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Week of November 1, 2021 |
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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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Healthcare Justice Committee Meeting |
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(TODAY) Monday, November 1 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm |
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Please RSVP here to join us for our November Healthcare Justice Committee meeting! We’ll be discussing our committee projects, planning fall events, and sharing updates on the fight to pass CalCare. Agenda will be sent ahead of the meeting, and Zoom info will be provided to RSVPs. |
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Mutual Aid Skill-Share Subcommittee Meeting |
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(TODAY) Monday, November 1 @ 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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DSA for Hugo CWG Meeting #2 |
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(TODAY) Monday, November 1 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm |
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Come to our second Working Group meeting of the DSA for Hugo Soto-Martinez campaign! We’ll recap our first canvass, elect working group officers, and start discussing and planning our next campaign events! RSVP for the zoom link. |
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DSA 101 |
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Tuesday, November 2 @ 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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Mutual Aid Book Club: Mental Health and Alienation |
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Tuesday, November 2 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm |
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CONTENT WARNING: This book club involves discussion of mental health and suicide. We feel that a disclaimer about the subject matter being discussed is prudent. These are sensitive topics and we will respect all needs to step back from the conversation.The Mutual Aid Book Club is moving on in our series on Alienation. Taking a brief break after David Graeber’s Bullshit Jobs and before Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism, we’ll be going through a few works on Mental health and suicide: The first is Mark Fisher’s article on depression, “Good For Nothing”. The second is a film, Oslo, August 31, which follows a recovering drug addict; The third is another film, Paradise Now, dealing with insurgency in the West Bank and suicide and the terrible intersection therein. We hope to see you in the coming weeks to discuss the heavy implications of these subjects. Good Cheer until then. 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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CalCare tabling w/ Healthcare Justice in Altadena – Wednesday |
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Wednesday, November 3 @ 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. Sign up for 2 hour shifts below! |
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Non-Profit Workers Circle Meeting |
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Wednesday, November 3 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm |
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Come join your non-profit comrades virtually and learn about current union organizing campaigns at nonprofits! Learn about your rights in the workplace. We will take down the non-profit industrial complex together! |
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CalCare tabling w/ Healthcare Justice in South Pasadena – Thursday |
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Thursday, November 4 @ 4:30 pm - 7:00 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. Sign up for 2 hour shifts below! |
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Westside Phonebank for In-person Educational + Social Event |
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Thursday, November 4 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm |
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Westside comrades – join organizers for a phonebank dedicated to reaching out to members in our branch to invite them to our upcoming in-person event – Advancing Socialist Politics at the Municipal Level: A Westside Branch Educational & Social, on November 7th. 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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Electoral Politics Committee Meeting |
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Thursday, November 4 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm |
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Join the Electoral Politics Committee for our monthly meeting on Zoom. |
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Climate Justice Committee – November Meeting |
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Saturday, November 6 @ 10:30 am - 12:00 pm |
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Climate Justice’s Monthly Committee Meeting will be Saturday, 11/6 @ 10:30AM on Zoom. Join us to get in on the ground floor of organizing for the Green New Deal for Public Schools Campaign. |
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Child Watch Training |
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Sunday, November 7 @ 10:00 am - 10:45 am |
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As we transition back to in-person meetings across the chapter, adopting a Child Watch program is one important way to translate our socialist feminist politics into action and make socialist events accessible to parents, children, and caregivers. This outdoor, interactive training will walk comrades through DSA-LA’s Child Watch Best Practices, and include plenty of time for questions. This training is open to all comrades with any level of experience with caregiving (including none at all!) and will be followed by a family-friendly educational and social event [click here for more details], where comrades will have a chance to pair up with experienced Child Watch volunteers right away. Join us to build up DSA-LA’s capacity to offer Child Watch all across the chapter! CLICK HERE TO RSVP Coffee and light refreshments will be provided ☕ And as always, if you have any questions about our chapter’s Child Watch program (at this event or otherwise), you can reach us at [email protected]. |
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Advancing Socialist Politics at the Municipal Level: A Westside Branch Educational & Social |
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Sunday, November 7 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm |
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This year, members of DSA-LA overwhelmingly voted to ratify a local Democratic Socialist Program — a set of political commitments to build a strong basis for accountability for DSA-LA electeds and to stake out a clear, compelling vision for a Los Angeles the working class deserves. On November 7th, join us for this outdoor, interactive educational event & social to:
Childwatch and light refreshments will be provided. CLICK HERE TO RSVP to help us plan for both childwatch & refreshments in advance! |
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