On Saturday November 4, 2023, tens of thousands of people (estimates are as high as 300,000) converged on the nation’s capital in the largest pro-Palestine march in U.S. history. The National March on Washington to Free Palestine was organized by a coalition of anti-war and pro-Palestinian groups and endorsed by hundreds of organizations, including DSA.
Study, Don’t Speculate: Responding to Kent Gardner’s “Explorations” on a Community Utility
Rochester for Energy Democracy demands the funding of a study to determine the feasibility of a public utility as the path out of the RG&E crisis. We cannot brush this option away on the basis of speculation.
#NoMoneyforMassacres: Organizing to End the Siege
The capitalist war machine has worked overtime manufacturing consent for ethnic cleansing. But the truth is, more Americans stand with Palestine than ever. Let’s continue to make that truth undeniable.
Two million lives are on the line. We say: Not on our dime! No money for massacres! Ceasefire now!
Telling Her Story: DSA Visits the Harriet Tubman Home
As Du Bois recounts in Black Reconstruction, enslaved peoples did not submit passively to their condition but found ways to overcome it. Tubman escaped her enslavers in 1849, but famously returned to the South on numerous occasions with the aim of freeing members of her family. Overall, she rescued approximately seventy people, while advising many more on means of escape.
Let’s Organize the Working Class, Not Alienate Them
Gregory Lebens-Higgins September 15 marked the start of the United Auto Workers’ historic “Stand Up Strike.” Across the nation, rallies[…]
ROC DSA Goes to School
by Xavier Olson Recently, members of Rochester DSA joined workers and labor organizers from around the country for Inside Organizer[…]
What is Socialism?
by Robin Gallagher Background The following is a summary of a series of texts discussed during our “What is Socialism?”[…]
Some Reflections on the 2023 DSA National Convention
by Vincent Lima What follows is a personal reflection on the DSA National Convention, held August 4–6, 2023, in Chicago.[…]
ROC DSA Calls on Bello to Welcome Newcomers to Rochester
By calling out the National Guard, Monroe County Executive Adam Bello is casting endangered asylum seekers as alien invaders. Local media predictably sensationalize this insinuation; Bello must take responsibility to counteract it with policies and messages of welcome and support.
Empty Rhetoric: Overcoming the Limited Vision of Monroe County’s Democratic Leadership
by Gregory Lebens-Higgins “To be radical is to grasp the root of the matter.” – Marx The Democratic leadership of[…]