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LABOR DEMANDS CEASEFIRE
AIPAC DEMANDS GENOCIDE
WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON?
Ritchie Torres: $522k from AIPAC
Hakeem Jeffries: $500k from AIPAC
Dan Goldman: $400k from AIPAC
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Jimmy Carter probably did more than any president before him to break the unionization of the construction and trucking industries.
He helped make legal the misclassification of workers as independent contractors, allowing bosses commit tax fraud and wage theft at a huge scale.
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Over 100 DSA members arrested outside Gillibrand’s office. Ceasefire now!
So many people risked arrest demanding a ceasefire that the cops ran out of vans for transport and the action had to continue for an extra hour.
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Last weekend DSA members publicly confronted Rep. Nydia Velázquez, and drove hundreds of constituents to call her office to demand she stand with Palestine.
Today Velázquez is cosponsoring the squad’s ceasefire resolution. Good ✊🇵🇸
NEWS: Bush, Tlaib, Carson, Lee, Ramirez lead colleagues in call for immediate ceasefire
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The US attacked Puerto Rico's energy workers union, and pushed to privatize the public energy system with LUMA. Now 100% of customers are blacked out bc of Hurricane Fiona. Disaster Capitalism.
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I want to recognize comrade
@claireforqueens
, a labor leader running for NY assembly, who has quietly supported the student movement for Palestine, staying up until 4AM doing jail support without telling her staff, and marshalling the UAW rally. We deserve electeds like Claire!
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If you are a worker, our fight is your fight. $25/hr for warehouse workers now!
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Bowman was elected by a broad left movement, and remained responsive to it when he could have walked away. Solidarity 🌹
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Shout out to all the phonebankers making calls for Palestine today 🇵🇸🇵🇸🌹🌹
6 people joined DSA in order to make calls w us! (was members only for security reasons.)
Shout out to Alana, Eleanor, Emma, Faiza, Jasmine, and Miranda — new DSA members ✊
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The organizing experiments we undertook on David’s campaign are still inspiring me a few days after our loss, and hold lessons for how socialists in the US can deepen our working class base. 🧵
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Incredible that Kirsten Gillibrand just unsponsored
@AOC
’s Green New Deal resolution, ahead of her 2024 reelection… and primary…
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Inspired by
@NYTWA
who just won 2/3 debt forgiveness + much more. Hundreds of thousands of 💰 canceled in many cases. NY's organized working class did that 👊
@ZohranKMamdani
having perhaps the most accomplished DSA Elected Week Ever right now.
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The Midwest is owning us… coastal elite socialists getting wrecked…
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Half my crew got furloughed and I got laid off today because there’s not enough union construction work in NYC.
Put the unionized bldg trades to work on public renewables, all electric buildings, and green social housing,
@GovKathyHochul
.
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I voted to decharter the BDS working group, and to charge DSA’s International Committee with DSA’s BDS & Palestine solidarity work.
No one has felt gleeful or triumphant in this moment. This is an excruciating situation for everyone involved. There were no good choices.
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O’Brien failed to lead UPS Teamsters to strike despite having the base, the power, and the opportunity. Now he is failing once again to lead workers. Trump would sooner call the national guard than allow a strike at UPS. Trump *wants* part time poverty for Teamsters. Wake tf up.
O’BRIEN, TRUMP DISCUSS TEAMSTER ISSUES AHEAD OF RANK-AND-FILE ROUNDTABLE
Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien met privately with President Donald Trump on Wednesday for an in-depth and productive discussion on worker issues most important to the Teamsters Union.
The…
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Entry level wages are $56k. Few make over $70k. Health insurance, dental, ER taxes, 401k, + other modest benefits make the total cost 90k.
Union janitors in NYC make about the same. Union construction workers in NYC make double. (I am one.) Workers deserve fair pay.
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Power lines are ON FIRE in Brooklyn,
@CarlHeastie
, and yet you’re blocking all major climate legislation for the *third* year in a row?
