Features Getting Plugged In: Membership Trends & DSA This Summer -Bob M I’m sure you’ve probably gotten a text or email about all the events coming up and asking you to RSVP. Each meeting that has business (voting or elections) requires that we reach a quorum of 10% of our membership in good standing. That…
Features New Orleans DSA Voter Guide: May 16, 2026 In the wake of the US Supreme Court’s Callais decision gutting the Voting Rights Act, the country is on the precipice of a total reversal of the democratic gains made not only during the Civil Rights Movement, but even the last remnants of post-Confederate Reconstruction. Jeff…
Features Surplus and Profit –Andy L A barista makes $1,000 worth of coffee sales during her shift, and she gets paid $50. What’s left over is money in someone else’s pocket. That $950 margin she doesn’t get paid (what we call surplus value), is the profit to the owner of the coffee shop. Other, more…
Features Happy May Day –Andy L News from a few weeks back about the defeat of Hungary’s Viktor Orbán reminds us that nothing is certain or permanent in politics. When Orbán became the prime minister 16 years ago, he set in motion a whole cascade of changes to Hungarian politics, primarily done to make it…
Features May Day: The General Strike is Finally Coming International Workers’ Day was originally inspired by US trade unionists, and in memory of those killed as a result of the Haymarket Affair. However, after decades of propaganda, US and Canadian governments instituted a Labor Day largely stripped of May Day’s activist origins. Now, American workers…
Features April General Membership Preview –Brodie L Tomorrow is our April General Membership meeting! It is back to the usual time and place at the Healing Center #258 at noon. Though you should come early at 11:30am for coffee and camaraderie (also donuts!). We have one resolution of New Business: members running for chapter positions…
Features Brake Light Clinic Returns in New Orleans East The Direct Action and Health Justice Committee is hosting its bimonthly Brake Light Clinic tomorrow to provide valuable services and community care to our comrades in New Orleans East. From 11:00 am to 2:00 pm, we’ll be set up at 7401 Read Blvd, in the Walgreens…
Features Our Truth, Our Morality –Brodie L I have just finished my nth reread of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi classic Dune, and every time I reread it a new quote sticks in my brain that I can’t help but turn over constantly in my brain. This time I have been thinking about an axiom from Paul’s…
Features How to Win Friends & Influence People –Andy L As you’re out and about this weekend at the No Kings Rally, undoubtedly the topic of the war will come up in conversation. Although many reasons are being bandied about for this colossal train wreck, feel free to drop this simple one into the mix:…
Features Preview of Tomorrow’s General Membership Meeting –Brodie L Dear Comrades: Our March GM is at a new place and time, 1:00 pm at St. Luke’s United Methodist. We will dedicate it to practicing how to represent ourselves and support our comrades at marches and rallies. Whether you’re an old hat or new to the…
