Features

The Invisible Hand of Corporate Fascism

News broke last week about an ICE raid on a firefighting crew working on the Bear Gulch fire in Washington state. The crew of 44 was detained for three hours, resulting in the arrest of two men. The other 42 were sent home, their contracts terminated by the management company that deployed them into an ICE ambush. At the time, the fire was less than 9,000 acres in size and was 13% contained. A week later, the fire had grown to over 10,000 acres and was only 9% contained. 

Also last week, ICE agents raided a Hyundai plant in Georgia and arrested 475 people. The plant is under construction, and 300 of the detained people are South Korean nationals, here because they have the technical expertise needed to build such an advanced facility. As it turns out, the Georgia education system isn’t producing the kind of graduates that Hyundai needed. Thus, when not enough of the Hyundai investment makes its way into American hands, in come the ICE running dogs.

We’re already seeing the metastasization of ICE. Instead of their initial BS about “protecting the US from the worst of the worst,” ICE is increasingly revealing itself as the goon squad for corporate America, kneecapping public services and industrial development in the service of American capital.

This is the dark side of Adam Smith’s invisible hand of the market. Capital has to use every tool at its disposal in its never-ending quest for profit. Side effects and collateral damage aren’t unfortunate accidents, they actually increase profit by weakening the workers and society in general, making them easier to exploit.

The way out of this mess is to dismantle the tools of capitalist oppression. Abolish ICE.

Bulletins

Fall 2025 Voter Guide Team Weekly Meeting Tomorrow

Every election, New Orleans DSA publishes our voter guide analyzing the key issues in each race through a socialist lens. This is a volunteer effort by comrades in the chapter, and we want you to join us! We’ll be at the Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Av Room 258, from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. Bring your laptop and all of your longstanding grudges against our local oligarchs. Get in touch with Aaron Z for more info.

Fork & Knife Club Distribution Tomorrow

Help contribute to our Direct Service Committee as we begin a new campaign to distribute food around local community fridges. We’ll be preparing, packaging, and distributing meals starting at the Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Av Room 258, at 12:00 pm. If you are interested, please sign up here. We would love volunteers to help with any stage of the process!

Introducing Neighborhood Circles

We’re making neighborhood circles to connect people where they live, work, and anywhere else they spend time. Use your circle to host gatherings, plan events, and organize around issues in your neighborhood. If you’re interested in joining our newly formed neighborhood circles, opt in here. Neighborhood circles will follow the chapter’s code of conduct and guidelines for respectful discussion.

2025 DSA Membership Survey

Members in good standing are encouraged to fill out our quick 2025 Membership Survey for us to get a better sense of who our membership is overall and to guide our actions as a chapter.

Join DSA Movie Night at the Broad

Please join our first ever movie night at the Broad Theatre, in conjunction with Gap Tooth Media! On September 24th, we’ll screen the critically acclaimed The Act of Killing, which recounts the US-backed mass killings of 1-2 million of communists, leftists, and others in 1965-66 Indonesia. We expect tickets to sell out, so get yours soon.

Keep Up With the Candidates at Endorsement HQ

Election Day is October 11 and New Orleans DSA has four endorsed members running for City Council. Pastor Gregory Manning, Danyelle Christmas, Jackson Kimbrell, and Bob Murrell are making calls, knocking on doors, and attending candidate forums. Volunteer, donate, and follow these campaigns at our Endorsement HQ.

Do It Jewett for US Congress District 1

Union teacher and New Orleans DSA member Lauren Jewett is running for US Congress, LA-01. Lauren has been a public school special education teacher for 17 years, standing up for the things that working people in Louisiana deserve: dignity, a life we can afford, thriving opportunity, and actual protection and recovery from major storms and disasters. She knows that workers are the hands, hearts, soul, and backbone of our state and our country. We deserve a representative who believes that and acts like it. Stay tuned for more campaign updates for Lauren, and help us kick off her candidacy with your financial support.

No Contract, No Coffee! Support a Starbucks Worker Strike

Starbucks workers are demanding a fair union contract with the staffing, hours, take-home pay, and on-the-job protections they need to do their jobs. They are part of our community and part of the fabric of our daily lives. They are neighbors. They are workers. They deserve a fair wage. When they fight, we will support them. And when they strike, we will not cross the picket line. Show your support and sign the pledge. We will not patronize any Starbucks store when baristas are on strike.

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 in the Comms Discord channel.

Community Calendar

Friday, September 12

Free Palestine! Abolish ICE! Weekly Lunch Hour Rally

12:00 pm – 12:45 pm (every Friday) – Immigration Court, 365 Canal St

QueerSoc Interest Meeting

4:30 pm – 5:30 pm – Discord

Saturday, September 13

Canvass for Jackson Kimbrell, Council District C

9:00 am – 12:00 pm – Get involved

Voter Guide Team Weekly Meeting

10:00 am – 12:00 pm (Saturdays through September 20) – New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Av Room 258

Fork and Knife Club Distribution

12:00 pm – New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Av Room 258 – Sign Up

Canvass for Bob Murrell, Council District A

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Get involved

Canvass for Danyelle Christmas, Council District E

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Get Involved

Packed With Love! A Safer-Injection Kit Making Fundraiser for Trystereo

6:00 pm – 11:00 pm – Siberia, 2227 St Claude Av

Sunday, September 14

Canvass for Bob Murrell, District A

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Get involved

Canvass for Danyelle Christmas, Council District E

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Get Involved

Monday, September 15

Canvass for Pastor Gregory Manning, Council At-Large Division 2

5:30 pm & 6:30 pm (Monday-Thursday) – Broadmoor Community Church, 2021 S Dupre St – Get Involved

Tuesday, September 16

Health Justice & Direct Service Meeting

5:00 pm – 6:00 pm – Meet

Canvass for Pastor Gregory Manning, Council At-Large Division 2

5:30 pm & 6:30 pm (Monday-Thursday) – Broadmoor Community Church, 2021 S Dupre St – Get Involved

National Convention Debrief & Discussion

6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

PSL No National Guard in New Orleans Rally

6:00 pm – Racist President Sq, 701 Decatur St

Wednesday, September 17

Indivisible Wednesday ICE Protest

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm (every Wednesday) – ICE Field Office, 1250 Poydras St

Canvass for Pastor Gregory Manning, Council At-Large Division 2

5:30 pm & 6:30 pm (Monday-Thursday) – Broadmoor Community Church, 2021 S Dupre St – Get Involved

Safety Coalition Training

6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Thursday, September 18

Canvass for Pastor Gregory Manning, Council At-Large Division 2

5:30 pm & 6:30 pm (Monday-Thursday) – Broadmoor Community Church, 2021 S Dupre St – Get Involved

Friday, September 19

Free Palestine! Abolish ICE! Weekly Lunch Hour Rally

12:00 pm – 12:45 pm (every Friday) – Immigration Court, 365 Canal St

Saturday, September 20

Canvass for Jackson Kimbrell, Council District C

9:00 am – 12:00 pm – Get involved

Voter Guide Team Weekly Meeting

10:00 am – 12:00 pm (Saturdays through September 20)- Coffee Science, 410 S Broad St

Canvass for Bob Murrell, Council District A

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Get involved

Canvass for Danyelle Christmas, Council District E

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Get Involved

Sunday, September 21

Canvass for Bob Murrell, District A

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Get involved

Canvass for Danyelle Christmas, Council District E

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Get Involved

Vote Virgo! A Birthday Pool Party Celebrating Gabriela Biro & Danyelle Christmas

4:30 pm – 8:30 pm – The Railyard, 710 Poland Av – Admission 21+, $25

Poli-Ed Reading Group: The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine & #StopFuelingGenocide: Boycott Chevron!

5:00 pm – 6:30 pm (third Sunday) – New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Av Room 258 – Reading List

Down the Road

September 22 Port NOLA Alabo Street Wharf Project Community Information Meeting (Stop the Grain Train)

September 24 Together New Orleans Mayoral and City Council Forum

September 24 Poli-Ed Movie Night: The Act of Killing

September 26 Voter Guide Release

September 27 Early Voting Starts

October 11 Election Day: Municipal Primary

November 15 Election Day: Municipal Runoff

New Orleans DSA vehemently opposes the Trump administration’s proposed military occupation of our city. We wholly reject the claim by the Federal and Louisiana state governments that they intend to deploy the military in order to address any semblance of “crime” here. A police state will neither prevent nor reduce crime. Only investment in our communities–a living wage, affordable housing, universal healthcare, and youth services–can accomplish that. Such actions will only restrict our ability to freely engage in public life. 

We’ve seen ICE terrorize communities across Los Angeles and D.C. with the backing of the Marines, National Guard, and local police. We’ve witnessed them kidnap our neighbors and abduct countless others across the country to bring them to our state, the prison capital of the world. Right now, they are expanding Angola Prison in order to force these captives into modern-day slavery and funnel even more public dollars to private corporations.

