Today and tomorrow are the last days for early voting. You can go to any of these locations between 8:30 am – 6:00 pm:
City Hall, 1330 Perdido St #1W24
Algiers Courthouse, 225 Morgan St #105
Voting Machine Warehouse, 8870 Chef Menteur Hwy
Lake Vista Community Center, 6500 Spanish Fort Blvd, 2nd Floor
Fork and Knife Club Returns Tomorrow at 11:00 am!
Now more than ever, we must rely on each other. On Wednesday, the Louisiana Department of Health announced that SNAP recipients will receive half their usual SNAP benefits. Many households in Louisiana struggle to put food on the table, with 16.2% of households living in food insecurity, 18.9% living below the poverty line including 25% of children, and 14.2% of seniors living below the poverty line. This means roughly 847,000 of us will be short on food this week. This is on top of the 32,000 federal workers and 700 state employees going without paychecks during the longest government shutdown in history.
The Louisiana Department of Health says to ask the food banks for help, but food banks across the country are already stretched thin due to budget cuts. Many folks are already budgeting down to the last dollar, meaning receiving only half of their monthly SNAP benefits can be devastating. Make no mistake, the choice to cut SNAP benefits before the holiday season was another premeditated move to stoke fear.
Thatâs why we are asking for volunteers for Fork and Knife Clubâs bimonthly food drive tomorrow at 11:00 am at The Healing Center, 2372 St Claude, room 204. At our last event we had 23 volunteers donate over 157 meals and stock 6 community fridges. We have more signed up this time, so get in where you fit in. There are over 15 New Orleans Community Fridges spread throughout the city. Letâs come together to stock as many as we can. Canned goods, home cooked meals, shelf-stable foods, produce, snacks, your momâs red beans.
Reading âThe Lie That You Accept is Your Own Undoingâ last month reminded me of the old Voltaire adage, âThose who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.â People deride the left for supposedly always suggesting a reading list. But I was once a teacher, and the number of students who convince themselves they are unable to grapple with material, or just say, âIâm not a math person,â is immense and disheartening. This self-sabotaging viewpoint keeps so many of us from reading or educating ourselves, and leaves us vulnerable to internalizing the propaganda all around us. America is probably the most entertained and propagandized nation in history. Part of our work as socialists has to be, in the words of Montesquieu, âto augment the excellence of our nature, and to render an intelligent being yet more intelligent.â
We cannot educate if we cannot explain. We cannot fight what we cannot name. The only way we free ourselves from the chains of propaganda is by growing our own class consciousness, and growing that consciousness in the working class around us. People know something is terribly wrong in our society. Without the words, tools, and ideas to interrogate that, however, we are susceptible to being swindled by selfish populists who will not actually address our class concerns. When swindled, we can be made to commit atrocities because we donât understand where the true enemy lies and are susceptible to semantic subterfuge. We absolutely must engage with our deep, beautiful, intellectual history as socialists if we are to steer our inevitable revolution in a direction that finally uplifts all people.
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Come to Queer Soc Gayme Night Tomorrow!
Come join Queer Soc for our first ever Gayme Night! Weâll gather at The Save Point, 2211 Barataria Blvd, in Marrero. For those who canât make it in person, please join us online! Weâll be playing âAlice is Missingâ! Please be aware that, in order to support the venue, there is a $5 entry fee paid to the venue itself.
UMC Nurses on Strike!
UMC nurses in New Orleans continue to negotiate their first contract. They are fighting to have a voice in patient care that improves healthcare for Louisiana and the Gulf South as a whole. Their fight can be a financial burden for many as they take a stand to fight for their patients and against corporate greed. They will rally and picket from November 11-13 at Galvez and Canal.
Eye on Surveillance Community Scouting Day
Join us on a walk around downtown to get trained on how to scout, identify, and map out some of the hundreds of Project Nola cameras that spy on our community every day. Be part of a community-led effort to map out these secret cameras, which pose a danger to our privacy and well being. Meet at Washington Square at the corner of Royal and Frenchmen, November 15, at 2:00 pm.
Poli-Ed Reading Series
The 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!
November 16 The Hundred Yearsâ War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
December 21 No Other Land by Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal & Rachel Szor The Dig: Thawra hosted by Daniel Denvir
DSA and others are launching a campaign to kick Chevron Out of French Quarter Fest in April 2026. Chevron is the title sponsor for the event, where they will have stages covered with their branding, despite being antithetical to the stated purpose of French Quarter Fest. If you would like to learn more about Chevron and why they oppose the interests of New Orleanians, make sure to check out the campaign website at https://www.chevronout.org/ (which is also where you can sign the petition). We will be meeting at the New Orleans Healing Center for our first Teach In event on November 18th at 6pm. Make sure to come out and learn from expert speakers about Chevron’s impact directly. We’ll also have stickers! If you would like to sign the petition and be added to our mailing list for this event and further organizing, sign up here.
Socialist Night School: Delivering a Message
On November 21 at the Healing Center, 2372 St Claude #258, our Political Education Committee will be hosting Socialist Night School on public speaking: Delivering a Message. Come for a fun, comradely session to develop the skills to teach, persuade, and motivate.
Join Up With Your Neighborhood Circle
Neighborhood 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. Opt in 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 Angolaâs Camp J for ICE Detention
Governor 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 Trumpâs 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? Thatâs 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.
Eye on Surveillance Community Scouting Day 2:00 pm
Washington Square, Royal St & Frenchmen St
Sunday, November 16
Palestine Benefit Show 3:00 pm – 12:00 am
BJâs Lounge, 4301 Burgundy St ($10-20)
Municipal Action Committee Meeting
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Healing Center, 2372 St Claude #258 – Meet
Poli-Ed Reading Group: The Hundred Yearsâ War On Palestine 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm (third Sunday)
Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Av #258 – Meet
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November 18 Chevron Out of French Quarter Fest Teach-In November 19 DSA 101 November 21 Socialist Night School: Delivering a Message November 22 New Orleans DSA General Meeting November 24 Local Council Meeting December 2 New Orleans Rank & File Project Monthly Meeting December 6 Labor Notes New Orleans Troublemakers School – Register December 6 New Orleans Bookfair December 7 Coffee with Comrades December 10 Eye on Surveillance Meeting December 13 Brake Light Clinic
Early Voting Resumes Tomorrow for Runoff Elections
Early voting starts tomorrow for the November 15 runoff election. In Orleans Parish, that means between 8:30 am – 6:00 pm, from November 1-8 (except Sunday), you can go to any of these locations:
City Hall, 1330 Perdido St #1W24
Algiers Courthouse, 225 Morgan St #105
Voting Machine Warehouse, 8870 Chef Menteur Hwy
Lake Vista Community Center, 6500 Spanish Fort Blvd, 2nd Floor
New Orleans DSA Recommends Calvin Duncan for Clerk of Criminal District Court
Calvin Duncan was one of the principal architects of the legal strategy to overturn Louisianaâs system of non-unanimous juries, a success achieved at the US Supreme Court in 2020. Wrongfully arrested at 19 for murder, Duncan was sentenced to die at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. Refusing to give in to the crushing weight of Louisianaâs criminal legal system, Duncan became a jailhouse lawyer and helped other incarcerated men research their cases, file appeals, and overturn their convictions.
