Upcoming Events
🚫EMERGENCY PROTEST: NO NATIONAL GUARD TO GEORGIA! ICE OFF OUR STREETS!🚫
NO NATIONAL GUARD TO GEORGIA! ICE OFF OUR STREETS!
On Monday, Governor Brian Kemp announced he is mobilizing National Guard troops to assist ICE in its racist campaign of terror.
This action is a clear continuation of the Trump administration’s illegal seizure of the D.C. police department and drive to expand the police state. Trump’s executive orders and statements are a blatant attempt to shred civil liberties, while violently targeting immigrant and Black communities.
Just as the people of D.C. have mobilized to resist and protect their communities, the people of Atlanta will not stand by while our neighbors are terrorized.
The people of Georgia demand the immediate reversal of the Governor’s order! We stand in solidarity with the people of Washington, D.C., and all states facing similar militarized deployments. No National Guard on our streets! ICE isn’t welcome here!
📅 Thursday, August 28 @ 6pm
📍 262 Capitol Ave SE, ATL
The Enduring Struggle Against Mass Incarceration 🔥
What’s the call? FREE THEM ALL!
When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out!
Round out Black August with a critical discussion with Eugene Puryear and Vick Dempsey as we expose the roots of mass incarceration, from convict leasing and Jim Crow to the War on Drugs and the modern-day prison-industrial complex. We’ll strategize on dismantling these systems—and building real safety through community power and collective resistance.
✊🏾 ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:
Eugene Puryear is an author, journalist with Breakthrough News, and organizer whose work traces the political economy of mass incarceration, linking corporate greed, racial capitalism, and state violence. His reporting is a critical source of information for those of us fighting for freedom, having traveled extensively throughout the continent of Africa and the world, uplifting liberation struggles. His book Shackled and Chained is an invaluable tool for understanding the development of mass incarceration in the US.
Vick Dempsey: In memory of his brother Delrawn “FUBU” Small, killed by the NYPD, Vick fights every day to end police brutality and mass incarceration. He’s a community organizer and justice advocate working to build power with the criminalized and incarcerated, dismantle systems of state violence, and create real safety rooted in community. He turns grief into action and carries his brother’s legacy forward in the struggle for freedom.
🕑 Sunday, August 24th @ 2:00PM
📍 344 Candler Park Dr NE Atlanta, Georgia
🎟️ Free & open to the public
All Power to the People Module 3, Class 4: The Civil Rights Revolution
What’s the call? FREE THEM ALL!
Join us as we dive into the Civil Rights Revolution — the mass movement that shook the foundations of U.S. capitalism and imperialism, linking Black liberation in the U.S. to revolutionary struggles across the Global South while building on the lessons from the post-Civil War Reconstruction.
Together, we’ll discuss how these struggles can guide us in organizing and fighting for a third, socialist Reconstruction, one that meets the needs of the people and the planet.
If you haven’t already registered, sign up here to access course materials at: peoplesforum.org/summer25
🕑 Tuesday, August 19th @ 6:30PM
📍 344 Candler Park Dr NE Atlanta, Georgia
🎟️ Free & open to the public
BLACK AUGUST STUDY: Pan-Africanism in the Black Liberation Struggle
What’s the call? FREE THEM ALL!
Join us this Sunday, August 17th, at 2:00 p.m. to explore the history of Pan-Africanism in the Black Liberation Struggle. During the month of Black August, we dedicate ourselves to Study, Fast, Train, and Fight, so learn about the origins of Pan-Africanism and its connection to the US Black liberation struggle.
We will discuss how Black people all over the world have supported one another to fight against imperialism and assert their right to a new system.
As the US and other imperialist powers have intensified attacks against our community, domestically and abroad, we need to connect with our internationalist history and fight back! Because a blow to imperialists anywhere is a blow to imperialism everywhere!
🕑 Sunday, August 17th @ 2PM
📍 344 Candler Park Dr NE Atlanta, Georgia
🎟️ Free & open to the public
Get Organized! Info Session
Get Organized!
What's the call? Free them all!
Black August is a time for us to honor the legacies of those who gave everything in the fight for Black Liberation and to recommit ourselves to the struggle for Black Liberation today. We must be organized to dismantle the political and economic system that targets Black people today!
If you’re interested in fighting for a new system that puts people over profits and want to join an organization to build people power, join us this Saturday to learn how to get involved!
