Tuesday, February 4 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm

City Council will be voting THIS WEDNESDAY on a motion to study permanent fare-free operation of the city DASH buses. Help us get this motion on City Council’s radar with an easy phone zap TODAY around lunchtime. Phone script here!

Wednesday, February 5 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Join us for the Palestine Solidarity Working Group meeting on Wednesday, February 5th from 7-8:30pm.

This meeting will be hybrid, physical location will be Solidarity Hall. Please RSVP below for the Zoom link.

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.

Please also see our community agreements below!

We often, and enthusiastically, organize and discuss topics in large groups of people with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and viewpoints. Learning to do this without reproducing the oppressive ideologies we’ve inherited from a dysfunctional society can be daunting and uncomfortable, but it is essential. If we are going to build a society that prefers equality to oppression, we must build it first in the spaces we organize. The following are not only useful guidelines for respectful discussion, they are also fundamental building blocks for creating a social movement capable of broad and meaningful solidarity:

https://dsa-la.org/community-agreements/

Thursday, February 6 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

***Location Currently TBD***

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.

In the decade since it was founded in 2015, LATU has worked with thousands of tenants across the city, to prevent displacement, end harassment, and force corrupt and incompetent city officials to act in tenants’ favor. Abolish Rent is a result of that experience, laying out the tactics and political orientations that LATU has developed over decade of tenant organizing, community building, and struggle against landlords, developers, and the political system that empowers them.

For the first session, we will be reading the Introduction and Chapter One of this book (pages 1 to 33). This reading group will be open to all DSA members, and we encourage anyone who is interested in reading this book to join. If you need a copy of the book, we will have about 10 copies available to buy for $15, and we have digital copies to share as well.

Saturday, February 8 @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Come meet your fellow Westside socialists at the February Branch Meeting! We will be talking about how we can all get more plugged into our LA chapter priority campaigns: Power to the Tenants, Mass Transit for All, and Socialists in Office! We’ll also be discussing some exciting upcoming actions on the westside.

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