Duncan tried challenging his own case, but could not get access to police reports, witness statements, and other records. When he finally got Innocence Project New Orleans to take his case, those records showed that prosecutors had hidden evidence that proved his innocence. After 28 years wrongfully imprisoned at Angola, Duncan co-founded The First 72+ re-entry program, graduated from Tulane, and earned a law degree. Heâs now a research associate at Loyolaâs Jesuit Social Research Institute, pushing for criminal justice reform.
People wonder why the clerk of court is an elected position, and justifiably so. Duncan knows what it means if the clerk of court doesnât preserve court records and doesnât give people access to them: human beings, like Duncan himself, languish in prison without a chance to challenge the evidence against them. He is endorsed by VOTE.
New Orleans DSA Recommends AGAINST Holly Friedman for City Council District A
Join the Movement. Join DSA Today! -Bob M, Membership Chair
If you are reading this, you may consider yourself to be a part of the movement for social change, whether thatâs anti-racism, abolition, trans rights, liberation of Palestine, and more. Is a buoy a part of the ocean, floating freely on the whims of the ocean current? Or are the water molecules, all in concert as waves cresting around the untethered, what constitute the movement?
Our local chapter unanimously passed a membership Fall Drive through November 22nd to grow our numbers (almost 400 dues-paying members in good standing!), re-engage our current and lapsed members, and strengthen the fight against fascism with dedicated and passionate socialists! Make it official and join us today. DSA has exceeded its highest membership numbers ever. We have a better world to win, why wait?
To be organized is to tie yourself to something larger than yourself, not just as a follower on social media or recurring donor, but to be an agent of change. In DSA, we are member-driven and member-run. When you pay monthly dues, you are funding a national organization that answers to its members, not to wealthy benefactors or monied interests. Members in good standing vote and introduce change in our local chapter and lead efforts in our community.
Not sure if youâre already a member in good standing? Check out your status using your email address. You may need to create a login if you havenât done so on the national forum. You can also reach me at membership@dsaneworleans.org if you have questions or want to get involved with our Fall Drive. I leave you with a reminder from Karl Marxâs eleventh thesis: âPhilosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.â
The Police Are Not Here To Protect You
Imagine a rectangular bread pan, half-filled with water. As it sits there, the water is all at one level. If you wanted all of the water on one side of the pan, with no water on the other, you could tip the pan to one side or take a rectangular piece of plastic and push the water over. The common factor here is the use of force.
For most of human history, the world was in a state of scarcity. However, the technological advances that came out of WWII moved humanity into a world of abundance. We no longer have a production problem, we have a distribution problem.
Which brings us back to our bread pan. Similar to the water, resources that should be flowing evenly through our society are abundant in some places and non-existent in others. The force that holds our society in this state is police violence. In 2005, the Supreme Court ruled that the cops arenât actually obligated to help you (Castle Rock v. Gonzales). The police arenât there to help you, they are there to be used against you in the enforcement of private property rights.
From slave patrols literally capturing and returning people as property, to Tulaneâs use of state troopers and an armored vehicle against students protesting against Palestinian genocide: the police value property over humanity.
This is why the abolition of private property is fundamental to the socialist project. Owners of the factories, rental properties and banks that exploit us as workers direct a sliver of those profits to big burly people who make sure that the rest of the profits stay with the wealthy, leaving the rest of us to fight for scraps.
Red Rabbits Reminder: Chemical Attack Tips
Did you hear about ICE tear gassing a children’s Halloween parade in Chicago last weekend? Similar to how a significant portion of violence against women comes from their intimate partners, the perpetrators of a domestic chemical attack are more likely to be ICE agents or cops than ISIS or al-Qaeda.
So, letâs talk about chemical agents: tear gas and mace. Tear gas is dispersed from a canister that is fired into a crowd. The canister is extremely hot, so if you touch it without gloves on, you will burn your hands. Treat tear gas with waterâA LOT of water. Do a quick flush of the eyes, get the victim up and away from the gas, then go back to flushing the eyes once youâre in a safer spot. Donât use milkâonly water or saline. Youâll be in pain for a few minutes, but once you start flushing the tear gas out of your eyes, the pain will subside.
Mace is a different affair. Sprayed out of a pressurized can, it will come from someone right up on you. It will debilitate you for at least 20-30 minutes AFTER you get treatment. Sudecon wipes (available online) are the best thing to use. Gently wipe the chemical AWAY from the eyes, then flush the area with tons of water and mild soap. Like find a water hose (no nozzle!) and gently flood the face for a long time.
Leave your contacts at home and wear your glasses instead. If someone wearing contacts can fight through the pain to get them out, theyâll prevent worse damage to their eyes. When helping someone, get consent and keep talking to them, telling them what youâre doing and where youâre moving them.
We are all we have. We are all we need.
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Sign the Petition to Say No to Angolaâs Camp J for ICE Detention
Governor 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 Trumpâs 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.
Fork & Knife Club Returns Next Week
Join us Saturday, November 8th, at 11:00 am for the bimonthly Fork & Knife Club at the Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude #258. Last month we had 23 volunteers donate over 157 meals and stock 6 community fridges. Not a master chef? No problem! Volunteer to package meals to drop off at local community fridges. Canât make it to the event and still want to donate food? We will come to you and pick up any donated meals or snacks! Sign up here to donate, package, or drop off meals.
Get Chevron Out of FQF
DSA and others are launching a campaign to kick Chevron Out of French Quarter Fest in April 2026. Chevron is the title sponsor for the event, where they will have stages covered with their branding, despite being antithetical to the stated purpose of French Quarter Fest. If you would like to learn more about Chevron and why they oppose the interests of New Orleanians, make sure to check out the campaign website at https://www.chevronout.org/ (which is also where you can sign the petition). We will be meeting at the New Orleans Healing Center for our first Teach In event on November 18th at 6pm. Make sure to come out and learn from expert speakers about Chevron’s impact directly. We’ll also have stickers! If you would like to sign the petition and be added to our mailing list for this event and further organizing, sign up here.
Sign Up for Neighborhood Circles
Weâre 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.
Write Like a Socialist: We Have a World to Win!
Have an update from your committee or working group? Thatâs 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.
