In the coming days, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits will end for more than 100,000 Monroe County residents who rely on the program to feed themselves and their families.
Month: October 2025
Observing Nature: Fallowers
by Lara
Observing Nature is an intermittent love letter to nature and to you (who is also part of nature), with the purpose of highlighting current seasonal phenomena and what we might glean from observing and reflecting on the natural wonders of the world.
Getting Grounded: Soil Health Locally, Nationally, Internationally
by Elizabeth Henderson
The fall is the time to put your garden to bed for the winter. Global warming has not yet ended the cold months in Rochester, and farmer almanacs predict an especially cold winter. Sadly, too many gardeners believe that the best way for their garden to go into the winter is naked, so they clean off all crop residues and even till the soil one last time. Leaving your garden bare is about as good for your soil as spending the winter sleeping outside on the street naked would be for your health.
The Hell Dictionary
Reprinted from Art Young’s Inferno
Art Young was one of the great cartoonists and satirists of the US socialist movement, working largely in the 1910s and 20s. That famous image of the Gilded Age, of a tycoon with a sack of money for a head, is Art Young’s creation. Like many socialists before him, Art Young was an avid fan of Dante’s Inferno and loved using the imagery of ‘social hell’, that hell was here on Earth.
Support Every Worker
Logan W. Cole
The following remarks were made in front of Batavia City Hall at GLOW Community Alliance and Genesee County DSA’s Workers Over Billionaires rally on September 1st, 2025.
Knowing Your Enemy: We’re Playing Chess, They’re Playing Calvinball
by Paul Allen
One thing that many liberals seem to have a hard time comprehending is the idea that your opponent may not be playing by the same rules.
“No fascists, NO KINGS!”
by Gregory Lebens-Higgins
“We must recognize that the conditions for the present did not develop in 2024 as a result of Trump’s second election; nor 2020 in response to Covid; nor 2015 when Trump descended his golden escalator to announce his candidacy by calling Mexican immigrants ‘criminals and rapists.’”
Defund, Rebuild
by Gregory Lebens-Higgins
On September 6, Free the People Rochester (FTP ROC)—a police and prison abolition organization formed in 2020 during the mass mobilization against police brutality—held its inaugural conference on “Abolition: A Practice of Resistance and Resilience.” The conference occurred in a similar moment of urgency, as expanding carceral resources are deployed against immigrant communities and cities, mirrored by growing resistance to the ideologies embodied by Trump. It is a moment for the left to advance solutions to the structural issues perpetuating these circumstances.
Denounce “Left” Zionism
by Antonio Rhodes
The claim that Zionism can be redeemed because it has a good side in its political left is nothing more than a weak imperialist attempt to court ignorant circles in favor of the colonial enterprise. The most rudimentary historical knowledge of the conflict in Palestine confirms its sophism.
DSA National Labor Recap
By Hannah W.
I had the honor of representing ROC DSA at DSA’s National Convention this year. While there was much that was debated on the floor, the convention also hosted various sessions. Two of the sessions that I attended were for the National Labor Commission (NLC) and Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC). Here is a summary of those sessions and what’s occurring in DSA’s labor scene.