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.
Our sixth Palms + Culver City Neighborhood Meeting will build on discussions and projects outlined in last meeting, and will include a focus on strategy for connecting with area renters through our ongoing ‘know your rights’ tenant canvassing in the area.
We’ll also spend time in political discussion on struggles for decommodified housing, grounded in this recommended reading: “Unmaking the Real Estate State” an excerpted chapter from Capital City (Stein, 2019, 18 pages); Grounded in a clear assessment of how the state uses and is used by capital (and the unaffordable consequences for working people), this chapter outlines a range of policy and political strategies to facilitate the transfer of private land to the public and drive structural changes in our urban political economy.