Critical Mass Community Bike Ride: Halloween 6:00 pm (last Friday)
French Market, Barracks St & French Market Pl
Saturday, November 1
Early Voting
8:30 am â 6:00 pm (through November 8, except Sunday) Locations
No Troops, No Trump
5:00 pm
Hale Boggs Federal Building, 500 Poydras St
Sunday, November 2
Coffee with Comrades
11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Coffee Science, 410 S Broad St
Poli-Ed Planning Meeting
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm (first Sunday)
Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Av #258 – Meet
Chapter Orientation
8:00 pm – 9:00 pm (first and last Sunday) Meet
Monday, November 3
Early Voting
8:30 am â 6:00 pm (through November 8, except Sunday) Locations
NOSHIP IDF Off Campus 6:30 pm
LBC Pocket Park, 6501 Willow St
Tuesday, November 4
Early Voting
8:30 am â 6:00 pm (through November 8, except Sunday) Locations
Wednesday, November 5
Early Voting
8:30 am â 6:00 pm (through November 8, except Sunday) Locations
Stop the Grain Train Weekly Meeting 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm (every Wednesday)
Art Conscious, 6601 St Claude Av
Thursday, November 6
Early Voting
8:30 am â 6:00 pm (through November 8, except Sunday) Locations
Stand Up for Palestine: A Stand-Up Comedy Showcase 8:00 pm
Okay Bar, 1700 Port St ($10-20)
Friday, November 7
Early Voting
8:30 am â 6:00 pm (through November 8, except Sunday) Locations
DSA Neighborhood Social
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
QiQi, 1021 Foucher St
Saturday, November 8
Early Voting
8:30 am â 6:00 pm (through November 8, except Sunday) Locations
Fork & Knife Club 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Av #258
Down the Road
November 11 Direct Service & Health Justice Meeting November 15 Election Day: Municipal Runoff November 16 Municipal Action Committee November 16 Poli-Ed Reading Group: The Hundred Yearsâ War On Palestine November 18 Chevron Out of French Quarter Fest Teach-In
November 22 New Orleans DSA General Meeting November 24 Local Council Meeting December 6 Labor Notes New Orleans Troublemakers School December 13 Brake Light Clinic
A Sneak Peak at Tomorrowâs General Meeting -Brodie L
Hello again, dear comrades!
By now you have received your link to RSVP to our General Membership meeting this Saturday at 12:00 in our socialist and progressive community organizing hub, Suite 258 in The New Orleans Healing Center. Even if you donât plan on coming, please RSVP NO and ask to have your proxy assigned. This helps us make quorum. A proxy does not hold you to anything. Unless otherwise directed it will be used to abstain.
We have one exciting piece of New Business, and two reports on our chapterâs extraordinary work. Our new business is an exciting motion to embark on a Fall Membership Drive. How do we win the world unless we enlighten our friends about the possibilities of socialism? Weâll have lots of opportunities to get involved in our chapter, its work, and to get to know your comrades!
Our first report will survey our electoral efforts and preview a larger debriefing. The second report will break down DSAâs participation in No Kings. Spoiler alert, it was a vital one.
Come one! Come all! Catch up on what weâve been up to, and scope out your opportunity to get involved in the coming weeks! New Orleans needs yâall!
The Lie That You Accept Is Your Own Undoing
Believing something that you know to be untrue needlessly internalizes a contradiction and uses up the mental bandwidth that you need to fight for a better future for all of us.
Going forward, say to yourself at least once a day: âThat is a load of horseshit.â You donât have to say it out loud (yet), but you do need to break down the reasons why you feel that way. Right then. Take a few minutes and really think about it. You canât just think it smugly and move on with your day; sit with it, fight it, and defeat it. If you canât do it right then, then set an alarm for later and go through the process then. Every day. Identify and engage. These are muscles that you need to develop, and you can only do it well with daily practice.
We live in the heart of the empire, so itâs our job to get the boot of the US government off the necks of the international community, our neighbors, families, and friends. A huge part of that task is helping people see through the lies that separate us from each other. You just need a little bit of courage and a lot of practice.
As our good friend Lenin reminds us, âPeople always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be until they have learnt to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political, and social phrases, declarations, and promises.â
Always watch out for those who would separate you from your fellow human beings. If they are trying to divide you, then they are trying to dominate you.
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DSA Coalition Partner Eye on Surveillance Hosts Zoom Teach-In
As New Orleans faces the end of the consent decree, coupled with occupation by the National Guard and ICE, local organizations continue to fight back against attempts from the City Council and NOPD to approve live facial recognition, a tool which will be used by any and all law enforcement agencies in our city. The threat of mass surveillance is a danger to both New Orleans and the entire nation.
Learn about resources and strategies from community organizations fighting against live facial recognition. Wednesday, October 29, 6:00 pm. Register for the Zoom here.
Fork & Knife Club Returns
Join us Saturday, November 8th, at 11:00 am for the bimonthly Fork & Knife Club at the Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude #258. Last month we had 23 volunteers donate over 157 meals and stock 6 community fridges. Not a master chef? No problem! Volunteer to package meals to drop off at local community fridges. Canât make it to the event and still want to donate food? We will come to you and pick up any donated meals or snacks! Sign up here to donate, package, or drop off meals.
Sign Up for Neighborhood Circles
Weâre 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.
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.
Write Like a Socialist: We Have a World to Win!
Have an update from your committee or working group? Thatâs 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.
Coffee with Comrades 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Coffee Science, 410 S Broad St
Poli-Ed Planning Meeting 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm (first Sunday) Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Av #258 – Meet
Chapter Orientation 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm (first and last Sunday) Meet
Down the Road
November 8 Fork & Knife Club November 11 Direct Service & Health Justice Meeting November 15 Election Day: Municipal Runoff November 16 Municipal Action Committee November 16 Poli-Ed Reading Group November 22 New Orleans DSA General Meeting November 24 Local Council Meeting December 6 Labor Notes New Orleans Troublemakers School December 13 Brake Light Clinic
I want to thank every person who took time to answer their door, who shared their stories of struggle, and who decided to be a protagonist in their life. Every time I met a voter was an opportunity to listen. I heard a lot, like the 70-year-old woman in Hollygrove with a $1,900 Entergy bill, the Mid-City renter whose landlord wonât address the mold in their apartment, the Desaix homeowner on a fixed income who had to pause prescriptions to afford new Delta gas charges. Iâm not going anywhere. Their fight for human dignity is my fight. All my love to the 68 people who joined Team Bob and the nearly 200 people who donated, the organizations and individuals that endorsed me, and the over three thousand people who cast a vote for our campaign.
First, I urge everyone to turn out for the run-off to vote for Calvin Duncan for Clerk of Court. Election integrity is critical in this historical moment, and itâs clear the current Clerk is willing to manipulate voters with lies, misinformation, and questionable ethics. There is genuine anxiety about what our country and our state have become, and a lack of leadership locally to meet the moment. Trump and Landry were the plurality of issues that voters expressed to me directly, not potholes or crime. New Orleans doesnât live in a vacuum, and I strongly encourage the remaining candidates to put in writing on their website or social media where they stand with the National Guard deployment and ICE. There will be a series of ballot measures to approve bonds to pay for some sizable projects that are vital, please read up on it (Iâll share info later).