📅 Saturday, August 16 @ 11 am
📍 Atlanta Liberation Center
🗺️ 344 Candler Park Dr NE, Atlanta, GA, 30307
ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE: Module 3, Class 3 - The Unfinished Revolution: Black Reconstruction
Summer School for Socialism
Join us as we discuss the history of post-Civil War Reconstruction, one of the most revolutionary periods in U.S. History.
From 1,500+ newly elected black officeholders to public schools and massive land redistribution, newly freed Black communities organized to completely transform society for the benefit of the people, by the people.
While this progress was violently and systematically overturned by the white ruling class, the history of these working-class victories will not be forgotten.
In this class, we will explore what it means to demand a “third reconstruction” and why studying this history is essential to building a more liberating future.
📆Tuesday, August 12 @ 6:30 pm
📍 Atlanta Liberation Center
🗺️ 344 Candler Park Dr NE, Atlanta, GA, 3030
If you haven’t already registered, sign up here to access course materials at: peoplesforum.org/summer25
Till’ It’s Done Black August Concert @ AISLE 5 ATL
Get Organized!
Join us SUNDAY, AUGUST 10TH, from 7 PM-10 PM for an unforgettable night of music, resistance, and solidarity.
Learn about the history of Black August and the Black Liberation Movement’s political prisoners, like Imam Jamil Al-Amin and Kamau Sadiki.
Enjoy performances by local cultural workers, as music and cultural production have always been integral to the movement.
As the attacks on our people intensify, we must tap into our revolutionary history and learn from those ancestors who built Black Power against all odds! We fortify ourselves with culture as we organize and fight back because we’re in this struggle til it’s done!
Free All Political Prisoners! All Power to the People!
🎟️ Buy tickets here.
HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT: Housing forum
HOUSING A HUMAN RIGHT!
Join us SUNDAY, AUGUST 10TH @ 2 PM, at the Atlanta Liberation Center to discuss how we fight back against this housing crisis.
Capitalist politicians continue to prioritize corporate greed over the lives of working-class people. Rents are skyrocketing, evictions are rampant, and developers profit while families struggle to make ends meet.
But it doesn’t have to be this way! We must fight for a new system—one where everyone has access to all of their needs to survive and thrive.
We'll explore how local communities are being displaced under capitalism, and discuss what housing could look like under socialism—where homes are built for people, not profit. Whether you or someone you love is facing housing insecurity and is ready to fight for justice, this is the space to get informed, get inspired, and get involved.
It’s time to get organized! All Power to the People! ✊🏾
Get Organized! Info Session
Get Organized!
Join us Saturday, August 9th for an information session for the Party for Socialism and Liberation. Across the country, trans people, immigrants, and Medicaid recipients are facing relentless attacks — all from the same forces of oppression. What’s needed now is a united fightback movement.
Our power grows when we stand together. By rejecting the billionaires’ attempts to divide us, we can build a movement that defends the rights of all working and oppressed people.
If you’re ready to learn more about the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), our vision for a system that puts people over profits, and how you can get involved, we invite you to join us for an upcoming info session:
🗓 Saturday, August 9
🕚 11:00 AM
📍 Atlanta Liberation Center
344 Candler Park Dr NE, Atlanta, GA 30307
This is a space to ask questions, meet organizers, and take the first step toward building a better world. We hope to see you there.
Revolutionary Queer Art Show
LGBTQ REVOLUTIONARY ART!
Join us Friday, June 27th @ 7pm for “Body of Our Own” — a queer community art show focusing on revolution and liberation.
The Trump administration is waging a war against LGBTQ people, endlessly demonizing and stripping them of their rights. But the attacks did not start recently — every year, hundreds of pieces of anti-LGBTQ legislation are introduced in states across the country, with no action from the federal government to stop it.
But LGBTQ people will not stop organizing, and not stop fighting for their rights or the rights of other oppressed people! The only solution to ending oppression is revolutionary transformation, and building socialism in the United States.
That’s why, on the 54th anniversary of Atlanta’s first Pride Parade, queer artists from Atlanta and across the country will show their artwork about queer struggle, revolution, and socialism!
Want to submit your art for consideration? Fill out this form!
The Black Belt Thesis: A Forum and Discussion
Celebrate Juneteenth by arming yourself with history!
