A new report document the movement for social housing, a decommodified housing model, taking shape across the United States.

Ed Hinojosa was unjustly fired due to the Board’s incompetence. Last month they demanded that Ed Hinojosa carry out mass evictions across Opportunity Home San Antonio complexes, tenant organizers then pushed back. The Board is scapegoating Ed.

The Opportunity Home waitlist is over 110,000. What solutions has the board provided thus far? Ed’s tenure at Opportunity Home was a stark departure from the housing politics of Cisneros and Castro, which moved to demolish and privatize public housing nationwide.

Ed prevented the demolition of the Alazán-Apache Courts, advocated for the City’s largest housing bond and received the first ever general funding for public housing in San Antonio history. 

Ron Nirengberg is showing his true colors on his way out. He’s turning his back on the housing policies he previously championed now that he doesn’t have an election to win. City Council cannot turn a blind eye to this.

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The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is the largest socialist organization in the United States. San Antonio DSA (SADSA) is a local chapter of DSA that operates in San Antonio and the surrounding area. We build and support working-class movements for radical social change, while establishing an openly socialist and anti-capitalist presence in San Antonio through a variety of tactics, from labor organizing to mutual aid to electoralism.

The Washington Capitals corporate owner, Monumental Sports, has just purchased a popular research tool cherished by hockey enthusiasts, with intent to permanently close the site.

For the past 2 years, our DSA chapter has attended Rock Hill Pride to show solidarity with our queer comrades and share with the broader queer community how queer liberation and socialism are intertwined. 

We recently learned that Rock Hill Pride has hired Shane Windmeyer, aka drag performer Buff Faye, to headline the Pride festival. Windmeyer is the former CEO of Campus Pride. QNotes has reported and Campus Pride officers confirmed that he embezzled over $100,000 in Campus Pride funds, spending money that should’ve gone to building queer friendly spaces to instead build his personal drag performing business.

As socialists, we recognize that bosses dominate our working lives, the resources of our communities, and through this, the public life of our society. The LGBTQ+ community is no different. Socialists organize with our community to reclaim this power and our lives, and it starts by organizing to hold particularly bad bosses in our community accountable. Following a deep discussion with our membership and The Charlotte Gaymers Network (CGN), our leadership voted to join CGN’s calls for vendors to pull support from Rock Hill Pride, so long as Buff Faye skirts public accountability and remains employed by the festival. We hope that Windmeyer can make amends with Campus Pride and the local queer community so that we can stay united at a time of growing hate against queer people.

We do not take it lightly when we call on our members, the community, and other vendors to boycott Rock Hill Pride this year. We recognize that, while Rock Hill Pride and most local Pride events are funded and controlled by corporations and the non-profits they fund, they are refuges for our queer comrades. Our members found solace, joy, and community there in past years and are disappointed they can’t in good conscience attend. But we build our own community. That is why we recommend y’all check out events from queer community groups like CGN and T4T, or other Pride in the area unaffiliated with Rock Hill Pride. Our chapter will be tabling at Salisbury Pride on June 22nd and will host a post-Pride new & prospective member meeting on June 26th and a Socialist Social June 27th! Check out our events calendar for more details!

Happy Pride,

Charlotte Metro DSA

It is with tremendous pride that we announce that Mexico has made history with the election of Claudia Sheinbaum as Mexico’s next president. Not only has Sheinbaum broken the glass ceiling to become the country’s first female president, she has done so with a wholehearted embrace of the progressive platform of social and economic justice championed by our comrades at MORENA.

Sheinbaum – a descendent of Bulgarian Jews who fled the Holocaust – has earned her way to history through a remarkable career as a student activist, physicist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and finally, an effective politician. Her 30-point victory on May 2 is a resounding vote of confidence that comes from Mexicans of all regions and abroad. MORENA has a resounding mandate with victories in 24 of the 31 governorships and supermajorities in both houses of Congress. These victories amidst an unprecedented amount of political violence and an extreme drought demonstrate Mexicans’ unwavering support for the profound program of social and economic justice and development known as the Fourth Transformation (‘Cuarta Transformacion’ or ‘4T’).

MORENA also retained the Jefa de Gobernatura with the victory of Clara Brugada who. Brugada will succeed Sheinbaum as the chief executive for the entire Mexico City region. Sheinbaum previously succeeded current president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in that position. Brugada began her career as a militant member of the Zapatista Movement before serving as mayor of Iztapalapa from 2009-12. During which, she successfully oversaw an expansion of transit infrastructure, the opening of cultural centers called ‘utopias’, and reduced crime. 

DSA proudly participated as credentialed election observers for this historic moment and helped verify that the election was conducted freely and fairly as part of a large cadre of electoral observers from across the Americas and Europe. This is the fifth election in Latin America that DSA has participated as invited observers since 2021, demonstrating our organization’s growing integration with the Latin American Left. We look forward to continuing and expanding our delegation work for the benefit of our members and the region. 

The DSA delegation also held preliminary discussions with MORENA as well as with various sectors of Mexico’s organized labor for future collaborations that would mutually benefit members of both organizations and provide a political alternative to the current state of US-Mexican relations. 

