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 South Bay Neighborhood Meetings are open to new and long-time comrades & community members who live in El Segundo, Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach, Redondo Beach, Torrance, Lawndale, Alondra Park, Carson, and West Carson.
Our sixth South Bay Neighborhood Meeting will build on discussions and projects outlined in last meeting, and will include a focus on information for renters in connection with our ongoing ‘know your rights’ tenant canvassing in Torrance.
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.