Join us for a forum and discussion on The Black Belt Thesis: A Reader, a powerful collection of essays featuring contributions from W.E.B. Du Bois, Harry Haywood, Claudia Jones, and more Black Communists central to the struggle in the 20th century.
This reader explores the Black liberation struggle as the cornerstone of worker solidarity in the American South.
In a moment when the ruling class is abandoning working class people, gutting social programs, and seeking to bring back Jim Crow-era tactics against the Black nation, it is more important than ever to understand that we can beat back reaction with the power of the multinational working class!
Hands Off Immigrants! Stop the Deportations!
The Trump administration has unleashed an all-out assault on immigrant communities. Under the false pretense of protecting U.S. citizens, the far-right government has turned the southern border into a war zone, falsely accused immigrants as gang members to accelerate mass deportations, and used ICE to terrorize activists and students for speaking out against the genocide in Gaza.
Trump and his billionaire administration use their racist narrative to blame immigrants for the ills of society – like unaffordable housing and the rising cost of living – when really it’s the billionaires who create these conditions in the first place. This is a distraction from Trump’s billionaire agenda increasing the exploitation of all working people.
We reject their attempts to divide and conquer! Immigrants and non-immigrants alike belong to the same class – the working class. It’s only if we unite, organize, and take action together that we can defeat this far-right assault!
Join us to rally in Lawrenceville, Georgia to demand: Hands off immigrants! Stop the deportations! Free Mahmoud Khalil, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and all victims of Trump’s assault!
Stop the US-Israeli War on Iran!
END ALL U.S. AID TO ISRAEL! Stop the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran!
With the full backing of the Trump administration, the Israeli regime has lit the fuse for a wider, regional war that could easily morph into a global conflict by launching a major, illegal bombing campaign against the people of Iran.
The people of the United States have filled the streets for over 20 months in solidarity with Palestine, demanding an end to the US-Israeli genocide. The US population overwhelmingly rejects war, which only benefits powerful elites, who are simultaneously engaged in violent raids against immigrant workers, repressing dissent, and cutting off access to healthcare for millions of poor and working-class people.
Join us in the streets tomorrow at 7pm at the Israeli consulate to say: Hands off Iran! End all U.S aid to Israel!
Mass Mobilization: From LA To Atlanta, ICE OUT!
MASS PROTEST AGAINST
ICE & RACIST DEPORTATIONS
The Trump administration is deploying the National Guard and heavily militarized federal cops in an attempt to spread terror and intimidate people out of exercising their right to protest against the brutal war against immigrants. But we refuse to be silenced! We have a right to speak out against the racist and anti-worker policies of the Trump administration. Nothing will stop the people – we will take a stand until the raids stop and ICE and the military are off our streets.
It’s no coincidence that the war on immigrants is ramping up just as the administration and their right-wing allies in Congress are preparing to slash Medicaid and food stamps in order to pay for tax breaks for the rich and a massive increase in war spending. If the whole working class unites in this critical moment, we can change the politics of this country and deal a blow to the billionaire agenda of the Trump administration.
If they can get away with using the National Guard and militarized cops to suppress protest in Los Angeles, then that will only embolden the Trump administration to use greater and greater force all across the country, against any expression of dissent regardless of the issue in question. Unless we exercise our right to protest in this critical moment, we will lose it.
For those who believe in immigrant rights, for those who believe in democracy, for the entire working class – now is the time to take to the streets in protest!
Book Tour: Palestine, Israel, and the U.S. Empire
Join author, Richard Becker, and Layan Fuleihan of The People’s Forum for a book tour of the latest edition of “Palestine, Israel and U.S. Empire!
Listed by 1804 Books as “An essential read for the current moment,” it traces the history of the struggle for the liberation of Palestine from British occupation to the global movement today and offers a unique perspective highlighting the role of U.S. imperialism behind the Israeli occupation.
As Trump attempts to deport activists and scare the movement into submission and Netanyahu resists the world wide demands to end their U.S.-backed genocide, we enter a new stage for the liberation of Palestine—join us to discuss this struggle and where we need to take it!
PSL Atlanta: Rally and March Against Mass Evictions a Chelsea Gardens
NO EVICTIONS! NO UTILITY SHUT-OFFS! RELOCATION ASSISTANCE NOW!
