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Week of November 29, 2021
 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Nominate yourself for an elected position!

New positions added! Childcare For All Campaign Working Group Co-Chair (x2)

It’s time to choose our Local Officers (Steering Committee, YDSA Coordinator) and Branch Coordinators! The nomination period for these offices will end at 11:59 pm on Sunday, December 5th, 2021.

After the nomination period, save these dates:

  • Candidate Forum and Voting begins Monday, December 13th. The time has not yet been set, but will be announced later this week. This forum will be conducted on Zoom.
  • Voting closes Monday, December 20th at 11:59 PM.
  • Winners will be announced December 21st once all votes are counted!

As outlined in the resolution text, our Childcare 4 All Priority Resolution working group has 2 co-chair positions that will be filled by chapter-wide election. We've added these positions to our nomination form and members in good standing have the opportunity to nominate themselves for these positions! If you are a candidate answering the public statement questions, please answer all questions in accordance with the prompts and provide your answers to the last three questions of the Public Candidate Statement as it relates to the Childcare 4 All campaign, rather than the Local. We look forward to receiving nominees until 11:59 PM December 5th, when the nominations period will close.

If you are a member of DSA in good standing, who has joined prior to July 2021, and you've been looking to lead, nominate yourself! Here’s the nomination form to get started: https://forms.gle/KTfKnVsFSpBgcWJs9.

CALENDAR

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!

Political Education Committee Meeting

(TODAY) Tuesday, November 30 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Join the DSA-LA Political Education for our next monthly meeting! At this meeting we will be reviewing some proposals for upcoming events and talking about December’s holiday party. Whether you a regular member or a brand new attendee, we welcome you to join us on Zoom this month.

CalCare tabling w/ Healthcare Justice in Altadena – Wednesday

Wednesday, December 1 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

CalCare (AB1400) will be reintroduced in the CA Assembly in January!

Join us as we table to educate on CalCare (AB1400) in Assemblymember Anthony Portantino‘s district.

Help gather supporters for a Medicare for All style program in California. 2-hour shifts.

Like Medicare for All, CalCare is built on 7 core principles:

  1. Universal coverage to all Californians as a human right
  2. A single, public program that would pay for all necessary and appropriate care for California residents
  3. Comprehensive benefits, including medical, dental, vision, reproductive care, long term care, and more
  4. Freedom to choose the doctors and hospital of your choice, with no narrow networks restricting what provider you can see
  5. Care that is free at the point of service, with no copays, deductibles, or prior authorizations
  6. A just transition for the workers who may be displaced or otherwise affected by the switch to CalCare; and
  7. Patient care based on patient need, with no financial incentives to delay or deny care, provided based on the professional judgment of your care provider, not corporate boardrooms

Join us as we table to educate on AB1400 Single Payer Healthcare for California. Help gather supporters for healthcare for all.

Sign up here for 2 hour shifts!

CalCare tabling w/ Healthcare Justice in South Pasadena – Thursday

Thursday, December 2 @ 4:30 pm - 7:00 pm

CalCare (AB1400) will be reintroduced in the CA Assembly in January!

Join us as we table to educate on CalCare (AB1400) in Assemblymember Anthony Portantino‘s district.

Help gather supporters for a Medicare for All style program in California. 2-hour shifts.

Like Medicare for All, CalCare is built on 7 core principles:

  1. Universal coverage to all Californians as a human right
  2. A single, public program that would pay for all necessary and appropriate care for California residents
  3. Comprehensive benefits, including medical, dental, vision, reproductive care, long term care, and more
  4. Freedom to choose the doctors and hospital of your choice, with no narrow networks restricting what provider you can see
  5. Care that is free at the point of service, with no copays, deductibles, or prior authorizations
  6. A just transition for the workers who may be displaced or otherwise affected by the switch to CalCare; and
  7. Patient care based on patient need, with no financial incentives to delay or deny care, provided based on the professional judgment of your care provider, not corporate boardrooms

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

Westside Branch Phonebank – Membership Drive

Thursday, December 2 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Westside comrades – join organizers for a phonebank dedicated to reaching out to comrades who joined our organization at the end of 2020. We’ll be checking in with members to share our chapter’s program for 2022 (campaigns for Universal Childcare, a Green New Deal for Public Schools, and more), and asking them to renew their membership dues to commit to another year of struggle together. ✊

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.

Central Branch Meeting & Social

Saturday, December 4 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Join Central branch leaders, organizers, and new members for our final branch-wide meeting of 2021! Comrades from all Central neighborhoods are invited to this outdoor, in-person meeting at a park to be announced soon.

The agenda will feature time dedicated for discussion about DSA-LA’s campaigns for 2022 — including Hugo for City Council, Universal Childcare and the Green New Deal for Public Schools — and opportunities to plug in to the work right away. We’ll also carve out some time just to hang out and get to know our socialist neighbors across Central LA!

Not sure if this is your branch? Neighborhoods in Central LA include: Atwater Village, Arlington Heights, Chinatown, Downtown, East Hollywood, Echo Park, Elysian Park, Elysian Valley, Fairfax, Hancock Park, Harvard Heights, Hollywood, Hollywood Hills, Koreatown, Larchmont Village, Los Feliz, Mid-City, Mid-Wilshire, Pico-Union, Silver Lake, Westlake, and Windsor Square.

CalCare tabling w/ Healthcare Justice at Ciclavia – South LA

Sunday, December 5 @ 9:00 am - 3:00 pm

CalCare (AB1400) will be brought in front of key committees in the CA Assembly in January!

Join us as we table on CalCare (AB1400) at the biggest open streets event in the United States! RSVP here.

Help gather supporters for a Medicare for All style program in California. 2-hour shifts.

Like Medicare for All, CalCare is built on 7 core principles:

  • Universal coverage to all Californians as a human right
  • A single, public program that would pay for all necessary and appropriate care for California residents
  • Comprehensive benefits, including medical, dental, vision, reproductive care, long term care, and more
  • Freedom to choose the doctors and hospital of your choice, with no narrow networks restricting what provider you can see
  • Care that is free at the point of service, with no copays, deductibles, or prior authorizations
  • A just transition for the workers who may be displaced or otherwise affected by the switch to CalCare; and
  • Patient care based on patient need, with no financial incentives to delay or deny care, provided based on the professional judgment of your care provider, not corporate boardrooms

 

 Join us: RSVP here

DSA-LA Ideological Diversity Forum - Part 2

Monday, December 6 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

To harness the momentum from last month's Ideological Diversity Forum, DSA-LA's Conflict Resolution Team (CRT) will host a second session in which we'll dive deeper into how political and ideological differences lead to conflict in our organizing spaces. This forum is open to all Chapter members. Don't worry—you do not need to have attended the previous session.

Ideological Diversity Forum - Part 2

Monday, December 6, 2021

6pm to 8pm

The forum will be conducted in English.

ASL will be provided upon request.