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Week of January 10, 2021 |
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This Week at DSA-LA: A summary! |
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January is now in full swing! Below you'll find details on several committee meetings this week — Mutual Aid, Labor, Healthcare Justice, and Education Workers — as well as a town hall on the chapter's 2022 Member Survey and tabling for CalCare. If you're looking for weekend plans, consider attending the disaster preparedness skill-share or join comrades writing postcards in support of Hugo Soto-Martinez's city council campaign (those fluent in Spanish, Thai, and Tagalog especially encouraged!). Don't forget we have a Chapter Meeting coming up on January 22 where you can learn even more about how to get involved with socialist organizing happening in Los Angeles. And finally, nominations are now open for committee leadership as well as for delegates to the California state DSA. - Lori D. 2022 DSA-LA Communications Director |
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ANNOUNCEMENTS |
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Share your thoughts at the DSA-LA 2022 Member Survey Planning Town Hall! |
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TODAY! Monday, January 10 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm |
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If we want to achieve victory in our ongoing struggle against exploitation, oppression, injustice, and capitalism, it is crucial for us to know our own capacity at any given moment. That’s why, by the end of January, we plan to survey our membership to learn about their demographics, availability, skills and interests! We are hosting a town hall about this survey project on January 10th for two reasons:
Please join us if you’re interested! However, if you can’t make it, you can still share feedback using this form! You should also review the current member survey, developed in 2021. This is the template that we may adapt based on feedback. Looking forward to seeing anyone that can make it! This event is presented by the DSA-LA Admin Committee |
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Nominations are now open for committee leadership and California state DSA delegates |
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Over the past few years, DSA has made major strides organizing across chapters at the state-wide level. Last spring DSA-LA joined a supermajority of other California DSA chapters to scale up that work by voting to form a new statewide organization. Now it's finally time to elect the 28 representatives from our chapter to serve on the new CA DSA State Council! The nomination period starts on January 7th, and ends on January 21st at 11:59 PM. Voting for delegates will start promptly on January 22nd and end January 29th at 11:59 PM. Winners will be announced on January 30th. You must be a member in good standing of DSA-LA to be a delegate. Please use this form to nominate yourself! Nominations for committee leadership are being distributed through each subgroup. The nomination period for these positions will also end on January 21st, 11:59 PM. |
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Register for the January Chapter Meeting! |
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Saturday, January 22 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm |
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Join members of DSA from across LA County to learn about current campaigns and to make important decisions together at our first Chapter Meeting of the year! This meeting is intended for DSA-LA Members in Good Standing. Please ensure your Membership is current in advance of the meeting if you wish to participate. You can check your current status here. If you do not check in advance, we will be unable to resolve any membership issues on the day of the meeting. |
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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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Education Workers Circle |
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Monday, January 10 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm |
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Join the Education Workers Circle to build power in your workplace and a socialist presence in your union! K-12 and University educators welcome. |
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Healthcare Justice Committee Meeting |
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Monday, January 10 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm |
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Please RSVP here to join us for our first Healthcare Justice Committee meeting of the new year! We’ll be discussing important upcoming AB 1400 work, tabling events, and more. Zoom link will be provided directly to RSVPs, and an agenda will be sent prior to the meeting. |
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Mutual Aid Committee Meeting |
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Monday, January 10 @ 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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CalCare tabling w/ Healthcare Justice in Altadena – Wednesday |
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Wednesday, January 12 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm |
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Labor Committee January General Meeting |
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Wednesday, January 12 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm |
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Join us on Wednesday, January 12th 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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Hollywood Labor January Meeting |
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Saturday, January 15 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm |
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Let’s start our New Year right and start getting organized! Come join us for our first meeting of the year at our January General Meeting for a discussion of how we’re going to change the landscape in the entertainment industry in 2022! If you’re a new or non-member, come learn more about us! Hollywood Labor is a group within DSA-LA and DSA-LA’s Labor Committee that focuses on issues pertaining to the entertainment industry in Los Angeles. We fight for a Hollywood that works for all workers to fight for a more fair and equitable industry. Any questions? Feel free to email us at [email protected]
If you’d like to get involved with Hollywood Labor, please sign up on our intake survey here! |
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Disaster Preparedness Skill Share |
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Saturday, January 15 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm |
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This has been a year of manmade and natural disasters in many parts of the US and world. In this training, we’ll be reviewing how to prepare for natural disasters with our neighbors, planning to care for each other before disaster strikes. We’ve also prepared starter disaster preparedness kits with some basic supplies and literature for attendees and RSVPs, please add your address so we can set up a pick up point that’s as accessible to everyone as possible! We have a limited supply of 24 kits for the event, but can share our literature with everyone attending. Please RSVP for meeting connection information and add your address so that we can set a pick up point for your kit! |
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Nonprofit Workers Circle Postcard Party for Hugo 2022 |
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Sunday, January 16 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm |
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Join your comrades at the DSA-LA Nonprofit Workers Circle for a postcard writing party in support of the 2022 Hugo for CD13 campaign:https://www.hugo2022.com. We are looking for folks who can write fluently in both English and Spanish. Other languages such as Thai and Tagalog are also encouraged. This postcard party will be in-person in a comrade’s home on the west in West Los Angeles. Join us in solidarity with the Hugo campaign and come meet your fellow nonprofit comrades. We’ll catch you up on Hugo’s vision for CD13 as well as provide space to talk about the latest union drives and other nonprofit news across Los Angeles. We are asking that only comrades who are *** fully vaccinated with the booster shot *** join us. We will have postcards available on-site for you. Bring your own pens or markers. The postcard party will be hosted in a comrade’s home in West Los Angeles (address will be shared directly with attendees before the event). Snacks, tea, and coffee will be provided. If you have any questions, please email us at [email protected] with the subject line “Nonprofit Workers Circle Postcard Party.” See you all there! |
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