Memphis-Midsouth DSA

DSA Salt Training
2025-09-15 19:00 - 20:00, 2025-09-22 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Virtual – Please RSVP
Salting, or getting a non-union job and organizing your workplace, is a key tactic that organizers have used for decades to build the labor movement. Join a historic tradition today! We’ll cover organizing basics, share information about our priority industries, and help you get a job you can organize. No organizing experience required.

Mutual Aid Committee Meeting
2025-09-17 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-10-01 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-10-15 18:00 - 20:00 | Contact memphisdsa@gmail.com if you want to attend and need this event’s address/location information., Memphis, TN, 38111, United States
Open to members and interested/supportive guests – this committee supports mutual aid efforts, studies mutual aid approaches, and builds our own original mutual aid projects.
Please contact the chapter at memphisdsa@gmail.com for meeting location information.

Gender Affirming Closet: Southern Trans Celebration
2025-09-20 11:00 - 18:00 | St Columba Camp & Retreat Grounds, 4577 Billy Maher Rd, Memphis, TN, 38135, United States
Join our Trans Rights & Bodily Autonomy subcommittee in offering free clothing to members of the community, with a focus on those who are trans and in need of clothing that affirms their gender. This mutual aid project aims to educate on trans rights, healthcare, and queer liberation while addressing the material needs of the trans community.
On September 20, we will be tabling and offering the closet at the People’s Picnic put on by My Sistah’s House WeCareTN, and OUTMemphis. Reach out to the mutual aid committee about helping with the event!

Solidarity: Food Not Bombs Picnic Support
2025-09-20 13:30 - 15:30, 2025-09-27 13:30 - 15:30, 2025-10-04 13:30 - 15:30, 2025-10-11 13:30 - 15:30, 2025-10-18 13:30 - 15:30, 2025-10-25 13:30 - 15:30 | Court Square Park, 62 N Main St, Memphis, TN, 38103, United States
Join the Mutual Aid Committee and Memphis-Midsouth DSA membership in our regular support of Food Not Bombs at their weekly distribution of free food and resources alongside 901 Harm Reduction.

Learn more about Food Not Bombs here
Learn more about 901 Harm Reduction here

Electoral & Policy Committee Meeting
2025-09-22 18:00 - 20:00 | RP Tracks, 3547 Walker Ave, Memphis, 38111, United States
Interested in the role electoral organizing can play in our fight for the working class? Let’s learn from successful leftist political movements and strengthen our organizing skills as we build dual power for working people in the Memphis-Midsouth area.

Socialist Coffee Hour
2025-09-25 10:00 - 11:00 | Aldar Cafe, 4514 Summer Ave Suite 1, Memphis, TN, 38122, United States
Organizing with comrades can be difficult when your schedules don’t align. Whether you work the night shift, spend the evenings with your children, or cherish your early bedtime, it can be hard to get involved with DSA when your have an irregular schedule.
In an effort to offer accessibility to those who have difficulty attending normal chapter meetings, MMDSA is holding a biweekly meetup over coffee at Aldar Cafe. Whether you’re a regular or someone totally new to organizing, we invite you to join us in starting the day off right among likeminded comrades.

Vincent Astor Celebration Support & Tabling
2025-09-27 10:00 - 15:00 | Benjamin Hooks Central Library, 3030 Poplar Ave, Memphis, TN, 38111
On September 27, we will be tabling and offering a “dress up closet” for any kids in need of clothing at the Vincent Astor Celebration being held at the Benjamin Hooks Central Library.