Pass the Build Public Renewables Act this week!
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All 8 socialists in office voted no on
@GovKathyHochul
's budget. We're proud of winning BPRA, but we won’t be forced to choose b/t struggles.
Everyone who dedicated 4 years to passing BPRA feels transformed. Working people deserve this feeling – of having power over our lives.
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Starting a shift of hard physical labor in harmful air quality. UPS never offered workers hazard pay during COVID. What about during the climate crisis?
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DSA members in Astoria have elected socialists to every level of gov to deliver an ecosocialist agenda.
Through that work and *because* of that work they organized Queens into a fight to stop a fossil fuel plant blocking $45M in revenue for NRG.
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I told her to win a green new deal, we need to create green new deal unions
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“No market solution available” 🙃
Breaking: ERCOT has issued an alert for possible rolling blackouts Monday from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. "A projected reserve capacity shortage with no market solution available." Additionally, ERCOT has issued a call for energy conservation Monday.
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I transferred a retired union pipefitter to Mark Kelly’s Tucson office to leave a voicemail.
He was a Republican, hated his senator, and told me it wouldn’t make a difference. I agreed that one VM wouldn’t matter but together hundreds might.
Collective action 🤠
Big-ass deal: Sen. Mark Kelly told
@igorbobic
he’s open to getting parts of the PRO Act passed through reconciliation. Kelly has been one of three Senate Dem holdouts on landmark labor law reform
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The idea that Black people and white people (and all others) cannot build power together only benefits capitalists and reactionaries. But sometimes in DSA we think we need permission to organize. We do not need permission to organize.
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In the most hollowed-out, neoliberalized places in America, there is still one building that is wholly dedicated to the idea of the common good: the public school. That’s where we're gonna start the Green New Deal.
Proud to be throwing down for this!
Today, I’m introducing the Green New Deal for Public Schools.
We can and we must address the climate crisis while rebuilding our school infrastructure to meet every child's needs.
Let's go!
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Throw out your leftist orthodoxies. In organizing, humility is good.
For yrs left sects shunned the Dem ballot line, opposed electoral work. 6 yrs of socialist electoral experiments later, clearly they were wrong.
Everyone w/ ONE right way to organize labor? Probably wrong too.
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.
@PramilaJayapal
, Biden, and
@SenSchumer
are giving up any leverage they had to pass the Build Back Better Act.
@AOC
,
@JamaalBowmanNY
,
@CoriBush
,
@RashidaTlaib
all voting No.
DSA members want to change the way politics is done. Socialism is not a platform, it’s a project.
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THE NY BUILD PUBLIC RENEWABLES ACT JUST PASSED THE ASSEMBLY CORPORATIONS COMMITTEE
OUR FUTURE:
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Not one nickel, Not one dime
No more funding for Israel’s crimes
@SenGillibrand
@SenSchumer
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Green homes now. Give me a heat pump, an ebike, & induction range. The green transition = just give people stuff
Italy reduced emissions from home heating more in the last *8 months* than in the previous *20 years*.
How? The government pays the full cost of a heat pump install, plus a 10% bonus to the user.
This is what serious electrification policy looks like.
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Solar workers at
@EmPowerSolar
in Long Island voted to unionize with
@uaw
last month. A week later their millionaire bosses laid off 21 of them in retaliation.
Today unions, DSA, & PSL rallied to demand the workers be reinstated. What’s disgusting? Union busting 📣😡
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UPS warehouse workers in NYC are living in shelters making $16/hr. Drivers make over $40/hr. Guess which division is majority Black workers?
UPS, ALL your workers deserve a living wage.
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Mocking someone for being harassed at work by fellow DSA members is uncomradely. For an official DSA social media account to do this is inexcusable.
This *definitely* sounds like it happened.
BOSS: Hello, this is the painters union, I'm the boss.
EBG: THIS IS THE EVIL BLACK GHOST. I AM A MEMBER OF THE AFROSOCIALISTS OF THE BALTIMORE DSA! YOUR EMPLOYEE DID A RACISM! WhoOOoOOo!
