Solidarity Means Action: November 9, 2026
Features
Vote Yes On Our Electoral Platform for New Orleans
Joel W, Electoral Committee Chair
At our next General Meeting, we will put forward a resolution to adopt an official local electoral platform for New Orleans. This is an ambitious set of policy demands we will put forward to the public. And it will steer our electoral campaigns, endorsements, voter guides, and other policy work going forward.
Through a collaborative process that has drawn from members’ suggestions, past local electoral campaigns, and the national DSA Workers Deserve More program, we have edited together what we believe to be a great start. I encourage you to pass the platform as-is, without amendments, and to work with the Electoral Committee to bring suggested changes as separate resolutions in the future. Today, we don’t have a local platform. Let’s get this one on the books, and then improve it from there.
Having a platform will help bring coherence to our electoral decisions. We’ll no longer have to consider endorsement candidates on their own terms. We’re setting our terms. We’ll have a consistent framework for what our voter guides should say: How does this race relate to our platform? We’ll have a blueprint for new DSA candidates to follow. We’ll have an agreed set of policies to agitate for in our organizing.
This platform answers the question, “What can you do here?” A lot! Better things are possible, and this is the vision we will put forward for New Orleans. It’s the foundation for our electoral work going forward. Read it. RSVP for the next General Meeting. Come and vote yes!
What’s Next After Election Day?
Bob M, Membership Chair
Our voter guide began with a Friedrich Engels quote about the thermometer of universal suffrage showing a boiling point among the working class. The midterm results definitively showed that rising temperature, but we must keep up the heat and not settle for lukewarm.
Alongside the proposed electoral platform, our chapter will be deciding on a Policy Working Group to refine our platform with input from community members, and develop specific policy planks for State House, School Board, and City Council. This work is ongoing, and as we bring in more members, it’s critical that advocacy turns into actual change through our campaigns.
In addition to drafting policies, the Electoral Committee is developing dossiers on targeted districts in Southeast Louisiana based on working class conditions, DSA membership, and voter preferences for DSA-endorsed and recommended candidates. Our voter guide process will move from individual election cycles to cover ongoing development of our political conditions.
If you are interested in researching or contributing to these efforts, visit #electoral on Discord or email hello@dsaneworleans.org with “Policy WG” or “Electoral Dossiers”. With an electoral strategy for the working class, our chapter can build back the fabric of community with principled socialist candidates instead of paid-for politicians. Solidarity forever.
Bulletins
Rank & File Project Workers’ School & Convention on Saturday, November 14
RNF is New Orleans’ grassroots cross-union and cross-organization solidarity network. They are holding their first annual convention alongside numerous worker organizing workshops, all open to the public! There are many huge things happening in New Orleans working class solidarity, so please show up and learn about the causes, learn some strategy, and share your ideas!
Direct Service: Fork & Knife Club Moved to SUNDAY, November 15
Our next Direct Service meeting is tomorrow at 6:00 pm, online. The more minds and hands working together, the more we can accomplish. Our next Fork & Knife Food Distribution has been moved to from this Saturday to this SUNDAY, November 15 at the Healing Center #258 from 10:30am-1pm Volunteer here to bring groceries, cook, plate, or deliver to local community fridges!
Our Winter Clothing Drive is accepting coats, socks, beanies, and other winter clothes for all ages for distribution at our December Brake Light Clinic. Search your closets, ask friends and family! Donations will be collected at the Healing Center. Please bring any donations during F&KC this Sunday.
Direct Service always accepts donations for food and supplies.
Health Justice: Crush Medical Debt Campaign Underway, First Fundraising Event Next Thursday, November 19
Our Crush Medical Debt Campaign with Undue Medical Debt, Indivisible NOLA & WHIV has raised $857 so far toward our $15k goal. Every dollar alleviates $100 in medical debt for our neighbors. Please donate here and share the link! Flyers for display at local businesses are at our Healing Center office.
Our first fundraising event is Thursday, November 19, at 7:30pm: Comedy Show at The Dog House, 2736 Banks Street. Local comics representing Team Dog and Team Cat will compete to raise the most money. All proceeds go directly to Crush Medical Debt. A burlesque fundraising event will be on December 10th at Allways Lounge at 10:30pm. Details to come!
Political Education Night Schools, Red Talks, and Readings Groups
Join us to help construct a Night School class about the Political Economy of New Orleans! We meet every other Wednesday at 6:15 and our next meeting will be on November 11. No prior knowledge necessary! We’ll assign research tasks at the meeting.
Have an idea for a Red Talk or want to get involved in an ongoing research project? RedTalk Office Hours are every Thursday at 7pm.
Our reading for November will be Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism by Kristen Ghodsee. We will be having our reading group discussion at the Healing Center at 5pm on the 15th.
Community Calendar
Monday, November 9
Sober Soc Support Group
8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Meet
Tuesday, November 10
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, November 11
New Orleans Poli-Econ Commission
6:15 pm – 7:00 pm
Meet
Queer Soc Meeting
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Meet
Electoral Committee Meeting
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm (Wednesdays)
Online
Thursday, November 12
Chapter Orientation
6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
RSVP | Meet
RedTalk Office Hours
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Meet
Local Council Meeting
7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Meet
Friday, November 13
FemSoc Meeting
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Av #258 & Meet
DSA Hangout Downtown
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Okay Bar, 1700 Port St
Saturday, November 14
Rank & File Project Workers’ School and Convention
9:00 am – 5:00 pm
IATSE Hall, 511 N Hennessey St – Signup
Sunday, November 15
Fork & Knife Club
11:00 am – 1:30 pm
Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Av #258 – Signup
Poli-Ed Reading Group: Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism by Kristen R. Ghodsee
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm (third Sunday)
Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Av #258 – Meet
Sober Socialists
8:00 pm – 9:00 pm (Sundays)
Meet
Down the Road
November 19 Undue Medical Debt at the Dog House
November 19 AfroSOC Monthly Meeting
November 21 New Orleans DSA General Meeting
November 22 Coffee with Comrades Northshore
December 6 Coffee with Comrades
December 10 Undue Medical Debt at Allways Lounge