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This Labor Day, think internationally!

The DSA-LA Political Education Committee is proud to present ‘Imperialism: A Study Series.’ RSVP for it today! 

This four-part series kicks off on September 19th; new and long-time comrades and interested community members are invited to attend this series designed to examine the relationship between imperialism and capitalism, and ongoing debates therein. Political education is not only an entry point to united class struggle, but a site to return to again and again for guidance in our anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist organizing—download the course reader and RSVP for the series today!

And before the series kicks off, join us for a phonebank to invite comrades to the event, and a special talk with Max Elbaum, organizer and author of Revolution in the Air: Sixties radicals turn to Lenin, Mao, and Che. On September 14 at 1pm, we’ll share discussion inspired by this retrospective analysis on the New Communist Movement—one that promises valuable insights from this leftist tendency and can be applied towards our anti-imperialist work in DSA today.

DSA-LA FOR BERNIE 2020

Tomorrow, Tuesday, September 3rd marks 6 months out from Super Tuesday (March 3, 2020), the massively influential presidential primary date, which will include California and many other states, and which could likely decide the winner of the race. (Bernie.)

Our organizing work supporting Bernie is just heating up, not just in LA and California but across the country. Next weekend, September 7th, 8th, and 9th, DSA chapters across the U.S. are going all out on Bernie kickoff events. Stay tuned for more information on DSA-LA events that you can plug into this week!

If you’d like to get involved with our Bernie work, sign up here!

We’ll also be hosting Debate Watch Viewing Parties and fundraisers for the next set of Democratic debates that Bernie is in: Thursday, September 12. RSVP for debate watch parties for our Central, Valley, and Westside branches today. 

THIS WEDNESDAY: ALL OUT AT CITY HALL AGAINST LAMC 41.18

LA City Councilmember Mitch O’Farrell is working with City Attorney and Mayoral aspirant Mike Feuer to jam a terrifying revised law through City Council called LAMC 41.18d. The law would make it illegal to sit, lay, or sleep inside or within 500 feet of a park, school, homeless shelter, and on. There are even provisions in the law that make it illegal to speak or behave in a way that might be perceived as threatening. The point of the law is to make public space virtually inaccessible to the unhoused and lay the groundwork for their disappearance. The original version of the law was found to be unconstitutional and thus largely unenforceable - making this an attempt to work around that ruling. 

As rents expand ever higher in LA, and the poor and unhoused are increasingly dispossessed and criminalized, is there anything left to us but to organize and fight?

Join our Housing & Homelessness Committee this Wednesday, 2:00 p.m. at City Hall to speak out against this law, which amounts to apartheid. RSVP

UPCOMING CHAPTER MEETINGS IN SEPTEMBER

Our next chapter-wide branch meetings are set for Saturday, September 14th 3:30 - 5:30 p.m. This is our first assembly as a chapter since the national convention in Atlanta, so we’ll take some time to learn about the national priorities that were decided on with our chapter’s delegates, and discuss how to implement them together. 

Join us and learn more about how we can build a stronger socialist movement in Los Angeles! RSVP for the Central, Valley, and Westside branch meetings today.

And if you’re new to DSA-LA and would like to meet a few new comrades plus learn how to plug into our work, sign up for a New Member Meet & Greet, for the half hour before the branch meetings start (3:00 p.m.). RSVP for the Central, Valley, and Westside Meet & Greet.

And if you’re the guardian of a little one, RSVP for Child Watch if you’d like to engage in the meeting more independently. We have volunteers, toys and activities, and a whole little setup at each of our branch meetings so the child that you’re caring for will have companionship, activities, and supervision while you’re perhaps more free to participate in the meeting. And alternatively: kids are more than welcome to join their guardians in our meetings. Have them sit with you if it’s best, DSA is kid friendly!

And if you’d like to get involved in our Child Watch project, or you’re a returning volunteer and want to volunteer at any of the branch meetings above, click here!

SAVE THE DATE: LOCAL CONVENTION, OCTOBER 19th

Speaking of conventions! Our own local convention representing DSA across Los Angeles County will take place on Saturday, October 19th at Immanuel Presbyterian Church in Koreatown. Be sure to mark your calendars so you can join hundreds of socialist Angelenos as we deliberate on our chapter’s priorities for the upcoming year. For more information check out our convention webpage, and stay tuned for more information on proposed resolutions, trainings on Robert’s Rules, and other parliamentary fun.

It’ll also be essential that 20 percent of our membership join us at convention so that we meet quorum! So if you are brand new to DSA-LA, or you have been in the org since before socialism was hip again, RSVP for Convention! 

If you have been waiting to pay National Dues so that you can join DSA, join today at this link and then: RSVP for Convention! 

And if our national dues are too steep for you right now, we understand, so we have created our special Comrades for Comrades program, which sponsors new comrades’ dues. Check out the C4C program, and then, we implore you, RSVP for Convention!

HEALTH JUSTICE NOW WITH TIM FAUST

September 20th: Universal healthcare advocate Tim Faust is coming to Los Angeles to talk about the struggle for a just healthcare system and his upcoming book Health Justice Now. For updates on the event and venue location, be sure to RSVP on the calendar. 

THIS WEEK AT DSA-LA:

Today, Monday, September 2nd

It’s Labor Day! Not as rad as May Day, but still great!

5:00 p.m: Mutual Aid Committee Meeting, RSVP

Tuesday, September 3rd

7:00 p.m: Immigration Justice Committee Meeting, RSVP

Wednesday, September 4th

2:00 p.m.: All out at City Hall against LAMC 41.18, RSVP

4:00 p.m: #JackieLaceyMustGo w/ BLM-LA, other allies, RSVP

7:00 p.m: LGBTQ+ Caucus Meeting, RSVP

Saturday, September 7th 

DSA-LA for Bernie 2020 Kickoff Day 1, Sign Up for More Info

Sunday, September 8th

DSA-LA for Bernie 2020 Kickoff Day 2, Sign Up for More Info

2:00 p.m: Housing & Homelessness Committee Meeting, RSVP

2:30 - 8 p.m: Solidarity w/ Food Not Bombs LA RSVP

Solidarity Forever! 🌹

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