Join us for a presentation and discussion of how to fight for your rights as a renter in Carbondale.
Read MoreTenants Rights Circle Meeting (Feb 2)
New Years Revolutions @ BALM (January 1st)
Join SIDSA Labor Working Group for a New Years Day full of fun and labor militancy at Born Again Labor Museum (517 N Springer), 12pm-9pm! We will be sharing food, drinks, games, labor films, and activities! More details TBA!
Read MoreSIDSA Monthly Organizing Meeting (Sunday, Dec 8 @ 5pm)
Join us this Sunday, December 8th for our monthly organizing meeting! We'll be meeting at the Carbondale Township Hall (enter through the back door) from 5-7pm
Read MoreTenant Rights Circle Monthly Meeting (Dec 8 @ 4pm)
Join us for a presentation and discussion of how to fight for your rights as a renter in Carbondale.
Read MoreSIDSA Labor Working Group Meeting @ BALM (November 30)
Join us to discuss how to organize our workplaces and fight the bosses.
Read MoreSIDSA Monthly Tenant Canvas (Nov. 16 @ 10am)
Joking SIDSA for our monthly tenant canvas to organize support for local protections for renters and work towards creating a tenants union in southern Illinois.
Read MoreDefend Democracy! Emergency Protest (Nov. 12 5pm)
Far right elements are targeting Black Carbondale City Council candidates for removal from the 2025 municipal ballot! This cannot stand. Now more than ever we must defend Carbondale Democracy in the face of fascist threats.
Read MoreSI Socialist Meeting: Fight Trump! (Nov. 10)
Join for an organizational meeting. Help us advance socialism by fighting for economic, political, gender, racial, and LGBTQ justice.
Read MoreFilm: Open Country (6:45pm Sept. 6)
Open Country is a creative cinematic journey into the working class roots of country music, offering an antidote to corporate country that is full of spirit and spunk. Open Country is the revelatory 10-year effort of California filmmakers Jesse Drew and Glenda Drew, who will present the film in Carbondale.
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So. ILL DSA Labor Day Picnic (Sept. 2 @ 3pm)
Come celebrate this day of rest with some food and drinks and music! We will hear about issues important to local workers! Carbondale City Council Member Nancy Maxwell will speak on One Fair Wage! We will hear about changes in Labor Law, Illinois’ ESPs Bill of Rights, Ending Tier 2 and more!
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Art + Revolution / Art + Socialism @ BALM (5pm Oct. 6)
Calling all comrades, artists, filmmakers, and others interested in making art for, and/or sharing their art with, the movement for a better world. Join Southern Illinois Democratic Socialists of America (SIDSA) for a food, drinks, and a brief discussion about André Breton, Diego Rivera, and Leon Trotsky's 1939 "Manifesto for an Independent Revolutionary Art” at the Born Again Labor Museum (BALM). No cost to attend.
Read MoreLabor Working Group Social (Aug. 28 @ 5pm)
Drop in on our Labor Working Group at Blend we will be chilling with some board games and catch up on our work. We will be there from 5-7pm and then will head to the bowling alley at SIU Student Center (1255 Lincoln Dr, Carbondale, IL 62901)
Read MoreSIDSA Meeting + RWU Public Railroad Discussion (Aug. 11 4-7pm)
Our August meeting will be a treat! Because we have the pleasure of having a really special comrade coming through with a presentation on the Railroad Workers United campaign for Public Rail Ownership!
Read MoreSo. ILL Socialist Organizing Meeting (Aug. 13 - 4pm)
Join us to discuss our ongoing work to build a socialist alternative to capitalism, racism, war, and heterosexism in southern Illinois. Parking and entrance to the Township Hall is in the back. Contact us for more information
Read MoreHow + Why Workers Can Change Everything (2:30pm, Aug. 13)
Join Southern Illinois Democratic Socialists of America (SIDSA) for a discussion about how and why the working-class has the power to overthrow capitalism and replace it with a genuinely democratic socialist society. Some brief readings are suggested (see below for links) but not required. Everyone is welcome! Refreshments will be provided. Parking and entrance to the Township Hall is in the back. Contact us for more information
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Solidarity Fest * Fundraiser for SBX Workers + SIDSA (July 30)
Join Southern Illinois DSA, Carbondale Starbucks Workers United, and the Born Again Labor Museum, for music, food, drinks, and fundraisers for both Starbucks workers and SIDSA. Featuring music from Worthless Scarecrow (and more bands TBA). $20 suggested donation (but no one will be turned away for lack of funds).
Read MoreSo. ILL Socialist Organizing Meeting (July 9)
Join us to discuss our ongoing work to build a socialist alternative to capitalism, racism, war, and heterosexism in southern Illinois. Parking and entrance to the Township Hall is in the back. Contact us for more information
Read MoreEWOC Workers Meeting + Movie Night (Pride) (June 26)
“Realizing that they share common foes in Margaret Thatcher, the police and the conservative press, London-based gay and lesbian activists lend their support to striking miners in 1984 Wales.”
Read MoreSIDSA Organizing Meeting (June 11)
Join us to discuss our ongoing work to build a socialist alternative to capitalism, racism, war, and heterosexism in southern Illinois. Parking and entrance to the Township Hall is in the back. Contact us for more information
Read MoreEWOC Solidarity Potluck + Union Organizing Discussion
Join us for a Solidarity Potluck + Mutual Aid Dinner + discussion with the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) to discuss how to start organizing your workplace. Bring food if you can, and any other items folks might need (again, if you can) like toilet paper, soap, etc. for mutual aid. And feel free to take what you need.
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