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Month: June 2024

Rochester Red Star (July 2024)

Posted on June 25, 2024

Last month, ROC DSA rolled out a new format for our General Meetings focused on discussing chapter business and debating resolutions. The June meeting was highly successful, with high att-endance and vigorous debate. We’re looking forward to continuing this format at upcoming meetings, and encourage all members to attend to guarantee quorum and ensure their voices are heard.

Our work in coalition spaces continues. In June, ROC DSA helped marshal a successful march with the Rochester Committee to End Apartheid in res-ponse to the bombing of Rafah. With the Rochester for Energy Democracy coalition, ROC DSA delivered a statement at Speak to Council (available in this issue) and attended the budget vote to encourage passage of a resolution to set aside funding for an implementation study for public power. We will continue organizing a mass movement to fight for a world free from genocide and predatory corporations!

Relentless in Our Compassion         

Posted on June 25, 2024

It has been two years since Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Heath, when the Supreme Court ruled that Roe v. Wade, court-accepted guidance for forty-nine years (one-fifth of the time that our country has existed), was unconstitutional. For two years, anti-abortion legislatures have ramped up the dictation over the lives of people who can bear children—a paternalistic and violating overreach for people seeking life-and-death medical care. For two years, a country that says we have no right to universal healthcare has also decreed that we have no rights to our own uteruses either.

Chapter Statement: Continue the Fight for Energy Democracy in Rochester

Posted on June 15, 2024

We’re calling on you to fully fund and commission an implementation study to replace RG&E with a public utility; giving us the facts on both a County and City-wide level. Step up where the County Legislature has failed us, and show the people of Rochester—who have been calling for a public utility for years—that you truly represent them.

An Accumulation of Injustice

Posted on June 8, 2024

There are many injustices to which the system remains blind. Standing as the accused is damaging to anyone forced to undergo the process, whether guilty or innocent. Defendants confront loss of employment and impoverishment, stigmatization and the loss of dignity, and exposure to mental and physical harm. These injustices occur throughout the court process, and on a daily basis. While they seem unconscionable to anyone forced to suffer or witness them, they are baked into a system that operates for the maintenance of class power and protection of property.

Manifesting the “General Strike”

Posted on June 2, 2024

If you’ve spent any time in left organizing spaces over the past ten or twenty years, especially online, you’ve probably heard people say “we’re having a general strike! Everyone out!” And then predictably, nothing happens. It’s almost an inside-joke among left organizers that if you say “general strike,” they’re the magical words that will make everyone go out of work.

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