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.
Our fourth Coastal Areas Neighborhood Meeting will build on discussions and projects outlined in our previous meetings- including intersections with Neighborhood Council work and organizing in solidarity with Street Watch in Venice and Mar Vista.
Our study topic for this meeting will be Socialist Struggles for Decommodified Public Goods with a focus on housing. Totaling ~20 pages, the following set of recommended excerpts and articles provide a foundation for interactive discussion:
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Class Organization and Rupture on the Terrain of Housing by Justin Gilmore (Spectre Magazine)
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Movements and Initiatives to Decommodify Housing by Sabine Horlitz (Center for Metropolitan Studies)
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Reclaim our Homes by Sarah Jaffe (Dissent Magazine)
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Excerpt from Take the houses back/take the land back: Black and Indigenous urban futures in Oakland by Margaret Marietta Ramirez (Urban Geography, 2020)