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Free Your Neighbors: The Undue Medical Debt Campaign

The people want a single-payer, universal healthcare system where no one chooses between sickness or financial ruin. Our for-profit “sickcare” system forces millions into significant, unpayable medical debt.

“Medical debt” should not exist. And yet it does, and it causes immense misery. This is why New Orleans DSA, Indivisible Nola, and WHIV are proud to partner with Undue Medical Debt to erase medical debt in Orleans, St. Bernard, and St. Tammany Parishes. Our Health Justice Working Group is joining this community partnership to eliminate medical debt and move towards building healthier, stronger communities.

Every dollar donated erases $100 of medical debt, with a goal of raising $15,000 by April. Collectively, we can show that community solidarity through small donor dollars can address societal needs. Please share our donation link widely with friends and family. We are setting up fundraisers in the coming months; please join us at the next Direct Service & Health Justice meeting on October 13 if you are interested in helping us plan for these events. Thank you for helping to support our community and erase medical debt!

Bulletins

Direct Service Meeting Tomorrow, Brake Light Clinic This Saturday, October 17!

Please join us at our online meeting tomorrow at 6pm to finalize preparations for this Saturday’s Brake Light Clinic and our Winter Clothing Drive. The Clinic goes from 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm at 3324 Williams Blvd in Kenner, volunteer here. We will be working with Unstoppable Kenner, and we’re looking forward to reaching more of the community. We will be accepting donations for the Winter Clothing Drive at the Brake Light Clinic and October’s General Meeting at Venusian Gardens. You can also drop clothes outside our office, room 258 in the Healing Center.

Thank you so much to all who helped make our Grocery Giveaway at the Broadmoor Food Pantry last week a success! Direct Service always accepts donations for supplies.

Get Plugged in to Political Education!

Our first Commission meeting will be at 6:15 pm on October 14 on Meet. We will most likely be assigning chapters from The World That Made New Orleans, so no worries if you haven’t already read it.

Submit your nominations for a new Night School Chair on the Discord or email hello@dsaneworleans.org by October 18 (subject line: ATTN POLI-ED Night School Chair Nomination).

At our October 18 meeting, we will be discussing Constructive Criticism by Gracie Lyons.

Please come to our November 1 planning meeting to help us plan for a Quarterly Forum on Electoralism in December! We need speakers and panelists!

Afrosocialists and Socialists of Color: Monthly Meeting

This month we will be discussing direct service opportunities, a read-along, planning our next social, and crafting our AfroSOC Zine. Please RSVP and join AfroSOC October 22nd at 6:00 pm online on Meet.

Bringing the Party Back on Saturday, October 24

Voter turnouts of 28% and 18% stuck us with Jeff Landry and Liz Murrill, who rigged the maps and stole Calvin Duncan’s election. Chapter comrades are organizing citywide mobilizations to build excitement about early voting.

The October 24 Early Voting Tailgate at Chateau Menteur, 8726 Chef Menteur Hwy, will culminate in a second line to the polls at 1:30 pm. That same day downtown, we’ll have a Critical Mass bicycle takeover, a costumed Société Des Champs Elysée streetcar ride, Uptown and Treme second lines, and an Early Voting Rally at City Hall. “Wake Up N Vote” will provide free coffee and donuts near Algiers and City Hall early voting sites. We want to create one of the city’s biggest annual festivals , so volunteer and we’ll see you there!

Volunteer for Lauren Jewett for Congress, LA-01!

Volunteer Hub | Contribute | 7:30p Monday volunteer calls | Request a sign

Election Day is Tuesday November 3, 2026. Special education teacher, DSA member, and longtime United Teachers of New Orleans (AFT Local 527) member Lauren Jewett is running for Congress in LA-01, which covers much of the Greater New Orleans metro, Lakeview, and parts of Uptown and Mid-City. She’s fighting for public schools and their teachers; Medicare for All, reproductive freedom, and keeping our hospitals open; paid family leave and universal childcare for every worker; restoring our coast with union jobs; and ending the billionaire takeover of our government.

Community Calendar

Monday, October 12

DSA for Lauren Jewett Weekly Call
7:30 pm – 8:15 pm (Mondays)
Volunteer | Meet

Sober Soc Support Group
8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Meet

Tuesday, October 13

International Working Group Meeting
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
RSVP | Meet

Direct Service & Health Justice Meeting
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Meet

Wednesday, October 14

Political Economy Night School Commission
6:15 pm – 7:00 pm
Meet

Queer Soc Meeting
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Meet

Electoral Committee Co-Work & Talk
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm (Wednesdays)
Morning Call, 5101 Canal Blvd (cash only)

Thursday, October 15

Chapter Orientation
6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
RSVP | Meet

Friday, October 16

DSA Hangout
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Okay Bar, 1700 Port St

Saturday, October 17

Lauren Jewett Canvassing
10:00 am – 12:00 am
Location TBD

Brake Light Clinic
3:00 pm – 6:00 pm
3324 Williams Blvd, Kenner – Volunteer

March for Palestine: For the Living, the Martyrs, and the Land
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Congo Square, 701 N Rampart St

Sunday, October 18

Poli-Ed Reading Meeting: Constructive Criticism by Gracie Lyons
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm (third Sunday)
Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Av #258 – Meet

Sober Soc Meeting
8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Meet

Down the Road

October 20 Early Voting Begins
October 20 Wake Up N Vote
October 22 AfroSOC Monthly Meeting
October 24 New Orleans DSA General Meeting
October 24 Early Voting Tailgate and Resource Fair
October 27 Wake Up N Vote
October 30 DSA Gala
November 3 Election Day