Closer to election day, a number of people said they heard about me explicitly as the âsocialist candidateâ or being endorsed by DSA when I knocked on their door. There is genuine interest in DSA and what democratic socialism is, and Iâm thankful for people willing to listen or ask about it. Capitalism fails us to benefit a handful of greedy families and oligarchs, both locally and nationally. We saw them spend millions on mailers and yard signs that find their way into the landfillâhow much of that could have fed or housed people? I ran as an independent socialist, and it may have cost us some votes, but we also gained respect and support. Thank you to over 100 new members of New Orleans DSA who joined since the start of the year and the almost 400 dues-paying members who show up for the poor and working class people of our city. Join the fight: dsausa.org/join.
âOn the day the thermometer of universal suffrage registers the boiling point among the workers, both they and the capitalists will know where they stand.â – Friedrich Engels
Keep the revolutionary flame burning inside of you! Here is an excerpt from Marta Harneckerâs Ideas for the Struggle that I found to be my motivation during this election cycle:
How often have we heard the left, after discovering that its electoral results were not what it was expecting, complain about the adverse conditions it had to face during an election campaign? âŠ[W]hat tends to occur is thatâ instead of carrying out an educational, pedagogical campaign that serves to increase the organisation and awareness of the people â the left uses the same techniques that the ruling class uses to sell its candidates and seek votes.
[W]hen electoral defeats occur, the frustration, tiredness and debts incurred during the campaign are compounded by the fact that the electoral effort does not translate into political growth, leaving a bitter sense of having wasted time. The situation would be very different if campaigns were conceived from a pedagogical point of view, where election campaigns are used to deepen awareness and popular organisation. Then, even if the electoral results are not the most favorable, the time and effort invested in the campaign are not wasted.
The political activity of the left cannot be reduced to the conquest of institutions; it must be directed towards changing those institutions in order to be able to transform reality. A new correlation of forces must be created so that the necessary changes can be implemented. We have to understand that we cannot build a political force without building a social force.
Get to the Greenway for No Kings!
Saturday’s No Kings rally provides a great opportunity to invite more comrades into our work. The Indivisible movement has done an amazing job of gathering disgruntled liberals, but we canât let the revolutionary potential of this increasingly class-conscious group be co-opted by calls to vote harder or back toothless reforms. Adding justices to the Supreme Court isnât going to undo two hundred years of rulings favoring the capitalist class and reinforcing the white supremacist state.
We know that the system itself is the problem, but most people out there still give our capitalist hellscape the benefit of the doubt. Our task is to get people to see the contradictions in their own lives and show them that they have the power to change the world, once they organize.
Start simple: walk up to some folks at the rally, introduce yourself, and ask them why they are there. Follow up with a few questions about what brought them: how do they see that thing in society, how has it changed, what might have caused those changes? Listen to them talk and explain it. Ask if theyâd thought about working with a group to address that problem, or how they feel about groups who are working on that problem. What would it take for them to join one of those groups? Avoid yes/no questionsâjust get them to think out loud, in a casual, safe environment. Youâll be surrounded by your kind of people (mostly), in a low-stakes environment. Shoot the shit and if it seems right, give them a nudge to an org. Total soft sell. Go out there, speak to each other as equals and make some future comrades. We have a long road to walk together.
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Fork & Knife Club Returns
Join us Saturday, November 8th, at 11:00 am for the bimonthly Fork & Knife Club at the Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude #258. Last month we had 23 volunteers donate over 157 meals and stock 6 community fridges. Not a master chef? No problem! Volunteer to package meals to drop off at local community fridges. Canât make it to the event and still want to donate food? We will come to you and pick up any donated meals or snacks! Sign up here to donate, package, or drop off meals.
Sign Up for Neighborhood Circles
Weâre 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.
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.
Write Like a Socialist: We Have a World to Win!
Have an update from your committee or working group? Thatâs 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.
Krewe of Zeitoun Presents En Masse: A Dance Party ft. Sirocco Brass 8:00 pm – 12:00 am Canoa, 4210 St Claude ($10)
Saturday, October 25
New Orleans DSA General Meeting 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Av #258 – RSVP
Sunday, October 26
Poets for Palestine: Polly Sawabini & Thafer Abu Qamir 3:00 pm Gasa Gasa, 4920 Freret St
DSA Comms Meeting 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Av #258 – Meet
Chapter Orientation 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm (first and last Sunday) Meet
Down the Road
October 27 Local Council Meeting November 2 Coffee with Comrades November 2 Poli-Ed Planning Meeting November 8 Fork & Knife Club November 15 Election Day: Municipal Runoff November 16 Poli-Ed Reading Group December 6 Labor Notes New Orleans Troublemakers School
We Have a World to Win! Endorsements and Recommendations for Tomorrowâs Election
đč đč đč Clerk of Criminal District Court: Calvin Duncan Assessor: Casius Pealer Council At-Large Division 2: Pastor Gregory Manning Council District A: Bob Murrell Council District C: Jackson Kimbrell Council District D: AGAINST Eugene Green Council District E: Danyelle Christmas Home Rule Charter Amendment (Fair Chance Amendment): Yes đč đč đč
Join comrades at our Election Watch Party at The Courtyard Brewery, 1160 Camp St, starting at 8:00 pm.
Join New Orleans DSA and Support Our People’s Platform
The work doesnât end with Election Day. Our chapter has committed to a united electoral front that advances a high-level vision for the future of New Orleans, and supports candidates who can fulfill that vision. Our candidates promise to pursue, without compromise, specific policies and laws that reflect the following values:
Dismantle white supremacy & racism
Oppose fascism, neoliberalism, privatization, and austerity
Abolish the criminal punishment system
Climate justice and sustainability
Abortion rights and access for all
LGBTQ+ liberation
Free, quality public schools for all
Support unionized labor & all unorganized workers
Support immigrants, undocumented people, and oppressed and colonized nations
Affordable quality housing and utilities
A living wage for all workers
Healthcare for all
Safe routes for all mobility and robust, reliable mass transit
Rent Party! Raffle & Music Show to Support Community Room #258
Please join DSA, FRSO, and the New Orleans Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression on Friday, October 10, 6PMâ10PM for a rent party at Okay Bar, 1700 Port St, to raise money for our new community office space in the Healing Center! Support the fight against Trump by raising money for a secure space for community organizing available to progressive groups throughout the city. There is a suggested donation of $10â20 at the door, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds.
Come listen to some music and buy a raffle ticket to support the spaceâprizes with a value of over $600! Please enter the raffle via donorbox at tinyurl.com/fund258. All raffle submissions must contain your name, contact info, and the items you choose in the comment section.
See y’all there!
