Raise the Wages, Lower the Rent: Tenant Worker Solidarity March
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After passing temporary tenant protections during the pandemic lockdown (and having now let them expire), many city council members feel like they have done enough for tenants in Los Angeles. They’re feeling “tenant fatigue” and don’t feel pressured to do anything to actually solve our housing crisis.
We in DSA-LA, along with the Keep LA Housed and Fix LA coalitions, and many union partners will be turning up the heat on city council during the Tenant-Worker March on Saturday Sept, 28th (RSVP here!) and we need strong turnout to demonstrate tenant power.
Join us on Monday, September 23 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm for a phonebank to invite fellow DSA-LA members to the march to demonstrate tenant, worker, and socialist power!
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Knock Doors for our Candidates!
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Karla Griego for LAUSD School Board
Karla is a parent, teacher, and activist who has been working and organizing at school sites, on picket lines, in town halls, and in the community to bring all of us together to win the schools that Los Angeles deserves. Get involved with our movement and come out and canvass with us!
Ysabel Jurado for LA City Council District 14
Join DSA-LA, DSA-LA’s Labor Committee, DSA-LA’s Hollywood Labor, UAW Region 6, Roofers & Waterproofers Local 36, UTLA, EAA, CFA-LA, Los Angeles City Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez and union members in canvassing for Ysabel Jurado for LA City Council District 14. Ysabel is the labor candidate, and we are ready to knock on doors!
Jillian Burgos for LA City Council District 2
As a Metro rider herself, Jillian plans to priorize public transit as Councilmember. Jillian intends to serve on the Metro Board where she will advocate for a transition to fare-free transit as well as unarmed crisis response (Metro Ambassadors) and outreach workers instead of armed police. Jillian also wants to increase frequency of transit routes in the Valley, expand existing services, and ensure planned projects, such as the Sepulveda subway & East Valley Light Rail, truly benefit underserved communities.
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DSA-LA for Burbank City Council
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PHONEBANK: Thursday, September 20 @ 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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Join DSA-LA and the Konstantine Anthony and Mike Van Gorder campaigns for our weekly phone bank!
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COMEDY FUNDRAISER: Saturday, September 21 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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Come join us for a comedy fundraiser to benefit the campaigns of Mike Van Gorder & Konstantine Anthony for Burbank City Council. Let’s further the causes of tenant’s rights, queer rights, climate justice, and just general sticking-it-to-the-rich-ness while enjoying a night of comedy!
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CANVASS FOR MIKE & KONSTANTINE: Sunday, September 22 @ 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
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Join DSA-LA and the Konstantine Anthony and Mike Van Gorder campaigns for our weekly community canvass! We’re on our way to growing a DSA majority bloc in Burbank City Council, but we need our members to turn out to secure this major victory in the Valley. If we win, we have the ability to enact life changing tenant protections and transit infrastructure improvements. Join us!
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We're looking for artists, illustators, designers, copywriters, photographers, and more to help volunteer and organize with local projects. Everyone can build the movement, and you can help make it beautiful!
Let us know about your creative talents! The Communications Committee will be in touch soon.
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Saturday, September 21 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
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Check out the Eastside+SGV Branch’s DSA 101 where we’ll talk about what capitalism is, how it functions, and why socialism is ideologically opposed to it. We’ll also talk about the structure of DSA, our analysis of the political conditions in city, state and country, and how we can organize for a better future.
This is not a lecture, but a meeting for new and veteran organizers to ground ourselves in socialist theory and discuss together how we can put it into action. We’re excited to chat with you!
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Palestine Solidarity Working Group Meeting
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Wednesday, September 18 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
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Join us for the Palestine Solidarity Working Group meeting on Wednesday, September 18th from 6:30-8:30pm. This week’s meeting location is to be determined. We will update all RSVP’s with the location once it is set.
This working group will be focused on organizing actions, educational events, phonebanks, and more in solidarity with the struggle for Palestinian liberation.
In addition to joining the working group meeting, if you want to stay up to date with DSA-LA’s organizing in solidarity with Palestine, fill out our interest form.
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Developed For Who?: A Study of Gentrification from the Ground Up
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Tuesday, September 17 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
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The same cycles of disinvestment, redevelopment, and displacement that characterize Los Angeles neighborhoods are transforming cities and violently dispossessing people across the country and around the world. This study series, “The Politics of Removal: Displacement from Los Angeles to Palestine,” explores theoretical concepts related to displacement, and features a range of case studies—with a focus on Los Angeles neighborhoods and Palestinian cities.
This second installment in our study series seeks to define and interrogate the concept of “gentrification.” Further, this session hopes to broaden the idea of gentrification from a purely cultural process to include some of the hidden economic and structural methods used to displace people from their homes and cities. Felt intimately from individual blocks to entire neighborhoods, gentrification’s effects are deeply personal. This session hopes to pinpoint the human role in gentrification, from urban-planning to real-estate marketing.
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