Support shifts available – Click here to RSVP

Trans Liberation & Solidarity Panel
2025-09-28 13:00 - 15:00 | Drus Bar, 1474 Madison Ave, Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Capitalism depends on an oppressive gender binary. Sometimes this strategy is hidden, but it’s often in plain sight. Right now, the fight for Trans Liberation is an urgent challenge to capitalist power and its oppressive systems.
Please join Memphis-Midsouth DSA for a panel discussion on this very topic. Featuring community organizers and researchers, this event will educate us on the struggle for transgender liberation. Our goal is not only to understand this struggle but to learn how we can collectively join in it. Join us as we educate ourselves and organize for change.
RSVP here to let us know you’re attending

Workplace Organizing Committee Meeting
2025-09-29 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-10-13 18:00 - 20:00 | Contact memphisdsa@gmail.com if you want to attend and need this event’s address/location information., Memphis, TN, 38111, United States
Open to members and interested/supportive guests, this committee meets biweekly to organize around increasing worker control over their jobs and lives.
We work alongside the broader Memphis Midsouth Democratic Socialists of America chapter to organize for power.

Free The 901 Orientation
2025-10-02 18:00 - 19:30 | Virtual – Please RSVP
Are you concerned about the National Guard being deployed to Memphis? Are you tired of our state and federal government wasting taxpayer dollars on occupation instead of opportunity? Then join Free The 901 for our virtual orientation on how you can join our campaign to end the occupation of Memphis by the National Guard and other state and Federal forces, and protect our communities.
You’ll learn about our Free901 Campaign, how to get involved, the rising wave of authoritarianism both locally and nationally, and how to take action in small and big ways with your neighbors to show our state and federal government that Memphis does NOT need occupation!

Know Your Rights - Memphis National Guard [ACLU]
2025-10-03 17:30 - 19:00 | Virtual – Please RSVP
President Trump and Gov. Lee are deploying the National Guard to Memphis. National Guard troops have limited knowledge of local laws, making it important for every Memphian to know their rights when interacting with military and law enforcement. In this Know Your Rights Training, we’ll cover why these National Guard deployments are dangerous, your rights in interactions with military and law enforcement, and how to protest safely.

Comms Committee In-Person Meeting
2025-10-04 15:00 - 17:00 | Benjamin Hooks Central Library, 3030 Poplar Ave, Memphis, TN, 38111
Join us for a meeting of MMDSA Communications Committee! Effectively communicating our message connects the needs of people to our efforts.

Electoral & Policy Committee Meeting
2025-10-06 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-10-20 18:00 - 20:00 | Contact memphisdsa@gmail.com if you want to attend and need this event’s address/location information., Memphis, TN, 38111, United States

Socialist Coffee Hour
2025-10-09 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-10-23 10:00 - 11:00 | Contact memphisdsa@gmail.com if you want to attend and need this event’s address/location information., Memphis, TN, 38111, United States

Memphis Midsouth DSA General Meeting
2025-10-14 18:00 - 20:00 | Location To Be Announced
General Meetings for our chapter bi-monthly on the second Tuesday of each month during 2025. These meetings are for chapter updates and decisive business, including voting on motions and resolutions, electing new officers, reports from committees, and more
Members and non-members are both welcome to attend, but only active members may vote.

No Kings Rally
2025-10-18 11:00 - 15:00 | Contact memphisdsa@gmail.com if you want to attend and need this event’s address/location information., Memphis, TN, 38111, United States
Memphis-Midsouth DSA will be tabling at Indivisible Memphis’ No Kings Rally on October 18.

Comms Committee Work-Along
2025-10-19 15:00 - 17:00 | Contact memphisdsa@gmail.com if you want to attend and need this event’s address/location information., Memphis, TN, 38111, United States
Join members of the Communications Committee for a work-along, tackling chapter communications projects.

Turn Out to City Council in Support of Memphis Library Workers
2025-10-21 15:30 - 19:00 | 125 N. Main St, Memphis, TN, 125 N. Main St, Memphis, TN
Join our chapter mobilization to support Memphis public library workers in their efforts to obtain civil service status.
Sign up here to connect with our turnout.

Solidarity: Memphis Tenants Union Renter Canvassing Blitz
2025-10-25 09:00 - 17:30 | Use the link to RSVP for location information
Support Memphis Tenant Union as they survey renters across Memphis to learn what they need to fight for better conditions, respect, and a voice in their buildings
Use this link to sign up for a canvassing shift!
