Saturday, March 15 @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Join for our March 2025 chapter meeting. We will be debating amendments to our Democratic Socialist Program for Los Angeles. This work is done by dues-paying DSA-LA members, who voted to approve major chapter priorities in April of 2024 at our annual convention. DSA-LA is as strong as its members!

Please find the list of DSP amendments that qualified for chapter debate here!

Agenda:

2:00pm to 2:15pm - Check-ins

2:15pm to 2:20pm - Community Agreements and Agenda Overview

2:20pm to 2:25pm - Chapter Convention Overview

2:25pm to 3:40pm - DSP Debate Block 1 (Immigration, Housing, Education, Healthcare, Program Wide and Preamble Amendments)

3:40pm to 3:50pm - Break Time

3:50pm to 4:50pm - DSP Debate Block 2 (Public Safety, Labor, Climate and Infrastructure, and Preamble Amendments)

4:50pm to 4:55pm - Close out meeting

*** DSP Debate Blocks are tentative and can shift depending on the outcomes of members discussing, modifying, and accepting amendments as friendly in the days leading to the Chapter Meeting.

If you’re not yet a DSA member, today’s a great day to join. Get involved with building socialism in our city. Agenda and location details will be shared ahead of the meeting.

Wednesday, March 5 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

**This session will be virtual**

Join DSA LA’s Housing and Homelessness Committee for the next session of our Abolish Rent reading group. Abolish Rent is a recently-published book about tenant organizing and the Los Angeles Tenants Union (LATU), by two of LATU’s cofounders. 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’re reading Abolish Rent to deepen our understanding of what that struggle on the terrain of housing and land use looks like. As we recover from the wildfires and suddenly find ourselves in a moment of rapid rent increases, price-gouging landlords, and increased homelessness and displacement of tenants, this book is more relevant than ever.

For this session, we will be reading Chapter 3 (pages 57-80) . While we hope everyone reads this book, people who haven’t completed the reading for this section are encouraged to attend and participate.

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

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

This meeting will be fully in-person. Please RSVP for the location.

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.

Friday, March 7 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

DSA-LA members will support Touchstone United Workers in their fight against unfair labor practices. We will rally together outside Cliffs of Id climbing gym in Culver City. Parking is tough in the area so do take transit, carpool, and plan to arrive a little early. Wear your DSA shirt! First time at an action? No worries, let us know, and we can check in with you!

Saturday, March 8 @ 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Join DSA-LA’s Eastside + SGV Branch for a DSA 101 and social! From 2-4 we’re hosting a DSA 101 where you can learn about how DSA works and how you can get involved. From 4-6 we’re going to hang and talk about what we can do moving forward to build a better world and fight for socialism. Come kick it with friends or meet a new one!

Saturday, March 8 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm

*This meeting is for DSA-LA members in good standing* You can check your membership here: https://dsa-la.org/check-my-dsa-los-angeles-membership/​​

Join DSA-LA and Hugo Soto-Martinez for a mass-membership meeting in Council District 13 to assess developments in the city over the past two years, discuss the political terrain, upcoming challenges and opportunities, and collectively develop a vision and plans to advance working class power in Los Angeles.

Saturday, March 8 @ 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Are you new or newly returning to DSA? To Los Angeles? To the Left? Let’s enjoy the spring weather and discuss socialism. At this DSA orientation, we’ll talk about what capitalism is, how it functions, and why socialism is ideologically opposed to it. Participants will also learn about the history of our organization and our chapter in particular, the current projects we’re working on, and how you can get involved. 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 so come meet like minded individuals in your area!

Don’t forget to bring your favorite dish/food to share!

Monday, March 10 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Join the Mutual Aid Committee for our twice-monthly committee meeting, where we’ll be discussing ongoing and upcoming committee work, as well as helping folks get plugged into other work throughout the city. New members always welcome!

Please RSVP for meeting connection information.

Mutual Aid Committee meetings are held on the second and fourth Monday of each month.

Tuesday, March 11 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Why are billionaires trying to destroy public schools? How do they wring a profit from education? How do the rich pit working-class students, parents and teachers against each other? Join us for the first session of our Class War in the Classroom Night School series to get a socialist view of our public education system. This political discussion is open to everyone who wants to learn and organize, regardless of experience. Come hear from and talk strategy with education workers and activists as we fight for schools that work for the many, not the few.

We’ll be basing our discussion on the short articles below. Even if you haven’t read them, you’re still welcome!

Main Articles: Why Billionaires Love Charter Schools by Robbie Nelson; Private Equity in Education: How Wall Street Profits from a Public Good from Private Equity Stakeholder Project

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