Make no mistake: this proposal is yet another grotesque attempt by the white supremacist regime that defines our government to make a show of punishing the working class. This is about persecuting immigrants, Black people and other people of color, unhoused people, women and queer people, and all people fighting for their community, particularly in cities with Black and female leadership. They don’t care about public safety; they care about perpetuating violence and maintaining the ultra-rich oligarchy.

We call upon all of New Orleans to get organized and resist this fascist occupation. Protect your neighbors and make these troops and federal agents feel unwelcome in every part of our city. We stand with all organizations in this struggle for justice and humanity and are eager to work alongside you. We encourage students and workers to organize walkouts and pickets against these violations of our rights. We call upon all local officials and candidates for office to propose concrete actions that they will take to protect our people and drive out this occupation. Words aren’t enough: we must act.

“It is our duty to fight for our freedom.
It is our duty to win.
We must love each other and support each other.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.”

– Assata Shakur

Solidarity,

New Orleans DSA

Features

Let’s Do It Jewett! for US Congress District 1

On Labor Day, union teacher and New Orleans DSA member Lauren Jewett announced her candidacy for US Congress, LA-01. We couldn’t be more excited to help one of our own unseat Republican Steve Scalise.

Lauren has been a public school special education teacher for 17 years, standing up for the things that working people in Louisiana deserve: dignity, a life we can afford, thriving opportunity, and actual protection and recovery from major storms and disasters. She knows that workers are the hands, hearts, soul, and backbone of our state and our country. We deserve a representative who believes that and acts like it.

Stay tuned for more campaign updates for Lauren, and help us kick off her candidacy with your financial support.

Unravel the Threads and Radicalize New Comrades

It seems like there’s always something to be angry about: crooked politicians, the lunar landscape that we call our roads, or the ding-dong who cut you off in traffic this morning.

It’s important to remember that many things which make us angry are merely the tip of a wedge that is being driven between us. If you’re mad about “immigrants stealing our jobs,” you’re not thinking about the decades-long de-industrialization of our economy, the destabilizing effects of the US imperial program on Latin American countries, or the exploitative nature of capitalism leaving too few resources for all of us. You’re mad now, and you’ve found a convenient, isolated target. The trouble is that a lot of us are those immigrants, or we have a lot more in common with those immigrants than with the fat cats at the top, whether we want to admit it or not.

The purpose of division is domination. So long as we direct anger at each other, we cannot fight the true enemy. 

We need everyone to change everything. When you encounter someone who is mad, sit with them and examine why they feel that way, what wedge issue might be behind those feelings, and how a deeper interpretation can radicalize them into action. You don’t need to become a psychotherapist, just learn how to help people spot contradictions in their lives, then help them unravel those threads themselves. Maybe practice a bit on yourself first. There are plenty of angry people out there; they will still be there when you’re ready to talk to them. However, don’t wait too long. We have a lot of work to do. Good luck. We believe in you.

Red Rabbits Recommendation: Delay, Distract, Diffuse

In the ongoing struggle to keep our people safe, bear in mind the difference between strategy (the overall objective or long-term goal) and tactics (short-term actions). For example, when we encounter counter-protestors at a march, the objective is to keep our group moving along, so marshals tactically engage the troublemakers until our people have passed by.

The Three Ds (Delay, Distract, Diffuse) are helpful skills to practice. Sometimes a few seconds will make all the difference in the world, so being able to delay the action of an opponent can thwart their plans and give your side time to complete their plans, react to the new wrinkle, or make an escape.

Distracting your opponent is a great tactic. If their attention is on you, then your people are freer to do their thing. You can ask them about what brings them there, or why they are so upset, or where did they get those fabulous shoes? Just keep them thinking about you, and not on your comrades. 

You can also try to diffuse the passion that has them riled up. Sometimes you can do that with questions, other times you can simply sit there and listen to them. If you know that it’ll only take 60 seconds for your march to pass by, just suck it up and learn all about how the lizard people are running the government, or whatever they need to get off their chest. Then, once your people are by, or someone you’re protecting has made an escape, you’re free to walk away. 

Always keep your eyes on the prize. Act tactically to support your strategy, but make sure that you have them both properly sorted out before you engage in any action.

Bulletins

DSA 4 Palestine Banner Build

Join your comrades tonight, September 5, for the Palestine Banner Build. Come hang out and paint at the Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave, Room 258, starting at 6:00 pm. Food, drink, and all materials provided. Sign up here to let us know to expect you.

Fall 2025 Voter Guide Team Weekly Meeting Tomorrow

Every election, New Orleans DSA publishes our voter guide analyzing the key issues in each race through a socialist lens. This is a volunteer effort by comrades in the chapter, and we want you to join us! We’ll be at the Coffee Science, 410 S Broad St, from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. Bring your laptop and all of your longstanding grudges against our local oligarchs. Get in touch with Aaron Z for more info.

2025 DSA Membership Survey

Members in good standing are encouraged to fill out our quick 2025 Membership Survey for us to get a better sense of who our membership is overall and to guide our actions as a chapter.

Introducing Neighborhood Circles

We’re making neighborhood circles to connect people where they live, work, and anywhere else they spend time. Use your circle to host gatherings, plan events, and organize around issues in your neighborhood. If you’re interested in joining our newly formed neighborhood circles, opt in here. Neighborhood circles will follow the chapter’s code of conduct and guidelines for respectful discussion.

Fork & Knife Club Distribution

Help contribute to our Direct Service Committee as we begin a new campaign to distribute food around local community fridges. We’ll be preparing, packaging, and distributing meals starting at the Healing Center on September 13th at 12:00 pm. If you are interested, please sign up here. We would love volunteers to help with any stage of the process!

Keep Up With the Candidates at Endorsement HQ

Election Day is October 11 and New Orleans DSA has four endorsed members running for City Council. Pastor Gregory Manning, Danyelle Christmas, Jackson Kimbrell, and Bob Murrell are making calls, knocking on doors, and attending candidate forums. Volunteer, donate, and follow these campaigns at our Endorsement HQ.

Join DSA Movie Night at the Broad

Please join our first ever movie night at the Broad Theatre, in conjunction with Gap Tooth Media! On September 24th, we’ll screen the critically acclaimed The Act of Killing, which recounts the US-backed mass killings of 1-2 million of communists, leftists, and others in 1965-66 Indonesia. We expect tickets to sell out, so get yours soon.

No Contract, No Coffee! Support a Starbucks Worker Strike

Starbucks workers are demanding a fair union contract with the staffing, hours, take-home pay, and on-the-job protections they need to do their jobs. They are part of our community and part of the fabric of our daily lives. They are neighbors. They are workers. They deserve a fair wage. When they fight, we will support them. And when they strike, we will not cross the picket line. Show your support and sign the pledge. We will not patronize any Starbucks store when baristas are on strike.

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 in the Comms Discord channel.

Community Calendar

Friday, September 5

Free Palestine! Abolish ICE! Weekly Lunch Hour Rally

12:00 pm – 12:45 pm (every Friday) – Immigration Court, 365 Canal St

Urban League By The People Debate Series: Assessor

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Ashé Power House Theater, 1731 Baronne St

DSA 4 Palestine Banner Build

6:00 pm – 8:00 pm – New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Av Room 258 – Sign up

Saturday, September 6

Canvass for Jackson Kimbrell, District C

9:00 am – 12:00 pm – Get involved

Voter Guide Team Weekly Meeting

10:00 am – 12:00 pm (Saturdays through September 20) – Coffee Science, 410 S Broad St

The Forum: LGBTQ+ Voices Matter Political Candidate Forum

11:00 am – McDonogh 35 HS, 4000 Cadillac St

Canvass for Bob Murrell, District A

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Get involved

Canvass for Danyelle Christmas, District E

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Get Involved

Sunday, September 7

Poli-Ed Planning Meeting

10:00 am – 11:30 am (first Sunday) – New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Av Room 258 – Reading List

Coffee with Comrades

11:00 am – 12:00 pm – Coffee Science, 410 S Broad St

Canvass for Bob Murrell, Council District A

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Get involved

Canvass for Danyelle Christmas, Council District E

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Get Involved

Big in the 90s Fundraiser for Bob Murrell

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Carrollton Station, 8140 Willow St

Chapter Orientation

8:00 pm – 9:00 pm (first and last Sunday) – Meet

Monday, September 8

Canvass for Pastor Gregory Manning, Council At-Large Division 2

5:30 pm & 6:30 pm (Monday-Thursday) – Broadmoor Community Church, 2021 S Dupre St – Get Involved

Tuesday, September 9

Canvass for Pastor Gregory Manning, Council At-Large Division 2

5:30 pm & 6:30 pm (Monday-Thursday) – Broadmoor Community Church, 2021 S Dupre St – Get Involved

Critical Mass Ride: Mass Incarceration in Louisiana

6:00 pm – French Market, Barracks St & French Market Pl

Urban League By The People Debate Series: Mayor

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Xavier University of Louisiana Convocation Center, 7900 Stroelitz St

Wednesday, September 10

Indivisible Wednesday ICE Protest

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm (every Wednesday) – ICE Field Office, 1250 Poydras St

