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…
Features July General Meeting Recap Thank you to all who attended Saturday’s General Meeting! We got updates from committees, working groups, and members about the state of the chapter and ways to plug in. We also heard from Kristian H, a steering committee member of the national Democracy Commission, about its impacts on local chapters….
Bulletins Candlelight Vigil to Honor Victims of ICE/CBP Join New Orleans DSA and our community members as we honor the victims of ICE and CBP violence with a Candlelight Vigil on Cabrini Bridge this Saturday, July 18. We will begin at 7 pm. We will also be collecting donations to help support families who can’t…
Features Local Convention Convened, New Leadership Elected –Bob M, Membership Chair This past Saturday our chapter’s highest decision-making body, the Local Convention, took place at the First Grace UMC. Thank you to the over 60 dues-paying members who participated in our deliberation. We had presentations on our chapter’s progress and growth over the last year,…
Features Local Convention Preview & Convention Compendium –Brodie L. Dear Comrades, Tomorrow is one of our biggest events of the year: Annual Local Convention. This is by far our largest official meeting, and this year we’re expecting 60+ people. It’s still not too late to RSVP! We will begin at 12:00pm with a social, free…
Bulletins Direct Service & Health Justice: Brake Light Clinic/Health Fair Tomorrow, June 20th, Direct Service and Health Justice will be holding a Brake Light Clinic and a Free Health Fair at 1800 AP Tureaud Ave from 11am-2pm. We will also be collecting signatures for the recall campaigns against Jeff Landry and Liz Murrill (and Sid…
Features Pre-Convention Political Discussion Series Continues Next Two Sundays –Bob M Leading up to Convention, the Chapter has been holding political discussions about what we’ve been doing, what the local organizing terrain looks like, and how we move forward. At the Labor discussion, we covered: Power mapping, using examples like the Frenchmen Street garden fight,…
Bulletins Direct Service & Health Justice: Brake Light Clinics/Health Fairs Coming in June, Direct Service and Health Justice will be holding two Brake Light Clinics, one at the Northshore Robotics STEM Festival in Covington, Saturday, June 6th at 701 N Tyler St and another Saturday, June 20th in New Orleans at 1800 AP Tureaud Ave…
Features Tonight: The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz Join us tonight at 6pm for a screening of The Internet’s Own Boy in the Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Av #258. Aaron Swartz devoted his life to the cause of internet freedom from corporate domination. Aaron helped develop RSS, Creative Commons, and Reddit….
