Austin DSA

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Austin, TX Chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America 🌹 austindsa.org

Austin DSA members smiling for a photo with raised solidarity fists before heading out to canvass.
Flyer for the next No ALPRs canvass. Location: Montopolis Neighborhood. Time: Sunday, July 26, 10:30 AM.
Abolish ICE campaign members holding their Abolish ICE banner over Interstate 35.
THIS WEEK WITH AUSTIN DSA Monday 7/20, 6 to 8 PM Member-to-Member Canvassing Phonebank Join us virtually to ask Austin DSA members to canvass for Misael Ramos with us on Saturday! Tuesday 7/21, 7 to 8:30 AM Run and Coffee Club A beginner-friendly 2 mile run with comrades and a post-run coffee hour at Epoch North Loop! Tuesday 7/21, 5:30 to 6:30 PM AfroSoC Caucus Meeting Join the caucus for a virtual meeting to ratify caucus bylaws and vote on a Steering Committee! Tuesday 7/21, 6 to 6:30 PM Chapter Discussion with Mike Siegel A virtual discussion on the proposed Dog's Head Development being considered at City Council. RSVP for events at austindsa.org/events
Majority red and white graphic with smiling DSA members along the bottom and the Austin DSA bat logo at the top left. Text reads: Chapter Orientation, Thursday, 7/16 at 6 PM. Meet new comrades and learn about DSA history and our current campaigns!
Austin DSA members smiling for a photo and holding up a Misael Ramos for Austin City Council District 1 banner.
THIS WEEK WITH AUSTIN DSA Monday 7/13, 6:30 to 8 PM Poli Ed Book Club Join as we discuss Chapter 2 of August Nimtz's The Ballot, the Streets, or Both. RSVP for location. Tuesday 7/14, 7 to 8:30 AM Austin DSA Run and Coffee Club A beginner-friendly 2 mile run with comrades and a post-run coffee hour at Epoch North Loop! Tuesday 7/14, 6 to 7:30 PM Electoral Committee: Canvassing 101 Learn the ins and outs of reaching out to your neighbors for support at this virtual meeting! Wednesday 7/15, 6 to 7:30 PM Austin Against Apartheid Campaign Meeting Virtual meeting for our campaign focused on Palestine solidarity and action. RSVP for events at austindsa.org/events
THIS WEEK WITH AUSTIN DSA Tuesday 7/7, 7 to 8:30 AM Run and Coffee Club A beginner-friendly 2 mile run with comrades and a post-run coffee hour at Epoch North Loop! Wednesday 7/8, 6 to 7 PM Electoral Committee Meeting Join us virtually to plan and execute committee tasks, notably the Misael Ramos campaign! Thursday 7/9, 7 to 8:30 AM Communications Committee Meeting Join us virtually to support our chapter’s social, newsletter, media, podcast, and website needs! Saturday 7/11, 10 AM to 1 PM Austin DSA for Misael Ramos Canvass #1 Canvass with us for our endorsed candidate for City Council D1 in the Blackland Neighborhood! RSVP at austindsa.org/events
Two challengers fist bumping before playing a round of Smash Bros.
Tournament challengers playing a round of Smash Bros.
