Features New Orleans DSA Fall 2025 Voter Guide Release This Weekend The Trump administration is sending federal agents and National Guard troops to occupy American cities, disappearing people into ICE detention, and continuing the genocide in Gaza. The religious right have criminalized reproductive healthcare and are targeting LGBTQ+ rights. The Supreme Court is rigging election…
Bulletins Join DSA Movie Night at the Broad Please join our first ever movie night at the Broad Theatre, in conjunction with Gap Tooth Media! On Wednesday, September 24th, we’ll screen the critically acclaimed The Act of Killing, which recounts the US-backed mass killings of 1-2 million of communists, leftists, and others in 1965-66 Indonesia….
Features The Invisible Hand of Corporate Fascism News broke last week about an ICE raid on a firefighting crew working on the Bear Gulch fire in Washington state. The crew of 44 was detained for three hours, resulting in the arrest of two men. The other 42 were sent home, their contracts terminated by the…
New Orleans DSA vehemently opposes the Trump administration’s proposed military occupation of our city. We wholly reject the claim by the Federal and Louisiana state governments that they intend to deploy the military in order to address any semblance of “crime” here. A police state will neither prevent nor reduce crime. Only investment in our…
Features Let’s Do It Jewett! for US Congress District 1 On Labor Day, union teacher and New Orleans DSA member Lauren Jewett announced her candidacy for US Congress, LA-01. We couldn’t be more excited to help one of our own unseat Republican Steve Scalise. Lauren has been a public school special education teacher for 17…
Features Help the 9th Ward Stop the Lock! The Army Corps of Engineers wants to build an outdated, unnecessary, and harmful expansion of the Industrial Canal at the St. Claude bridge. First approved in the 1950s, this plan destroys homes, ties up traffic, and worsens quality of life for Bywater and the Lower 9th Ward….
Features Swing By the General Meeting Tomorrow at the Healing Center August’s GM is tomorrow from 12:00 – 2:00 pm in Room #204 of the New Orleans Healing Center! Parking can be found at 2465 N Rampart St, and you can also join via Zoom using the link when you RSVP. We’ll have committee and…
Features Stand Up or Shut Up Time for City Councilmembers and Candidates Eugene Green and Oliver Thomas’s expansive surveillance ordinance is returning to City Council this Wednesday. This dangerous ordinance would make New Orleans the first and only city in the country to allow live facial recognition of its residents. That means the cameras you…
Features There Is No Safe Facial Recognition System Our city government has invested heavily in surveillance cameras that record you every time you go to the grocery store, a friend’s house, or sit on your porch. Now, NOPD wants to record your face and run it through a target database every time you step into…
Features City Council Campaigns Are Underway, Get Involved! Election Day is October 11 and New Orleans DSA has three endorsed members running for City Council. Danyelle Christmas, Jackson Kimbrell, and Bob Murrell are making calls, knocking on doors, and attending candidate forums. At Step Up’s District E forum on Wednesday, Danyelle talked to voters about…