Canvass for Pastor Gregory Manning, Council At-Large Division 2

5:30 pm & 6:30 pm (Monday-Thursday) – Broadmoor Community Church, 2021 S Dupre St – Get Involved

VOTE Sheriff Town Hall

6:30 pm – VOTE, 4930 Washington Av

Thursday, September 11

Canvass for Pastor Gregory Manning, Council At-Large Division 2

5:30 pm & 6:30 pm (Monday-Thursday) – Broadmoor Community Church, 2021 S Dupre St – Get Involved

Friday, September 12

Free Palestine! Abolish ICE! Weekly Lunch Hour Rally

12:00 pm – 12:45 pm (every Friday) – Immigration Court, 365 Canal St

Saturday, September 13

Canvass for Jackson Kimbrell, Council District C

9:00 am – 12:00 pm – Get involved

Voter Guide Team Weekly Meeting

10:00 am – 12:00 pm (Saturdays through September 20) – New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Av Room 258

Fork and Knife Club Distribution

12:00 pm – New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Av Room 258 – Sign Up

Canvass for Bob Murrell, Council District A

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Get involved

Canvass for Danyelle Christmas, Council District E

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Get Involved

Sunday, September 14

Canvass for Bob Murrell, District A

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Get involved

Canvass for Danyelle Christmas, Council District E

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Get Involved

Down the Road

September 21 Vote Virgo! A Birthday Pool Party Celebrating Gabriela Biro & Danyelle Christmas

September 22 Port NOLA Alabo Street Wharf Project Community Information Meeting (Stop the Grain Train)

September 24 Together New Orleans Mayoral and City Council Forum

September 24 Poli-Ed Movie Night: The Act of Killing

September 26 Voter Guide Release

September 27 Early Voting Starts

October 11 Election Day: Municipal Primary

November 15 Election Day: Municipal Runoff

Features

Help the 9th Ward Stop the Lock!

The Army Corps of Engineers wants to build an outdated, unnecessary, and harmful expansion of the Industrial Canal at the St. Claude bridge.

First approved in the 1950s, this plan destroys homes, ties up traffic, and worsens quality of life for Bywater and the Lower 9th Ward. And for what? For short term profit for a few shipping companies based on outdated projections. The project is projected to take over a decade and cost well over a billion dollars. A decade of dredging that will expose residents to toxic chemicals. A decade of pile driving that will affect the water table underneath houses and businesses as far as 2 miles away. A decade of “relocation” for some residents.

All for a project that will have no economic benefits for the people of New Orleans. If completed, the project will increase the risk of flooding for people living in the area. The traffic bridges will stay up for longer periods, cutting off access to critical services like ambulances and fire trucks and creating daily traffic jams for people on their way to work or school. If millions of dollars are spent, residents’ lives are disrupted and the project is not completed, the Corps will not assume any liability or owe the citizens of New Orleans anything for their failure. 

Join The Canal Will Kill Nola and submit public comment opposing the Army Corps of Engineers’ dangerous plan for expanding the Industrial Canal. The deadline is this Tuesday, September 2.

No Contract, No Coffee! Support a Starbucks Worker Strike

Starbucks baristas greet customers, remember their names and favorite orders, open and close the stores, make the coffee and clean up the spills. They are part of our community and part of the fabric of our daily lives. They are neighbors. They are workers. They deserve a fair wage.

Starbucks workers, like all of us, deserve to make ends meet. That’s why they’re demanding a fair union contract with the staffing, hours, take-home pay, and on-the-job protections they need to do their jobs. Now they’re asking for our support as they fight for a union and a fair contract to turn these demands into reality. When they fight, we will support them. And when they strike, we will not cross the picket line. Show your support and sign the pledge. We will not patronize any Starbucks store when baristas are on strike. 

The Value of Marx – Andy L

In our primitive past, the natural phenomenon of lightning was not understood, so it was attributed to mysterious, unknowable forces, or gods, or something beyond the understanding of man. Then some people figured out electrons, then some others figured out how to move electrons through wire, to light up a room or turn a motor. Now we have a society swimming in electronics that lets us travel and communicate over impossible distances, heal the sick, and even make ice for our drinks. 

Similarly, the inner workings of living beings were attributed to humors or spontaneous generation or different types of tissues, but eventually some people figured out cells, and then some others figured out DNA, and now we have CRISPR, a tool that can drill down and modify the genetic code of living beings.

We still live in a superstitious world, where people believe that the political and economic forces that drive our lives are unknowable, or mysteries of human nature, or just too big to figure out. However, Marxism (AKA Scientific Socialism) allows us to break these systems into understandable parts. Just as JJ Thompson introduced us to the electron, and Robert Hooke taught us about cells, Marx started with the commodity and used it to develop the laws of motion of the economy. Our task is to continue that analysis, run different experiments, and build that better world for all of us. Marx laid the tools at our feet. Now, what are we going to do with them? As the man himself said: “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.”

Bulletins

Fall 2025 Voter Guide Team Weekly Meeting Tomorrow

Every election, New Orleans DSA publishes our voter guide analyzing the key issues in each race through a socialist lens. This is a volunteer effort by comrades in the chapter, and we want you to join us! We’ll be at the Coffee Science, 410 S Broad St, from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. Bring your laptop and all of your longstanding grudges against our local oligarchs. Get in touch with Aaron Z for more info.

DSA 4 Palestine Banner Build

Join your comrades this Thursday, September 5, for the DSA 4 Palestine Banner Build. Come paint and hang out with us at the Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave, Room 258, starting at 6:00 pm. Food, drink, and all materials provided. Sign up here to let us know to expect you.

Fork and Knife Club Inaugural Distribution

Help contribute to our Direct Service Committee as we begin a new campaign to distribute food around local community fridges. We’ll be preparing, packaging, and distributing meals starting at the Healing Center on September 13th at 12:00 pm. If you are interested, please sign up here. We would love volunteers to help with any stage of the process!

Keep Up With the Candidates at Endorsement HQ

Election Day is October 11 and New Orleans DSA has four endorsed members running for City Council. Pastor Gregory Manning, Danyelle Christmas, Jackson Kimbrell, and Bob Murrell are making calls, knocking on doors, and attending candidate forums. Volunteer, donate, and follow these campaigns at our Endorsement HQ.

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 in the Comms Discord channel.

Community Calendar

Friday, August 29

Free Palestine! Abolish ICE! Weekly Lunch Hour Rally

12:00 pm – 12:45 pm (every Friday) – Immigration Court, 365 Canal St

Critical Mass Katrina Ride

6:00 pm – French Market, Barracks St & French Market Pl

Saturday, August 30

Canvass for Jackson Kimbrell, District C

9:00 am – 12:00 pm – Get involved

Voter Guide Team Weekly Meeting

10:00 am – 12:00 pm (Saturdays through September 20) – Coffee Science, 410 S Broad St

Canvass for Bob Murrell, District A

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Get involved

Canvass for Danyelle Christmas, District E

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Get Involved

Sunday, August 31

Canvass for Bob Murrell, District A

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Get involved

Canvass for Danyelle Christmas, District E

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Get Involved

Chapter Orientation

8:00 pm – 9:00 pm (first and last Sunday) – Meet

Monday, September 1

AFL-CIO Labor Day Picnic

11:00 am – 3:00 pm – City Park’s Marconi Meadows, 6100 Marconi Dr

#SolidaritySeptember New Orleans Workers Over Billionaires Labor Day Rally

6:00 pm – 8:00 pm – Congo Square in Louis Armstrong Park, 701 N Rampart St – Event info

Tuesday, September 2

From Disaster to Solutions: A Mayoral Candidate Forum About Climate

6:00 pm – 8:00 pm – Ashé II @ The Ashé Cultural Arts Center, 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Bd

Wednesday, September 3

Indivisible Wednesday ICE Protest

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm (every Wednesday) – ICE Field Office, 1250 Poydras St

Health Justice & Direct Service Meeting

5:00 pm – 6:00 pm (first Wednesday) – Meet

Urban League By The People Debate Series: Council At-Large Division 1

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Ashe Cultural Arts Center, 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Bd

Friday, September 5

Free Palestine! Abolish ICE! Weekly Lunch Hour Rally

12:00 pm – 12:45 pm (every Friday) – Immigration Court, 365 Canal St

Urban League By The People Debate Series: Assessor

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Ashé Cultural Arts Center, 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Bd

DSA 4 Palestine Banner Build

6:00 pm – 8:00 pm – New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Av Room 258 – Sign up

Saturday, September 6

Canvass for Jackson Kimbrell, District C

9:00 am – 12:00 pm – Get involved

Voter Guide Team Weekly Meeting

10:00 am – 12:00 pm (Saturdays through September 20) – Coffee Science, 410 S Broad St

The Forum: LGBTQ+ Voices Matter Political Candidate Forum

11:00 am – McDonogh 35 HS, 4000 Cadillac St

Canvass for Bob Murrell, District A

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Get involved

Canvass for Danyelle Christmas, District E

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Get Involved

Sunday, September 7

Poli-Ed Planning Meeting

10:00 am – 11:30 am (first Sunday) – New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Av Room 258 – Reading List

Coffee with Comrades

11:00 am – 12:00 pm – Coffee Science, 410 S Broad St

Canvass for Bob Murrell, District A

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Get involved

Canvass for Danyelle Christmas, District E

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Get Involved

Big in the 90s Fundraiser for Bob Murrell

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Carrollton Station, 8140 Willow St

Chapter Orientation

8:00 pm – 9:00 pm (first and last Sunday) – Meet

Down the Road

September 9 Urban League By The People Debate Series: Mayor

September 24 Together New Orleans Mayoral and City Council Forum

September 24 Poli-Ed Movie Night: The Act of Killing

September 26 Voter Guide Release

September 27 Early Voting Starts

October 11 Election Day: Municipal PrimaryNovember 15 Election Day: Municipal Runoff

Features

Swing By the General Meeting Tomorrow at the Healing Center

August’s GM is tomorrow from 12:00 – 2:00 pm in Room #204 of the New Orleans Healing Center! Parking can be found at 2465 N Rampart St, and you can also join via Zoom using the link when you RSVP.

