This summer, we are holding our second national conference to bring together people from across the country who have the courage to stand up to the American nightmare. We will share what we’ve learned from our work organizing masses of people and confronting the enemy head-on. And we’ll strategize how to bring hundreds more into collective struggle against the capitalist system. If you want to dedicate yourself to the masses struggling to survive, if you want to be part of an organization standing with the people to take on their oppressors, or if you’re looking to start a chapter of Dare to Struggle, LA is the place to be this summer.
Why Now?
This country and the world remain plunged in slow-rolling and sharpening crises. Another Trump administration has ripped the polite mask off US imperialism once again, staging mass arrests of immigrants and texting about war plans to bomb Yemen in group chats. The brief pause of US-made bombs dropping on families in Gaza has ended, and students protesting for Palestine are being rounded up by Gestapo ICE agents. Funding cuts and purges of government agencies are throwing people out of work and leaving poor people without basic necessities. Transgender youth face a suicide epidemic, with forced detransitions becoming state policy. Beyond the Trump political theater, police murders, evictions and homelessness, inadequate healthcare, domestic violence, climate disasters, and more roll on as before, from red states to blue.
“The Resistance” Keeps Flopping
Amid these horrors, the Democratic Party and the Left continue to distract, confuse, and lead people astray from confronting the system and its ruling class. Democrats in Congress paint themselves as helpless victims against the Trump agenda. “Progressive” Democrats like AOC and Bernie Sanders are puffing themselves up as some kind of Resistance 2.0, touring the country, and railing against “the billionaires,” just months after sharing the stage with genocidal war criminal Kamala Harris (and…billionaires) at the Democratic National Convention. Every Democrat at every level of government, no matter how radical sounding, keeps channeling mass rage back into the electoral charade like clockwork.
The Left Keeps Idling
After the actual Resistance in Gaza called on people in the US to rebel against the war machine, Leftist organizations like the PSL, DSA, and FRSO have begged for ceasefires and arms embargoes for 18 months through routine marches that pose no threats. When mass rebellion breaks out, the Left jumps in to steer things away from revolution and into their comfortable dead-ends of study circles, mutual aid, abolition discourse, and toothless demonstrations.
If self-serving Leftists don’t step aside, and if they keep making genuine activism seem goofy to the masses, genocides abroad and mass injustices at home will rage on.
Why You Should Come
At this conference, we’ll make plans to turn our local organizing efforts against police brutality and displacement into coordinated national campaigns. Mass leaders we’ve worked alongside will report out on our collective experiences, drawing from lessons learned in the past few years of leading mobilizations. We’ll break out into discussions with our chapters to give guidance to newcomers for how to get started wherever you live. We’ll make plans for new campaigns to take on other national focal points of oppression, like mass deportations and patriarchal assaults on women and LGBTQ people. And we’ll spend a day going out to Skid Row, the biggest concentration of homeless people in America, to agitate and organize the homeless to stand up to the cops, sweepers, slumlords, and politicians who treat them as subhuman.
As we said leading into last year’s conference, this is not going to be some Leftist networking event to blow hot air. If you like doing what’s comfortable and feeling good about yourself, go to a Bernie rally or a PSL book swap instead. This conference is for people who are looking to genuinely dedicate themselves to the masses, who are eager to struggle side by side to fight the system, and want to get trained up in leading mass organizing efforts. This is what Dare to Struggle members do.
Beyond talking shop, we’ll do some cool shit around LA, hitting up a low rider show, checking out LA’s world-famous cuisines, and dancing cumbia.
So if you’re looking to join up with Dare to Struggle, come to our second national conference, June 13-15, in Los Angeles. We’ll soon be sharing registration details and the conference program, but hit us up in the meantime with any questions. Let us know where you’re coming from, if you have any experience in activism (none necessary!) and what you hope to get from the conference.
And donate to our organization to help us put this thing together.
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