Hello Comrades! DSA-LA Convention is less than 3 weeks away! Members, RSVP now, there will be solidarity, camraderie, thoughtful debate, and bandanas. See you at IATSE Local 80 on April 12th. 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!

Proposed 2025 Chapter Convention Priority Campaign Resolution & Bylaw Amendments are out. Take a look at what will be considered at convention and learn about the amendment process. Here is the amendment timeline:

Timeline

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!

Planning to attend and want to help out? Sign up to volunteer!

Tuesday, March 25 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

What were the lessons of the 2019 teacher strike wave, both in LA and across the US? What special leverage do educators have when they strike? How can a teacher strike benefit the whole working class?

Join us for the second session of our Class War in the Classroom Night School series to discuss the power of teachers strikes. 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 Is Education A Key Sector? (from Why Socialists Should Become Teachers), LA Teachers Show The Way Forward by Samir Sonti

Extra Credit: There Are So Many Things We Can Learn From This Strike interview with Alex Caputo-Pearl & Jane McAlevey (on 2019 strike), How LA Education Workers Waged A Joint Strike Across Two Unions by Cecily Myart-Cruz (on 2023 strike)

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. Please RSVP for meeting links.

Thursday, March 27 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Thursday, March 27 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

This is our bi-weekly meeting for DSA-LA’s priority campaign on housing. We’ll plan our current campaigns for Local Rent Control and discuss current housing issues.

Saturday, March 29 @ 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.

Thursday, March 27 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Join us for our bi-weekly meeting of the Fire Recovery Working Group!

We will hear report backs from comrades who went to the Altadena Town Council and those in contact with organizations leading the charge in Altadena. We will also discuss how we can push back against Rick Caruso and other billionaires’ rebuilding agenda to move towards a socialist LA. We’ve got a lot of work to do and need you to be a part of it!

All DSA-LA members in good standing are welcome to join.

Friday, March 28 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Join fellow Higher Ed workers on Friday, March 28, 6pm-8pm to socialize and discuss how we can fight back against threats from the Trump administration. In the face of DEI and funding cuts, working people are coming together to prevent policies that undermine higher education. At our Higher Ed social, we will hear from union members who are organizing to defend the teaching, research, public service, service work, and creative mission that their work supports. Higher Ed workers will also learn about how they can get involved with their union or help form a union in their workplace, and meet other DSA-LA members working in Higher Ed!

Saturday, March 29 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Nonprofit workers are under attack, and the only way we fight back is by organizing. Join us as we connect with fellow workers, set our goals for the year, and strategize on how to ensure every DSA nonprofit worker is in a union. We’ll focus on building leadership, strengthening union power in LA, and defending our industry against the attacks of this administration. Unionizing our workplaces isn’t just about better conditions—it’s about increasing our collective power and fighting fascism at its root.

Thursday, April 3 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

DSA-LA 's 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 the Los Angeles political landscape, and the strategies that movements, organizations, and leaders have deployed to drive change.

This second installment in the study series is focused on the end of the 20th century in Los Angeles, during an era where organized labor faced diminishing public support and leverage. Recommended readings explore unique strategies to building power with immigrant workers—within unions and worker centers— across key sectors and with key communities as a part of organized labor’s resurgence.

Recommended readings can be found on pages 32 -78 in the NIGHT SCHOOL READER – AVAILABLE HERE:

• “False Dawn? L.A.’s Labor-Latino Alliance Takes Center Stage, 1990-2010” from Sunshine was Never Enough, by John Laslett (2012)
• Introduction from Working for Justice: The L.A. Model of Organizing and Advocacy by Ruth Milkman (2010)
• “LA Confidential: An Interview with Miguel Contreras” from New Labor Forum by Ruth Milkman and Kent Wong (2002)

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