We’ll have committee and working group updates and three resolutions up for vote:

• Forming neighborhood circles to support local community building.
• Advancing chapter accessibility by requiring virtual options for meetings and establishing requirements for event venues.
• Prohibiting the use of AI-generated content for any chapter purpose.

Our National Convention delegates will also recap their trip to Chicago.

We hope to see you there!

Announcing the Newly Created  Fork and Knife Club

To help combat food insecurity locally, members of our Direct Service Committee will begin distributing food around the local community fridges. We’ll prepare, package, and distribute the meals starting at the Healing Center on September 13th at 12:00 pm.

We’re excited to expand our direct service programming this way. It’s a chance to put our values into action, support a great community fridge network, and spend time with likeminded socialists who just wanna hang out and help our neighbors. What could be better?

Come by tomorrow’s GM to learn more about the Fork and Knife Club. Or if you can’t contain your excitement, go ahead and sign up here. Now. Do it now. And if this is the kind of socialism that gets you fired up, bring your neat ideas to our Direct Service Discord channel.

On Moral Choices: Start With Getting Your Priorities in Order – Brodie L

In The Good Place, a comedy show that explores living ethically in the modern world, the protagonists discover just how forked the moral judgment system they’re living in is. In a nutshell, every action gives points based on its intent and its consequences. For example, you buy flowers for your sick partner, and that’s good. BUT because Trader Joe’s sources them from Israel, they’re sprayed with pesticides, and they’re harvested using underpaid labor, what started out as a good idea worth a few points has actually damned you to the Bad Place. That’s a pretty bullshirt system.

But where to start when trying to make ethical decisions? For consumers, the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) Movement has a list of companies with a proven history of complicity with the Palestinian Genocide. This list could be huge given the enormity of the war machine, but BDS has a priority list of companies we should absolutely focus on. Need gas? Skip Chevron (yes, no gas giant is good, except Jupiter, but you can choose to not directly support genocide). Need new shoes? Skip Reebok. Disney+ account coming up for renewal? Do you really need to watch the Avengers again? To some degree, it just takes asking ourselves, “What are these conveniences worth?” They’re not worth compromising your morals.

We have an opportunity to begin making the choices that align with a free Palestine and a free world. Reassessing our consumer habits is a necessary step to an equitable world. Talking with friends and loved ones is one of the best ways you can support socialist struggle. Labor rights organizer George Meany, born this week in 1894, put it well: “You only make progress by fighting for progress.”

*Related: Come to the Get Chevron Out of French Quarter Fest organizing meeting, Tuesday night at 6:00 at the Healing Center, Room 258.

Bulletins

Fall 2025 Voter Guide Team Weekly Meeting Tomorrow

Every election, New Orleans DSA publishes our voter guide analyzing the key issues in each race through a socialist lens. This is a volunteer effort by comrades in the chapter, and we want you to join us! We’ll be at the New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Av, Room 258, from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. Bring your laptop and all of your longstanding grudges against our local oligarchs. Get in touch with Aaron Z for more info.

Surveillance Ordinance Removed From Council Agenda This Week

City Council’s Live Facial Recognition Ordinance 35,137 was scheduled to go in front of the Criminal Justice Committee on Wednesday, but it was removed from the agenda. Councilmembers Eugene Green and Oliver Thomas have repeatedly tried to pass this first-of-its-kind intrusion into our daily lives despite massive public opposition. Keep up the pressure! Surveillance ain’t safety!

Palestine Banner Build

Your New Orleans DSA comrades are doing a Free Palestine Banner Build at the Healing Center on September 5th at 6:00 pm. Sign up here and bring your creativity to our art event.

Keep Up With the Candidates at Endorsement HQ

Election Day is October 11 and New Orleans DSA has four endorsed members running for City Council. Pastor Gregory Manning, Danyelle Christmas, Jackson Kimbrell, and Bob Murrell are making calls, knocking on doors, and attending candidate forums. Volunteer, donate, and follow these campaigns at our Endorsement HQ.

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 in the Comms Discord channel.

Community Calendar

Friday, August 22

Free Palestine! Abolish ICE! Weekly Lunch Hour Rally

12:00 pm – 12:45 pm (every Friday) – Immigration Court, 365 Canal St

OPDEC Candidate Forum – Mayor, Sheriff, Clerk of Court

6:00 pm – SUNO Millie M. Charles School of Social Work Auditorium, 6801 Press Dr

Saturday, August 23

Canvass for Jackson Kimbrell, District C

9:00 am – 12:00 pm – Get involved

OPDEC Candidate Forum – Assessor, City Council

9:00 am – SUNO Millie M. Charles School of Social Work Auditorium, 6801 Press Dr

Voter Guide Team – Weekly Meeting

10:00 am – 12:00 pm (Saturdays through September 20) – New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Av, Room 258

New Orleans DSA General Meeting

12:00 pm – 2:00 pm  – New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Av, Room 204 – RSVP

Canvass for Bob Murrell, District A

2:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Get involved

Canvass for Danyelle Christmas, District E

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Get Involved

QTCAP Rally: Defend Transgender Healthcare!

5:00 pm – Louisiana Department of Health, 1300 Poydras St

Surveillance Ain’t Safety: Facial Recognition and Predictive Policing

7:00 pm – 11:00 pm – BJ’s Lounge, 4301 Burgundy

Sunday, August 24

Canvass for Bob Murrell, District A

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Get involved

Canvass for Danyelle Christmas, District E

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Get Involved

DSA Comms Team Meeting

6:00 pm – 7:30 pm – New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Av, Room 258

Monday, August 25

Jewish Voice for Peace General Body Meeting

6:00 pm – 7:00 pm – New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Av, Room 258

Local Council Meeting

6:00 pm – 7:30 pm – Meet

Urban League By The People Debate Series: City Council District E

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Franklin Avenue Baptist Church, 8282 I-10 Service Rd

Tuesday, August 26

Get Chevron Out of French Quarter Fest Meeting

6:00 pm – 8:00 pm – New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Av, Room 258

Wednesday, August 27

Indivisible Wednesday ICE Protest

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm (every Wednesday) – ICE Field Office, 1250 Poydras St

Municipal Action Committee Meeting

7:00 pm – 8:00 pm (fourth Wednesday) – Meet

Friday, August 29

Free Palestine! Abolish ICE! Weekly Lunch Hour Rally

12:00 pm – 12:45 pm (every Friday) – Immigration Court, 365 Canal St

Saturday, August 30

Canvass for Jackson Kimbrell, District C

9:00 am – 12:00 pm – Get involved

Voter Guide Team – Weekly Meeting

10:00 am – 12:00 pm (Saturdays through September 20) – Coffee Science, 410 S Broad St

Canvass for Bob Murrell, District A

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Get involved

Sunday, August 31

Canvass for Bob Murrell, District A

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Get involved

Chapter Orientation

8:00 pm – 9:00 pm (first and last Sunday) – Meet

Down the Road

September 1 #SolidaritySeptember Labor Day Kickoff

September 2 From Disaster to Solutions: A Mayoral Candidate Forum About Climate

September 3 Health Justice & Direct Service Meeting

September 3 Urban League By The People Debate Series: Council At-Large

September 5 Urban League By The People Debate Series: Assessor

September 9 Urban League By The People Debate Series: Mayor

September 24 Poli-Ed Movie Night: The Act of Killing

September 26 Voter Guide Release

September 27 Early Voting Starts

October 11 Election Day: Municipal Primary

November 15 Election Day: Municipal Runoff

Features

Stand Up or Shut Up Time for City Councilmembers and Candidates

Eugene Green and Oliver Thomas’s expansive surveillance ordinance is returning to City Council this Wednesday. This dangerous ordinance would make New Orleans the first and only city in the country to allow live facial recognition of its residents. That means the cameras you see all around town will be identifying your face everywhere you go, and checking it against law enforcement’s target database.

