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Friend --
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. Sign our petition to urge LA City Council
to protect residents, renters, and houseless Angelenos from hardships
caused by COVID-19: healthyla.org/petition
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, which contains detailed recommendations and then to
call
and email their Councilperson
immediately!
SUPPORT RECLAIMING OUR HOMES FROM HOME!
Housing
insecure residents (Reclaiming Our Homes) have seized
a dozen of the homes amid coronavirus
pandemic. 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!
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
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.
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 by Silvia Federici
*THIS WEEK* Pt 1: "Introduction" & "All the World
Needs is a Jolt" (pages 15-103 in PDF)
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.
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
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.
If you plan on attending and have any special
accessibility needs, please
email [email protected]
COVID-19 PEOPLE OVER PROFIT
NEED SOME LEFTY READING WHILE STAYING AT HOME?
DSA-LA
http://www.dsa-la.org/
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