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Friend --
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.
HEALTHY LA ACTION ALERT:
Call Your LA County
Supervisor TODAY
If you’ve been keeping up with Healthy
LA, 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.
The Executive
Order issued by the Chair of the County Board of Supervisors on March
20th 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 coalition.
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].
LA COUNTY TEMPORARY LIBRARY CARD
This
card 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 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 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, 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.
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.
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 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.
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 facilitated by your local Prison Abolition Committee. We
will also be discussing the article, The
Socialist Case Against Police and the LA County Alternatives to
Incarceration Work Group Final
Report
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.
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 by Silvia Federici
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:
Find more information on this Night School series on
socialism and electoral politics (as well as past and future
installments) here.
Stay safe.
In Solidarity,
DSA-LA
http://www.dsa-la.org/
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