On August 11, 2026, the Monroe County Legislature will vote whether to accept $161,285 for Operation Stonegarden, a grant funding local law enforcement participation in a federal border security program tied to Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Legislators must vote NO. Coordination with the agencies carrying out Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda is complicity.
Category: Chapter Statements
ROC DSA Statement on the Murders of Eryka Caldwell and Juniper Blessing
Until this murderous, genocidal intent is swept from our nation, we have a responsibility to organize and overturn the unjust systems that lead to this violence. There still exist threats to trans lives even in Seattle and Rochester which are both considered deep-blue cities. The entirety of New York State passed the Trans Safe Haven Act to protect gender affirming care and to protect trans lives. However, work continues at the federal level to strip away these protections. Work still continues to dehumanize trans lives and eradicate trans existence from our nation and from the world by any means available. That means we must continually work to uphold and protect trans lives, dignity, and freedom in the face of these attacks.
Steering Committee: On the Tenth Anniversary of ROC DSA
It has been ten years since ROC DSA formed as a chapter in March 2016 at the height of Bernie Sanders’ social democratic challenge for the presidency. From fourteen members in attendance…
Steering Committee Statement on Kansas SB244
This past Saturday, a bill was passed by the Kansas Legislature, Kansas Senate Bill 244. This bill expands on SB 180 and hundreds of other anti-trans bills passed in state legislatures in recent years, explicitly targeting transgender people with the end goal of removing them from existence.
Chapter Statement – Stop the Bombs: End War With Iran
The working class has no desire for this conflict. ROC DSA is organizing opposition into a force capable of seizing the gears of war. Capitalists rely on our labor to manufacture their bombs and to fight their wars. We refuse to be complicit in their violence.
Don’t Settle for the Partial Revolution
We cannot limit ourselves to a partial revolution against systems of oppression. The time for “reasonable” demands is over. Those who transformed the world in preceding decades did not ask nicely, but demanded radical change.
Chapter Statement on ICE Vigilante Murder
We need to bombard our elected officials with phone calls and other messages insisting they defend their constituents and abolish ICE. We need to be ready to respond when our neighbors are attacked or abducted. And we need to harness our greatest weapon – the labor power of the working class on which the capitalist system depends for its existence – in opposing ICE and their puppeteers.
ROC DSA Condemns War in Venezuela
ROC DSA condemns war on Venezuela and we call on our elected leaders in Congress to hold Trump and his cabinet accountable to the fullest extent possible.
Chapter Statement on Electoral Victories
Rochester DSA congratulates our comrades here in Rochester: Stanley Martin and Kee Kee Smith, on election to Rochester City Council! We also congratulate our comrade Zohran Mamdani in New York City, along with other DSA candidates, on electoral victories across the country.
Chapter Statement: ROC DSA Stands with SNAP Recipients Against Financial Warfare by the Capitalist Class
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.