BOSS: Oh damn, lemme go talk to him real quick.
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Just minutes ago
@nycDSA
emailed members calling on Cuomo to resign and already he’s responded 🤣
Join DSA!
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The UPS contract could raise standards for workers in the entire industry.
Rallying with
@Teamsters
and
@JamaalBowmanNY
for the entire working class this morning 🐴🌹👊
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NYC DSA should actually organize a celebratory rally this time
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BPRA organizers 🤝 Naomi Klein
We said, we became ecosocialists because of This Changes Everything. She said, BPRA was a bright spot 🥺
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“I really don’t know any other home other than Tucson,” Konst said. “We have deep, deep roots in this community.”
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Principles behind DTB:
*We* are not burdening working class people by asking them to participate politically.
*Capitalism* is burdening working class people by systematically preventing them from organizing.
We want to give voters the choice to fight for themselves.
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One of the only existing libertarian socialist societies on earth, and honestly? I respect it
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Shout out to every DSA member in Congress who voted NO on military aid, Israel relations normalization, Iron Dome, policing, and ICE funding.
The Democratic establishment sees conservatives and capitalists mobilizing, offer no alternative. Socialists must lead instead.
Only 15 Democrats voted against the Pentagon / DHS spending bill:
Blumenauer, Bowman, Bush, García (IL), Gomez, Jacobs, Jayapal, Lee (CA), McGovern, Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Pocan, Pressley, Tlaib, Watson Coleman
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Canvassing in the LES and spoke to an 88-year-old tenant in nycha who said she’ll vote for
@illapa4NY
if she’s still alive in June 🥺
“Uno nunca sabe…” 🥲😇
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The BDS wg's steering committee frequently equates political disagreement with betrayal against Palestinian freedom. They accuse political dissenters of contempt toward Palestinian humanity. This is an unhealthy way of doing politics that others in DSA pick up & replicate.
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The Build Public Renewables Act has passed the NY State Senate! Huge movement victory.
The Green New Deal could start in NY. It's up to
@CarlHeastie
to bring it to a vote in the Assembly tomorrow.
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Spanish is my first language & I've been thrilled to be able to do DSA organizing in Spanish on so many projects this year thanks to the hard work of
@DSALatSoc
.
I urge every delegate at the natl convention to vote yes on R36 to build a base of wc Latino socialists in the US.
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Today I’m scheduled to strenuously load packages at a smoky UPS warehouse in Manhattan 🙃 Staying inside isn’t possible.
If you want to do something about climate change, you do have that power. Retract your nomination of Justin Driscoll,
@GovKathyHochul
.
As haze and smoke from Canadian wildfires continue to spread, much of New York State is expected to experience unhealthy air quality today.
Please take steps to stay safe. Stay indoors if possible and limit strenuous activities.
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A labor march for Palestine is a historic achievement. The struggles of Palestinian and Arab autoworkers (including Rashida Tlaib’s father) are responsible for the UAW position & every socialist should be proud to see
@nycDSA
shoulder to shoulder w unionists for Palestine today.
Join Workers to STOP THE BOMBS!
Thursday, 5PM, Bryant Park. Join us,
@UAWRegion9A
& a growing coalition of labor unions with Palestinian, Jewish & community orgs calling for a permanent ceasefire NOW!
Workers demand peace & justice for Palestine 🇵🇸
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Ultraliberals hate plans that require democracy, discipline, & leadership because they believe individual choice is more important than collective action – just as capitalists want.
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“Ecosocialists took the Albany playbook and tore it to shreds to pass BPRA… You inspired all of us, you changed the political calculation.” -
@ZohranKMamdani
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DSA supports Starbucks Workers!
Join over 100 shops on strike. Red Cup Rebellion 🌹
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Facile thinking about power—demanding easy answers to difficult moral and political questions—is bad for the left.
