Portland DSA’s Laura Wadlin went on KOIN 6 to talk about democratic socialism and DSA.
8 minutes of a 30 minute interview aired tonight. This is the first ~3 minutes of that interview. The full 30 minutes will air on September 20.
LABOR RADIO (34 min) Wes Holing of the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee and Carolyn Roderique of Workers Organizing Workers explain these two new projects of the DSA, based on the Rank-and-File Strategy of building shop floor worker power https://t.co/03bMzgdnvf
In Support of Workers Deserve More: Workers Deserve More has proven successful in building DSA’s profile and provides a unifying message for all our candidates to champion. (Link in following tweet)
@petersterne Certainly! But I do believe there are and will continue to be attempts to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the NPC in this context
Not every critique is an attempt for one to further their own goals, but that tactic has been used enough for comrades to be weary of popular figures
1000% the media will seek out self-selecting personalities if we do not put forward elected leaders in their place.
Also, there is plenty to take away from this. Not only do we need to develop skillful speakers, our platform should also be something easy to articulate coherently
Our cochairs have had more media appearances in the last month than the entire last term total. They are learning, we are learning- this is how we learn to lead a national organization that is growing a mass movement.
Working class people aren’t born media stars!
I am so incredibly proud of my chapter @salem_dsa and my party @DemSocialists!
Just last year we pushed Avelo Airlines out of Salem, we fought to affirm our status as a sanctuary city, and on Monday, we won a city-wide data center moratorium!
Let's keep winning comrades!
Our national program, Workers Deserve More is officially live. 🌹 visit the link below and see what members of DSA are building.
https://t.co/ZasQNJgskw
Assuming that a member of DSA would believe their ability to engage with our democracy hinges on a non-binding poll is a cynical way to perceive our working class.
If we cannot raise expectations for our own members, then how can we expect to empower the workers of the world?
DSA’s national leadership (the NPC) just voted to overturn our convention & took away rank and file members’ right to vote in an all-member poll on presidential endorsement.
The NPC taking away our members’ right to vote while NYC-DSA members send them ~ $2M per year in dues.
Lobbying the NPC is the antithesis of organizing for power. We have an entire system of elections precisely to resolve when every member presents a differing interpretation of our convention mandates. I fully trust our NPC to lead tomorrow in the absence of a more democratic body
🗳️ This year, DSA can elect a bench of socialists on a shared platform and form a bloc in Congress. One plank in that platform should be no more military aid to Israel. To do this successfully requires moving AOC to oppose the Iron Dome.
https://t.co/JRQUhYqkWy
🚫 “One Member One Vote” proposals will undermine the National Convention as our organization’s highest governing body and fundamentally transform DSA’s democratic structure — for the worse.
https://t.co/vWKp92iD07
Our NPC candidate Ella Teevan digs into her background in nonprofits to explain why DSA's approach to membership is one of our great strengths -- a strength convention delegates must vote to protect.
https://t.co/K4s7I6qF54
“I am not of those who worship the flag. I have no respect for the stars and stripes, or for any other flag that symbolizes slavery… Triumphant socialism will haul down that flag and every other that symbolizes capitalist class rule and wage slavery.” — Eugene Debs, July 4, 1901
Hayley’s mentorship helped bring Salem DSA back from the brink of extinction, turning us into a nationwide model for class-struggle organizing and deliberative democracy. I am elated to vote for her and the rest of the @breadrosesDSA slate to be on the NPC