A FIGHTING PROGRAM FOR THE DIVERSE WORKING CLASS OF ATLANTA

WHO WE ARE - OUR POINTS OF UNITY

Mutual Aid

Utilize Mutual Aid to empower our communities, and to put the first steps into creating a world where capital accumulation does not reign supreme, people are prioritized, and needs are met accordingly.

Consistent Communication of Principles

We strive to communicate effectively and respectfully. Our understanding is that we must free ourselves and each other from all forms of supremacy. This will be done by facilitating good faith conversations, creating a safe space for openly discussing blind spots, and diversifying political education within the chapter and across Atlanta. 

Representative, Participative, and Informed Membership

Build a chapter that reflects Atlanta’s  racial, cultural, and gender identities, and ensure all members have their voice heard. Additionally, ensure that all members are informed and empowered to shape the chapter’s governance and decision-making through transparency, accountability, and open processes.

Affinity and Interest Groups

Support sections that bring members together around shared identities and passions, such as AFROSOC, FEMSOC, interfaith groups, disability groups, and LGBTQ+ organizations.

Fair, Accessible, and Engaging Meetings

Encourage more meaningful deliberation and participation among members during chapter meetings and proceedings via childcare, hybrid meetings, and removal of other barriers of entry. We seek to be the best possible stewards of our chapter democracy.

Encourage self-organized groups around shared interests to build community within the chapter and connect with working people outside it.

Empower neighborhood and county-level branches to organize around the issues that matter most to their communities. Additionally, develop relationships with Atlanta-area organizations that share our values to move in coalition.

Nurture the organizing capacity and support diverse leadership development. Cultivate members from an intentionally broad spectrum of  communities to strengthen the chapter and ensure sustainable growth.

We want a political education program that doesn’t settle to educate along the basics of Marxist thought. We believe scientific socialism demands Marxist thought be re-interpreted and re-contextualized, and thus seek a true teaching of history and philosophy that acknowledges contemporary radical movements and ideologies.

As a caucus built by the people, for the people, Rainbow Coalition serves first and foremost as a mechanism to uplift all people. We do not believe the keys to liberation rest in the hands of any other entity than the people. As such, we seek to embody and highlight all forms of collective struggle, no matter the intersections. No matter the race, creed, or gender. We strive to make DSA a home for all forms of emancipatory work, for it is this solidarity that will create a mass movement of individuals that will stand together, that will fight together. A mass movement that is anti-racist, anti-imperialist, and feminist in nature. As Kwame Ture stated "No changes can come from the top down. Change can only come from the bottom up. The masses and the masses alone can make them." Every step we take must be towards empowering the masses. Because we know that none of us are free until all of us are free.