The BDS working group’s leaders did not want to confront what we should do with limited power, and were offended by being asked to reckon with it.
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I’m proud to have fought alongside
@illapa4NY
for the New York our ruling class wants to wipe out.
And I’ll be proud to send a comrade and a brother to Albany to fight them head on. Starting now.
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Hey
@SenSchumer
&
@SpeakerPelosi
, don’t sell out the working class!
Keep the
#PROAct
and $82 billion for
#GreenNewSchools
in the Build Back Better Act!
#NoCutsChallenge
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I am posting this on twitter because I believe that many people outside of DSA have misunderstood that the NPC acted bc we believe that anti-imperialism is an inconvenience to our project.
I want to correct the record, nothing could be more false.
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The NPC has already voted and put layoffs on the table, but there is no good reason for laying off TWELVE staff. The consequences will be destructive for Palestine and electoral organizing like Vote Uncommitted, among every other priority. Twelve layoffs are extreme and draconian
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For many months, in many forms, the steering committee of the BDS working group has threatened and smeared anyone who disagrees with them politically.
For a long time, I thought it was best not to respond, to focus on my own organizing instead, & make the case by example.
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Many NY state legislators who opposed
#BuildPublicRenewables
losing their seats tonight & getting out-performed by the environmental bond act 👀
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This requires a level of trust that our leaders are not secretly zionists, are not secretly supportive of ethnic cleansing, do not secretly wish to censor and oppress Palestinians.
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This weekend Marvin and I proposed and passed next steps for DSA to hire an electoral director. The NPC will meet tonight to discuss applicants and vote on how to proceed.
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The spoiler candidate in David Alexis’ race is sending desperate red baiting mailers to disorganize voters in the district.
I’m donating to David’s campaign so he can pay for mailers to share his working class agenda & fund deep organizing. Join me?
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It is shameful that we are allowing this toxic atmosphere to take root in DSA. Disruptive actors thrive in this kind of culture. Good organizers are driven away.
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Sarahana will be the first DSA member from upstate New York to join the Socialists in Office. But only if we all help!
We spent hundreds of hours pressuring Albany to pass the Build Public Renewables Act, failing, then seeing New Yorkers die from climate change this summer.
Hi, my name is Sarahana. I’m a Nepali-American climate organizer and a lifelong advocate for the working class. I’m running for NY State Assembly in District 103 to change the culture of Albany and fight for the future Hudson Valley deserves.
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It’s sad, but not that surprising, that a few of the people who presided over the socialist left before 2016, during its decades of irrelevance, now feel more comfortable abstaining from it the moment we show our potential for collective power. Powerlessness can be a comfort.
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Criticizing republicans is necessary & unobjectionable. The DSA left seems afraid to, not sure why.
Labor movement woke me up. A union worker at a site next to mine put a noose on another’s cart last week. (NYC workers with trade union consciousness!) the far right has a base.
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As someone committed to BDS and Palestine liberation, it is very upsetting to me that it came to this. It shouldn’t have and I feel crushed that it did.
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Helping 50 ppl to get good union jobs is a serious accomplishment 🌹 DSA’s strongest industry network probably has 1-3 leaders at 20-30 of the most important sites in the country. Modest numbers that led to truly impressive working class organizing and strength last year
The
@RankAndFileProj
has recruited 50 young people in three metro areas to get union jobs in targeted industries, coordinate with each other and with existing workplace leaders, study a demanding curriculum, and help build unions that can fight the bosses.
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Illapa always has our backs in the movement and now it’s time for us to help him.
Today is his birthday, but he just got diagnosed with covid and will be spending it alone :(
I’m giving $50 to
@illapa4NY
who can match me?
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Every hour of meeting time we’ve spent deliberating the appropriate response to the latest disruption from the BDS WG steering is an hour not spent developing and executing a national strategy, our convention priorities.
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The cost of my inaction has been an NPC largely unable to do focus on anything but crisis response, struggling to enact anything we decided at the last convention, and struggling to develop and carry out a national strategy or program. At a time when the left can least afford it.
