Yesterday at our chapter meeting we voted to sign onto SoRs letter calling on the NPC to invalidate @dsa_losangeles endorsement of self-described capitalist @nithyavraman. Free Palestine ๐ต๐ธ๐น
do our socialist candidates need to be abolitionists? no. but do they need to be firm anti-zionists? also no. but do they at least need to be socialists? well,,,,,
Is L.A. mayoral candidate Nithya Raman a capitalist?
"I'm a capitalist and I'm also a Democratic Socialist...we need to make sure capitalism works without harm to workers... to poor people."
She says the DSA is a "big tent" but she disagrees with members who call to abolish police, prisons and the Senate.
Interview via @InsidePolitics on @CNN
Good real time example of how Palestinian suffering in the West Bank, specifically at the hands of Israeli settlers, has become an exploitative photo op and cred boosting escapade for American liberal Zionists like Lander.
He condemns the โethnic cleansingโ and settlers while simultaneously offering condolences for the soldiers tasked with maintaining, overseeing and enforcing said ethnic cleansing & genocide (never-mind his material support for and profiting off of Elbit Systems).
He says in this same statement that he, after his brief apartheid tourism, believes there is a way to end the violence (better than Palestinians themselves it seems) โ yet heโs the same guy who has stood staunchly against the bare minimum non-violent strategy of BDS.
(holding my cat) i love you so much. i would kill anyone for you (remembering that thatโs a reactionary violent right wing coded way to express love) i mean i would build a hundred cities for you
@bioleera@ahmedfromthere it's not ad hominem when we've had people tell us straight up "i wish i could vote with you but so-and-so won't give me a job if i do"
what happened with abolition demands will happen with palestine if we let public pressure wane. the exact same politicians, including DSA's, will walk back all their statements and all their careerist lackeys (free palestine in bio) will revert to liberal zionist talking points
As a reminder Bowman, you called the principled organizers asking you to not supply the genociders with bombs psyops at the time. I'm glad you shifted, but this is not personal. Nithya can commit to BDS as you did, and the organization has a duty to uphold its line.