Grant Helete
Grant Helete a member of the DSA San Luis Obispo (DSA SLO) Organizing Committee and the DSA Libertarian Socialist Caucus.
- I have campaigned in San Luis Obispo for Prop 10 in 2018, and am currently working with DSA SLO and the SLO Housing for All Coalition to overturn the City of San Luis Obispo's overnight parking ban, as it seeks to punish houseless and impoverished people for the mere crime of their existence.
DSA At-Large Delegate list
DSA At-Large Delegates, 2019 Convention included Grant Helete San Luis Obispo.
Action plan
Mitchell Park is usually a place where SLO residents gather to relax and play. But on the first Wednesday of every month, it's also a hub for the city's nascent socialist movement.
The park is where members of the SLO Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) hold their monthly general meetings. The SLO DSA has been in existence for less than a year, but its members are already planning to take on two of the city's most pressing issues, affordable housing and homelessness.
"There really has not been a strong voice for working-class people or people who are vulnerable and marginalized in SLO," said Grant Helete, a member of the SLO DSA. "We really want to provide that voice for them."
The 25-year-old said the group, which currently has about 15 regular members, wants to tackle SLO's problems from a left-wing perspective. In the case of housing, the group will push for rent control in the city and support for Proposition 10, a state ballot initiative that would allow local governments to adopt rent control ordinances. Helete said the SLO DSA would also campaign for renters' rights, public housing, and a citywide tenants' union.
The group plans to call for the city to decriminalize poverty and homelessness in SLO. That includes working to abolish what they believe are discriminatory anti-homeless ordinances, such as SLO's ban on car camping. Members also support issues embraced by the DSA's national organization including a Medicare for all health care system, free college education, and dismantling the U.S. Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE).
"We think we can advocate for these types of positions that others won't," Helete said.[1]
Carrizo Plan
Heidi Harmon is at Mission Plaza. June 30, 2017 ·
Join me, Congressman Salud Carbajal, former Congresswoman Lois Capps and others as we join together to show our support for the Carrizo Plan. Mary Alina, Ethan Buckner, Dale Stoker, Grant Helete.