Features 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…
Features Direct Service Grocery Giveaway Tomorrow and Wednesday! Brake Light Clinic October 17 We are partnering with Indivisible NOLA to distribute 160 seasoning and oil kits at Broadmoor Food Pantry tomorrow, October 6, and Wednesday, October 7. These are items that are not usually available through the food pantry so we are thrilled to be…
Features Three Ways We Can Make the World More Just –Wash F People experiencing homelessness face growing hostility across the country, with rampant dehumanization and outright criminalization of their existence in public. Increasing anti-homeless policy, funding cuts for services supporting those who are (or are at risk of becoming) unhoused, and the worsening economy show…
Features Three Ways We Can Make the World More Just –Wash F People experiencing homelessness face growing hostility across the country, with rampant dehumanization and outright criminalization of their existence in public. Increasing anti-homeless policy, funding cuts for services supporting those who are (or are at risk of becoming) unhoused, and the worsening economy show…
Features September General Membership Meeting Preview –Brodie L Good morning dear Comrades! This Saturday, our General Membership meeting will be in an idyllic spot with an apropos name: Venusian Gardens. We’ll have new and productive business and important updates. Three resolutions bring transparency and efficiency into chapter business. First, a resolution to audit chapter business…
Features Join the No Appetite for Apartheid Campaign No Appetite for Apartheid (NA4A) is a multi-city retail- and consumer-boycott campaign against the zionist occupation of Palestine. By boycotting, we strengthen our solidarity with Palestinians against ongoing genocide, apartheid, and colonization. NA4A gives us an easy way to ensure our purchases aren’t contributing to the oppression…
Features August General Membership Meeting Preview –Brodie L Good morning, dear Comrades! This General Membership meeting promises to be a packed one. We welcome our Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) comrades to tell us about their No Appetite For Apartheid (NA4A) initiative, which seeks to bring local restaurants awareness of BDS Movement aims and how many…
Features Passing the Resolution to Abolish ICE at the Democratic National Committee –Michele J When ICE killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo while he drove his coworkers to work, then arrested the survivors and blamed the victim for his own death… I got mad. Congress threatening to withhold money in exchange for reform wasn’t working. This wasn’t…
Features On Power: Education –Dan A And since people “receive” the world as passive entities, education should make them more passive still, and adapt them to the world. The educated individual is the adapted person, because she or he is better “fit” for the world. Translated into practice, this concept is well suited to the…
Features New Orleans DSA Proudly Endorses Our Comrade Lauren Jewett for Congress, LA-01! 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…
