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…
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…
