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November 28, 2025 |
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Socialist Night School: Organizing Against CBP and ICE: ICE Watch/Film the Police/Know Your RightsTonight at Broadmoor Community Church, 2021 S Dupre St. Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement are staging this week for two months of terror in New Orleans. In LA, Chicago, and Charlotte, we’ve seen aggressive abductions at schools, stores, workplaces, churches, and in residential neighborhoods. And we’ve seen these communities answer the call to protect their own. How can local socialist organizers respond in this critical moment? We’re continuing our Friday Night School series with an ICE Watch/Film the Police/Know Your Rights training in Broadmoor. Come link up with people from your own neighborhood and learn how to organize, help your neighbors, and build the community and the structures that will make us unconquerable to fascism. Organizing is about trust. Courage is a muscle. We keep us safe. See you all tonight.
Red Rabbits Recommendation: It’s Mutual Aid Season!As we cross the Thanksgiving threshold, we enter into the time of the year when Americans tend to think a little more about others than usual. Technically, it’s mutual aid season all year round, but there’s no need to give people a hard time when we have bigger fish to fry. These next few weeks will be extremely perilous to some of our neighbors as they try to live their lives under ICE predation, and we all need to think about how we can help them in any way we can. Things you can do to help our neighbors include making grocery, food pantry, or medication runs, fundraising for legal services and lost wages, helping with school drop-offs and pick-ups, or helping street vendors by buying out their goods or helping them sell them. There are other ways to help out, so be creative and talk to your comrades and neighbors. If you don’t know someone directly affected by the ICE invasion, keep asking around. You know more people than you think you do, and keep in mind that some folks might not feel comfortable asking for help. Helping a friend of a friend is a great way to make new friends. Don’t roll in dead-set with a solution in mind. There are often aspects that you haven’t thought of, and getting the information from the person who needs the help will usually lead to a better solution. As organizers, we’re supposed to listen more than we speak. Take that to heart and find out how you can plug in where help is needed. As our good friend Rabindranath Tagore reminds us: “I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.” |
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7th Ward Triangle Food Distribution with Fork and Knife ClubThis Sunday, we'll be teaming up with DSA member Tenaj W and the 7th Ward Triangle to distribute hot meals and groceries at 1206 Touro St. You can join us to distribute meals or deliver groceries to the elderly. Sign up to volunteer.
Winter Coat Drive for Next Brake Light ClinicWe’ll be handing out winter coats at our December 13 Brake Light Clinic. If you’re able to donate winter clothing, please bring it by the office, Healing Center #258. Get in touch with the Direct Service & Health Justice Committee to learn more and help out. Volunteer here.
Poli-Ed Reading SeriesThe Reading Group meets every third Sunday, from 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm, at the Healing Center #258. Our current reading series focuses on Palestine. See you at the next meeting! December 21 January 18 February 15
Join Up With Your Neighborhood CircleNeighborhood circles connect us to comrades where we live, work, or otherwise spend time. Use your circle to host gatherings, plan events, and organize around issues in your neighborhood. Click here to join yours today. Neighborhood circles follow the chapter's code of conduct and guidelines for respectful discussion.
Sign the Petition to Say No to Angola’s Camp J for ICE DetentionGovernor Landry re-opened the Camp J area of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola as an ICE detention center. Known as "the dungeon," Camp J is a site so brutal and inhumane that it was shut down due to its deplorable conditions. This is part of Landry and Trump’s broader, deeply racist, and anti-immigrant agenda. They want to further criminalize, cage, and dehumanize Black, Brown, and immigrant communities in order to enrich their donors and hold on to power. Sign the petition to shut it down at bit.ly/NO-ANGOLA.
Write Like a Socialist: We Have a World to Win!Have an update from your committee or working group? That’s a Bulletin! Want to tell us about an upcoming event? Add it to the Community Calendar! Got some opinion or analysis to share for the good of the membership? Write us a Feature! Make your contribution to the next edition of Solidarity Means Action from the link on Discord. |
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Community Calendar |
Friday, November 28Queer Soc Planning Meeting Socialist Night School: Organizing Against CBP & ICE: ICE Watch/Film the Police/Know Your Rights
Saturday, November 29🌹 🌹 🌹
Sunday, November 307th Ward Triangle / Fork & Knife Club Food Distribution DSA Neighborhood Social: Northshore! Safety Coalition Training Chapter Orientation
Monday, December 1🌹 🌹 🌹
Tuesday, December 2New Orleans Rank & File Project Monthly Meeting
Wednesday, December 3DSA Electoral Debrief
Thursday, December 4Immigration Advocacy Working Group Meeting DSA Mid-City Neighborhood Social
Friday, December 5Socialist Night School: Organizing Against CBP & ICE with Legal Advocates
Saturday, December 6Labor Notes New Orleans Troublemakers School New Orleans Bookfair DSA Uptown Neighborhood Social & Holidays Party
Sunday, December 7Coffee with Comrades Poli-Ed Planning Meeting Chapter Orientation
Down the RoadDecember 9 Direct Service & Health Justice Meeting |
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