🌹 What's coming up in January 2023? 👀
Looking for a way to volunteer? Ever thought about attending a book club meeting? What about learning more about Public Sector Bargaining? You've come to the right place!
Find more info on these events below:
Looking for more events? See our monthly calendar! 📆
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See This Month's Events Here
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🌹2/1 Launch Call: Public Sector Bargaining Rights🌹
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All workers deserve the right to unionize and bargain for a better workplace! But most public-sector workers in Georgia — teachers, nurses, university staff, and other government workers — aren’t legally allowed to collectively bargain or strike for a fair contract. So what does it look like to actually organize in the public sector? What obstacles stand in our way, and how do we fight back?
At the January General meeting this Saturday our chapter unanimously voted to approve Public Sector Bargaining as our priority campaign now through legislative session. Want to get involved? Join us Wednesday, Feb 1st, at 7:00 PM to learn more about our public sector union organizing, the fight to win public sector bargaining rights, and more! RSVP here to get the zoom link.
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🌹 Public Sector Union Rights Phonebanking Tonight! 🌹
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TONIGHT 1/30 at 6:00 PM: Phonebank for Public Sector Bargaining Rights! ☎️🍎⚒
Atlanta DSA is campaigning for Georgia State legislators to legalize public sector bargaining this legislative session and we need your help! We'll be phonebanking every Monday including tonight January 30th gathering petition signatures and encouraging folks to contact their House Reps. Join us at 711 Catherine St. at 6 PM TONIGHT. RSVP here!
NOTE: For the safety of everyone, we require all event attendees to be fully vaccinated.
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Can't make it? Support the campaign by writing your legislators and tell them to
support Union Rights for Public Workers!
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📚 Book Club Next Thursday! 📚
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Next Thursday, Feb 9th @ 7 PM, ATL DSA’s book club will read and discuss Chapter 3 of Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else) by Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò.
In this book, Táíwò discusses how the rich and powerful have co-opted identity politics to achieve their own ends. He instead intervenes to suggest how we as socialists can move beyond a "class" vs. "race" binary to reject elitist identity politics in favor of a constructive politics of racial solidarity, and build a better world that works for us all.
Didn't catch the previous meetings? Watch a Recap video.
Our book club takes place every other Thursday on Zoom and is open to both members and nonmembers! Just RSVP at atldsa.org/bookclub to get the link, and pick up the book at haymarketbooks.org while there’s still a sale 😉
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🍺 Eat Drink & Be Marxist 🍺
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Join us at our in-person socialist social Saturday, Feb 11th, at 8:00 PM at the Joystick Gamebar• 427 Edgewood Ave SE. Come for dinner, drink, and conversation. Enjoy comradeship and a brew with DSA and friends!
Since COVID is still a risk, we ask that you only attend if you're fully vaccinated.
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🍎Live Panel: Building Power for Public Workers🛠
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Join us Wednesday, Feb 15th, at 7:00 PM for a live panel featuring organizers from United Campus Workers of Georgia (UCW-GA) & more for a discussion on public sector organizing, pre-majority unions, and how public sector workers can take steps or organize their workplaces! A link to attend this virtual event will be emailed upon RSVP
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🌹 Cumberland Mall Meetup and Canvass 🌹
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Join the Northwest Georgia Branch 12:30 PM on Saturday, February 4th at the Cumberland Mall food court for an in-person meet-up. We'll be canvassing for expanding MARTA to Cobb County. Hope to see you there! Email [email protected] for more info.
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🌹 General Meeting Recap 🌹
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Thanks to everyone who came out this weekend to our January General Meeting. We heard reports on legislative session and our recent labor solidarity work. The chapter unanimously voted to prioritize our newly-launched campaign to legalize public sector bargaining, which you can learn more about at atldsa.org/unionrights.
We also held a workshop on talking about socialism and heard from our friends organizing at Creature Comforts and the newly formed Brewing Union of Georgia (BUG). Support their union campaign by donating to https://givebutter.com/supportbug.
See you all next month!
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🏥 Free COVID Testing Kits 🏥
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The Post Office is providing another round of four free COVID at-home rapid tests for every residential household. Please stay safe this winter by ordering some free at-home tests!
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Atlanta DSA needs your help with our day-to-day programming! Apply to join or volunteer with one of our many Committees below.
Committees are where we organize our events and actions. Ever wonder who writes these emails, plans a canvass, or organizes strike support? A Committee! Most of our organizing happens through our 6 main committees: Electoral, Labor, Education, Communications, Operations, and Membership. Click here for more information on each committee's work.
If you're looking to help out in a leadership capacity with Atlanta DSA, or just looking to volunteer, sign up to volunteer with a committee today!
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