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Week of September 20, 2021 |
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ANNOUNCEMENTS |
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Attend the Candidate Forum on September 25! |
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The Electoral Committee has received an endorsement petition for Los Angeles City Council Candidate and DSA-LA member Hugo Soto-Martinez. Running for Council District 13 in 2022, Soto-Martinez is seeking endorsement from our chapter, and this decision will be made by our chapter membership via a membership vote.
LA City Council Disrict 13 is unique among upcoming elections. The district has hundreds of dues paying DSA-LA members within its boundaries, almost twice as many as the next City Council seat to be contested. This is a race where our chapter could play a huge, visible role, if we so decide.
All DSA-LA members in good standing are invited to join the Electoral Politics committee in an open forum with the candidate on September 25th, from 3-4:30pm via Zoom. The forum will feature an open discussion and Q/A period with the candidate, a summary briefing of the race and district, and a recommendation from the ElPol Committee. The event will conclude with closed deliberation among our membership, after which balloting will begin on the endorsement question.
Join your comrades on September 25th at 3pm to decide on the first phase of our chapter’s electoral work. RSVP at DSA-LA Candidate Forum – DSA Los Angeles 1. For those unable to join the forum, a space for statements and questions to the candidate will be made available beforehand. |
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Local Convention Registration is Now Open - Register Today! |
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Saturday, October 16, 2021
As part of our commitment to democratic socialism, our chapter meets annually, as mandated by our bylaws, at our Local Convention to discuss our priorities for the next year. The political landscape is shifting all the time; we need to be able to meet the moment by deliberating on where to focus our organizing.
More information about what will be proposed and how convention will work will be available soon!
Convención Anual 2021
Sábado, 16 de octubre de 2021
Como parte de nuestro compromiso con el socialismo democrático, nuestro capítulo se reúne anualmente, según lo dispuesto por nuestros estatutos, en nuestra Convención Local para discutir nuestras prioridades para el próximo año. El panorama político está cambiando todo el tiempo; tenemos que ser capaces de afrontar el momento deliberando sobre dónde enfocar nuestra organización.
¡Más información sobre lo que se propondrá y cómo funcionará la convención estará disponible pronto! |
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2021 DSA-LA Local Convention Updates |
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Steering Committee received and certified 5 proposals for Priority Resolutions, and 4 proposals for bylaws changes! Check them out on the DSA-LA Member Portal here:
2021 DSA-LA Local Convention Priority Resolution & Bylaw Amendment Submissions
DSA-LA's local convention is open to all members. If you are interested in supporting and getting involved with one of the proposed resolutions, consider joining today!
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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 Skill-Share Subcommittee Meeting |
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Monday, September 20 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm |
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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! |
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Palms & Culver City Neighborhood Meeting |
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Tuesday, September 21 @ 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 seventh Palms + Culver City Neighborhood Meeting will include a focus on information for renters in connection with our ongoing ‘know your rights’ tenant canvassing in the area + strategy discussion on this ongoing effort. Recommended reading to ground political discussion forthcoming! |
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The Immigration Justice Committee presents Our September Meeting! |
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Tuesday, September 21 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm |
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The Slow Dystopia may be upon us, and even though these historical forces were all unleashed before any of us were even twinkles in our parents’ eyes, ya still gotta roll your sleeves up and help wherever you can. So join us this September LIVE AND IN PERSON; that’s right, on Tuesday 9/21 from 7pm to 9pm, we’ll be meeting at La Cuevita (5922 N Figueroa St.) in Highland Park. La Cuevita requires proof of vaccination & has happy hour until 8pm. We’ll be meeting OUTDOORS in the patio area and hope you can join us to talk about immigrant rights and DSA in general! |
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Mutual Aid Book Club: Mutual Aid Book Club: Bullshit Jobs Pt. 2 |
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Tuesday, September 21 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm |
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The Mutual Aid Book Club is starting off our series on Alienation with David Graeber’s Bullshit Jobs. Continuing on the second section we’ll be diving into the systemic effects of a economy full of bullshit jobs, as well as the deep harm it can do to workers trapped in its cycle. Come with your own tales of Bullshit to share! Doing the reading isn’t a requirement for participating, but those who are in need of the text can find the full work here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-bullshit-jobs 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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AB1400 Tabling in Altadena – Wednesday |
