Everything happening this week at DSA-LA

Week of Solidarity Action

 

Comrade,


It’s been a jolting start to our leadership term, with the devastating fires and Trump’s imminent second term. We know it’s been heavy for many these past few weeks, and we’re here to support as needed. Many in our communities are displaced or in mourning. Air quality is still unsafe for spending significant time outdoors exerting high physical energy without a mask. In light of this, we are shifting our Trump Inauguration response to be a week of solidarity action, to organize and fight back against Trump’s attacks on immigrants and the working class. No matter what, as socialists and working people, we must keep fighting for somebody we do not know.


Recovering from the fires and the cruelty of Trump’s administration will be a marathon, not a sprint--we must take care of each other for the long term. DSA-LA will be here in the months and years ahead to say NO to genocide, deportations, union-busting, abortion bans, trans bans, evictions, and all the cruelties that will ramp up under Trump. We will fight for our rights, fight fascism, and build socialism!

Fight for an Eviction Moratorium in LA!

Tomorrow at 11am (Sunday, January 19th), we will be canvassing tenants in Los Angeles City Council District 8 with our Power to the Tenants working group. We’ll be meeting at Denker Recreation Center to call on Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson to support a citywide eviction moratorium and a freeze on rent increases while we work to pass a stronger permanent citywide rent stabilization ordinance. 

LA UNITED, STRONG, RESILIENT

On Tuesday, January 21st we invite you to attend a Vigil and Know Your Rights training hosted by UTLA with CHIRLA, CLUE, and SEIU 721. At 5:00 PM, there will be a vigil outside of Immanuel Presbyterian Church followed by a Know Your Rights Community Forum at UTLA at 6pm. 

🌹Chapter Meeting on Saturday 1/25/25 @ 2pm🌹

These events will lead into our chapter meeting on January 25th, where we will come together to discuss continuing solidarity for tenants, immigrants, those affected by climate catastrophe, and the working class in this new Trump term. If you’re not yet a DSA member, today’s a great day to join. Get involved with building socialism in our city.

 

This Week in DSA-LA...

 

Study & Discussion Session: “The Case for Letting Malibu Burn”

Wednesday, January 22 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

As as the Palisades and Eaton fires rage, both Governor Newsom and Mayor Bass have taken steps to ensure the fastest possible rebuilding of homes and businesses — including the suspension of environmental regulations and requirements.

 

Publicly subsidized building (and rebuilding, and rebuilding, and rebuilding) in the firebelt ecology of the Santa Monica Mountains is not new. But, instead of  plunging into yet another expedited and unthinking effort to rebuild – it’s time for a long overdue debate about the need to prevent further construction in areas of extreme natural fire danger.

 

Join us for a study and discussion session grounded in an excerpt from Mike Davis’s Ecology of Fear, The Case for Letting Malibu Burn. This session will serve as an opportunity for comrades to come together to discuss:

  • the long-time regime of mismanagement that has magnified natural fire dangers

  • the history of publicly subsidized, high-value real estate in areas that have repeatedly been burned and rebuilt

  • a political response to these firestorm disasters that is aligned with urgent climate action

This event is co-organzied by DSA-LA’s Political Education and Climate Justice Committee.

 

Abolish Rent Reading Group - Session 1

Thursday, January 23 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Join DSA LA’s Housing and Homelessness Committee as we read Abolish Rent by Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis, two of the cofounders of the Los Angeles Tenants Union (LATU) – the largest tenant union in the country. As socialists, we support working class organizing in all its forms, whether that be at our workplaces, in our communities, or in our homes, and we are reading Abolish Rent to deepen our understanding of what that struggle on the terrain of housing and land use looks like.

 

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