Solidarity: Food Not Bombs Picnic Support
2025-08-30 13:30 - 15:30, 2025-09-06 13:30 - 15:30, 2025-09-13 13:30 - 15:30, 2025-09-20 13:30 - 15:30, 2025-09-27 13:30 - 15:30 (America/Chicago) | 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

Comms Committee Monthly Meeting
2025-08-30 15:00 - 17:00 | Benjamin Hooks Central Library, 3030 Poplar Ave, Memphis, TN, 38111
The Communications Committee of the Memphis-Midsouth Democratic Socialists of America connects the working class to democratic socialist messaging that motivates organizing and action. If you have experience or interest in communications, graphic design, media, or want to learn more, all are welcome!

Workplace Organizing Committee Meeting
2025-09-01 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-09-15 18:00 - 20:00 | RP Tracks, 3547 Walker Ave, Memphis, 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.

Mutual Aid Committee Meeting
2025-09-03 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-09-17 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-10-01 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.

Solidarity: Volunteer at Memphis & West TN AFL-CIO Labor Day Celebration
2025-09-06 10:00 - 15:00 | Health Science Park, Madison Ave & S Dunlap, Memphis, TN, 38103, United States
Memphis and West TN AFL-CIO Labor Council welcome us to join labor unions at Health Sciences Park for fun, food, and celebration of the labor movement in West Tennessee!
THe Memphis-Midsouth DSA calls on its members to sign up for a volunteer shift to help with this celebration here:
https://actionnetwork.org/events/volunteer-at-the-memphis-afl-cio-labor-day-celebration?clear_id=true

Solidarity: TN4ALL Stop ICE Canvass
2025-09-06 13:00 - 16:00, 2025-09-13 13:00 - 16:00 | Contact memphisdsa@gmail.com if you want to attend and need this event’s address/location information., Memphis, TN, 38111, United States
Core Civic in Mason, TN is seeking to reopen its facility in partnership with ICE in order to hold immigrant members of our communities. This is in complete opposition to the interests of the community in favor of corporate profit! Join us for our weekly canvassing where will spread the info to community members about the facility!

Electoral & Policy Committee Meeting
2025-09-08 18:00 - 20:00, 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.

DSA Salt Training
2025-09-08 19:00 - 20:00, 2025-09-15 19:00 - 20:00, 2025-09-22 19:00 - 20:00 | 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.

Socialist Coffee Hour
2025-09-11 10:00 - 11:00, 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.

MPL Workers United Canvassing @ Cooper Young Fest
2025-09-13 09:00 - 14:00 | Contact memphisdsa@gmail.com if you want to attend and need this event’s address/location information., Memphis, TN, 38111, United States
Memphis Public Library Workers United is fighting to have library workers reclassified as civil service employees with the same protections afforded to other civil servants in the city. They are also attempting to have a 1984 executive order repealed that removed their right to collective bargaining. Join us as we raise awareness for their campaign by speaking with members of the community at Cooper Young Fest and letting them know how they can help in this fight.
Sign up here

Gender Affirming Closet: Rollerslam
2025-09-13 14:00 - 20:00 | Pipkin Building, 940 Early Maxwell Blvd, Memphis, TN, 38104, 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 13, we will be tabling and offering the closet at the Memphis Roller Derby & 901 Wrestling Double Header Rollerslam at the Pipkin Building. Reach out to the mutual aid committee about helping with the event!

Comms Committee In-Person Work Along
2025-09-14 15:00 - 17:00 | Benjamin Hooks Central Library, 3030 Poplar Ave, Memphis, TN, 38111
Have a Comms project you’re working on? Want to get involved in the chapter’s communications and messaging efforts? Need advice or craving collaboration? Drop in during Comms committee’s work-along hours where the team will gather to put in some work on projects for the chapter.

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!

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 | Contact memphisdsa@gmail.com if you want to attend and need this event’s address/location information., Memphis, TN, 38111, United States

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.
