The Northwest Ohio local chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America. Organizing the Toledo metro area and surrounding counties. nwohiodsa[at]gmail[dot]com
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Our hearts ache for our area and our youth as we're plagued by conditions that pave the way for interpersonal violence in our communities. We resolutely oppose employing more armed guards when that money could be better spent ensuring our communities have their basic needs met.
The city of Toledo is spending upwards of eighty million dollars on policing this year, roughly 30% of its annual budget. If this isn't an indication that spending more on police (especially policing *children*) doesn't make anyone safer, I don't know what is.
Should TPS triple the police presence inside TPS High Schools in the fall? TFT President Kevin Dalton is demanding the board use ARP funds to do it. This comes after an increase in teen gun violence this summer. Tonight TPS leaders respond.
As Israel continues its brutal bombing of Gaza, the loss of life is incalculable. Israel has killed over 200 people and deliberately destroyed homes and crucial infrastructure, medical clinics, cultural spaces and media offices. Here’s a snapshot thread on what we know so far:
The @DemSocialists unequivocally stands in solidarity with Palestinians and Palestinian workers. In that spirit, the DSA BDS & Palestine National Working Group urges all 241 DSA chapters, unions, & labor coalitions to respond to this call by doing the following:
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IOF is collectively punishing #SheikhJarrah by imposing an illegal blockade to suppress solidarity. We can’t go to the store w/o a scene. Even journalists & medics didn’t escape the brutality.
Israelis are now on WhatsApp plotting to burn our homes. This is US-funded apartheid.
As Israel kills hundreds of Palestinians and injures & displaces thousands, the Biden administration is escalating US complicity in Israeli war crimes.
Let's escalate pressure to cut all military funding to apartheid Israel and end all complicity.
#GazaUnderAttack
People gather during a demonstration in solidarity with Palestine as well as in protest of Israeli occupation at the corner of Central Avenue and Secor Road in Toledo on Sunday.
Today, May 15th, marks the anniversary of the Nakba, when Zionist militias ethnically cleansed 750,000 Palestinians from their homes in 1948 in order to create Israel. #Nakba73
1/2 Settler organizations are forming armed militias outside of the West Bank. “My Israel” (Yesh Council front) and Regavim an NGO that works to takeover Palestinian land are asking “armed military veterans, owners of armored vehicles and graduates of combat officers courses”