Both the landlord of Chelsea Gardens, Pete Dedvukaj, and the City of College Park are guilty of robbing tenants of their homes, cutting off water, endangering their health and safety. The tenants have a right to live in their homes! With 3 DAYS until mass evictions, we stand with the tenants and demand the City Council ACT NOW to address this emergency!
Join us this Wednesday to demand:
1️⃣ Emergency housing vouchers and full relocation assistance for all tenants now.
2️⃣ Turn on the water, and ensure clean, drinkable water for all tenants.
3️⃣ Stop the eviction! Renovations should improve living conditions for tenants – not endanger their health and livelihood.
Stand with tenants as they fight for their homes! Housing is a human right!
PSL Atlanta Info Session
The need for a socialist reorganization of society becomes more apparent and urgent with each passing day. It is not enough to be angry. We must be organized!
If you’re interested in learning more about the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), fighting for a new system that puts people over profits, and want to take the step to join an organization, join us for an info session this Saturday to learn how to get involved!
No Displacement! Stop the Demolition!
NO DISPLACEMENT, STOP THE DEMOLITION!
NO gentrification — housing before profit!
After months of secrecy and back door deals, Campus Edge Apartments has sold and the new owners are threatening to demolish the complex and displace hundreds of tenants! Instead of backing down to these slumlords, the residents have organized the Campus Edge Tenant Association and are fighting back!
Join them TOMORROW, Thursday May 22 at 5:30 PM in an emergency rally. Stand with tenants as they fight for their homes!
Rally to Stop Evictions!
Stop the evictions!
In 11 days, all remaining tenants of Chelsea Gardens will be forcibly removed from their homes. Despite promises that tenants had until June 1st to move out, the City of College Park has continued to shut off utilities, including water, and allow private security to harass residents.
Bring water!
By shutting off water, the City is making these apartments uninhabitable. The City continues to say one thing while doing another, proving that they care more about their image and the owner’s profits than the mass displacement of their constituents.
Join us tomorrow to demand tenants’ voices are heard! To demand tenants are treated with dignity! To demand an end to the city’s collusion with the slumlord!
Rally at City Hall: No Empty Promises, Cancel the Evictions!
Stop the Evictions!
Chelsea Gardens tenants continue to experience utilities shut-offs and evictions, all while the City Council turns a blind eye.
The people of College Park are not a PR opportunity for criminally negligent officials. The people of College Park demand better!
Join us TONIGHT at 6pm for a rally at College Park City Hall!
The People Stand With Palestine! Protest the 77 Years of Ongoing Nakba
ATLANTA: ALL OUT FOR NAKBA 77 -
THE PEOPLE STAND WITH PALESTINE
For 77 years, the Palestinian people have been subjected to genocide, siege, dispossession, and forced displacement, enduring unfathomable brutality at the hands of the zionist colonial project. This year, the Palestinian people commemorate the 77th year of ongoing Nakba under the zionist entity’s murderous genocidal conditions. Atlanta must rise up on Nakba day alongside cities across the world to declare:
THE PEOPLE STAND WITH PALESTINE, AND THE WORLD REJECTS ZIONISM!
Yet, despite decades of zionist aggression, for 77 years, Palestinians continue to resist, fighting for their land, their liberation, and their return. As the genocide in Gaza intensifies, violence in the West Bank escalates, and attacks on our movement grow, now is the time to show the ruling class that the world rejects Zionism-and that the masses stand with Palestine.
This Nakba 77 March will bring together people from across the world to demand:
1. An end to the genocide in Gaza;
2. A full and immediate two-way arms embargo on Israel;
3. The release of all Palestinian political prisoners;
4. Immediate humanitarian aid and reconstruction for Gaza;
5. An end to the Zionist occupation of all Palestinian land.
SEE YOU IN THE STREETS! ALL OUT FOR PALESTINE!
PSL Info Session
"The only way to win is to out-organize capitalism."
— Claudia De la Cruz, 2024 Socialist Presidential Candidate
If you’re interested in learning more about the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), fighting for a new system that puts people over profits, and want to take the step to join an organization, join us for an info session this Saturday to learn how to get involved!
PSL Info Session
Fund people’s needs, not the war machine
If you’re interested in learning more about the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), fighting for a new system that puts people over profits, and want to take the step to join an organization, join us for an info session this Friday to learn how to get involved!