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Already, we have seen considerable movement from Representative Bowman and his office to struggle for Palestine on terrain of Congress. This is why the NPC has decided not to expel Bowman.
From the National Political Committee: A Statement on the Question of Expelling Congressman Bowman
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We trained 40 committed organizers on the campaign. At the doors, canvassers asked people for cell numbers and followed up with these contacts for the rest of the campaign until they voted. Each organizer had a mini “structure" & their job was to organize it.
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Nothing is a bigger threat to the ruling class than ending the segregation & atomization of working people. David’s campaign did a lot to prove that socialists can build and lead multiracial organizing efforts (as socialists in the US have done historically).
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So proud of DSA for continuing to affirm its strong commitment to Palestinian liberation. By passing this resolution, DSA has recommended a campaign and structured itself for the long haul to be a leader in the Palestinian struggle in the United States.
At a moment where support for Palestinian liberation is at an all time high in the United States, I am thrilled that DSA has recommitted itself to unyielding support for BDS by passing the Amended NPC Recommendation
#8
. Thank you to all who contributed to and voted for this reso
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I agree. Under the current political conditions AOC & the squad should focus on using their position for public agitation and disruption to build the left, rather than working within the system to get crumbs from Hakeem Jeffries.
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This organization can be so powerful if we want it to be!
Amazing launch. Socialism in our lifetimes.
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DSA’s team of marshals the Red Rabits prepared a memo outlining the ways high levels of conflict in organizations are a way to expose ourselves to infiltration from many people who seek to destroy us. This kind of infiltration has already happened in multiple chapters.
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Another non-sponsor saying he'll vote yes on BPRA,
@CarlHeastie
. We've spoken to over two dozen assembly members like this. Put it to vote!
Do you stand with NYers and your conference or the fossil fuel industry?
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At the election night party, I met a new field lead, a 22 year old community college student who grew up in the district in a rent stabilized apt with his family, immigrants from Mexico. He got involved because a canvasser knocked on(!) his door. Now he's planning to join DSA.
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If you care about building DSA into a multiracial organization, you should take the member survey. Today. Now.
Without an accurate sense of our race/class composition, we can’t set goals or know if we are improving.
It’s the LAST day so text 3 friends!
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I have listened to members and I believe we made mistakes in not having clarity or a plan for how BDS organizing would be able to continue in the International Committee after dechartering the wg.
I’m committed to making sure our Palestine solidarity work continues.
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During early voting, the voters in the DTB program voted at twice the rate of the rest of the campaign’s contacts. This work will be a strong foundation to set up NYC DSA’s Flatbush branch.
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Team David,
@aainafai
,
@fact_pattern
, & I met with UNITE HERE organizers to hear how they adapted labor organizing tactics for electoral races in 2020. It resulted in a field experiment, “Door-to-Ballot organizing,” to pair canvassers with specific voters for the rest of the race
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Join DSA if you too would like to be texted a lot about things you can do for Palestine solidarity
dsa has texted me a lot in recent weeks about things i can do for palestine as a normal dues paying dsa member 👍
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This level of vitriol in our organization, especially targeted against people largely on our side, is what has caused members of the squad to indicate to us that they have felt alienated from DSA, and have felt pressured to distance themselves from us, or worse.
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The model tried to bring the lessons of shop-floor organizing conversations—interpersonal depth, agitating and pushing people to take action—to the relatively thinner interactions that happen on the doors during an election.
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anyone criticizing our campaign has had a full year to propose literally anything else to the NPC, and no one did
I honestly think that getting all the DSA chapters to coordinate people writing letters to the editor in every local paper in the country would be a more effective form of pressure campaign than calling people asking them to call senators
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Of all the NPC members, I have the most experience building electoral discipline w/ cadre candidates that advance BDS & other DSA goals with us.
Every time I tried to share my experience & suggestions on strategy, they got offended, and that escalated to attacking & berating me.
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