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Week of May 23, 2022 |
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ANNOUNCEMENTS |
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In-Person Voting Centers open this Saturday! |
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Saturday, May 28 @ 10:00 am - 4:30 pm |
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On May 28th, in-person voting centers will open around the District and City. We are taking this opportunity to meet up at a park and canvass for Hugo Soto-Martínez, making sure voters know about Hugo’s campaign and have a plan to vote! We will meet at 10 am at a park (exact location TBD) and then head out to knock doors at 12pm. Paid for by Hugo Soto-Martinez For City Council 2022 16633 Ventura Blvd #1008 Los Angeles, CA 91436 |
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Help us re-engage members! |
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Building a mass movement is key to a socialist victory. Join the nationwide DSA recommitment campaign and help reach out to lapsed and expired members to ask them to recommit to the cause. In a moment where abortion rights are under attack and the Democratic administration is showing ineptitude and unwillingness to lead, we are experiencing a renewed popular political engagement, so now is the great time to help ask members recommit! Join one of our remaining three phone and text banking sessions to reach out to expired and lapsed members, hear what they have to say, and ask them to recommit to the DSA! Phone banking #2 - Wednesday evening, May 25th 6:00-8:00 |
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Support families reclaiming their homes! |
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Tuesday, May 24 @ 9:00 am - 3:00 pm |
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There are more vacant apartments than houseless people in LA. We can’t build our way out of a housing crisis. We can’t afford to wait for housing supply to trickle down — it won’t. We need to rehab and fill vacant homes *yesterday.* In March of 2020, DSA-LA helped found a coalition called Reclaiming Our Homes: a group of people who took a stand for their families and reclaimed homes, owned by Caltrans, that had been abandoned and empty for decades. Two years later, these families are demanding to permanently stay in their homes. Tomorrow, May 24, DSA-LA urges members to call or email the LA County Board of Supervisors to urge them to commit to the Reclaimers' demands! |
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How to keep your comrades safe at a rally or protest |
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Saturday, May 28 @ 10:00 am - 1:00 pm |
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Given the recent waves of rallies and protests in response to the Roe v Wade crisis, and those that are certain to come, it's important that we invest in our marshalling capabilities as a chapter. Come join your comrades and Red Rabbits, DSA's national marshalling program, for a three hour 101 introduction to street marshalling and how to keep your comrades safe! |
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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 Committee Meeting |
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Monday, May 23 @ 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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Canvasses For Fatima! |
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Friday, May 27 @ 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm Saturday, May 28 @ 11:45 am - 4:00 pm Sunday, May 29 @ 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm |
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Help build the movement for Fatima in AD65 by canvassing with us! If you’ve never canvassed before: we will provide you with a thorough training, pair you up with someone experienced/confident, and make sure you are comfortable going out. Don’t worry — we got you! |
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Marxism Reading Group – Pedagogy of the Oppressed – Part 1 |
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Tuesday, May 24 @ 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm |
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Please join us for our discussion of the first chapter of Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire, on Tuesday, May 24th. A favorite of socialists as well as leftists all over the world (and in DSA-LA) has been widely praised. A summary: “Pedagogy of the Oppressed develops a theory of education fitted to the needs of the disenfranchised and marginalized members of capitalist societies. Combining educational and political philosophy, the book offers an analysis of oppression and a theory of liberation. Freire believes that traditional education serves to support the dominance of the powerful within society and thereby maintain the powerful’s social, political, and economic status quo. To overcome the oppression endemic to an exploitative society, education must be remade to inspire and enable the oppressed in their struggle for liberation.” A collaborative doc with the text we’ll be discussing, the audiobook version, and Zoom connection information will be provided. Please RSVP for access. The discussion group is open to all, including DSA members outside of the San Fernando Valley and non-DSA members. This reading group meets on the second and fourth Tuesdays of every month. |
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Climate Justice – Decarbonization Planning |
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Wednesday, May 25 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm |
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Climate Justice will continue the discussion of our strategy around the LA city building decarbonization activities. |
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GND4PS Canvass – East LA |
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Sunday, May 29 @ 3:00 pm - 5:30 pm |
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Join us in East LA on Sunday, May 29th, at 3:00 p.m. to knock on doors and have discussions with community members around Esteban E. Torres High School about the need to invest in our public schools so they are climate resilient learning environments that nurture students and prepare our communities to take on the climate crisis.
The goal of our canvasses are to build measurable community support for the following demands we are making of the LA Unified School District Board of Education:
If you’ve never canvassed before: we will provide you with a training, pair you up with someone experienced/confident, and make sure you are comfortable going out. Don’t worry — we got you! |
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Foodservice Labor Circle |
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Monday, May 30 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm |
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Across the country, foodservice workers are organizing in their workplaces and building worker power. If you work in a restaurant, bar, coffee shop, or other food establishment, join us at our biweekly meetings and help build a movement for solidarity and power within our industry, within our city. |
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