DSA + FRSO + Indivisible Safety Coalition Training
DSA, FRSO and Indivisible NOLA have teamed up to build collective capacity for the increasingly frequent need to take to the streets. Our goal is to develop a large pool of New Orleanians trained in security and de-escalation that can be activated to keep our community safe during free speech events. This is the last training opportunity if you’d like to volunteer for the Safety Team for No Kings NOLA 2.0. Meet at the New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Av, on Sunday, October 12, from 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm.Sign up here.
Sign Up for Neighborhood Circles
Weâre 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.
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.
Write Like a Socialist: We Have a World to Win!
Have an update from your committee or working group? Thatâs 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.
Unhoused Sweep Legal Observer Training & Advocacy Meeting 10:30 am – 12:00 pm Legal Observer Training 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Advocacy Meeting Healing Center Room 258, 2372 St Claude
New Orleans DSA Election Results Watch Party 8:00 pm – The Courtyard Brewery, 1160 Camp St
No Kings 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm – Lafitte Greenway, between N Prieur and N Galvez
Sunday, October 19
Poli-Ed Reading Group: The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South, by Vijay Prashad 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm (third Sunday) – Healing Center Room 258, 2372 St Claude – Meet
Down the Road
October 23 Purrsday Karaoke for DSA at Twelve Mile Limit
October 25 New Orleans DSA General Meeting
October 27 Local Council Meeting
November 2 Coffee with Comrades
November 15 Election Day: Municipal Runoff
November 16 Poli-Ed Reading Group
December 6 Labor Notes New Orleans Troublemakers School
New Orleans DSA has endorsed Gregory Manning for City Council At-Large Division 2
Pastor Gregory Manning is a committed activist, proud New Orleans DSA member, and the pastor of Broadmoor Community Church. He is emphatically progressive on social issues and an ardent champion of economic justice, climate justice, and environmental justice. He founded the Greater New Orleans Interfaith Climate Coalition and helped lead the Community Lighthouse project in New Orleans, which uses distributed solar generation to offer backup power during extended outages. To reduce the cityâs climate impact and break Entergyâs energy monopoly, Manning will âmunicipalize the gas networkâ and ban the âexpansion of gas infrastructure.â He supports the short-term reduction of rates and elimination of customer debts, and the long-term municipalization of Entergy.
Pastor Manning has a record of showing up anytime, anywhere, always on the right side of history. He is more than capable of building bridges, but knows when to fight the good fight and wonât back down in the name of doing the easier thing. Time and time again, he has risked his physical safety and professional connections to do the right thing, regardless of personal costs. He will bring that same energy to City Hall, at a time when the people of New Orleans desperately need it, in light of overreach by our fascist state and federal governments.
We wholeheartedly believe Pastor Gregory Manning is the right candidate to confront the urgent challenges bearing down on all of our regionâs residents.
New Orleans DSA has endorsed Bob Murrell for City Council District A.
Bob Murrell is a longtime leader in New Orleans DSA and one of the chief architects of our electoral program. For years, he has worked within grassroots organizations â Voice of the Experienced, Step Up Louisiana, and Eye on Surveillance â to build people power in every neighborhood of our city. Because he shows up and fights for all of us, every single day, heâs won VOTEâs endorsement, as well as that of Step Up for Action, Run for Something, the 3.14 Action Fund to bring STEM leaders to the front of issues from climate change to reproductive healthcare, and local progressive champions Gaby Biro, Devin Davis, and Pearl Ricks.
Murrell has been organizing with the Make Entergy Pay campaign to fight back against the monopolyâs utility shutoffs and rate hikes. New Orleanians must replace our profit-driven energy monopoly with a publicly-owned utility, and his commitment to our campaign gives us full confidence that heâll make municipalizing Entergy one of the next Councilâs key tasks. Murrellâs campaign also prioritizes affordable housing, great public schools, good paying union jobs, and better streets and drainage, and he has long spoken about wanting to live in a District A that pays as much attention to its traditionally neglected Black neighborhoods like Hollygrove as it does its white ones like Lakeview.
A powerful organizing force in New Orleans grassroots politics, often found pressuring Council members to prioritize working class interests over those of wealthy political donors, Bob Murrell has the courage, principles, and track record to fight for us. We need public servants who will make New Orleans safer, more fair, and more liveable for everyone. New Orleans DSA fully endorses Bob Murrell for that mission.
New Orleans DSA has endorsed Jackson Kimbrell for City Council District C
Jackson Kimbrell is a New Orleans DSA member bringing a construction background to his focus on working class issues that affect us all: affordable housing, rising insurance rates, underfunded public transit, expensive childcare, and rising utility bills. He has committed to fiercely regulating Entergy and our Make Entergy Pay demands, putting people over profits.
Much of Kimbrellâs campaign centers on economic and environmental sustainability in the face of global warming, and he has nuts-and-bolts proposals to get things done. At candidate forums and in questionnaires, Kimbrell addresses roof fortification funding and expanding solar retention on all city properties. Heâs proposed partnering schools with unions to teach our children trade skills and create more union jobs. Heâs proposed investing in our tree canopy to fight the urban heat island effect. Ideas like these that focus on what we can do locally are critically important at a time when federal and state funding sources are drying up.
Around town, Kimbrell has been advocating with Critical Mass NOLA about making roadways work not just for cars and trucks, but for cyclists and pedestrians as well. These measures would protect residents all over District C, particularly in a dangerous St. Claude corridor that has seen several recent deaths.
Kimbrell is running a campaign funded by small-dollar donations from neighbors and fellow DSA membersânot corporations or law firms that put profits first.
New Orleans DSA has endorsed Danyelle Christmas for City Council District E
Dental assistant and single mom of four Danyelle Christmas is a proud member of New Orleans DSA. She has earned the endorsements of Step Up for Action, Voters Organized to Educate, Run for Something, and Lead Locally. Christmas has been leading a campaign that fights for safety, affordable housing, economic justice, and human rights. The daughter of the late Dan Bright, a man wrongfully convicted and sent to Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, Christmas was inspired to run based on witnessing the unjust impacts of the prison-industrial complex on her family and the wider community. In candidate forums and interviews, Christmas recalls childhood memories of taking the bus to visit her father at Angola, witnessing his activism with Innocence Project New Orleans (now Innocence & Justice Louisiana) once he was released, and dealing with the trauma that resulted from his incarceration. These experiences have solidified her commitment to banning facial recognition technologies in the city, supporting immigrantsâ rights and access to legal services, speaking out against the genocide in Gaza, shifting budget priorities towards more youth and community-oriented initiatives, and advocating for policies that are human-centered and recognize the dignity of working class people.
Christmas has also expressed her frustration with the blight rampant across New Orleans East and the Lower Ninth Ward, where she grew up and went to public school. Christmas spent seven years in Orlando and was dismayed to return home to see streets, sidewalks, and infrastructure the same as when she left, and just the bare foundations of flooded homes as a vestige of Hurricane Katrina. In a Step Up for Action forum, Christmas also brought up her concerns about clean air and water, noting that her children have dealt with more sicknesses here in New Orleans than anywhere else. Christmas has also been active in work for safer streets for bicyclists with Critical Mass Nola and has pushed against disruptive industrial activity with the proposed Sunrise Foods International Grain Terminal in the Lower Ninth Ward/Holy Cross neighborhood. She has pointed to the lack of investment in people and the neighborhoods of District E as a major public safety issue.
