Upcoming Events

Heidi Sloan is a farmer transitioning people out of homelessness, a former public school teacher for kids with disabilities, and a community organizer running for US Congress in TX-25. She led an 18-month campaign to move Congressional Rep. Lloyd Doggett to sign onto the House Medicare For All bill, and now she is continuing the fight to win real healthcare for all by knocking on doors and spreading the word!

Medicare for All is a bill proposed by Pramila Jayapal & Bernie Sanders that would eliminate the for-profit private health insurance industry and use the billions in profits that industry pocketed for shareholders to provide quality healthcare for every resident in the US - with no copayments, no deductibles, no out-of-pocket costs. Come to learn more about this amazing proposal and how we can work together to win it.

Phone bank members Text bank non-members.

Observers are welcomed. We will be in room 615.

Monthly meeting. Agenda TBA.

It's Time for Rock the Park at Mueller, which means hundreds of voters who live in District 25 being out and about! We'll be bringing our organizing directly to the crowd, and getting signatures for Heidi's ballot access. After we canvass, stick around and check out live music!

Meet us at Halcyon

Let's come talk to our neighbors about childcare. The People's Policy Project's Family Fun Pack is a great policy that will get rid of some of the burden of paying to raise a family here in Central Texas. We will have coffee, breakfast, and pair you with a partner. It's a great time to talk to our neighbors and let them know a better world is possible!

Austin DSA and Sunrise ATx will host a 90 minute session on the basics of the climate change, how we got here, and how the Green New Deal, as socialists envision it, can help us solve the great existential challenge of our time.

The session will open with a short presentation (details to come) on the problem of climate change and how it got so bad (we call it "capitalism") followed by breakout groups on Green New Deal policies that can help us solve the underlying crisis and care for those least responsible and most affected by it.

Let's come talk to our neighbors about making housing a human right. Heidi's platform includes national rent control, building millions of beautiful public homes and ending homelessness. We all know how expensive housing in Central Texas is, so let's spread the word that it doesn't have to be this way.

If you've never canvassed before, we will provide you a partner. We will provide breakfast, coffee and water.

Accessibility info: Cepeda has accessible bathrooms and is on the number 300 bus line heading northbound on N Pleasant Valley Rd and can also be reached via the number 4 bus line heading eastbound on E 7th St.

Hey folks, join us for the November Housing Committee meeting where we'll be talking about housing justice in our city. We will be electing a new co-chair and talking about our current campaigns. The agenda is attached.

Socialist Night School is an approachable and participatory place for all to learn about about democratic socialist perspectives, history, theory, and praxis. This program is intended for people with all levels of knowledge. Whether you’ve read every word of Marx front-to-back, or if you’re a little shaky on what exactly we mean by “socialism,” Socialist Night School is for you. Socialist Night School is largely discussion-based and entirely non-judgmental. There are no right or wrong answers, no quizzes or tests, and no bad questions.

At this edition of Socialist Night School, we will discuss a question of increasing importance in our time: What is Democratic Socialism? In the three years since Bernie Sanders first ran for president, democratic socialism has emerged out of obscurity into public discourse, much to the dismay of billionaires and elites. Labor militancy is back with an ongoing public education strike wave, politicians, including Austin's own Heidi Sloan, are running for congress and winning as Democratic Socialists, and hundreds of thousands of working class Americans are hearing about democratic socialism and thinking to themselves, "hunh, universal healthcare doesn't sound that evil."

What's it all about? Find out by doing our readings (link below) and joining us on November 13. Readings can be found here: https://austindsa.org/committees/political-education/what-is-democratic-socialism-november-2019/

This Friday, we're talking people about our working-class candidate, and we're doing it fast! We'll be clearing out some high-density voter areas, these canvasses are short, but high impact. We'll bring the sign-up sheets, you bring your feet!

It's time to bring the message of Ending Cash Bail to our whole city, and we're starting in the morning with a canvass of some high-density complexes! We'll have lit and training on our candidates for County and District attorney Dominic Selvera for Travis County Attorney and José Garza for DA, as well as the Heidi campaign! Come back in the evening for for food and a rally!

It's time to tell everyone who will listen how we can END CASH BAIL, starting here in Travis county, and then the country. We'll be doing a canvass blitz, talking to our candidates Dominic and Heidi, and having speakers talk about the impact of our criminal justice system. There will also be many snacks.