Features NOPD Policy Betrays Immigrants –Aaron Z This week, NOPD adopted a new policy: they will now arrest people with immigration detainers. This reverses a 2016 policy that prohibited officers from sharing data with immigration agents. This new policy contains two key changes: “In the event a detained individual is discovered to be subject to…
Features 500 Members and Counting –Bob M Did you know that DSA is funded by its members and not large donors who can sway our political choices? What makes DSA unique is a genuine democracy unlike the capitalist parties or other major political non-profits. Every dues paying member is enshrined with rights within DSA as…
Features Every Life is a Universe Brayan Garzón-Rayo was a 27-year-old man who moved from Colombia to the U.S. with his family in November 2023. His mother said that he loved riding his motorcycle, watching soccer and sledding after fresh snowfall. He had talked to his mother days before his death on April 8th, complaining…
Features General Membership Meeting Tomorrow –Brodie L Good morning, comrades! Tomorrow, our General Membership will convene for the first GM of the new year. Your Local Council has been working to bring democratic improvements to our meetings that our growing membership deserves. The agenda is still being set, but we will definitely discuss our chapter…
Features No More Secret Police, No More Surveillance State —Aaron Z Border Patrol and ICE have occupied Minneapolis, where they’re terrorizing hospital visitors, throwing flashbangs at cars full of kids, and dining at a Mexican restaurant and arresting their hosts after. But ICE still has a year-round presence in New Orleans, currently operating out of…
Features Law Enforcement is Trained and Equipped to Orchestrate Your Death –Aaron Z Police manufacture situations to use force, often lethal. A 2013 CBP Use of Force Review found that agents shoot at fleeing cars out of “frustration” after they “intentionally put themselves into the exit path of the vehicle, thereby exposing themselves to additional…
Features Ojos: Spread Information, Not Fear When we do our Ojos work, we’re careful to get accurate information and avoid causing panic. We make sure that we provide an exact date and time, an exact location, and that we describe what we see. And whenever you can, get in touch with the eye witness who…
Features Poem from a Comrade —M.L. Banks In Response to “On Leftist Gun Ownership” Dear Comrades, Last week, a New Orleans DSA comrade expressed an opinion that leftists “no longer have the luxury of choosing not to own firearms” lest we “let them hold a monopoly on violence.” I disagree with this take for several…
Features Tomorrow’s General Meeting is a Social at Urban South –Brodie L Holiday greetings, Comrades! In lieu of a General Meeting tomorrow, we will be having our annual Holiday Party at noon at Urban South! We were at Urban South last year, and it was a wonderful time filled with laughs, jokes, and camaraderie. Urban…
Features Tonight at 7:00: Digital Security With Eyes on Surveillance News broke this week that government dumbasses are tracking New Orleanians’ online activity as part of their stupidly named Catahoula Crunch operation. Fuck you. Get a real job. The government has a metrowide blanket of real time surveillance cameras, supplemented by an illegal network of…
