Join DSA-LA at the Bernie/AOC Rally!
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Saturday, April 12 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
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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!
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Want to volunteer at the rally and help recruit fellow socialists to DSA?
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Join us afterward for a social at Audio Graph Beer Co starting at 5pm!
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This Sunday! DSA-LA Convention 2025:
🌹City of Solidarity🌹
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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:
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Saturday, April 12 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Join the DSA-LA contingent after the Bernie/AOC rally at the Hands Off Our Students! Rally.
The UCLA Faculty Association, together with our partners in higher education across Southern California, call on you to stand up and say loudly – Hands Off Our Students! Hands Off the UC!
In the past week alone, at least 44 students across the UC system have reportedly had their I-20 Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) record terminated by the Department of Homeland Security, with at least one deportation occurring. The current count of visa revocations at UCLA is thirteen.
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Power to the Tenants / Housing & Homelessness Committee Meeting
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Thursday, April 10 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
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This is our bi-weekly meeting for DSA-LA’s priority campaign on housing. We’ll plan our current campaign for Local Rent Control and discuss current housing issues.
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Mutual Aid Committee Meeting
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Monday, April 14 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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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.
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Night School: The Status Quo Entrenches
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Wednesday, April 16 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
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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 third installment in the study series examines the expectations, dynamics, and politics that characterized Antonio Villaraigosa’s rise and mayoral tenure. Villaraigosa’s 2005 election was considered a watershed; a progressive figure identified with the city’s thriving alliance between organized labor and immigrant rights had ascended to one of the highest offices in the city. Yet, over the course of his mayorship, this promise faded away into a politics of business as usual, and this series examines the entrenchment of a new form of status quo rule in Los Angeles.
Recommended readings can be found on pages 79 – 97 in the NIGHT SCHOOL READER – AVAILABLE HERE:
- “Movement Mayor: Can Antonio Villaraigosa Change Los Angeles?” in Dissent by Peter Dreier, Regina Freer, Robert Gottlieb & Mark Valliantos (2006)
- “The Chosen One” from LA Weekly by Gene Maddaus (2010)
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May Day! One Struggle, One Fight, Workers Unite!
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Thursday, May 1 @ 8:30 am - 5:00 pm
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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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Want to support our chapter in direct actions, door knocking, political education, and more as we fight fascism with socialism in 2025? Chip in some socialist cash to take out the capitalist trash!
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