With deep love, respect and admiration, we mourn the heartbreaking loss of our beloved Reclaimer, Benito Flores. Benito was an active DSA-LA member.

He was one of the last two Reclaimers still standing against the state-sanctioned violence that continues to dispossess our families, friends and communities of their homes. He stood boldly in defense of our collective right to housing, dignity and life.

Benito embodied resilience. He understood that the settler colonial violence we face in Los Angeles is connected to the same violence responsible for the genocide in Palestine. Our struggles are interwoven, born of a system rooted in over 500 years of colonialism. Day after day, he resisted the violence that determines who is allowed to live with dignity.

Long live Benito the "Reclaimer!"

We hold the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA), Caltrans, and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department responsible for Benito’s unnecessary and preventable death. This was an act of state-sanctioned violence against one of the most vulnerable among us—an elderly, disabled man who should have been enjoying his retirement, surrounded by love and community.

His death is not an isolated incident—it is the result of a brutal system that criminalizes the poor, the unhoused, the aging, and the disabled.

May his legacy be a call to action.

May his courage live on in all who continue the fight.

- Phil I, DSA-LA Member

Please take a moment to donate to Benito's burial expenses and share your stories organizing with Benito. 

TONIGHT! Tuesday, July 29 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Los Angeles rent is out of control!!!

Join us for a zoom information session on the Power to the Tenants Campaign! Learn about LA’s rent control law, the efforts to change it, and how you can get involved in the fight for stronger rent control! 

TONIGHT! Tuesday, July 29 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Join the DSA LA Public Education Working Group for our regular monthly meeting to discuss the fight for public education in Los Angeles and beyond.

Meetings are held on the last Tuesday of each month.

Wednesday, July 30 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

This event will be an Immigrant Know Your Rights workshop and a presentation on how Los Angeles can fight for stronger rent control by amending its Rent Stabilization Ordinance. Doors will open at 6:00 pm and include food and refreshments.

Wednesday, July 30 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Are you new or newly returning to DSA? To Los Angeles? To the Left? Then join us for DSA 101!

At this 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.

We’re excited to chat with you!

Wednesday, July 30 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Join DSA-LA’s Socialists in Office Committee for seating our new Branch representatives, an overview of the committee’s operations, an open Q&A and comment period, and discussion of strategic interventions that our chapter is making in coordination with our electeds are making around immigration justice and rent control.

Wednesday, July 30 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00pm

Join the Mutual Aid Committee for our first Spanish Lessons Zoom call. New members always welcome!

Thursday, July 31 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Nonprofit workers are under attack.

Join your fellow nonprofit comrades at a social to both commiserate and organize.

Thursday, July 31 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

This is our bi-weekly meeting for DSA-LA’s priority campaign on housing. We’ll plan our campaign for stronger local rent control, tenant organizing, efforts to secure a public bank, and discuss current housing issues.

Under orders from the Trump administration, fascist ICE agents are conducting brutal raids across Los Angeles at our workplaces, schools, and neighborhoods. Join community members and DSA-LA comrades to walk through the neighborhood to do outreach to community businesses, and make sure they are informed about their legal rights and prepared to safeguard their workers from ICE raids.

Training and support provided to first time canvassers.

Do you believe that rent is too high?

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 Councilmember Katy Yaroslavsky and Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson that Angelenos support capping rent increases at 60% of CPI, and never more than 3%.

We’ll have snacks, and we’ll start with a training before pairing up newer canvassers with more experienced canvassers.

Help keep us Reds in the black! 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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