Pushing out corporate greed, pushing for city-owned utilities that offer more transparency and an end to unjust fees, and pushing for a city cap on rental costs are additional measures that Christmas is advocating for to make New Orleans a city that is affordable for everyone and would allow people to stay and thrive. She wrote in her VOTE questionnaire: âNew Orleans residents are [either] choosing between paying Entergy, rent, or food to feed families,â and she feels that it shouldnât and doesnât have to be that way for people in the city who are working 40+ hours a week and still not making the income needed to survive. Ultimately, Christmas argues that everyday working people in District E and New Orleans are tired of the lack of adequate services and deserve representation by someone who understands their experiences. As she remarked in a recent news interview with The Boston Globe, âWhat Iâm fighting for, Iâve lived it.â
New Orleans DSA recommends Calvin Duncan for Clerk of Criminal District Court
Calvin Duncan was one of the principal architects of the legal strategy to overturn Louisianaâs system of non-unanimous juries, a success achieved at the US Supreme Court in 2020. Wrongfully arrested at 19 for murder, Duncan was sentenced to die at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. Refusing to give in to the crushing weight of Louisianaâs criminal legal system, Duncan became a jailhouse lawyer and helped other incarcerated men research their cases, file appeals, and overturn their convictions.
Duncan tried challenging his own case, but could not get access to police reports, witness statements, and other records. When he finally got Innocence Project New Orleans to take his case, those records showed that prosecutors had hidden evidence that proved his innocence. After 28 years wrongfully imprisoned at Angola, Duncan co-founded The First 72+ re-entry program, graduated from Tulane, and earned a law degree. Heâs now a research associate at Loyolaâs Jesuit Social Research Institute, pushing for criminal justice reform.
People wonder why the clerk of court is an elected position, and justifiably so. Duncan knows what it means if the clerk of court doesnât preserve court records and doesnât give people access to them: human beings, like Duncan himself, languish in prison without a chance to challenge the evidence against them. He is endorsed by VOTE.
New Orleans DSA recommends Casius Pealer for Assessor
Casius Pealer is an architect, attorney, affordable housing advocate, and Senior Professor of Practice at Tulaneâs School of Architecture. He has worked on hundreds of millions of dollars in community projects and has been active in national housing initiatives. Now, as a first-time candidate for assessor, he is running on a platform of fairness and transparency.
Pealer has been one of the sharpest critics of Errol Williamsâs assessorâs office. He has called out the practice of âsales chasing,â which drives up assessments for families who just bought a home while leaving longtime owners with lower valuations. On the equally thorny question of short-term rentals, Pealer stresses that decisions like these must be made fairly and transparently to address residentsâ complex needs, but also acknowledges that STRs should likely be removed from neighborhood sales data due to the risk of inflated neighborhood values, particularly in gentrifying areas.
He proposes publishing annual reports on all property tax breaks and exemptions so the public can see who benefits. He also wants to simplify the appeals process, which many homeowners find confusing and inaccessible. His approach, he argues, would reduce costly disputes and restore trust in the office.
Pealer has criticized the cityâs plans to double the homestead exemption, which gives wealthy homeowners the same tax break as struggling families while draining about $40 million a year from the city budget. He also argues that the current tax system is inequitable: homeowners have access to homestead exemptions, but renters have no comparable relief and would end up shouldering higher costs.
He speaks often about how the assessorâs office and housing policy can and should work together to benefit everyone in Orleans Parish: homeowners, but also renters and small business owners. He emphasizes that renters also pay property taxes, since landlords pass the costs into rent. In New Orleans, where the median renter income is less than $34,000, more than half of renters are already cost-burdened, and rising property taxes can amount to two monthsâ rent each year. He notes that 13,000 seniors rent their homes with no protections, and points to âcircuit breakerâ programs in 30 other states that tie property taxes to income, helping both homeowners and renters avoid being priced out. Louisianaâs own constitution even allows for renter tax relief, but the current assessor has ignored that while pursuing larger exemptions for homeowners.
Pealerâs background in housing and real estate development, combined with his clear responses to problematic aspects of Williamsâs record, position him as a credible reformer. Where Williams has spent decades entrenching favoritism and opacity, Pealerâs campaign offers a path toward equity and accountability.
New Orleans DSA recommends voting YES on the Home Rule Charter Amendment
Our city has a Bill of Rights prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, religion, disability, and gender. Itâs time to add criminal conviction history to that list, because the criminal legal system shouldnât block people from housing, jobs, and a path to getting back on their feet. This update, called the Fair Chance Amendment, is presented by VOTE, a frequent partner organization of ours composed of people who have experienced the criminal legal system.
People can often get caught up in the details of their everyday life. Our modern economy and ruling class, in fact, depend on our collective inaction. The only way to reach the equitable society that we know we all deserve is to show up. Even when you’re tired. Even when you’re stressed. Particularly when you’re tired and stressed! When you are among people who not only believe in awakening class consciousness, but are actively involved in the work, you feel a deep rejuvenation of your soul because you see that people aren’t standing by passively.
This weekend is filled to the brim with options for feeling that connection. I encourage you to attend at least one, but I also want to challenge you to bring someone with you, especially if that person is reluctant to use their power in this movement. If you are electorally minded, our endorsed candidates need your enthusiasm and charisma to help bring in voters. If you want to buy your coffee tomorrow morning, consider buying it at the River Ridge Starbucks on Jefferson Highway to show your support for their unionization efforts. Do you like using your hands or talking with your neighbors? Head over to the Brake Light Clinic at Tureaud Park to help our community members avoid unnecessary interactions with the police (no brake light experience required!). Consider going to Freedom Square at 6pm Saturday night to memorialize two years of active genocide of the Palestinian people, and join an organization to continue that work.
Show up to rallies, and then make some friends while youâre there. The struggle isn’t just work; it can also be fun. So round out the weekend with the first DSA Queer Social costume party at First Christian Church in Slidell. We only win by consistently and reliably showing up!
Qualitative Change Is Always on Its Way
One of the core principles of historical materialism is that quantitative change leads to qualitative change. How many individual grains of rice constitute a bowl of rice? In physics, when you try to heat up a jar that has water and ice in it, the water will stay at 32° F until all the ice is melted. The quantitative change is the heat from the flame, touching small parts of the whole. The qualitative change is the iceâs state change from solid to liquid.
