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Week of August 16, 2021 |
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ANNOUNCEMENTS |
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August 21: Branch Meetings! Have you RSVP'ed yet? |
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Saturday, August 21 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm |
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Las 5 reuniones de la ramas serán accesibles tanto en inglés como en español. Para obtener más información en español, haga clic aquí.
DSA-LA is divided into 5 regional branches. That's so members can organize with the people who live closest to them and adapt our countywide goals to their local conditions! We can’t wait to see you there! Register by clicking on your branch below:(Not sure which branch you're a part of? Check the list here!)
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CALENDAR |
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The following list is only a highlight of what's happening this week with DSA-LA. Please check out our online calendar for full list of committee meetings & chapter events! Be sure to also follow our Instagram & Twitter for real-time announcements and calls-to-action! |
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Political Education Committee Meeting |
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(TODAY) Monday, August 16 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm |
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Join the Political Education Committee for our monthly general meeting. Help us plan for our upcoming events, including trainings, Night Schools, and more! |
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Digital Security Training |
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(TODAY) Monday, August 16 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm |
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Join Mutual Aid and BDS Working Group for a training on keeping your digital information secure, what safety measures can be taken around controlling your information on social media and the web, and what to do if information does leak out The Mutual Aid Skill-Share Subcommittee is dedicated to giving our members a platform to share their skills and support each other with free resources. If you have a skill to share or want to help us encourage skill shares in your branch, neighborhood or committee, please join us! Please RSVP for meeting connection information. |
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Palms & Culver City Neighborhood Meeting |
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Tuesday, August 17 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm |
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Neighborhood Meetings are part of DSA-LA’s Neighborhood Solidarity Program—our chapter’s campaign to strengthen and grow socialist organization by uniting with our neighbors through tenant organizing, mutual aid work, and political study. Our sixth Palms + Culver City Neighborhood Meeting will build on discussions and projects outlined in last meeting, and will include a focus on strategy for connecting with area renters through our ongoing ‘know your rights’ tenant canvassing in the area. We’ll also spend time in political discussion on struggles for decommodified housing, grounded in this recommended reading: “Unmaking the Real Estate State” an excerpted chapter from Capital City (Stein, 2019, 18 pages); Grounded in a clear assessment of how the state uses and is used by capital (and the unaffordable consequences for working people), this chapter outlines a range of policy and political strategies to facilitate the transfer of private land to the public and drive structural changes in our urban political economy. |
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The Immigration Justice Committee’s August Meeting! |
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Tuesday, August 17 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm |
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Ah, August! Hot days, cool nights… (or, uh, sweltering days and ovenlike nights, unless we do something drastic about climate change) and of course, the month notorious for being the home of the Immigration Justice Committee’s famed August meeting! This month we’ll be debriefing after the 8/15 Immigration Justice Forum, and we’ll also start planning for the next one centering on prison and ICE abolition. Join us, won’t you?* *© Karina Longworth |
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Healthcare Justice Committee Meeting |
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Tuesday, August 17 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm |
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Please RSVP here to join us for our July Healthcare Justice Committee Meeting! We’ll be discussing our ongoing projects and finalizing planning for our August single-payer rallies. Zoom link and agenda will be sent directly to RSVPs. |
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Mutual Aid Book Club: American Shoppers, Go Wilde |
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Tuesday, August 17 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm |
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Having concluded Jackson Rising and our four book Decolonialism Series, Mutual Aid Book Club now transitions into a new Series on Alienation. In a taste of what’s to come we will be reading The Soul Of Man Under Socialism by Oscar Wilde and Atlantic article by Amanda Mull, American Shoppers Are A Nightmare. Read both pieces in either order, the important part is the dialectic between the two. Please RSVP to this event to get connection information. The Mutual Aid Book Club meets on the first and third Tuesday of every month. |
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Labor Committee August General Meeting |
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Wednesday, August 18 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm |
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Join us on Wednesday, August 18th at 7:00 PM for our monthly Labor Committee meeting. We will be discussing workplace organizing, the labor movement, and opportunities for DSA members to organize and build worker power. The core of DSA-LA’s labor work is our Labor Circles program. If you are interested in joining a Labor Circle or forming a new Circle, you can begin by filling out the Socialist Workplace Survey. The survey will help us map where we are in LA’s economy and identify where we have workplace, industry and union membership densities to organize around. Take a minute and fill out the Socialist Workplace Survey today! |
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Green New Deal for Public Schools Working Group Meeting |
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Thursday, August 19 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm |
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Winning transformative Green New Deal demands will require accelerated militancy from working class movements demanding radical expansion of public goods. This campaign will engage with the Congressional infrastructure fight to build mobilized constituencies for Green New Deal for Public Schools (GND4PS) legislation and beyond! The campaign will organize key labor, student, parent and other groups around the bill and for future struggles locally and nationally. We aim to politicize a public institution that exists in every community and from which we can make broad-based demands for aggressive Green New Deal investment in public services and infrastructure. Join us as we build out the campaign and demand a Green New Deal for Public Schools. |
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Democratic Socialist Program Townhall |
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Thursday, August 19 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm |
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Join us for a discussion and feedback session on the first draft of the Democratic Socialist Program for Los Angeles! In developing the Democratic Socialist Program (Program) our priority objective is to develop a tool to support our electoral activities and endorsement process for the 2022 elections and beyond. The Program also presents an opportunity to meet several related strategic objectives:
Learn more about the Electoral Committee and the Program on the DSA-LA website. See you at the town hall! |
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Pasadena Tenant Justice Coalition Launch Party |
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Saturday, August 21 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm |
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Come celebrate the launch of the Pasadena campaign for rent control and just cause eviction protections! Join the Pasadena Tenant Justice Coalition as we launch our new campaign for rent control and just cause eviction protections. We will have delicious food, inspiring speakers, and informative trainings about how you can help us achieve this urgent goal for the 62% of Pasadena residents who are tenants. More details about the program will be shared as they become available. |
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