THIS WEEK WITH AUSTIN DSA Monday 6/29, 5 to 7 PM Socialist Senders! Join your climbing comrades at Crux Central to take socialism to new heights! Monday 6/29, 6:30 to 8 PM Poli Ed Book Club Join comrades as we read August Nimtz's The Ballot, the Streets, or Both. RSVP for location! Tuesday 6/30, 7 to 8:30 AM Austin DSA Run and Coffee Club A beginner-friendly 2 mile run with comrades and a post-run coffee hour at Epoch North Loop! Tuesday 6/30, 6:30 to 8 PM Abolish ICE Campaign Meeting Join virtually to be part of the solution and protect our neighbors. RSVP for events at austindsa.org/events
Austin DSA Book Club Join us for a bi-weekly discussion with comrades! Monday, June 29th, 6:30 to 8 PM Reading: The Ballot, the Streets—or Both by August Nimtz, Preface through Chapter 1 RSVP for location info
THIS WEEK WITH AUSTIN DSA Tuesday, 6/23, 7 to 8:30 AM Austin DSA Run and Coffee Club A beginner-friendly 2 mile run with comrades and a post-run coffee hour at Epoch Coffee! Tuesday, 6/23. 6:30 to 9 PM June General Body Meeting Join us at First Unitarian Universalist Church of Austin for our monthly General Body Meeting! Thursday, 6/25, 6 to 7:30 PM Austin DSA Orientation Join us virtually to learn the basics behind Austin DSA and connect with comrades! Thursday, 6/25, 7 to 8 PM Communications Committee Meeting Join our regular virtual meeting where we discuss and execute upcoming projects! RSVP for events at austindsa.org/events
The consultants knew what they were doing was not only wrong, but unlawful: Quote: There has been considerable talk in Austin, as well as other cities, in regard to the race segregation problem. This problem cannot be solved legally under any zoning law known to us at present. Practically all attempts of such have been proven unconstitutional. End quote The consultants intentionally omit their plan to cut water, electricity, and public services to Black families to force them to move.
Black, white, and red graphic with cartoony figure walking on a street in front of houses, holding a sign reading: No ALPRs Canvass. Text to the left and right reads: Abolish ICE/No ALPRs Canvass, in Heritage Hills (RSVP for address), Sunday, June 21, 10:30AM.
Green, yellow, and blue graphic with various items of clothing in the background, a mug that says “World’s best dad,“ and a grill. Text on top reads: Pizza and Pool time with Pops! When: Saturday, June 20 from 12-3 pm, Where: Montopolis neighborhood park 1200 Montopolis Dr, Austin, TX 78741
THIS WEEK WITH AUSTIN DSA Tuesday 6/16, 7 to 8:30 AM Austin DSA Run & Coffee Club A beginner-friendly 2-mile run with comrades and a post-run coffee hour at Epoch Coffee! Tuesday 6/16, 6:30 to 8 PM Abolish ICE Campaign Meeting Join virtually to be a part of the solution and protect our neighbors. Wednesday 6/17, 6 to 7:30 PM Austin Against Apartheid Campaign Meeting Virtual meeting for our campaign focused on Palestine solidarity and action. Thursday 6/18, 6:30 to 7:30 PM Labor Committee Meeting Join us over Zoom to help organize and support workers taking action across Austin! RSVP for events at austindsa.org/events
In a media environment that is constantly jumping from one cataclysmic event to the next, it is pertinent that we are steadfast in recognizing how the landscape of immigration enforcement is shifting. The Trump administration wants you to forget about I.C.E. They want you to forget about the evils that took place in Minneapolis and across the country through the early part of the year. But it’s not going to happen because we won’t let it happen. / En un entorno mediático que constantemente salta de un evento catastrófico al siguiente, es pertinente que seamos firmes al reconocer cómo está cambiando el panorama de la aplicación de la ley de inmigración. La administración Trump quiere que olvides a I.C.E. Quieren que olvides los males que ocurrieron en Minneapolis y en todo el país durante la primera parte del año. Pero no va a suceder porque no permitiremos que suceda.
It’s a strategic maliciousness that sets out to develop a malaise amongst the public, and create an environment where any faith in institutional checks and balances is lost. While so far the name of the game has been to cover things up, subvert legal procedure, and never ask permission, power still very much exists in the hands of the people. Knowing the rights you have as a person who resides in this country can help save yourself and the people around you. / Es una maldad estratégica que se propone fomentar un malestar entre el público y crear un entorno en el que se pierda cualquier fe en los controles y equilibrios institucionales. Si bien hasta ahora el nombre del juego ha sido encubrir las cosas, subvertir los procedimientos legales y nunca pedir permiso, el poder sigue existiendo en manos del pueblo. Conocer los derechos que tienes como persona que reside en este país puede ayudarte a salvarte a ti mismo y a las personas a tu alrededor.
