Weekly Roundup, Vol. 1
Catch up with LVDSA after a long week. Grab a drink, get comfy, and check out what we’ve been reading, thinking, and planning.
Food For Thought
Why You Should Join a Socialist Organization [15 min]
Black Lives Matter and COVID-19: An Activist Roundtable [20 min]
Study: American Southwest faces a ‘megadrought,’ the region’s worst in centuries [3 min]
Tropical Deforestation Releases Deadly Infections [5 min]
Incarceration Is Killing Us [Audio, 42 min]
LVDSA Study Group
The LVDSA Study Group pondered the eternal question with our conversation “Where do we go from here?: The Case For and Against Electoralism.” If you didn’t make it to the discussion, you can still catch up on the readings:
Building Class Power, Not Electoralism, Is the Future of the Left [8 min]
Like It or Not, If We Run Third Party, We Will Lose [14 min]
The Moral and Strategic Calculus of Voting for Joe Biden to Defeat Trump — or Not [26 min]
Facing Reality: The Socialist Left, the Sanders Campaign and Our Future [12 min]
Local Issues
SEIU: Healthcare workers to protest at valley hospitals this week [1 min]
Upcoming Events
Recall Goodman Zoom Call
May 4th @ 2pm → register
LVDSA Fireside Chat
May 4th @ 6:30pm → register
LVDSA Meet the Candidates Panel
May 14th @ 6:30pm → register
LVDSA Annual General Meeting
May 21st @ 6:30pm → register
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