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This week’s e-mail has a LOT of info. It also contains several calls to action. We don’t want to overwhelm you, so we’ve prioritized the most time sensitive items first. However, while you stay at home, we encourage you to read the e-mail in its entirety. We hope the calls to action here provide you an opportunity to direct your angry or nervous energy into constructive organizing. Now more than ever is the time to unite, fight, and work together (even if we can’t do so face-to-face)! Solidarity forever.

CALLS TO ACTION

HEALTHY LA

As COVID-19 triggers a national state of emergency, and a statewide call to stay home and stay sheltered, many Angelenos are forced to put their health on the line simply to keep a roof over their heads. We've joined 150+ advocacy organizations, labor unions, service providers, religious congregations, and more as Healthy LA coalition <[link removed]>. Sign our petition to urge LA City Council to protect residents, renters, and houseless Angelenos from hardships caused by COVID-19: healthyla.org/petition <[link removed]>

OUR GOALS: Pressure City Council to support or file motions in line with our demands, focusing on three buckets: Protection for residents, workers, and unhoused people. We are urging folks to sign this petition <[link removed]>, which contains detailed recommendations and then to call and email their Councilperson immediately <[link removed]>! <[link removed]>

SIGN THE PETITION <[link removed]>

SUPPORT RECLAIMING OUR HOMES FROM HOME!

Housing insecure residents <[link removed]> (Reclaiming Our Homes) have seized a dozen of the homes amid coronavirus pandemic <[link removed]>. California Department of Transportation says it owns 87 vacant single-family homes — 404 properties total — along the 710 corridor in LA which had been purchased for an aborted highway expansion. 

Urge your legislators to use vacant CalTrans homes to house the unsheltered IMMEDIATELY!





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CALENDAR

SOCIALIST QUARANTINE SCHOOL: THE LEFT'S RESPONSE TO COVID-19 
Tuesday, March 24, 2020 // Zoom 
Hosted by our comrades East Bay Democratic Socialists of America <[link removed]>



The capitalist class never lets a good crisis go to waste, and the rapid spread of COVID-19 (the disease caused by the new coronavirus) is no exception. How will corporations use this crisis to further privatize our society? How will the right wing take the rapid spread of disease as an impetus to further marginalize racial minorities? How can the left resist these efforts and offer an alternative for a rational society based in democracy?

Find the readings here <[link removed]>.

RSVP <[link removed]>

POLED BOOK CLUB - CALIBAN & THE WITCH 
Thursday, March 26, 2020 at 7pm to 9pm // Zoom

Join the Political Education Committee every week as we read and discuss Silvia Federici's classic text, "Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation". Meetings will be held via Zoom and open to all. RSVP to each meeting to receive the Zoom link to join!

Book PDF link: Caliban and the Witch <[link removed]> by Silvia Federici

*THIS WEEK* Pt 1: "Introduction" & "All the World Needs is a Jolt" (pages 15-103 in PDF)

RSVP <[link removed]>

MUTUAL AID PRESENTS: ANTI-DOXXING TRAINING
Saturday, March 28, 2020 at 11am to 12pm

Come learn some tips and concrete steps to keep you and your identity safe online, prevent accidental overexposure, and help stop bad actors from connecting the dots about you that you didn't even realize were there! As organizing and socializing move more online due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it's more important than ever to have cybersecurity on the mind.

This will be an online-only training. RSVP for a link to the Zoom meeting.

RSVP <[link removed]>

MARCH LOCAL MEETING
Saturday, March 28, 2020 at 3pm to 5pm // Zoom



In times like these, we need each other. Join us for our first online Local Meeting of the year where we will discuss and vote on new resolutions, and figure out how to best organize in Los Angeles over the next few months in our new reality living during a global pandemic. Come hang out with your fellow comrades online on Saturday, March 28th from 3-5pm. 

We recommend joining Zoom <[link removed]> calls by computer or phone app because you will then be able to see other meeting attendees by webcam (it is not required to use a webcam and it can be turned off as well as your microphone muted if you prefer to just listen in). There is also the option of calling into Zoom meetings rather than joining by computer/phone app. 

- Here’s our quick how-to Zoom <[link removed]> guide!
- Resolutions to be voted on during our meeting can be found: here <[link removed]>.

If you plan on attending and have any special accessibility needs, please email [email protected]

RSVP <[link removed]>

COVID-19 PEOPLE OVER PROFIT



- You can watch the recording of the National call here <[link removed]>
- Sign DSA's petition for a working class solution to the COVID-19 crisis <[link removed]>
- Check out DSA-LA Solidarity Network COVID-19 FAQs <[link removed]>

NEED SOME LEFTY READING WHILE STAYING AT HOME? 

- DSA DIGITAL LIBRARY <[link removed]>
- Free Ebooks from Haymarket Books <[link removed]>
- DSA-LA’s Political Education Committee Reading Series and Meeting via Zoom <[link removed]>
- DSA-LA’s Political Education Committee Night School Readings <[link removed]>
- Also FREE e-media from LA Public Library: free <[link removed]> access to digital books, music, movies, courses and more <[link removed]> if you have an LA Public Library Card



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