The people have made ourselves clear: surveillance doesn’t make us safer. Giving the state the tools to track every immigrant, every labor activist, and every person who opposes the genocide in Palestine doesn’t make us safer. Paying for a technology proven to be biased against Black and brown people, with ever mounting costs for cameras, software, and data storage, that’s bound to result in millions in payouts for wrongful arrests and civil rights violations, does absolutely nothing to make our city better for its working class residents. All it’s going to do is make every demonstrator an easy target for white nationalist Proud Boys in military cosplay.

That’s why Eye on Surveillance, Unión Migrante, Jewish Voice for Peace, New Orleans for Community Oversight of Police, Indivisible Nola, and New Orleans DSA all oppose Ordinance 35,137. After delaying it multiple times this summer to wait out public opposition, Green and Thomas are bringing it to the City Council Criminal Justice Committee, 1300 Perdido St, 2nd Floor West, this Wednesday, August 20. We need you to contact the council and tell them to stop Ordinance 35,137.

Our privacy is under attack. Our elected officials are on the cusp of handing over massive surveillance powers to fascists. It’s time for council members and candidates to stand up or shut up – if you can’t find the courage to vote against this, then don’t bother asking us to vote for you.

Empty ‘Resistance’ to Rising Fascism – Bob M

President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard and federal agencies in Washington, D.C., over invented hysteria is causing justified anxiety amongst anti-fascists across the political spectrum. The spectacle of our local election season has unfortunately been a distraction from a critical fight in our historical moment – defending what little democratic rights we have and fighting against authoritarianism at the federal, state, and local levels. 

During my campaign, I have continually brought up this urgency. On WDSU, I highlighted the need to come together to fight for democracy, and I explicitly called out the rise of fascism at the Urban League’s forum. Few other local Democratic candidates have mentioned Trump or Landry, and the narrative focus on roadwork and economic development feels like someone staring 6 inches ahead of their feet while walking towards a cliff. 

What frightens me is that these candidates want to give police more weapons, technology, and money without any recognition that Trump or Landry will inevitably push the boundaries of our laws. When Jim Crow comes back, do you honestly think Louisiana State Police are going to care about protecting us after they got away with murdering Ronald Greene? How confident do you feel in NOPD and OPSO, who are still under federal consent decrees for violating constitutional rights? The facial recognition technology they’re trying to sell us next week in City Council – you honestly think they won’t use that against political targets or foreign-born residents? The Real Time Crime Center admits having a Department of Homeland Security intelligence agent embedded within the city-run panopticon. For all the genuine concern I hear from residents about Trump and fascism, I hear nothing from my fellow District A candidates.

I am grateful for my fellow DSA candidates who continue to call out the reality around us and say, “No more!” Lock in and become a DSA member or renew your membership today. Get to public demonstrations. Support mutual aid efforts. Organize your workplace to build solidarity and the capacity to strike. There are more of us than them, and we are stronger together. Solidarity forever.

Fall 2025 Voter Guide Team Weekly Meeting Tomorrow

Every election, New Orleans DSA publishes our voter guide analyzing the key issues in each race through a socialist lens. This is a volunteer effort by comrades in the chapter, and we want you to join us!

Come to our first Saturday morning work session, where we’ll be crafting themes and assigning candidates to our team members for the Fall 2025 Voter Guide. Tomorrow, we’ll be on the back patio of Coffee Science, 410 S Broad St, from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. Bring your laptop and all of your longstanding grudges against our local oligarchs. Get in touch with Aaron Z for more info.

Solidarity Forever – Andy L

The heartbreaking news that Planned Parenthood will cease operation in Louisiana September 30 reminds us that we’re living under the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie: a ruling elite that needs vulnerable, exploitable workers. Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast provided cancer screenings, birth control, pregnancy and STI testing, gender-affirming care, and more to the community. Even this attempt to support the working class was too great a threat to their patriarchy. 

A hegemon can’t allow anything to challenge its supremacy. It must destroy any perceived threat. This is why Israel smashed Syria into sectarian clusters and assassinated dozens of Iranian leaders and scientists in June. Right now, Israel and the US are forcing the Lebanese government to destroy itself in an attempt to disarm Hezbollah, turning an Arab vs. Zionist conflict into an Arab vs. Arab conflict. The resistance of the Palestinians is a challenge to the perception of Israel as an undefeatable power, so they are being exterminated.

The way to counter hegemony is with solidarity. The BRICS organization is attempting to counter the US’s military-backed hegemony with a cooperative economic system. It’s a race between the US encirclement of China and BRICS completing a trade network free of the US, but no one knows how it will all play out. The fact that the BRICS nations are working together is the only reason that they have a chance.

Applying these lessons locally, our path forward is to build solidarity with those who fight our class enemies. This involves organizations that have been doing the work for decades and groups and individuals who are finally putting all the pieces together. We need everyone to change everything: we will build the future together or not at all.

Red Rabbits Recommendation – Get Moving

We all know about the fight-or-flight response to a stressful situation. One thing that both options have in common is motion. Rather than sitting on your couch and doomscrolling about the state of the world, get up, get out, and get active.

We talk about getting active all the time, and usually that’s about organizing conversations or attending protests, but we shouldn’t neglect the physical benefits of motion. Even a leisurely walk around the block is good for you. You’ll get fresh air, see your neighbors, and lubricate your joints. The motion is the lotion, as the old-timers say. Deep breathing activates your parasympathetic nervous system, which calms your mind and reduces your body’s stress hormones. 

You don’t have to start running marathons or doing a hundred pushups a day. Every body is different, with unique limits and abilities. Start with what you can do, and what you want to do, then work from there. You can exercise alone, with friends, or with total strangers. Group activities help build relationships, which can make the whole process more enriching.  

The chapter is large enough that undoubtedly there are comrades who enjoy the same kinds of activities that you do. If you’ve been wanting to post on the Discord but don’t know what to say, then throw your hat in the ring and see if anyone wants to toss a frisbee around or do some yoga. 

Our good friend Dialectical Materialism tells us that quantitative changes (swimming every morning) will lead to qualitative changes (you become a morning person or don’t get so out of breath when you take the stairs). Find your fun, find your people, and get going!

Bulletins

Political Education Committee Reading Group

The Political Education Committee’s September discussion will cover Palestine: A Socialist Introduction (Chapter 1: Roots of the Nakba) & The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. We’ll meet at the New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Av, Room 258, from 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm. Come hang out and chat, even if you didn’t have time to finish all the materials.

DSA Cuba Delegation 2025 Application

From October 14–18th, DSA is hosting a five-day general membership political delegation to Havana, coordinated by our International Committee. DSA members will meet with public health officials, climate activists, local and national political leadership, organizations, ministries, and grassroots organizers. In addition, we will visit sites of cultural and historical significance to educate our membership and strengthen the project of normalization between Cuba and the US. Applications are due Sunday, August 17.

Keep Up With the Candidates at Endorsement HQ

Election Day is October 11 and New Orleans DSA has four endorsed members running for City Council. Pastor Gregory Manning, Danyelle Christmas, Jackson Kimbrell, and Bob Murrell are making calls, knocking on doors, and attending candidate forums. Volunteer, donate, and follow these campaigns at our Endorsement HQ.

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 in the Comms Discord channel.

Community Calendar

Friday, August 15

Free Palestine! Abolish ICE! Weekly Lunch Hour Rally

12:00 pm – 12:45 pm (every Friday) – Immigration Court, 365 Canal St

Urban League By The People Debate Series: City Council At-Large

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – McDonogh 35 HS, 4000 Cadillac St

Saturday, August 16

Voter Guide Team – Weekly Meeting

10:00 am – 12:00 pm (Saturdays through September 20) – Coffee Science, 410 S Broad St

Canvass for Bob Murrell, District A

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Get involved

Canvass for Pastor Gregory Manning, Council At-Large

1:00 pm – Broadmoor Community Church, 2021 S Dupre St – Get Involved

Sunday, August 17

Canvass for Bob Murrell, District A

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Get involved

Monday, August 18

National Nurses Organizing Committee Press Conference for UMC Nurses

5:30 pm – Charity Hospital, 1510 Tulane Av

Tuesday, August 19

Sports Drink Community Night: Local Politics

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm (third Tuesday) – Sports Drink, 1042 Toledano Av

Urban League By The People Debate Series: City Council District C

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – LB Landry HS Auditorium, 1200 LB Landry Av

Wednesday, August 20

City Council Criminal Justice Committee: Live Facial Recognition Ordinance

10:00 am – Council Chamber, 1300 Perdido St, 2nd Fl West

Indivisible Wednesday ICE Protest

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm (every Wednesday) – ICE Field Office, 1250 Poydras St

Thursday, August 21

NOSHIP General Meeting

6:00 pm – 8:00 pm – DM Instagram @_NOSHIP for info

Poli-Ed Reading Group: Palestine: A Socialist Introduction & The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

7:00 pm – 8:30 pm (third Thursday) – New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Av – Meet – Reading List