THIS WEEK WITH AUSTIN DSA Tuesday 6/9, 7 to 8:30 AM Run and Coffee Club A beginner-friendly 2 mile run with comrades and a post-run coffee hour at Epoch Coffee! Wednesday 6/10, 6 to 7:30 PM Homes for All Campaign Meeting Join virtually for the campaign’s final meeting to discuss plans for the future of social housing. Wednesday 6/10, 7 to 8 PM Communications Committee Meeting Join our regular virtual meeting where we discuss and execute upcoming projects! Thursday 6/11, 5:30 to 6:30 PM Political Education Committee Meeting Monthly virtual meeting to plan political education programming for Austin DSA. RSVP FOR EVENTS AT austindsa.org/events
Liberation Takes Action! Highlighting 3 Influential Queer Socialist Activists Below the text is portraits of the 3 highlighted activists: Angela Davis, Sylvia Rivera, and Bayard Rustin
THIS WEEK WITH AUSTIN DSA Tuesday 5/19 at 7 to 8:30 AM Austin DSA Run and Coffee Club A beginner-friendly 2 mile run with comrades and a post-run coffee hour at Epoch Coffee! Wednesday 5/20 at 6 to 7:30 PM Austin Against Apartheid Campaign Meeting Virtual meeting for our campaign focused on Palestine solidarity and action. Thursday 5/21 at 6:30 to 7:30 PM Labor Committee Meeting Join us over Zoom to help organize and support workers taking action across Austin! Thursday 5/21 at 6:30 to 7:30 PM Political Education Committee Meeting Join the virtual meeting to plan political education programming for Austin DSA. RSVP for events at austindsa.org/events
2026 Austin DSA Convention All members welcome to join us in shaping the direction of our chapter for the next year! When: Saturday, May 23, 10 AM to 5 PM Where: Austin, TX 78741 (RSVP for address)
Keep Luis's story visible! We need to show the court that Luis's community supports him and will not let him be ripped away quietly. Like, comment, save, and share posts about Luis Fernando on social media. linktr.ee/LetLuisGraduate
Free Luis Fernando from ICE detention LET LUIS GRADUATE!
Bryan giving their presentation.
Austin DSA Power Hours! Get campaign, committee, and chapter work done with your Austin DSA comrades! Sunday, May 17, 1 to 3 PM The Brewtorium, 6016 Dillard Circle A
THIS WEEK WITH AUSTIN DSA Tuesday 5/12 at 7 to 8:30 AM Austin DSA Run and Coffee Club A beginner-friendly 2 mile run with comrades and a post-run coffee hour at Epoch Coffee! Tuesday 5/12 at 5 to 6:30 PM Neighborhood Organizing Work Session Virtual meeting to finalize strategy for the resolution to establish neighborhood groups. Wednesday 5/13 at 6 to 7:30 PM Homes for All Campaign Meeting Join us for a virtual meeting where we’ll discuss how to achieve green social housing in Austin. Thursday 5/14 at 7 to 8 PM Communications Committee Meeting Join our regular virtual meeting where we discuss and execute upcoming projects! RSVP for events at austindsa.org/events
THIS WEEK WITH AUSTIN DSA Monday 5/4 at 7 PM Membership Engagement Committee Meeting Virtual meeting to discuss and execute the committee's ongoing priorities. Chapter members only! Tuesday 5/5 at 7 AM Austin DSA Run and Coffee Club A beginner-friendly 2 mile run with comrades and a post-run coffee hour at Epoch Coffee! Tuesday 5/5 at 6:30 PM Austin DSA Power Hours Come meet comrades at Central Market to get campaign, committee and chapter work done! Tuesday 5/5 at 6:30 PM Abolish ICE Campaign Meeting Join virtually to be a part of the solution and protect our neighbors. RSVP for events at austindsa.org/events
What do Mother's Day and May Day have in common? Thursday, May 7, 7 PM at Barrett's Too
THIS WEEK WITH AUSTIN DSA Tuesday 4/28 at 7 AM Run and Coffee Club A beginner-friendly 2 mile run with comrades and a post-run coffee hour at Epoch Coffee! Tuesday 4/28 at 6:30 PM April General Body Meeting Join us at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Austin or virtually for our monthly General Body Meeting! Wednesday 4/29 at 6 PM Homes for All Campaign Meeting Join us for a virtual meeting where we’ll discuss how to make the city bond work for the people. Friday 5/1 at 2 PM Austin CLC May Day Rally and Labor Fair Join us at Austin City Hall for our May Day Labor Fair & Rally. RSVP for events at austindsa.org/events
MAY DAY May 1, 2 PM to 6 PM at City Hall Solidarity potluck, Organizing fair, and Labor rally International Worker's Day/Stop the Billionare Agenda/ We are the many. They are the few.
