Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will be in Los Angeles on Saturday, April 12, for their Fighting Oligarchy tour. DSA-LA’s Steering Committee weighed our options given that the Los Angeles stop of the Fighting Oligarchy tour conflicts with our scheduled Local Convention. After deliberation and feedback, Steering Committee voted to move convention to Sunday, April 13 at UAW Region 6 Hall (6500 Rosemead Blvd Pico Rivera, CA 90660) Members, RSVP now, there will be solidarity, camraderie, thoughtful debate, and bandanas. 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:

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

Join us in Grand Park on Saturday, 4/12 for Bernie Sanders' Fighting Oligarchy tour. We'll host a social in DTLA after the rally to meet fellow socialists and gear up for location convention the next day!

Eastside & San Gabriel Valley: April 5 @ 10:30 am - 12:30 pm

San Fernando Valley: April 5 @ 11:00 am - 1:30 pm

South Central – Inglewood: April 5 @ 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Central: April 5 @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Westside: April 5 @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

After a chapterwide debate and vote, the amended Democratic Socialist Program for Los Angeles (DSP) passed by an overwhelming 96% vote in favor. This program establishes a roadmap towards a Los Angeles for the Working Class through Los Angeles-area winnable demands in the next six to eight years. It provides an analysis of the conditions that allowed us to get to this political moment in LA and how we will organize to win these demands and defeat the status-quo coalition.

Our primary audience for the DSP is working class Angelenos not currently in DSA-LA and our aim is to articulate how DSA-LA organizes for working-class power in Los Angeles County. While this amended Program is the product of months of internal member engagement and debate, its implementation will guide our chapters external priorities, although it is not exhaustive of every priority our chapter can see in the future. The Program was written with the following question in mind: What do we tell people when they ask what DSA is and how it’s different from other organizations? 

You can view a more detailed vote breakdown on the member forum and the ratified and amended DSP will be posted to our website.

Wednesday, April 2 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Wednesday, April 2 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Join us for the Palestine Solidarity Working Group meeting on Wednesday, April 2nd 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.

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

Thursday, April 3 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

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

Join DSA LA’s Housing and Homelessness Committee for the last 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 finishing out the book by reading Chapter 5. We’ll also discuss a recent review of the book in Spectre magazine, written by fellow DSA member Holden Taylor. This review both praises the book immensely, while offering some insightful critiques that are worth exploring together.

As always, 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.

Thursday, May 1 @ 8:30 am - 5:00 pm

DSA-LA is proud to turn out and turn up for May Day every single year. Join us for a rally and march on May 1, 2025.

The starting point for the march will be at Olympic and Figueroa.

RSVP now, mark the date down on your calendar, and request off from work!

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