Friday, August 22

Free Palestine! Abolish ICE! Weekly Lunch Hour Rally

12:00 pm – 12:45 pm (every Friday) – Immigration Court, 365 Canal St

OPDEC Candidate Forum – Mayor, Sheriff, Clerk of Court

6:00 pm – SUNO Millie M. Charles School of Social Work Auditorium, 6801 Press Dr

Saturday, August 23

Canvass for Jackson Kimbrell, District C

9:00 am – 12:00 pm – Get involved

OPDEC Candidate Forum – Assessor, City Council

9:00 am – SUNO Millie M. Charles School of Social Work Auditorium, 6801 Press Dr

Voter Guide Team – Weekly Meeting

10:00 am – 12:00 pm (Saturdays through September 20) – New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Av, Room 258

New Orleans DSA General Meeting

12:00 pm – 2:00 pm  – New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Av, Room 204 – RSVP

Canvass for Bob Murrell, District A

2:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Get involved

Sunday, August 24

Canvass for Bob Murrell, District A

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Get involved

DSA Comms Team Meeting

6:00 pm – 7:30 pm – New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Av, Room 258

Down the Road

August 25 Local Council Meeting

August 25 Urban League By The People Debate Series: City Council District E

August 27 Municipal Action Committee Meeting

September 2 From Disaster to Solutions: A Mayoral Candidate Forum About Climate

September 3 Health Justice & Direct Service Meeting

September 24 Poli-Ed Movie Night: Harlan County, USA

September 26 Voter Guide Release

September 27 Early Voting Starts

October 11 Election Day: Municipal Open Primary

November 15 Election Day: Municipal Runoff

Features

There Is No Safe Facial Recognition System

Our city government has invested heavily in surveillance cameras that record you every time you go to the grocery store, a friend’s house, or sit on your porch. Now, NOPD wants to record your face and run it through a target database every time you step into public. That’s why they’ve asked City Council to expand their surveillance arsenal to include live facial recognition technology.

The problem is that live facial recognition is ripe for abuse, and they know it. We’re living through a feverish backlash against every civil right our elders fought for, tearing apart the Voting Rights Act, criminalizing reproductive healthcare, and kidnapping immigrants, activists, and labor leaders to concentration camps. So after all of us spoke up against this ordinance, City Council responds with a public relations campaign promising that the mass surveillance state they plan to build won’t be used against immigrants, same-sex couples, and women seeking abortions.

You can’t fix this with safeguards. You can’t build a surveillance state and hope the fascist government won’t use it against you. Act 399 just went into effect in Louisiana, which makes it a felony for a public official to refuse to cooperate with ICE or Customs and Border Protection. We had our elected “progressive” prosecutor promptly abandon commitments against prosecuting children as adults, using the racist habitual offender law, and reinstating the death penalty, all to appease Troop Nola and the state government. Every one of these corporate-backed electeds in city government promising safeguards and responsible use of live mass surveillance will capitulate the instant the state or federal government comes after them.

New Orleans DSA and our endorsed candidates unequivocally oppose live facial recognition and mass surveillance. There are no safeguards that can make this infrastructure immune to takeover and abuse. There are no circumstances under which we are willing to pay Axon, Palantir, and Project NOLA to build the panopticon of our own imprisonment. If we build it, they will use it. Why would self-respecting people ever roll out a welcome mat for fascism?

Brake Light Clinic & Health Fair & School Supply Drive Tomorrow

Your favorite DSA comrades will be at 2932 S Carrollton Av, from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm, for our Brake Light Clinic. We’ll be checking and changing brake lights, handing out hot meals and cold drinks, and checking blood pressure. We’re also welcoming our friends from Trystereo to provide Narcan kits and educate us on how to use them, and we’ll be distributing back-to-school supply kits our members have put together this past month. It’s always a good time with good people, so get your hat, get your sunscreen, and come make some friends while you do some community organizing!

Red Rabbits Recommendation: Don’t Talk on the Jail Phones

If you get taken to jail, remember this one thing: prosecutors listen to your phone calls and read your messages. Your phone calls are not confidential. Your phone calls are not private. Your phone calls are being recorded and handed over to the state. So don’t talk about your case on the jail phones, you’re just giving the state free evidence, and they will twist your own words against you. Happy Shut the Fuck Up Friday.

Bulletins

DSA Cuba Delegation 2025 Application

From October 14–18th, DSA is hosting a five-day general membership political delegation to Havana, coordinated by our International Committee. DSA members will meet with public health officials, climate activists, local and national political leadership, organizations, ministries, and grassroots organizers. In addition, we will visit sites of cultural and historical significance to educate our membership and strengthen the project of normalization between Cuba and the US. Applications are due August 17.

Join the Voter Guide Team

Early voting for fall local elections begins September 27, which means it’s time for another round of the New Orleans DSA Voter Guide. We’re looking for members to join the research and writing team. See our previous Voter Guide editions here, and look for training and meeting announcements on the Voter Guide Working Group Discord channel.

Keep Up With the Candidates at Endorsement HQ

Election Day is October 11 and New Orleans DSA has four endorsed members running for City Council. Pastor Gregory Manning, Danyelle Christmas, Jackson Kimbrell, and Bob Murrell are making calls, knocking on doors, and attending candidate forums. Volunteer, donate, and follow these campaigns at our Endorsement HQ.

Support UNO Workers Against Austerity

United Campus Workers at UNO are requesting community support to resist impending cuts to the University including termination of long time workers and valuable programs. These cuts come from decades of austerity, forcing working class people to shoulder immense costs for education with student loans, and leading departments to rely on adjunct faculty rather than investing in sustainable, full-time positions. Let UNO administrators know that the community stands with our students and our educators.

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 in the Comms Discord channel.

Community Calendar

Friday, August 8

DSA National Convention

Chicago, Illinois

Free Palestine! Abolish ICE! Weekly Lunch Hour Rally

12:00 pm – 12:45 pm (every Friday) – Immigration Court, 365 Canal St

Saturday, August 9

DSA National Convention

Chicago, Illinois

Brake Light Clinic & Health Fair & School Supply Drive

11:00 am – 2:00 pm – 2932 S Carrollton Av

Canvass for Bob Murrell, District A

2:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Get involved

Rally for Gaza

5:00 pm – Lafayette Square, 550 St Charles Av

Sunday, August 10

DSA National Convention

Chicago, Illinois

Canvass for Bob Murrell, District A

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Get involved

Monday, August 11

Step Up Candidate Forum ft Bob Murrell

5:00 pm – 8:30 pm – bit.ly/districtA

Critical Mass Nola Ride: Black August

6:00 pm – Armstrong Park, 701 N Rampart St

Wednesday, August 13

Indivisible Wednesday ICE Protest

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm (every Wednesday) – ICE Field Office, 1250 Poydras St

Thursday, August 14

Local Council Meeting

6:00 pm – 7:30 pm (second Thursday) – Meet

Friday, August 15

Free Palestine! Abolish ICE! Weekly Lunch Hour Rally

12:00 pm – 12:45 pm (every Friday) – Immigration Court, 365 Canal St

Saturday, August 16

Canvass for Bob Murrell, District A

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Get involved

Sunday, August 17

Canvass for Bob Murrell, District A

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Get involved

Down the Road

August 19 Sports Drink Community Night: Local Politics

August 23 New Orleans DSA General Meeting

August 27 Municipal Action Committee Meeting

September 3 Health Justice & Direct Service Meeting
September 27 Early Voting Starts

October 11 Election Day: Municipal Open PrimaryNovember 15 Election Day: Municipal Runoff

Features

City Council Campaigns Are Underway, Get Involved!

Election Day is October 11 and New Orleans DSA has three endorsed members running for City Council. Danyelle Christmas, Jackson Kimbrell, and Bob Murrell are making calls, knocking on doors, and attending candidate forums. At Step Up’s District E forum on Wednesday, Danyelle talked to voters about the need for a new council to make good on neglect and broken promises in her neighborhood. Bob did an r/NewOrleans AMA on Wednesday, focusing on candidate responsiveness, surveillance, short term rentals, public transit, and more. Jackson will be at the District C forum on August 6, and Bob will attend District A’s forum on August 11.

All DSA candidates are championing our People’s Platform to make this city work for the people who live here.

• Dismantling white supremacy & racism
• Opposing fascism, neoliberalism, privatization, and austerity
• Abolishing the criminal punishment system
• Climate justice and sustainability
• Abortion rights and access for all
• LGBTQ+ liberation
• Free quality public schools for all
• Supporting unionized labor & all unorganized workers
• Supporting immigrants, undocumented people, and oppressed and colonized nations
• Affordable quality housing and utilities 
• Living wage work for all who want it
• Healthcare for all
• Safe routes for all mobilities and robust and reliable mass transit  
• No tax breaks for billion dollar companies

Volunteer, donate, and follow these campaigns at our Endorsement HQ.

Come to Our Brake Light Clinic and Health Fair AND School Supply Drive Next Week

Your favorite DSA comrades will be in City Council District A on August 9, changing brake lights and handing out hot meals, cold drinks, and doing health checks. We’re also welcoming our friends from Trystereo to provide Narcan kits and educate us on how to use them, and we’ll be distributing back-to-school supply kits our members have put together this past month. It’s always a good time with good people, so come hang out and do some community organizing!

