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Week of August 23, 2021 |
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ANNOUNCEMENTS |
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2021 DSA-LA Local Convention: Bulletin #1 |
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With local convention coming soon, and the resolution submission deadline approaching (September 8th!), there may be many who have never written a resolution before... but who have ideas for shaping our chapter's priority campaigns for the next year!
If you have ideas, but are looking for advice on how develop them into a formal resolution proposal, please join our upcoming RESOLUTION WRITING WORKSHOP! Hosted by our current campaigns coordinator Leslie C as well as our regional staffer Garrick R... attendees will learn about how to develop effective campaigns that can activate our base in order to achieve winnable goals. |
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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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Mutual Aid Committee Meeting |
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(TODAY) Monday, August 23 @ 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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DSA 101 |
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Tuesday, August 24 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm |
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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. We’re excited to chat with you! Preregistration for this event is required. After RSVPing, you will receive a confirmation email with the information on how to join this meeting via Zoom prior to its start. |
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CalCare Resolution @ L.A. City Hall |
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Wednesday, August 25 @ 9:45 am - 1:00 pm |
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Healthcare Justice Committee is working to pass Resolutions for CalCare! CalCare (AB 1400) is a bill to create a Medicare-for-All style single-payer program in California. No copays. No deductibles. Everyone in. Nobody out. THIS Wednesday a Resolution is being voted on at Los Angeles City Hall. Please join your comrades in making a public comment to ensure passage! We’ll rally together on zoom prior to the council meeting and stay on to make our comments together and watch the vote go through! Zoom link for the rally will be provided directly to RSVPs. |
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AB1400 Tabling in Altadena – Wednesday |
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Wednesday, August 25 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm |
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Join us as we table to educate on AB1400 Single Payer Healthcare for California. Help gather supporters for healthcare for all. 2 hour shifts. Sign up here |
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Coastal Areas Neighborhood Meeting |
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Wednesday, August 25 @ 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. This and all other Coastal Areas Neighborhood Meetings are open to new and long-time comrades & community members who live in the range of coastal cities and areas, including: Santa Monica, Venice, Marina Del Rey, Playa Del Rey, Playa Vista, Del Rey, Mar Vista, Marina del Rey, Malibu, Topanga, and the Pacific Palisades. Our fourth Coastal Areas Neighborhood Meeting will build on discussions and projects outlined in our previous meetings- including intersections with Neighborhood Council work and organizing in solidarity with Street Watch in Venice and Mar Vista. Our study topic for this meeting will be Socialist Struggles for Decommodified Public Goods with a focus on housing. Totaling ~20 pages, the following set of recommended excerpts and articles provide a foundation for interactive discussion:
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Palms & Culver City Neighborhood Solidarity Phonebank |
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Wednesday, August 25 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm |
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Westside comrades – join organizers for a phonebank dedicated to reaching out to members in the Palms & Culver City area to connect them to our ongoing Neighborhood Solidary ‘Know your rights’ canvasses in Palms [next canvass scheduled for August 28th] If you’ve never phonebanked before, no worries! This hosted phonebank is a great way to get involved in our branch’s work, and there will be time built in to walk comrades through the script and the overall process, step-by-step. |
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NIGHT SCHOOL – Lost Angles Part 5: The LA Secession Wars |
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Thursday, August 26 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm |
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In 2002, 67% of voters in Los Angeles City and 49% of voters in the San Fernando Valley came out against the proposed secession of the San Fernando Valley, San Pedro, and Hollywood regions. Nearly two decades later, though these geographies remain part of LA City, the political forces and city government responses that shaped this political battle are very much with us today. Through the lens of the secession vote, this class explores the development of homeowners associations as political forces in Los Angeles, and examines tactics deployed by this movement in response to a shifting political and demographic terrain. As a reaction to the burgeoning movement for secession, LA City government reworked the city’s 71-year-old charter in the late 1990s “to provide a more responsive and less complicated political structure” — introducing for the first time Neighborhood Councils, described by the city today as a source of “local expertise and a local voice on the delivery of City services to their communities.” The limitations and opportunities of Neighborhood Councils remain contested today; this class seeks to ground contemporary debates and strategy in a deeper understanding of the origin of these political forces and structures. Join the DSA-LA Political Education Committee for our final class of the Political Education Committee’s 5-Part Night School Series: Lost Angles The LA Secession Wars on Thursday, August 26 at 6PM. Each session features a brief, informal presentation followed by facilitated discussion designed to engage all levels and connect current events to foundational socialist concepts and debates. Comrades are encouraged (but not required) to review recommended readings linked in the class reader aligned with session topic found here. Check out more classes in this series:
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Mutual Aid’s Give Red August Blood Drive |
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Friday, August 27 @ 9:00 am - Saturday, August 28 @ 5:00 pm |
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As part of the Mutual Aid Committee’s Give Red project, we are collaborating with Children’s Hospital Los Angeles to provide bimonthly blood drives. If you would like to sign up for this blood drive, please do so using this form: https://forms.gle/KRn9ZV1AH7SwXYi89 We’ll meet at Children’s Hospital LA. Children’s Hospital LA is located at 4650 Sunset Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90027: https://goo.gl/maps/36Ds7HAFVyV1cUcJ7 The hospital has a parking lot and is easily accessible via bus or by the Vermont / Sunset metro station. |
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South Bay Neighborhood ‘Know your rights’ Canvass |
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Saturday, August 28 @ 10:00 am - 1:00 pm |
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DSA-LA’s Neighborhood Solidarity Program is a campaign to strengthen and grow socialist organization by uniting with our neighbors through tenant organizing, mutual aid work, and political study. Led by local South Bay Neighborhood Organizers, this ‘Know your rights’ canvass is organized to build connections and solidarity with renters in Torrance, to ensure they know their rights (emergency protections & state-wide rent relief) and have the resources and support they need to claim their rights and connect these struggles to our fight for an affordable city. New and long-time socialist organizers and community members in the South Bay are welcome to join; this event kicks off with a canvassing training at the beginning to make sure comrades have all of the information and resources they need. |
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Palms/Culver City Neighborhood ‘Know your rights’ Canvass |
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Saturday, August 28 @ 10:00 am - 1:00 pm |
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Led by local Palms + Culver City Neighborhood Organizers, this ‘Know your rights’ canvass is organized to build connections and solidarity with renters in Palms, to ensure they know their economic rights during the pandemic (including state-wide rent relief, child tax credits, emergency broadband, & more) and have the resources and support they need to claim their rights and connect these struggles to our fight for a Los Angeles the working class deserves. New and long-time socialist organizers and community members in Palms/Culver City are welcome to join; this event kicks off with a training at the beginning to make sure comrades have all of the information and resources they need before knocking doors. |
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Palestine: A Socialist Introduction – Part 3 |
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Sunday, August 29 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm |
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The Black Liberation Task Force and DSA-LA BDS are excited to announce part 3 of the Palestine: A Socialist Introduction reading group! The third session is August 29 at 11am PST. This time we will cover the final part of the book, Workers of the World, Unite. (pg. 141-205 hard copy and pg. 225 – 317 Ebook). It does not matter if you didn’t attended the first and second session or aren’t caught up on the reading. All are welcome! The authors and editors of the book will facilitate the reading group. This is part 3 of 4, so be sure to check back for more details for the final session! (Which will be September 12th!) Register below for the zoom link. |
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