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This is obviously a very difficult time for the world, and for political organizing. Just as all of us have been quickly adjusting to the new normal of daily life under social distancing given the current COVID-19 virus public health emergency, we will now be holding meetings online <[link removed]>.

HEALTHY LA ACTION ALERT:
Call Your LA County Supervisor TODAY


If you’ve been keeping up with Healthy LA <[link removed]>, you may already know that LA City Council held an emergency meeting on Friday to discuss COVID-19 relief measures. After almost 11 hours of debate, our coalition walked away with a couple of big wins and a few dismaying losses. 

TOMORROW, Tuesday, March 31, the LA County Board of Supervisors will meet to discuss COVID-19 relief efforts of their own. The County includes 10 million residents (not just LA City, but 87 other cities). The five Supervisors each have a huge amount of power and they need to hear from you!

Please contact your County Supervisor TODAY and urge them to support the Healthy LA platform to protect workers, renters, and Angelenos who are undocumented or unhoused. <[link removed]>

The Executive Order issued by the Chair of the County Board of Supervisors on March 20th <[link removed]> is a first step, but much more is needed to ensure the protection of all LA County residents. This must include bold, immediate, and ambitious measures that set a progressive model for local leaders of the 88 cities within LA County to follow.

You can also submit official public comments by email to [email protected]. It must be submitted by 5 PM today, Monday, March 30th. The Agenda Item and Meeting Date must be included in the subject line. Your email will become part of the official public record.

Find your County Supervisor, call and email scripts all at: healthyla.org/county

NEIGHBORHOOD SOLIDARITY NETWORK



Join The DSA-LA Neighborhood Solidarity Network! Dozens of members have logged hundreds of calls, but a lot of neighborhoods still have no volunteers. Considering signing-up to help make sure all members are doing okay and check if they have any needs that our members and our networks can provide, build lasting relationships between our members who live near each other to strengthen our organization, enlist support for concrete solutions to the many hardships caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, organized by the Healthy LA <[link removed]> coalition.

Sign-up to Volunteer <[link removed]>

FAMILY & EDUCATION RESOURCES

Our Mutual Aid Committee is spearheading a project to help parents who are setting up home classrooms for their kids! The goal is to share developmentally appropriate educational resources collected by our community in the weekly newsletter. 

If you have any educational/fun resources to help keep kids entertained and learning at home during this time, please pass them along to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

LA COUNTY TEMPORARY LIBRARY CARD

This card <[link removed]> gives you access to all of LA County Library's digital resources, including e-books, instructional videos from Lynda.com, and Brainfuse, a online tutoring service for people of all ages for 90 days.

BLIPPI

This account <[link removed]> has tons of videos, some are an hour long. He frames kid appropriate concepts in an engaging way. There’s a ton of stuff to comment on in the videos, so engage with your kid! Point out the weird and silly things you see.

KHAN ACADEMY 

Great resource for instructional videos <[link removed]> across many different subject areas of varying grade levels. Primary focus is on STEM, but they are currently developing curricula for ELA. Adults can also learn something new!

THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY LIBRARY

This week the Internet Archive, in San Francisco, announced—and, in the blink of an eye, opened—the National Emergency Library <[link removed]>, a digital collection of 1.4 million books. Until June 30th, or the end of the national emergency in the United States (“whichever is later”), anyone, anywhere in the world, can check books out of this library—for free.

Full Bank of Resources <[link removed]>

DSA-LA COVID-19 FAQS



We've compiled a comprehensive resource addressing healthcare, work/employment, children/families/education, internet/computers, food/groceries, utilities/rent/housing/homelessness, immigrants and undocumented peoples, mental health and well-being, mutual aid and community resources, political education, and many more.

- Check out our COVID FAQs page <[link removed]>
- You can also sign-up for DSA National's DSA COVID-19 Bulletins here <[link removed]>.
- Watch Bernie Sanders town hall on Coronavirus with health experts <[link removed]>

CALENDAR

TENANTS' RIGHTS UNDER COVID-19

Monday, March 30, 2020 at 6:30pm-8:30pm

We can ALL work with our friends, neighbors, and fellow tenants to leverage the power of numbers against landlords. We're taking some key actions to support both housed and unhoused tenants through this COVID-19 crisis.

Some resources <[link removed]>on how you can organize your fellow tenants and request a rent reduction or suspension, either on your own or with your organized building will be discussed. 

RSVP <[link removed]>

BEYOND SURVIVAL BOOK CLUB CH. 1-5

Monday, March 30, 2020 at 7pm to 9pm

Join us for a lively discussion on Chapters 1-5 of Beyond Survival <[link removed]> facilitated by your local Prison Abolition Committee. We will also be discussing the article, The Socialist Case Against Police <[link removed]> and the LA County Alternatives to Incarceration Work Group Final Report <[link removed]>

RSVP <[link removed]>

MUTUAL AID BOOK CLUB: THE STATE & REVOLUTION (PART 1)

Tuesday, March 31, 2020 at 7pm to 8pm 

We will be discussing the Preface and Chapters 1 and 2 of Lenin's The State and Revolution. This will be a pretty casual book club, but the reading is sure to spark some pretty deep discussion!

You can find the full text here <[link removed]>.

RSVP <[link removed]>

POLED BOOK CLUB - CALIBAN & THE WITCH (PART 2)

Wednesday, April 01, 2020 at 7pm to 9pm 

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

RSVP <[link removed]>

NIGHT SCHOOL: THE NATURE OF THE TWO-PARTY SYSTEM



Thursday, April 02, 2020 at 7pm to 9pm

Though Bernie Sanders won his Senate seat as an Independent, he’s vying for the Democratic Party nomination for President. This session interrogates why United States politics is dominated by a two-party system, and how exactly this system functions. Within this framework, we discuss the relationship between organized labor and the Democratic Party, why the Democratic Party is not a Labor Party, and what a truly mass Labor Party would look like. Comrades are encouraged (but not required) to review recommended readings linked below:

- The Crises of Labor and the Left in the United States <[link removed]>, by Mark Dudzic & Adolf Reed (Socialist Register,  2015)
- A Left Strategy for 2020 and Beyond <[link removed]>,Carl Davidson & Bill Fletcher Jr, (TRUTHOUT, 2019)

Find more information on this Night School series on socialism and electoral politics (as well as past and future installments) here <[link removed]>. 

RSVP <[link removed]>

There has never been a more important time to be in DSA.Join, renew your dues, or switch to monthly contribution here <[link removed]>.

Stay safe.

In Solidarity,

DSA-LA
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