Roundtable 🗣
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Are you a service worker in Atlanta interested in building worker power? Atlanta DSA is partnering with Restaurant Opportunities Center to host our first ever service worker roundtable! Join us to meet other service workers in the area, learn about your rights at work, and for an informal discussion of the labor landscape in Atlanta and how you can get involved in workplace organizing.
It's happening on Sunday, February 18, 2pm at Red's Beer Garden, 1328 Boulevard SE, Atlanta, GA 30315
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✊ Save the Date: Union Reform 101 ✊
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All over the country, workers are organizing on the shop floor to build strong, militant, and democratic unions. From Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU) to Unite all Workers for Democracy (UAWD), the impact of union reform movements is loud and clear. Labor union reform caucuses have helped elect union leadership that's willing to put up a fight - helping Teamsters secure a historic union contract, and leading UAW to launch an unprecedented strike led by the rank-and-file.
Join Atlanta DSA's labor committee on Sunday, February 25 for an info session and workshop on union reform caucuses. We'll cover topics like: What is the goal of union reform? What are some examples of successful union reform movements? How can you get involved in your local union reform efforts?
This workshop is open to anyone, although union members are strongly encouraged to attend.
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🌹Attend Labor Notes Conference in April!🌹
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The Labor Notes Conference is being held this April 19-21 in Chicago, and Atlanta DSA is offering partial scholarships for members to attend. If you're interested in attending to represent Atlanta DSA, please fill out this application by midnight on Friday, Feb 16th. We will aim to get back to applicants by Tuesday Feb 20th.
Including fights and housing, it's expected to cost around $600 for each attendee. Priority will go to applicants who cannot afford to pay full cost, are unable to receive a scholarship elsewhere, are active in Atlanta DSA’s labor work, or are a union member or organizing in a strategic industry. The Steering Committee will approve applications before the May 1st Early Bird Registration deadline.
Read more about the Labor Notes Conference and sign up to attend here!
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✊ Senate Bill 362 is Wrong for Georgia ✊
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Senate Bill 362 attempts to prevent Georgia’s working families from organizing their workplace.
Let’s be clear: What this bill wants to do — prohibit Georgia businesses receiving state economic subsidies from voluntarily recognizing a union in their workplace — is federally illegal.
Voluntary recognition of representation is protected by the NLRA. NLRA protections and prohibitions cannot be circumvented by state legislation. The fundamental right of voluntary recognition has been upheld time and time again in courtrooms.
Senate Bill 362 is an illegal attack on working people and private businesses in Georgia.
When workers are asking for basic rights and are supported by the employer, the state government stepping in to ban that recognition simultaneously harms workers and takes away individual freedoms from business owners.
A majority of Americans would join a union right now if they could, and working people across all sectors of the economy are organizing like never before. The new era of the Georgia labor movement is here and S.B. 362 is evidence that Gov. Kemp and his political cronies are scared of workers getting their fair share.
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✊ATLDSA 2024 Convention Photos! ✊
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📓 Organizing for Power's Core Fundamentals Training 📓
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Email [email protected] to be added to Atlanta DSA's cohort of Organizing for Power's Core Fundamentals attendees! Led by labor legend Jane McAlevey, this free six-week training course on the basics of organizing starts May 7th. Join 35,000+ people from more than 1,400 organizations in over 110 countries to build a more equitable future.
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Atlanta Democratic Socialists of America - atldsa.org
Fighting for the many, not the few
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