Chapter Orientation (Saturday 4/25 at 1 PM) and New Member Meet & Greet (Sunday 4/26 at 1 PM at Better Half Coffee and Cocktails) Meet new comrades, learn about DSA history and our current campaigns, then join us on Sunday for a Meet and greet! RSVP at austindsa.org/events
CALL TO ACTION Tell Austin City Council to Vote YES on Item #37: Creation of a Safe to Call process that aims to reduce arrests of Austin residents who request emergency services
THIS WEEK WITH AUSTIN DSA Tuesday 4/21 at 7 AM Austin DSA Run & Coffee Club A beginner-friendly 2 mile run with comrades and a post-run coffee hour at Epoch Coffee! Thursday 4/23 at 7 PM Communications Committee Meeting Join our regular virtual meeting where we discuss and execute upcoming projects! Saturday 4/25 at 11 AM Andrew Hairston Electoral Committee Debrief Jon us in person to debrief on our efforts for Hairston's Justice of the Peace campaign. Saturday 4/25 at 1 PM Austin DSA Orientation Virtual meeting to learn the basics behind Austin DSA and connect with comrades! RSVP FOR EVENTS AT AUSTINDSA.ORG/EVENTS
THIS WEEK WITH AUSTIN DSA Tuesday 4/14 at 7 AM Run and Coffee Club A beginner-friendly 2 mile run with comrades and a post-run coffee hour at Epoch Coffee! Tuesday 4/14 at 6 PM AfroSoC Caucus Meeting Virtual meeting for the Afrosocialists and Socialists of Color (AfroSoC) Caucus! Tuesday 4/14 at 6:30 PM Join virtually to be a part of the solution and protect our neighbors. Wednesday 4/15 at 6 PM Austin Against Apartheid Meeting Virtual meeting for our campaign focused on Palestine solidarity and action. RSVP for events at austindsa.org/events
Austin DSA member holding a sign that says: War is the symptom, capitalism is the disease, socialism is the cure. Join DSA!