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Wednesday, September 22 @ 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 |
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Youth Climate Strike Los Angeles |
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Friday, September 24 @ 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm |
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Join us for the Youth Climate Strike in Downtown Los Angeles on Friday, September 24th. We will be marching from Pershing Square and rallying at City Hall. The IPCC report released last month demonstrated that we have even less time than we previously thought to address the climate crisis, making it even more urgent for Congress to pass the infrastructure bill and invest massive public funding to implement the Green New Deal for Public Schools. Masks will be required. Wear DSA swag or red. We hope to see you all there |
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Palms + Culver City Neighborhood ‘Know your rights’ Canvass |
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Saturday, September 25 @ 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. Let 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 & 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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Workers on the Move: How We Organize |
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Saturday, September 25 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm |
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Landscape of the Labor Struggle In recent years, we have seen increased worker militancy in the U.S. in the form of wildcat strikes, the formation of workplace organizing committees, and union certification elections across several different industries. However, the laws that govern the formation of unions in the workplace, the National Labor Relations Act, have been shaped over nearly a century to favor the bosses. Employers have very little to lose by violating workers’ rights, not to mention the various types of employer actions that are sanctioned by the law. For example, when an employer hires a union-busting attorney to conduct “captive audience” meetings, there is no reciprocal right for the union. Even when bosses pursue extra-legal methods of defeating a union drive, like refusing to negotiate at the bargaining table or creating the conditions that lead workers to believe that their efforts are futile, the law does little to disincentivize this behavior. The workers who launched an organizing drive at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama earlier this year faced off against the world’s largest corporation. There are several documented instances of the company engaging in actions that most outside observers clearly see as moves to poison the well. While there are signs that the NLRB will rule in favor of the union, it’s difficult to imagine the possibility of holding a fair election in which the workers are able to vote freely. Overview of the Workshop and Panel The Protecting the Right to Organize Act has the potential to completely transform the landscape of labor organizing in favor of workers. In April 2021, DSA prioritized a campaign to get the PRO Act passed. There is currently one Democratic hold out in the U.S Senate: Kyrsten Sinema. While DSA and labor unions continue to pressure Sinema to become a cosponsor, workers continue looking for ways of organizing in their workplaces and grabbing back some of the power stolen by employers even in the absence of reform. This event will feature a labor lawyer and activist with the National Lawyers Guild who will go over the types of actions that workers can take in the absence of a union, even with the most anti-union bosses. We will also hear from several workers who engaged in their own workplace struggles in their attempts to build power. All workers have the right to engage in collective action and workers can begin building power before voting to join a union. Organizing and banding together is how we as workers are going to protect our rights. |
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DSA-LA Candidate Forum |
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Saturday, September 25 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm |
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Los Angeles City Council Candidate Endorsement Forum 9/25, 3:00pm Via Zoom, RSVP for link All DSA-LA members in good standing are invited to join the Electoral Politics committee in an open forum with Los Angeles City Council Candidate and DSA-LA member Hugo Soto-Martinez. Running for Council District 13 in 2022, Hugo is seeking endorsement from our chapter, and this decision must be made by our chapter membership. LA City Council Disrict 13 is a unique among upcoming elections. The district has hundreds of dues paying DSA-LA members within its boundaries, almost twice as many as the next City Council seat to be contested. This is a race where our chapter could play a huge, visible role, if we so decide. The forum will feature an open discussion and Q/A period with the candidate, a summary briefing of the race and district, and a recommendation from the ElPol Committee. The event will conclude with closed deliberation among our membership, after which balloting will begin on the endorsement question. Join your comrades on September 25th at 3pm to decide on the first phase of our chapter’s electoral work. |
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