When this happens in society, we donât always see it in real time. The pigs kill people of color regularly, often in conditions that seem indefensible to people who arenât desensitized by the violence of American society. Yet the murder of George Floyd set off a rebellion more immediately widespread than the murders of John Crawford III or Sandra Bland or Tortuguita. Many factors contributed, but that single event kicked off a qualitative change in the way a lot of people think about this. Tens of millions wonât ever go back to the carefully crafted image of the cops as servants of the people. We see them as the class enemies that they are.
Another qualitative change is in progress, related to American dominance. The Global South is knitting together a system that doesnât need the US. China doesnât buy US soybeans anymore, getting them from Brazil instead. Chinese exports to the US dropped 15% this year, with Chinaâs total exports dropping less than 1%. Theyâve found less troublesome buyers.
We donât know what the next qualitative change will be or when it will happen, but now is the time to hone your class analysis. Be ready for people to start asking questions. Help them see through counter-revolutionary answers. Keep your wits sharp and your eyes on the prize: Global Liberation!
Bulletins
No Contract, No Coffee! Support the Starbucks Workers United Practice Picket
Starbucks Workers United will have a picket on tomorrow, October 4. Itâll go from 10:00 am – 12:00 pm at the River Ridge Starbucks, 9301 Jefferson Hwy. They 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: sign the pledge and join the picket. We will not patronize any Starbucks store when baristas are on strike.
Brake Light Clinic & Health Fair Tomorrow
Your favorite DSA comrades will be at AP Tureaud Memorial Park tomorrow, October 4, changing brake lights and handing out hot meals, cold drinks, and doing health checks. We also are providing safe injection kits and Narcan kits courtesy of Trystereo. Itâs always a good time with good people, so come hang out and do some community organizing!
The address is 1800 AP Tureaud 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.
Action and Solidarity on the Second Anniversary of October 7th
This next week marks the second anniversary of this latest period of genocide by the state of Israel upon the people of Palestine. Our comrades are showing solidarity with the people of Palestine this Saturday, October 4th, in a rally at Jackson Freedom Square. You may have seen our latest banner in support of Palestine at the latest General Meeting. We’ll be unveiling it at this action, and would love to have you behind it. If you are available to join us and carry it, we would love to see you there!
DSA Queer Social Costume Party on Sunday
In the South, the LGBTQ+ community is often more isolated than anywhere else in the United States. As socialists, we want to build up strong, healthy communities that support each other through shared struggles. To do this, we established a Queer Socialist Section (Queer Soc) at our September GM!
To bring together our queer community and allies, Queer Soc is launching monthly themed socials. Build up your Halloween spirit by joining us for our all-ages Queer Social Costume Party at the First Christian Church, 102 Christian Ln, in Slidell this Sunday, October 5th, 6-9pm! We hope to see you there~ đŠđłïžâđ
Eye on Surveillance Monthly Meeting This Wednesday
Join EOS at our October monthly meeting on Wednesday the 8th, at 6:30 pm, via Zoom. Exciting updates include our mapping out and scouting of Project NOLA cameras, future teach-ins on the harms of racist tech such as facial recognition, and efforts to prepare against a local and federal government that attacks our privacy, livelihoods, and right to organize. RSVP here.
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.
DSA + FRSO + Indivisible Safety Coalition Training
DSA, FRSO and Indivisible NOLA have teamed up to build collective capacity for the increasingly frequent need to take to the streets. Our goal is to develop a large pool of New Orleanians trained in security and de-escalation that can be activated to keep our community safe during free speech events. This is the last training opportunity if you’d like to volunteer for the Safety Team for No Kings NOLA 2.0. Meet at the New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Av, on Sunday, October 12, from 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm.Sign up here.
Sign Up for Neighborhood Circles
Weâre 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.
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.
Write Like a Socialist: We Have a World to Win!
Have an update from your committee or working group? Thatâs 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, October 3
Early Voting 8:30 am – 6:00 pm (through October 4, except Sunday) Locations
Film Screening & Panel: The Facility 5:30 pm doors, 6:00 pm screening, 6:45 pm panel VOTE New Orleans, 4930 Washington Av
Saturday, October 4
Early Voting 8:30 am – 6:00 pm (through October 4, except Sunday) Locations
Canvass for Jackson Kimbrell, Council District C 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Get involved
River Ridge Starbucks Workers United Practice Picket 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Starbucks, 9301 Jefferson Hwy – Signup
Brake Light Clinic & Health Fair 11:00 am – 2:00 pm AP Tureaud Civil Rights Memorial Park, 1800 AP Tureaud Av – Volunteer Signup
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
Rise Up for Gaza: Two Years of Genocide International Day of Action 6:00 pm Jackson Freedom Square Amphitheater, 701 Decatur St
Sunday, October 5
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, Council District E 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Get Involved
Street Medic Training 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Av Room 258
Poli-Ed Planning Meeting 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm (first Sunday) New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Av Room 258 – Meet, Reading List
DSA Queer Social Costume Party 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm First Christian Church, 102 Christian Ln, Slidell
Chapter Orientation 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm (first and last Sunday) Meet
Monday, October 6
Knock Doors with Bob Murrell, Council District A 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Get involved
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, October 7
Knock Doors with Bob Murrell, Council District A 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Get involved
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
Health Justice & Direct Service Meeting 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm (first & third Tuesday) Meet
Wednesday, October 8
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
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
Rank & File Project Monthly Meeting 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm REACH Center, 2022 St Bernard Av, Bldg C, 3rd Fl
New Orleans DSA Election Results Watch Party 8:00 pm Location TBD
Sunday, October 12
DSA/FRSO/Indivisible Safety Coalition Training 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Av Room 258 Signup
Down the Road
October 18 No Kings October 23 Purrsday Karaoke for DSA at Twelve Mile Limit October 25 New Orleans DSA General Meeting November 15 Election Day: Municipal Runoff December 6 Labor Notes New Orleans Troublemakers School
New Orleans DSA Fall 2025 Voter Guide Release This Weekend
The Trump administration is sending federal agents and National Guard troops to occupy American cities, disappearing people into ICE detention, and continuing the genocide in Gaza. The religious right have criminalized reproductive healthcare and are targeting LGBTQ+ rights. The Supreme Court is rigging election maps and laws. Billionaires control the major media platforms and the algorithms that steer you to their manufactured trends. We are fully immersed in an authoritarian crisis and our own local electeds are building the surveillance networks and jail cells that the fascists are using to strangle free speech and assembly. This is whatâs at stake.
Why does it matter that theyâre using ChatGPT? After all, frauds and grifters co-opting progressive vocabulary is nothing new, and weâve long had Rupert Murdoch, Jeff Bezos, and Michael Bloomberg controlling our media ecosystem. But now, as Entergy positions itself to steal power away from communities for their massive new data centers, and generative content destroys our cognitive function and our environment, we also have to vote for some idiot whose primary political handler is an algorithm channeling Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, or Elon Musk? Hell no.
