Join us at City Hall to receive or donate food, and to demand our leaders save our $600! The $600 per week in federal unemployment benefits has expired. President Trump’s proposed executive order on federal unemployment is a failure. We deserve the full $600, fully funded, and administratively simple.
If you have food donations (shelf-stable foods, canned foods, pasta, rice, etc.) or hygiene products you can donate please take them to Native Hostel until the end of the week.
Want to contribute but don't have canned goods? Hit our linktree for the Cashapp grocery donation button!
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Sign up to attend here!
https://actionnetwork.org/events/community-food-distribution-pop-up-and-rally-for-the-unemployed/
We are unemployed through no fault of our own, and we deserve enough support to survive. Many of us are restaurant, bar, and venue workers, and our workplaces are struggling to stay in business. We need our unemployment! We feed you, don’t let us starve!

You must RSVP here for the Zoom link: https://actionnetwork.org/events/socialist-night-school-how-can-socialists-support-public-education

Socialist Night School is an open course that provides a chance to develop our politics together, regardless of background knowledge or whether you’ve attended a class before. New members and lifelong socialists, all are welcome!

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We will begin with a guest lecture from a DSA member and rank and file teacher, Robert LeVertis Bell from Louisville, Kentucky. 
After the lecture, we will go into breakout groups for open discussion on the readings, the lecture, and what socialists can and should do to support organizing teachers, school workers, and working class parents through this crisis.

The American capitalist class and their representatives in state and federal government have completely failed to responsibly manage the COVID-19 pandemic. Their single-minded focus on protecting their profits has made America's richest billionaires even richer, while nearly 200,000 Americans are dead.

Capitalists need schools to reopen so that parents can do the work that makes capitalists their profits with fewer distractions. Working class parents, however, do not want to sacrifice the lives and safety of their families. School workers, including teachers and support staff, have the power to fight for a just response to these pandemic conditions.

Since West Virginia teachers and school workers went on a statewide strike in February 2018, educators have been leading the working class. The fight for safe school openings could become a decisive showdown that could shift the balance of power in favor of the working class, and as socialists, we want to be educated and prepared on what our role could be in this looming crisis.
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We're going to read about the recent teacher strike wave and the nationwide demand for safe school openings.

Readings:
Will New York Teachers Strike for Safe Schools? An Interview with Jia Lee, a special education teacher at the Earth School, a United Federation of Teachers (UFT) chapter leader, and an organizer with the Movement of Rank-and-File Educators (MORE), the UFT’s rank-and-file caucus.

https://jacobinmag.com/2020/08/teacher-strike-new-york-covid-19-reopening-schools

Interview with Eric Blanc: We Need to Reconnect Socialists to the US Labor Movement. 
Socialists have historically played a key role in the US labor movement as part of a broader current of militant rank-and-file workers. The recent teachers’ strike wave shows that to rebuild unions, we have to build that militant current.
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/08/eric-blanc-labor-movement-militant-minority-red-state-revolt

You must RSVP here for the Zoom Link: https://actionnetwork.org/events/austin-dsa-september-monthly-meeting

Agenda to come!

Every month, Austin DSA has a meeting open to members and prospective members. DSA is fighting to build a world where the working class are in charge. Our socialist vision is that if the working class can get political organized, every single person will have high quality healthcare, housing, and good union job. And, only the project of building socialism can stop climate change.

Our monthly meetings are a great way to keep up with and plug into the work of our chapter. We're currently working on a chapter-wide campaign to Defund the Austin Police Department. We're out at protests and we are organizing to build as much pressure as possible on City Council to defund the police to the tune of $100 Million — or more — and put that money into the social services, jobs, and housing that we need to thrive.

Stay tuned for a full agenda, and make sure to RSVP in order to get the Zoom Link!

https://www.facebook.com/events/624960085103981/

 “Now we need the power built to win it. We have plenty of good ideas that never happen, all for lack of deep organizing! “– Jane McAlevey.

Join thousands of organizers from around the world who will come together to learn how to develop the organization required to hold super-majority strikes.

Led by labor organizer Jane McAlevey, Strike School will give you the opportunity to work with activists from across the globe to build the power to stop the madness and start winning more!

Strike School is exercise, role play and practice orientated. As such, participants need to form a group to register. To complete registration, you’ll need to provide the names and email addresses of at least 3 other organizers from your group.  If you don’t have a group, find or create one now! You’ll need them in order to attend Strike School. You’ll need them to help Organize for Power.

Individual applicants will be waitlisted and given the opportunity to apply for exceptions, space permitting, but we strongly recommend you attempt to find your group of organizers first (even virtually!). We know they’re out there, and we know you have it in you.

We have a world to win, and we’ll only do it together.

Tuesdays and Thursdays: September 24 & 29 / October 1, 6, 8 & 13

It is held twice daily for a global audience, for all 6 days:

First round at – 12pm New York / 17h Lagos / 18h Berlin / 19h Baghdad / 21h30 New Delhi

Second round (repeated training) at – 5pm Los Angeles / 7pm Mexico City / 8pm Washington DC / 21h Buenos Aires / 8h Manila (following day)

Registration open to groups of 4+ organizers / individual requests waitlisted for considerationDescription Here: https://janemcalevey.com/speaking-engagement/organizing-for-power-strike-school/)

It's hard to have social events that are still safe, but outdoor socially distanced bike rides are still doable! Come join us Saturday to build community with your friendly neighborhood socialists! We'll be riding in the Crestview area, with flat terrain that's very friendly to new riders, with low thru traffic. Masks mandatory!

***You must RSVP at this link to receive the Zoom Call Information: https://actionnetwork.org/events/austin-dsa-monthly-reading-and-discussion-group/

Every month, Austin DSA hosts a Reading Group. There is no assigned reading, every participant is invited to discuss and share whatever political readings you've done lately! It's always a lively discussion. Please come with thoughts and links to things that you've read!