The address is 2932 S Carrollton Av, from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm. Get your hat, get your sunscreen, and get a friend or make one at the clinic.

Support UNO Workers Against Austerity

United Campus Workers at UNO are requesting community support to resist impending cuts to the University including termination of long time workers and valuable programs.

These cuts come from decades of austerity, forcing working class people to shoulder immense costs for education with student loans, and leading departments to rely on adjunct faculty rather than investing in sustainable, full-time positions.

UNO stands as a beacon of higher ed accessible to New Orleanians. But as austerity takes hold, these cuts represent lost hope and lost futures. We know that major systemic change is needed to correct this. In the meantime, it is important to let UNO administrators know that the community stands with our students and our educators.

Back to Basics – Andy L

A recent conversation with smart, well-grounded, business-savvy workers illustrated the work that we have ahead of us. They could not grasp the way in which they are being robbed by their bosses. Almost every relation with economic characteristics has some sort of exploitation built into it, and our task is to show people how to identify what’s happening. The first step in recovery is admitting there’s a problem, right? For workers, we see it as theft of the value that they create with their own labor. A business owner who pays a worker $100 a day must get at least $100 worth of value out of the worker or else risk going out of business. The key question is, “how much MORE value is created by the worker than they are paid?”

Maybe you’ve heard of the Ohio pizza shop owner who had an employee appreciation day, where he gave his workers all the sales and tips from the day’s orders. Every worker made $78 AN HOUR. The news stories wrote about how the owner was a great guy, yet no one pointed out the massive gap between the value that the employees create and the amount they are normally paid. 

People aren’t struggling because they’re lazy or because they eat out too much. They struggle because they are systematically robbed of the value that they create. They are swindled by business owners and corporate overlords who trick workers into thinking that they are paid well enough. It’s all a con. 

This is why we say that capitalism must go, torn out root and branch. The system only functions if there are people so desperate for work that they’ll put up with exploitative conditions. It needs  a reserve force of unemployed people to discipline workers with the threat that they could be replaced if they fight for what’s theirs. Capitalism can’t survive in a robust, healthy society – it can only function where there are weak points to exploit.

Bulletins

Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing: EWOC Training Series on How to Unite and Win

Come join Worker Power Louisiana for the final session in a four-part training on fundamental principles of effective shop-floor organizing. The series wraps up tomorrow with Inoculation and the Boss Campaign, from 3:00-4:30p. Sign up here.

Join the Voter Guide Team

Early voting for fall local elections begins September 27, which means it’s time for another round of the New Orleans DSA Voter Guide. We’re looking for members to join the research and writing team. See our previous Voter Guide editions here, and look for training and meeting announcements on the Voter Guide Working Group Discord channel.

Community Calendar

Friday, August 1

Free Palestine! Abolish ICE! Weekly Lunch Hour Rally

12:00 pm – 12:45 pm (every Friday) – Immigration Court, 365 Canal St

Saturday, August 2

Canvass for Bob Murrell, District A

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Get involved

Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing: Inoculation and the Boss Campaign

3:00 pm – 4:30 pm – Rosa F Keller Library, 4300 S Broad St – Sign Up

Sunday, August 3

Coffee with Comrades

11:00 am – 12:00 pm – Coffee Science, 410 Broad St

Canvass for Bob Murrell, District A

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Get involved

Chapter Orientation

8:00 pm – 9:00 pm (first and last Sunday) – Meet

Tuesday, August 5

Rank & File Project Meeting

6:00 pm – 8:00 pm (first Tuesday) – REACH Center, 2022 St Bernard Av, Bldg C, 3rd Fl

Wednesday, August 6

Indivisible Wednesday ICE Protest

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm (every Wednesday) – ICE Field Office, 1250 Poydras St

Health Justice and Direct Service Meeting

5:00 pm – 6:00 pm (first Wednesday) – Meet

Step Up Candidate Forum ft Jackson Kimbrell

5:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Thursday, August 7

Poli-Ed Planning Meeting

7:00 pm – 8:30 pm (first Thursday) – Oak St Brewery, 8201 Oak St – Reading List

Friday, August 8

DSA National Convention

Chicago, Illinois

Free Palestine! Abolish ICE! Weekly Lunch Hour Rally

12:00 pm – 12:45 pm (every Friday) – Immigration Court, 365 Canal St

Saturday, August 9

DSA National Convention

Chicago, Illinois

Brake Light Clinic & Health Fair & School Supply Drive

11:00 am – 2:00 pm – 2932 S Carrollton Av

Canvass for Bob Murrell, District A

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Get involved

Sunday, August 10

DSA National Convention

Chicago, Illinois

Canvass for Bob Murrell, District A

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Get involved

Down the Road

August 11 Step Up Candidate Forum ft Bob Murrell

August 14 Local Council Meeting

August 19 Sports Drink Community Night: Local Politics

August 21 Poli-Ed Reading Group

August 27 Municipal Action Committee Meeting

October 11 Municipal Open Primary Election DayNovember 15 Municipal Runoff Election Day

Features

A Good Martial Artist Does Not Become Tense, But Ready – Bruce Lee

With the Supreme Court deferring to the Trump Administration’s whims, the full-on grab for power is well underway barely six months into this four-year term. The machinations of this administration will increasi

ngly expose the contradictions our society rests upon. For example, the revolutionary impulse of the working class has historically been kept in check by the middle class. However, the DOGE cuts to government jobs were not about trimming the federal budget; they were about conducting class warfare against the middle class. Obviously, some elements of the bourgeoisie think that a middle class buffer is now less important to their project. It looks like  they have another plan for controlling the masses.

Enter the Imperial Boomerang, coming to the US in the form of a tripling of the ICE budget. The Posse Comitatus Act prohibits the military from acting as a civilian police force. Supercharging ICE is a way to step around that law. The Administration doesn’t need tanks and jet fighters to deal with dissents – it just needs tens of thousands of goons that can move around the country, and prison camps to hold whomever belongs to the out groups. Who will become the next out group, the next focus of  government repression? And the next after that? Fascists always need an out group, and if you think you’re safe because you are not in the out group, well it might be that you’re just not in the out group for now.  

The US could become a generation-long military dictatorship (à la Brazil, South Korea and Taiwan), but even before that happens, we need to prepare and act. We must develop our resources, organize our comrades, families, neighbors and friends, and call out the fascists for every fascist thing they do. We have to be smart, brave, and diligent. Talk to everyone you can about what’s happening in the country right now. This isn’t a future hypothetical; this is crisis, terror, tragedy, and death happening in our society right now.

Red Rabbits Recommendation – De-escalation Tips

De-escalation is a great way to keep others safe when events seem to be spinning out of control. Here are a few helpful tactics that can make your task easier.

First, ask questions that can cast yourself as an ally or non-party to the conflict. Ally questions include “How are you doing? Are you hurt?” The non-party approach would use questions like “What brings you to this event? What makes you say that this person is [whatever]?” Questions draw attention away from the source of the conflict. They can help identify the issues in play, so that you can steer the conversation. Answering questions activates different parts of the brain, which might deflate a growing fight-or-flight response. That is, if someone is answering a question, they probably won’t be punching anyone.

Second, as with any organizing activity, you need to listen empathetically. Give your undivided attention, validate feelings and reflect the communication by repeating back what they say to you, but in a more relaxed register. Don’t be afraid to wait them out – even someone who is very agitated and upset usually only has about 2 minutes of yelling in the tank before they get exhausted. If you can get them to yell at you instead of someone else, the problem might be solved.

Lastly, peel them away if you can do so while keeping yourself safe. You can do this by inventing a pretext like “I really want to hear more about … can you tell me more about it over here?” or “I have someone who might be able to help you, let’s go explain the situation to them.”

De-escalation is emotional labor, so after the event, allow yourself time to decompress and unwind. Don’t burn yourself out – we need you healthy and ready to act again!

Bulletins

School Supply Drive with the Direct Service & Health Justice Committee

We’re planning a school supply drive for the August 9 Brake Light Clinic & Health Fair. Chip in for supplies at our School Supply Drive Wishlist, or bring your own to our next General Meeting where we’ll assemble the kits.

Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing: EWOC Training Series on How to Unite and Win

Come join Worker Power Louisiana for a four-part training on fundamental principles of effective shop-floor organizing. Sessions continue with The Arc of the Campaign (July 26), and Inoculation and the Boss Campaign (August 2). All sessions are from 3:00-4:30p Central. Sign up here to get started.

City Council Endorsement HQ

Election Day is October 11 and New Orleans DSA has three endorsed members running for City Council. Keep up with Danyelle Christmas, Jackson Kimbrell, and Bob Murrell’s campaigns at Endorsement HQ. Volunteer, donate, follow on social media, and fill out the Campaign Outreach Survey to get involved.

We’ve Moved to Discord!

