Join the Westwood/ West Los Angeles Neighborhood Meeting on Saturday, September 18!

We'll be meeting at Stoner Park to hear updates from our Strike Solidarity and Neighborhood Mapping Working Groups to discuss how we can support comrades at UCLA who will be going on strike this fall.  

Neighborhood Meetings are part of DSA-LA’s Neighborhood Solidarity Program—our chapter’s campaign to strengthen and grow socialist organization by uniting with our neighbors through tenant organizing, mutual aid work, and political study. This and all other Coastal Areas Neighborhood Meetings are open to new and long-time comrades & community members who live in the range of coastal cities and areas, including: Santa Monica, Venice, Marina Del Rey, Playa Del Rey, Playa Vista, Del Rey, Mar Vista, Marina del Rey, Malibu, Topanga, and the Pacific Palisades.

Continuing our study of Class Struggle and Socialist Strategy across different terrains, our study topic for this meeting will be Socialist Propaganda and Consciousness Raising. Short recommended readings to ground the discussion are included below.

• 5-page excerpt from “How can the left win?” (Seymour, 2011). Written in the wake of the 2008 global recession, Seymour’s discussion of the role of ‘common sense’ and ideological struggles that “prepare the preconditions for more militant forms of combat” can lend lessons for our work as socialists today, who strive to articulate, build, and fight for a new politics in response to the current health and economic crisis.

• 14-page excerpt from “Raising Consciousness at the Workplace; Anglos, Mexicans, and the Founding of the Los Angeles CIO, 1933 – 1938” Chapter 6 from John Laslett’s Sunshine was Never Enough: Los Angeles Workers, 1880–2010 (2012)