This Week in Socialism

 

BALLOTS DROP IN 10 DAYS!

Time to pound the pavement for the DSA-LA 2024 Slate! Walk, knock, and talk to voters with Ysabel Jurado, Karla Griego, and Kahllid Al-Alim this weekend. We're up against powerful, right-wing forces that are ready to spend millions of dollars to beat us. It's going to take everybody getting involved, however they can, to elect politicians who represent our values.

 

Never Canvassed before? No worries, training will be provided! Come meet fellow socialists and help get our communities the representation we deserve. See you in the field!

SATURDAY 1/27

Karla for LAUSD School Board Canvass

9:30 AM - 2:00 PM

Yosemite Recreation Center

DSA-LA for Ysabel Canvass

10:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Yosemite Recreation Center

SUNDAY 1/28

Kahllid for LAUSD School Board Canvass

11:00 am - 3:30 pm

Monte Mar Terrace x Cresta Drive

 

Friday

Jan. 26th

 

TONIGHT Central Branch DSA 101

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm, UTLA Building

Are you new or newly returning to DSA? To Los Angeles? To the Left? Then join us for DSA 101! RSVP Here.

 

 

Sunday

Jan. 28th

 

Administrative Committee Open House!

2:00 pm - 5:00 pm, Location upon RSVP

AdComm could be your home in the chapter! We’ll be hanging out on Sunday for an open-house style social at a local food hall and community space. RSVP Here.

 

 

Monday

Jan. 29th

 

Power to the Tenants: Fighting for Better Rent Control

7:00 pm - 8:30 pm, Zoom

Join us to learn about the history of rent control in LA, how inflation and rent increases interact, the myth of “mom and pop” landlords, and an overview of how we can secure better rent control for tenants. RSVP.

 

 

Tuesday

Jan. 30th

 

DSA-LA Palestine Solidarity Working Group Meeting

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm, Zoom

Join DSA-LA’s Palestine Solidarity Working Group for an organizing meeting. This working group will be focused on organizing direct actions, educational events, phonebanks, coalition building, and more in solidarity with the struggle for Palestinian liberation. RSVP.

 

How We Build a Working-Class School Board – Political Discussion

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm, Mercado La Paloma, 3655 S. Grand Avenue

Join us for a political discussion about how we build a working-class school board in LA Unified School District (LAUSD). We will be joined by UTLA members who will talk about the organizing they are doing within their union, and how campaigns to elect working-class movement candidates to LAUSD School Board are crucial to transforming LAUSD into the school district students deserve. RSVP.

 

 

Wednesday

Jan. 31st

 

Queer Socialists WG Meeting

6:30 pm - 7:30 pm, Zoom

We would like to invite all members of DSA-LA (queer and allies) to join the next Queer Socialists Working Group meeting.The QSWG meets virtually, usually on the last Wednesday of every month. You must be a DSA member to participate.  Event Details

 

Palestine Reading Group Session 5: The Fourth Declaration of War, 1982

7:00 pm - 8:30 pm, Zoom

Join the Political Education Committee in reading together the book selection chosen by the chapter membership, The Hundred Years War on Palestine: A Century of Settler Colonialism and Resistance by Rashid Khalidi. RSVP

 

 

Thursday

Feb. 1st

 

Power to the Tenants Working Group Meeting

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm, Zoom

DSA-LA’s priority campaign on housing. We will discuss updates, coordinate work from each of our subcommittees, and plan upcoming events. RSVP.