New Orleans DSA members should get on our Discord server to keep up with your comrades and our efforts. We’ve phased out Slack and will migrate old conversations over.

Community Calendar

Friday, July 25

Free Palestine! Abolish ICE! Weekly Lunch Hour Rally

12:00 pm – 12:45 pm (every Friday) – Immigration Court, 365 Canal St

Stop Starving Gaza Now Protest

1:00pm – Intersection of Lapalco and Manhattan Blvd.

Critical Mass Ride

Meet at 5:40pm, Roll at 6:30pm – French Market (Barracks St. Side)

Saturday, July 26

New Orleans DSA General Meeting

12:00 pm – 2:00 pm – New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Av, Suite 258 – RSVP

Canvass for Bob Murrell, District A

2:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Get involved

Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing: The Arc of the Campaign

3:00 pm – 4:30 pm – Rosa F Keller Library, 4300 S Broad St – Sign Up

Sunday, July 27

Canvass for Bob Murrell, District A

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Get involved

Chapter Orientation

8:00 pm – 9:00 pm (first and last Sunday) – Meet

Wednesday, July 30

Indivisible Wednesday ICE Protest

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm (every Wednesday) – ICE Field Office, 1250 Poydras St

Friday, August 1

Free Palestine! Abolish ICE! Weekly Lunch Hour Rally

12:00 pm – 12:45 pm (every Friday) – Immigration Court, 365 Canal St

Saturday, August 2

Canvass for Bob Murrell, District A

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Get involved

Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing: Inoculation and the Boss Campaign

3:00 pm – 4:30 pm – Rosa F Keller Library, 4300 S Broad St – Sign Up

Sunday, August 3

Canvass for Bob Murrell, District A

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Get involved

Chapter Orientation

8:00 pm – 9:00 pm (first and last Sunday) – Meet

Down the Road

August 5 Rank & File Project Meeting

August 6 Health Justice and Direct Service Meeting

August 8-10 DSA National Convention

August 9 Brake Light Clinic & Health Fair

August 14 Local Council Meeting

August 19 Sports Drink Community Night: Local Politics

August 21 Poli-Ed Reading Group

October 11 Municipal Open Primary Election DayNovember 15 Municipal Runoff Election Day

Complete Calendar

Solidarity Means Action is the weekly newsletter of the New Orleans Democratic Socialists of America. Subscribe for updates every Friday at 8:00 am Central.

Features

So You Just Joined DSA, What’s Next? – Bob M, Membership Chair

If you are like the thousands of new members nationwide who have joined DSA in the last few months, welcome to the largest socialist organization in the country! As your chapter’s elected officer for membership, I’m here to help turn your excitement or anger into organizing and action. We have so many members from all walks of life in our chapter (you probably have friends who are already members), and to see working people share a little bit of their time and resources to the greater fight is inspiring, so thank you for joining us!

Here’s my brief guide for new members ( and anyone else still looking to get more involved):

1. Join the Discord server where we discuss and debate proposals between meetings, manage requests for help from our communities, share pictures of our animals, and so much more. Our Discord is primarily for members, but we do have a small space for non-members who want to stay informed. 
2. Pay local dues! National dues are required for membership in good standing, and the chapter does receive a fraction of those. Please consider chipping in a few more bucks a month for local dues. 100% of our local dues go straight to our chapter for renting our new office space, purchasing supplies for our brakelight and health clinics, printing materials, and more. 
3. Come to a New Member Orientation the first and last Sunday of every month, 8pm online. We will cover the basics of DSA and our local chapter, as well as give you space to ask questions and meet other new members. Our next two NMOs are July 27th and August 3rd. If you can’t make it, schedule a call to chat! Block off some time on my calendar to chat about why you joined, what matters to you, and how you can help our fight for a better New Orleans. 

It’s been great speaking with people who are looking to do something against the rise of fascism, and I know we will win the more we are able to come together with the rest of the working class in New Orleans. And now that you’ve joined, it’s time to get your friends, allies, and co-workers to join us in the fight for a better society. 

Do Not Be Tense; Be Ready

With the Supreme Court deferring to the Trump Administration’s whims, the full-on grab for power is well underwayin swing, barely six months into this four-year term. The machinations of this administration will increasingly expose the contradictions our society rests upon. For example, the revolutionary impulse of the working class has historically been kept in check by the middle class. However, the DOGE cuts to government jobs were not about trimming the federal budget; they were about conducting class warfare against the middle class. Maybe the bourgeoisie has another plan for controlling the masses.

The Imperial Boomerang has come to the US in the form of a tripling of the ICE budget. History shows us that government agencies only grow over time; they never seem to wrap up their work and disband. This begs the question that once the so-called “immigrant problem” is resolved, who will become the next out group, subject to government repression? And the next after that? Fascists always need an out group, and if you think you’re safe because you are not in the out group, well it might be that you’re just not in the out group for now.  

The US could become a generation-long military dictatorship (à la Brazil, South Korea and Taiwan), but even before that happens, we need to prepare and act. We must develop our resources, organize our comrades, families, neighbors and friends, and call out the fascists for every fascist thing they do. In many ways, Trump and his ghouls will make our lives harder, but in doing so, they will make our work easier. We have to be smart, brave, and diligent. 

As our good friend Bruce Lee reminds us: a good martial artist does not become tense, but ready.

Red Rabbit Recommendation – Keep It Casual, Comrades

One way we tighten up our operational security is to address each other by first name and the first letter of our last name. We all know that Karl M and Fred E are very important to our organization, but we don’t need to let those outside our organization know what their last names are. Ok, maybe we can let folks know about those two, but the rest of us shouldn’t use last names when we talk to or reference each other. Last names are superfluous to our work, and maybe we should keep an eye on someone who seems overly interested in learning everyone’s last name. We owe it to each other not to make anything easy for the class enemies.

Bulletins

School Supply Drive with the Direct Service & Health Justice Committee

We’re planning a school supply drive for the August 9 Brake Light Clinic & Health Fair. Chip in for supplies at our School Supply Drive Wishlist, or bring your own to our next General Meeting where we’ll assemble the kits.

Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing: EWOC Training Series on How to Unite and Win

Come join Worker Power Louisiana for a four-part training on fundamental principles of effective shop-floor organizing. Sessions continue with The Organizing Conversation (July 19), The Arc of the Campaign (July 26), and Inoculation and the Boss Campaign (August 2). All sessions are from 3:00-4:30p Central. Sign up here to get started.

City Council Endorsement HQ

Election Day is October 11 and New Orleans DSA has three endorsed members running for City Council. Keep up with Danyelle Christmas, Jackson Kimbrell, and Bob Murrell’s campaigns at Endorsement HQ. Volunteer, donate, follow on social media, and fill out the Campaign Outreach Survey to get involved.

We’ve Moved to Discord!

New Orleans DSA members should get on our Discord server to keep up with your comrades and our efforts. We’ve phased out Slack and will migrate old conversations over.

Community Calendar

Friday, July 18

Free Palestine! Abolish ICE! Weekly Lunch Hour Rally

12:00pm – 12:45pm (every Friday) – Immigration Court, 365 Canal St

Saturday, July 19

Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing: The Organizing Conversation

3:00pm – 4:30pm – Rosa F Keller Library, 4300 S Broad St – Sign Up

DSA Space-Warming Party: Home is Where the Organizing Is

6:30pm – 8:00pm – New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Av, Room 258

Sunday, July 20

Monday, July 21

Tuesday, July 22

Wednesday, July 23

Indivisible Wednesday ICE Protest

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm (every Wednesday) – ICE Field Office, 1250 Poydras St

Municipal Action Committee Meeting

7:00 pm – 8:00 pm (fourth Wednesday) – Meet

Thursday, July 24

Friday, July 25

Free Palestine! Abolish ICE! Weekly Lunch Hour Rally

12:00 pm – 12:45 pm (every Friday) – Immigration Court, 365 Canal St

Saturday, July 26

New Orleans DSA General Meeting

12:00 pm – 2:00 pm – New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Av, Suite 258 – RSVP

Knock Doors with Bob Murrell

2:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Sign up

Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing: The Arc of the Campaign

3:00 pm – 4:30 pm – Rosa F Keller Library, 4300 S Broad St – Sign Up

Sunday, July 27

Knock Doors with Bob Murrell

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Sign up

Chapter Orientation

8:00 pm – 9:00 pm (first and last Sunday) – Meet

Down the Road

August 2 – Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing: Inoculation and the Boss Campaign

August 5 – Rank & File Project Meeting

August 6 – Health Justice and Direct Service Meeting

August 8-10 – DSA National Convention

August 9 – Brake Light Clinic & Health Fair

August 14 – Local Council Meeting

August 19 – Sports Drink Community Night: Local Politics

August 21 – Poli-Ed Reading Group

October 11 – Municipal Open Primary Election Day

November 15 – Municipal Runoff Election Day

Complete Calendar

Solidarity Means Action is the weekly newsletter of the New Orleans Democratic Socialists of America. Subscribe for updates every Friday at 8:00 am Central.