All of this has never been about crime, or the economy, or even immigration; the expansion of I.C.E. is a calculated move to retake the reins of power by force, and never give them back. Todo esto nunca ha tratado sobre el crimen, la economía ni siquiera la inmigración; la expansión de ICE es una medida calculada para retomar las riendas del poder por la fuerza, y nunca devolverlas. An administration stacked from top to bottom with white nationalists lives in fear of the multicultural reality that confronts them every single day. Una administración de arriba a abajo con nacionalistas blancos vive con miedo de la realidad multicultural que los confronta cada día. They are flailing, and lashing out as the structures which supported them for centuries begin to crumble, however slowly beneath them. Están desquiciados y arremetiendo mientras las estructuras que los han sostenido por siglos comienzan a desmoronarse, aunque sea lentamente, debajo de ellos. It’s true that America has always
New episode of the Austin DSA Batcast TEXAS HEAT MELTS I.C.E. - EL CALOR DE TEXAS DERRITE EL I.C.E. - PT 1 YOUTUBE + SPOTIFY
In case you missed the news last night (and I don't blame you for tuning it out for a night), the US and Israel have reportedly accepted Iran's demands for a ceasefire. Despite over 6 weeks of intense bombardment, the Iranian people remained steadfast, even showing up to form human chains around their bridges and power plants late into the night last night to defend their infrastructure from Donald Trump's genocidal threats, and they have effectively won a strategic victory over the US and Israel—for now. Part of the ceasefire terms were that all Zionist aggression on Lebanon and the broader region (which one assumes to mean the West Bank and Gaza as well, though it was not explicitly stated) cease immediately. Iran, as part of the Axis of Resistance, insisted that all fronts in this war were united, and all fronts should be included in the ceasefire, or none of them would be. This morning, the IOF launched its harshest bombing campaign on the Lebanese capital of Beirut since the 1988 Israeli invasion of the city, with hundreds of martyrs reported so far. It is unclear right now if this will mean the ceasefire is already over, or if it will be salvaged somehow by the US or other guarantors bringing Israel into line.
"A whole civilization will die tonight." - Donald Trump HAND OFF IRAN! Emergency rally - Wednesday 4/8 6 PM at Republic Sqaure 422 Guadalupe St, Austin, TX NO ONE STANDS ALONE UNDER THREAT OF GENOCIDE
THIS WEEK WITH AUSTIN DSA Monday 4/6, 7 PM Membership Engagement Committee Meeting Virtual meeting to discuss and execute the committee's ongoing priorities. Chapter members only! Tuesday 4/7, 7 AM Austin DSA Run and Coffee Club A beginner-friendly 2 mile run with comrades and a post-run coffee hour at Epoch Coffee! Tuesday 4/7 at 6:30 PM Austin DSA Power Hours Come meet comrades at Better Half to get campaign, committee, and chapter work done! Wednesday 4/8 at 6 PM AfroSoC Caucus Meeting Virtual meeting for the Afrosocialists and Socialists of Color (AfroSoC) Caucus! RSVP for events at austindsa/org/events
Attendees visiting tables at the Organizing Fair.
Dispatches from Minneapolis: An overview, by Gumbo V The accompanying image is a table full of zines about how to resist ICE.
Members of the Abolish ICE campaign at their table, smiling for the camera with solidarity fists raised.
All About Austin Against Apartheid: Building the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement in Austin in solidarity with the Palestinian people
THIS WEEK WITH AUSTIN DSA Tuesday 3/31, 7 AM Run and Coffee Club A beginner-friendly 2 mile run with comrades and a post-run coffee hour at Epoch Coffee! Tuesday 3/31, 6:30 PM Abolish ICE Campaign Meeting Join virtually to be a part of the solution and protect our neighbors. Wednesday 4/1, 6 PM Austin Against Apartheid Campaign Meeting Meetings for the AAA campaign happen every 2-3 weeks on Zoom. Wednesday 4/1, 6 PM Homes For All Campaign Meeting Join us for a virtual meeting where we’ll discuss how to make the city bond work for the people. RSVP for events at austindsa.org/events
THIS WEEK WITH AUSTIN DSA Monday 3/23 6 PM - Social with Region Organizer Eric Join us at Hold Out Brewing for social with our visiting Regional Organizer from DSA National! Tuesday 3/24 7 AM - Run and Coffee Club A beginner-friendly 2 mile run with comrades and a post-run coffee hour at Epoch Coffee! 6:30 PM - March General Body Meeting Join us at First Unitarian Universalist Church of Austin for our monthly General Body Meeting! Wednesday 3/25 6 PM - AfroSoC Caucus Meeting Virtual bi-weekly meeting for the Afrosocialist and Socialists of Color caucus! RSVP for events at austindsa.org/events