Emergency Rally for Ximena and Jose
EMERGENCY RALLY FOR XIMENA AND JOSE!
Join us THIS FRIDAY, MAY 9 at 6PM at Plaza Fiesta to demand justice for Ximena and Jose Arias!
Over the last 2 weeks father, Jose, and daughter, Ximena, were both arrested over minor traffic violations.
They were then thrown in Whitfield County Jail which, in collaboration with ICE through a 287(G) program, transported them to the Stewart ICE Detention Center nearly 4 hours from their family and community in Dalton GA.
In the face of state violence against our immigrant communities we must stand up and fight back!
RELEASE XIMENA AND JOSE!
STOP THE RACIST DEPORTATIONS!
ICE OUT OF OUR COMMUNITIES!
Fight the Billionaire Coup: We Won’t Back Down, with Claudia De la Cruz
Fighting the Billionaire Coup – WE WON’T BACK DOWN!
Join us for the Atlanta stop of a new tour by 2024 Socialist Presidential Candidate Claudia De la Cruz speaking on the people’s fight back against the billionaire coup!
Donald Trump and his administration of billionaires are waging an all out war on our communities. From slashing thousands of jobs for federal workers to massively defunding critical programs that many working class people rely on to survive, in his first few weeks, Trump has made it undeniably clear who his administration is really meant to serve.
At this critical moment, we can’t simply lay down and allow his administration to roll back all the rights that our people’s movements have won. Now is the time to organize our communities and stand up to fight back!
May Day Rally: Stop the Billionaire Agenda!
ATL: This May Day WORKERS FIGHT BACK!
Trump and the billionaires have launched an all-out assault on the working class—from federal workers to immigrant families to veterans. Social security, Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, and more are on the chopping block and at risk of being privatized. Their goal? To funnel even more wealth to the top 1% by stripping away the reforms won from the Civil Rights movement, labor movement, and more.
They billionaires are fueling division, attacking “DEI” (a.k.a Black America) and students for protesting genocide, funding wars instead of people’s needs at home, scapegoating immigrants and all while distracting from their real agenda which is to maximize their profits by undoing any legal restraints in place to further exploit workers and the planet.
📣✊ We refuse to sit back while the Trump administration, the far-right and the billionaire class is on the offensive to slash and burn our basic rights! Working people make this country run – that’s why we should control our jobs, housing, healthcare, and education – not the billionaires! We can defend, and even expand our rights, but not if we don’t fight back together!
🌎 Working people of all backgrounds, join us in the streets this International Workers’ Day to show our power and fight back!
💥 END THE RULE OF THE BILLIONAIRES!
UNITE AND FIGHT FOR WORKERS’ RIGHTS!
Trump's War on Black America, and How We Fight Back!
Join us for “Trump’s War on Black America and How We Fight Back!”, an organizing event to analyze and discuss the attacks on DEI, affirmative action, critical public services, and its impact on the Black working class in the South!
Trump and his cabinet of billionaires are running a muck in the White House! The far-right wants to roll back the rights won through the 1960s Civil Rights Revolution, a continuation of the Black liberation struggle in the United States.
From laying off thousands of federal workers to privatize social programs like medicare, social security, medicaid, public education, to the attacks on the right to abortion, this offensive by the ruling-class touches every part of our lives. We cannot allow our rights to be stripped!
We will discuss the effects of Trump’s far-right billionaire agenda on Black America, the origins of these attacks, why we must all get organized and fight back, and most importantly, how!
Emory Walkout and Rally: ICE Off Our Campuses, Free Palestine!
EMORY, THE FIGHT IS NOT OVER!
Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.Join us on the quad this Tuesday to say hands off our students and community members! We demand the restoration of visas for the four members of the Emory community whose visas were terminated by the Trump administration in their ongoing campaign of terror against immigrants, pro-Palestine organizers and students in an attempt to silence free speech and campus organizing.
Protesting genocide is not a crime! Being an immigrant is not a crime! What is criminal is the US-Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people, and the Trump administration carrying out their billionaire agenda at home, attacking the free speech and basic rights of all working people.
We know that the main goal of these waves of visa cancellations and deportations across the country is to intimidate and incite fear, attempting to immobilize the movement. However repression only breeds resistance! The movement on and off campus will continue as long as any members of our community are under attack, and until Palestine is free!
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