DSA and all of our candidates arenât giving any ground to fascism. We adopted a Resolution to Prohibit Chapter Use of AI-Generated Content that we stand by. We ran a slate of candidates to explicitly reject the far-right leadership in Baton Rouge and DC. We believe in democracyâa society organized by and for the working class. We believe in socialismâa society based on equitable distribution, feminism, racial equality, and non-oppressive relationships. We are the Democratic Socialists of America, and we believe in fighting fascism whenever and wherever it appears. Join us in the struggle.
New Orleans DSA General Meeting Tomorrow! – Brodie L
Weâre holding our September General Meeting tomorrow at the Healing Center. Itâs going to be a great one because weâre bringing back food! No need to worry about sitting through new business with a grumbling stomach; at our recess we will take a break and refresh ourselves over hot food and cold drinks with our comrades. Our docket has only two pieces of new business, but weâll also have plenty of updates.
The chapter will vote on whether to institute a Queer SOC, which will create a way for our queer comrades to plan, organize, and otherwise feel affirmed in our space. Weâll also decide several Voter Guide recommendations: 1) Parishwide HRC Amendment, 2) Clerk of Court, 3) Assessor, and 4) City Council District D.
Your local has also been at work launching several new mutual aid initiatives across the city and providing support to our endorsed candidates. Come hear the specifics at our meeting, and if you canât make it, please still send in your proxy vote because it helps us make quorum. We can either assign a comrade one or you can let us know which comrade attending will be voting with yours. Hope to see you tomorrow at 12:00 pm at the Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Av Room 258, or online.Make sure to RSVP; it gives us a headcount, and gets you the virtual link or a proxy if you need.
DSA at the Movies: The Act of Killing – Brodie L
This past Wednesday night, DSA had its first ever Movie Night at the Broad, courtesy of Gaptooth Media. It was an opportunity to share a few drinks with fellow and prospective comrades before watching a deeply profound and troubling film. If you joined the Political Education Committee in reading The Jakarta Method by Vincent Blevins, then the subject matter would be familiar: the mass slaughter of communists in Indonesia in 1965-â66. The director, Joshua Oppenheimer, mainly follows the executioner Anwar Congo, but several of his associates appear throughout the film.
Oppenheimer asked them to re-enact the killings in whatever way they wished. Even just writing that still feels surreal. They discuss the way they murdered their fellow human beings with such ease. Anwar seems to actually wrestle with the moral implications of what he did as he plays the part of one of his victims in a reenactment. It should be on every leftistâs watch list; the film is a grueling treatment of how easily a society can descend into violence and never leave it.
One of the most shocking moments for me was seeing a state television news host praising Anwar and his accomplices because they found ânew and exciting ways of killing communists more efficiently.â The film was only released in 2012, 13 years ago, and they still talk openly about the mass murder of over 1 million of their fellow countrymen with awe. This is a future we must seriously grapple with in the US where far-right violence is the norm, not the exception. Stay safe, comrades!
Red Rabbits Recommendation: Drop and Give Me Twenty (Tomatoes)
The weather is about to break, everyone. Weâre leaving the time of the year where we hide from the heat and let our yards run wild. This is the perfect time to get to gardening. Itâs a wonderful form of low-impact exercise. Youâre up, youâre down, youâre digging over here, youâre weeding over there. Almost all of us need to be more physically active, for all kinds of reasons.
Motion is the lotion, Comrade! By moving around, youâre loosening up your joints and helping your bodyâs natural pump system do its job. Focusing your attention on something thatâs not flashing or beeping at you, or live-streaming horrible things half-a-world away, lets your brain slow down to a more natural pace: the speed of growing things. Itâs good to work on something that wonât pay off right away but will change and grow and bear fruit with time. Itâs a great reminder that things as they are now are not the things that they will be later.
There are beneficial critters in healthy soil that your body might be really missing. Touching grass is all well and good, but pulling weeds and releasing the beasties from the soil is where itâs really at. Gardening is a great way to build community as well. There arenât really that many asshole gardeners: they tend to be sharers of knowledge, of company, and when they plant too many carrots, of produce. Red Rabbits firmly believe that We Keep Us Safe. So grow that âWeâ as you grow your Swiss chard. We are blessed with an environment where we can garden all year long. Get out there, get dirty and grow whatever you can, however you can do it.
Bulletins
Eye on Surveillance Community Scouting Day Tomorrow
Join the community effort to map out Project Nola cameras, which pose a danger to our privacy and well being. Join Eye on Surveillance for a walk downtown and learn how to scout, identify, and map the hundreds of cameras that spy on our community every day. Meet at 2:00 pm Saturday, September 27, on the sidewalk outside 422 Canal St.
Brake Light Clinic & Health Fair on Saturday, October 4
Your favorite DSA comrades will be at AP Tureaud Memorial Park on Saturday, October 4, changing brake lights and handing out hot meals, cold drinks, and doing health checks. Weâre also welcoming our friends from Trystereo to provide Narcan kits and educate us on how to use them. Itâs always a good time with good people, so come hang out and do some community organizing!
The address is 1800 AP Tureaud 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.
No Contract, No Coffee! Support the October 4 Starbucks Worker Picket
Starbucks Workers United will have a practice picket on Saturday, October 4. Itâll go from 10:00 am – 12:00 pm at the River Ridge Starbucks, 9301 Jefferson Hwy. They 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.
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.
DSA/FRSO/Indivisible Safety Coalition Training
DSA, FRSO and Indivisible NOLA have teamed up to build collective capacity for the increasingly frequent need to take to the streets. Our goal is to develop a large pool of New Orleanians trained in security and de-escalation that can be activated to keep our community safe during free speech events. This is the last training opportunity if you’d like to volunteer for the Safety Team for No Kings NOLA 2.0. Meet at the New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Av, on Sunday, October 12, from 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm.Sign up here.
Sign Up for Neighborhood Circles
Weâre 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.
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.
Write Like a Socialist: We Have a World to Win!
Have an update from your committee or working group? Thatâs 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.
Please join our first ever movie night at the Broad Theatre, in conjunction with Gap Tooth Media! On Wednesday, September 24th, weâll 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.
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! Weâll be at 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.
Introducing Neighborhood Circles
Weâre 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.
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? Thatâs 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.
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 isnât 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.
Weâre already seeing the metastasization of ICE. Instead of their initial BS about âprotecting the US from the worst of the worst,â 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 Smithâs 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 arenât 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! Weâll 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. Weâll 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
Weâre 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, weâll 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? Thatâs 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.
New Orleans DSA vehemently opposes the Trump administrationâs 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 âcrimeâ here. A police state will neither prevent nor reduce crime. Only investment in our communitiesâa living wage, affordable housing, universal healthcare, and youth servicesâcan accomplish that. Such actions will only restrict our ability to freely engage in public life.
Weâve seen ICE terrorize communities across Los Angeles and D.C. with the backing of the Marines, National Guard, and local police. Weâve 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 donât 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 arenât 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.”
