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Week of January 18, 2021 |
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ANNOUNCEMENTS |
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This Saturday is 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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DSA-LA Endorses Fatima Iqbal-Zubair and Eunisses Hernandez |
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After a week of balloting, DSA-LA members have voted to endorse two additional socialist candidates in the 2022 primary elections. Congratulations to DSA members Fatima Iqbal-Zubair, Candidate for CA State Assembly District 65 and Eunisses Hernandez, Candidate for Los Angeles City Council District! Each received supermajority support of chapter members (85% and 87% respectively) on their endorsement. These socialist candidates are committed to articulating democratic socialist politics to thousands of voters throughout LA County and mobilizing working-class supporters beyond a single election to win transformative reforms and material demands. They join DSA-LA member Hugo Soto-Martinez, Candidate for Los Angeles City Council District 13, who was endorsed by DSA-LA’s membership in late 2021. Read the DSA-LA's Electoral Politics Committee's full statement here: https://dsa-la.org/endorses-fatima-and-eunisses/ |
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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. Nominations Committee encourages early submissions so they can be translated into Spanish before the deadline! |
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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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DSA 101 |
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TONIGHT! Tuesday, January 18 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm |
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This is an online meeting. Click here to RSVP and receive the Zoom Link. 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: Disability Justice |
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TONIGHT! Tuesday, January 18 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm |
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The Mutual Aid Book Club is moving on in our series on Alienation. In transition between Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher and leading into Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg we will be discussing an Article in Harbinger Journal written by Lateef McLeod, ‘Social Ecology and Disability Justice: Making A New Society‘ as well as McLeod’s appearance on theSrsly Wrong Podcast, Episode 244 – Disability Justice. The first explores commonalities between Social Ecology and Disability Justice in their respective visions for liberation, focusing on the shared components of anti-capitalist critique, mutual aid or interdependence, and ecological sustainability, ultimately to illustrate how these two movements can align to build a more just, egalitarian, and ecologically sustainable world. The second expands on these themes in an entertaining audio format, which explores why accessibility is important for everyone, and how Capitalism systemically reduces us to our labour power, denying our wholeness as human beings. 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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Immigration Justice Committee January Meeting! |
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TONIGHT! Tuesday, January 18 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm |
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Hahaha! Read that laugh in a rueful tone because everything definitely feels insane at the moment. Maybe replace “rueful tone” with “crazed inflection”. Like a good Coen Bros. film, omicron is taking advantage of the chaos of late-stage capitalism to wreck its own havoc, and it really feels like everything is starting to break down WAY faster than we thought it would. So what is the antidote for the alienation of 21st century corporate kakistocracy? Why the solidarity of the IJC (and, more broadly, DSA, obvs)! Thanks to omicron, we’re back to meeting online, and this month we’ll be discussing the upcoming officer elections, as well as a possible political education project for the group to work on in 2022. See you in the Metaverse, comrades! |
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CalCare tabling w/ Healthcare Justice in Altadena (Wednesday) and South Pasadena (Thursday) |
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Wednesday, January 19 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm |
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Thursday, January 20 @ 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm |
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Mutual Aid Free Brake Light Clinic Planning Meeting |
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Wednesday, January 19 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm |
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At Free Brake Light Repair Clinics, we provide brake light replacement to anyone who needs it, free of charge, as many often don’t have access to the time, resources, or knowledge to replace their brake lights, and unfortunately broken tail lights are frequently used by the cops as a pretext to pull folks over and force them into the carceral system. Come join us as we discuss and plan our next clinics for 2022! We’ll continue scouting out locations and community partners for these events. |
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Electoral Politics Committee Meeting |
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Thursday, January 20 @ 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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