Hello Comrades! The Steering Committee has voted to extend the deadline for convention Priority Resolutions, Bylaws Amendments, and Mission Statement amendments to March 19th at 11:59pm.

UPDATED TIMELINE:

Monday, February 17, 2025: Submission period opens.
Wednesday, March 19, 2025: Submission period closes at midnight.
Thursday, March 20, 2025: All submissions will be shared with the membership for review. After submissions have been published, any member is welcome to contact the lead authors to suggest amendments.
Friday, March 28, 2025: Deadline for amendments to be submitted.
Saturday, March 29, 2025: Final version of resolutions to be debated will be published and shared with membership.
Saturday, April 12, 2025: Convention!

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CALLING ALL MEMBERS! Join us for a DSA-LA’s biggest meeting of the year: annual Convention. It’s set for Saturday, April 12 in Burbank at IATSE Local 80.

Convention is the most important DSA-LA meeting of the year. We vote on our priorities for the next 12 months, hear speeches from keynote speakers, and finish strong with an all-chapter social. Voting business will end by 3:30pm.

Convention is a deliberative, democratic, all-member meeting! Members in Good Standing of all experience levels are encouraged to engage in critical discussion together as we set our priorities for the coming year.

**Deadline approaching soon! Submissions for priority resolutions, bylaws amendments, and mission statement amendments are due Sunday, March 19, 2025 at 11:59 pm**

Guidelines for convention submissions are located here: 2025 DSA-LA Convention Proposals Timeline and Guidelines – DSA Los Angeles

Convention is for DSA members in good standing. You can check your membership status here. If you’re not yet a DSA member, today’s a great day to join!

ICE is arresting pro-Palestine activists and we're not going to be silent about it. Free Mahmoud Khalil! Free Leqaa Kordia!

Join us this Sunday March 23 as we protest outside in DTLA. Art build Friday 3/21. More details to come.

Tuesday, March 18 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Join for our last transit campaign meeting of the 2024-25 year!​

Join us to discuss the two focuses of our 2024 campaign: Public Services (#stationsneedstalls) and funding LA’s Mobility Plan for safer, more efficient streets. DSA-Transit is working with labor unions and socialists in office (SIO) to build community power toward improving LA transportation. Whether you are a union member interested in joining our labor circle, a METRO rider passionate about canvassing fellow transit riders for better service, or a skilled artist or writer working with our amazing Communications team, we’re always looking for comrades passionate about building a world-class public transit system that values riders and workers alike!

Tuesday, March 18 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Wednesday, March 19 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

**This will be in person in North Hollywood!**

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.

For this session, we will be reading Chapter 4 (pages 81-114) . While we hope everyone reads this book, people who haven’t completed the reading for this section are encouraged to attend and participate. This group is open to anyone who is interested in discussing this book and tenant organizing in general, and is a good way to learn more about DSA LA’s Power to the Tenants Campaign and to hear more about the socialist vision for dignified and decommodified housing.

Wednesday, March 19 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Join us for our first organizing training of the year! At our previous branch meeting, we briefly discussed the differences between advocacy, mobilizing, and organizing and how these models approach building power. The liberal theory of power is an elite theory of power that leads to advocacy; the progressive theory is primarily an elite theory that leads to mobilizing; the left theory of power believes that power is contestable by the working class, which leads to organizing. In this zoom session, we’ll talk about how organizers conduct power structure analysis to identify who has power and why, and how that resaerch can help us develop effective campaigns.

Wednesday, March 19 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

**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. 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, March 20 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Join Power to the Tenants and the South Central/Inglewood Branch to power map South LA’s support for stronger rent control.

Saturday, March 22 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Early Los Angeles leaders were proudly anti-union, and Los Angeles was an openly pro-business, “open shop” town. But today, organized labor benefits from a wide base of popular support, and is an influential force in municipal politics. This shift in the landscape of political power happened rapidly and relatively recently. How did that shift occur? Who drove this political change? And how should socialists navigate our current political landscape to build a base for our politics among the Los Angeles working class?

To consider these questions, the DSA-LA Political Education Committee is proud to present a new original study series: Open Shop or Union Town? Power, Organization and Struggle in the Wicked City. Through a combination of historical and first-person accounts, we explore the shifting social, political, and economic conditions in Los Angeles, and the strategies that movements, organizations, and leaders have deployed to drive change.

This first installment, “The Making of the Los Angeles Working Class” tracks the growth of union strength after the New Deal and its subsequent fall during the deindustrialization era of the 1970’s and 1980’s. Grounded in the recommended readings below, we’ll examine labor’s successes and failures as unions navigated the shifting economic and political terrain.

Recommended readings can be found on pages 5 -31 in the NIGHT SCHOOL READER – AVAILABLE HERE.

Saturday, March 22 @ 11:00 am - 2:00 pm

Do you think the rent’s too high? Let’s do something about it by talking with our neighbors about the need for stronger rent control and showing Adrin Nazarian that Angelenos support capping rent increases at 60% of CPI, and never more than 3%. We’ll have coffee and snacks, and we’ll start with a training before pairing up newer canvassers with more experienced canvassers.

Sunday, March 23 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Join DSA-LA’s South Central/Inglewood Branch for a recruitment phonebank! We are calling expired members and asking them to recommit to being a member of DSA and attend our April Convention. Training and script will be provided if you’ve never phonebanked before.

Location to be shared closer to event.

Monday, March 24 @ 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.

Thursday, March 27 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Join the labor committee for our quarterly general meetings. This one, our first of the year, will cover the current political climate, our upcoming labor organizer training, planning May Day, labor circle updates, and more.

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