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Week of June 29, 2020 |
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This is obviously a very difficult time for the world, and for political organizing. Just as all of us have been quickly adjusting to the new normal of daily life under social distancing given the current COVID-19 virus public health emergency, we will now be holding meetings online.
The risk of exposure to COVID-19 is still very real -- especially out in the streets! Consider getting tested for piece of mind, collect data on this virus, and keep our communities as safe and healthy as we can right now. Be sure to wait at least 5 days after attending a protest to get tested for a more accurate result (false negative rates average 20%, so if you feel even the slightest bit sick please STAY HOME). |
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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THIS WEDNESDAY: STIMULUS SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN FUNDRAISER! |
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Save the date! Join DSA-LA + Helltrap Nightmare on Wednesday July 1st @ 6pm PST for a livestream comedy fundraiser for our Stimulus Solidarity Campaign to help our immigrant neighbors who have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and excluded from receiving a stimulus check!
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MENTAL HEALTH IS HEALTHCARE! |
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DSA-LA is interested in increasing support, knowledge and resources around mental health for our members and communities. We welcome anyone interested in this effort to please fill out the google form below. Those with any mental health care background and lived experience are encouraged. |
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CALENDAR |
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Check out our online calendar for full list of committee meetings and chapter events. |
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BEYOND SURVIVAL BOOK CLUB |
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Monday, June 29, 2020 at 7-8:30pm PST
Join us for a lively discussion on Alternatives to 911. We are wrapping up Part II of the book which ends on Ch. 17 but don't feel the need to be totally caught up to join! We are so excited to see our city council exploring this idea (in part) and will spend part of the time discussing that as well. |
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DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS FOR SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST (PART 1) |
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Monday, June 29th, 2020 at 7-8:30pm PST
DSA members up and down California have the opportunity to help pass the largest tax increase in history on California’s wealthiest commercial property owners, raising $10-12 billion per year for public education and social services.
With the Movement for Black Lives uprising deepening into the call for defunding the police, it will be necessary to expand revenues required to build alternative, sustainable public services and practices. Progressive taxation—especially taxing the rich—is an essential path to accomplish that goal. “Schools and Communities First” (SCF), on the November 3 ballot, is backed by labor and opposed by the most reactionary sectors of capital.
A three-part education series will provide background for DSA participation in the campaign. Part I reviews the story of austerity politics and increasing inequality in California with Prop 13—which SCF proposes to reform—from 1978 to the present. Part II looks at the history of public sector unionism and how a left wing labor-community coalition won Prop 30, a ‘tax the rich’ ballot measure, in 2012. Part III will supply an overview of the SCF campaign, and explore how DSA members can plug in effectively. Biweekly on ZOOM, beginning Monday June 29, presented by labor historian Fred Glass.
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LOST ANGELS: SET THE NIGHT ON FIRE (NIGHT SCHOOL KICKOFF EVENT) |
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Thursday, July 2, 2020 at 6pm PST
Mike Davis and Jon Wiener, authors of Set The Night On Fire: Los Angeles In The Sixties, are kicking off the DSA-LA Political Education Committee's Night School Series: Lost Angles with a discussion about the working-class radicals who fought the Los Angeles Police Department and the city economic and political elite in the 1960s.
By the early 1960s Los Angeles was a powderkeg, and the LAPD was a lit fuse. Under the direction of the powerful reactionary Chief William Parker, the department brutally enforced racial segregation in the black ghettos and white suburbs. But not content with policing the city’s racial hierarchy, they also swarmed gay bars in Silver Lake, busted hippie skulls on Venice Beach, handcuffed teen rock-and-rollers on the Sunset Strip, hounded socialists, and mass-arrested working-class black and Latino students who protested for free political expression and against the Vietnam War.
This event is the first in the DSA-LA Political Education Committee's upcoming Night School Series Lost Angles: Piecing Together a Radical LA. |
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