¡Que viva la 4T!

¡Que viva la democracia, las mujeres, y el pobre!

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For over five and half years and 220+ episodes, we here at Revolutions Per Minute have brought the voices of activists and organizers fighting for a better world to the listeners of WBAI. Tonight, we dig into the show’s archives to hear some of those interviews through the years. Each of the interviews you will hear tonight, in their own ways, exemplify the different dimensions of our show, the members of our collective, and showcase the perspectives that you won’t hear anywhere else. Ultimately, this is a show about the RPM difference.  

 

Segments Used from Past Episodes:  

1- PSC and New Deal for CUNY

2- Build Public Renewables Act

3- Kansas DSA and Protecting Abortion Rights

4- The Bronx Fires

5- Palestinian Solidarity in the UAW

 

We in Houston DSA stand in unwavering solidarity with our brave public-school teachers as they choose to risk their careers to stand up to the inhumane treatment of students, teachers, […]

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Jeff Wells joins the podcast to talk with us about the new book he coedited: Preaching the Uncontrolling Love of God: Sermons, Essays, and Worship Elements from the Perspective of Open, Relational, and Process Theology. Purchase his book! https://www.amazon.com/Preaching-Uncontrolling-Love-God-Perspective/dp/1958670324 To speak with Jeff or join the mailing list, contact jefferywells.love@gmail.com Join us October 17–19 in Denver for theologybeer.camp ! Use the coupon code TAKEHEARTHOBBIT for $50 off your ticket. Sign up before June 1 for reduced ticket prices. Email us at religioussocialism@gmail.com if you plan to come, we'd love to meet up.

Pittsburgh Democratic Socialists of America calls upon Allegheny County Executive Sara Innamorato to end her seven months of silence on the US-funded Israeli genocide of Palestinians.

On October 11th, Sara Innamorato issued a statement which remains one of very few she has issued since Israel’s genocide began. In this statement, she:

• Explicitly endorsed the forced displacement of Palestinians–a textbook case of ethnic cleansing.
• Condemned our chapter, and DSA nationally, for our solidarity with Palestine and our stance on the correct side of history in opposition to Israeli aggression.
• Explicitly affirmed Innamorato has solidarity with Jewish people and endorsed Israel’s right to defend itself, while including no mention of solidarity with Palestinians or their right to defend themselves.
• Implied accusations of antisemitism toward a statement written and edited nearly entirely by Jewish constituents of hers.
• Opportunistically attempted to score cheap political points off a genocide that could be seen escalating in real-time and has only worsened since.

As time has clarified which side of this is the right side of history to stand on, we are confident Sara Innamorato hoped her silence in the months since then means she will never have to answer for her choices in a critical moment. However, our County Executive has repeatedly been called upon to stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine, and her silence is shameful. 

When hundreds of constituents spoke passionately at County Council on February 20th and March 5th asking for Allegheny County to pass a resolution in favor of a ceasefire, our County Executive remained silent.

While voting against the ceasefire resolution, County Councilor Bob Macey justified his rationale based on blatantly xenophobic, white supremacist conspiracy theories. Just 10 days later our county executive announced her reappointment of Councilor Macey to the Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission Board, despite widespread outrage at Macey. In our most generous interpretation of that appointment, which we’re grateful County Council rejected, it seems Innamorato’s determination to avoid any perception of changing her prior stance may have been a higher priority than preventing a bigoted councilor from having a say in how federal funds are distributed to which communities. 

When Congresswoman Summer Lee faced repeated attacks for her votes for a ceasefire and against unconditional military aid to Israel, Sara Innamorato did not join community members in defending Lee’s stances, despite endorsing Rep. Lee.

When University of Pittsburgh students joined a national movement of student-led encampments and campus protests by setting up their own encampment and issuing demands, including calling on Pitt’s Board of Trustees to disclose and fully divest from all university investments in the Israeli apartheid regime and to acknowledge the genocide, Sara Innamorato remained silent despite being a member of that very Board of Trustees.

In the past 7 months, Israel has killed over 35,000 Palestinians, including 19,450 children. Israel has used chemical weapons on civilians repeatedly, systematically tortured Palestinians, tortured UNRWA staff, systematically targeted and bombed hospitals in Gaza, attacked healthcare facilities or providers in nearly 800 documented occasions, destroyed every university in Gaza, killed over 220 aid workers, and killed nearly 100 Palestinian journalists. The United Nations Security Council has referred to the situation as “a catastrophic humanitarian situation [with] the threat of imminent famine in Gaza.” And every day of those ongoing horrors, Sara Innamorato has remained silent.

Since Sara Innamorato’s endorsement of Israel’s ethnic cleansing by forced displacement, Israel has ordered Palestinians to evacuate to southern Gaza only to bombard the supposed evacuation routes and areas. In the past week, now that such evacuations have left 1.2 million Palestinians sheltering in Rafah–a city in southern Gaza, Israel has again announced Palestinians must evacuate and begun attacking Palestinians while preventing any viable mass evacuation. Each time these supposed humanitarian forced displacements have been proven anything but humanitarian, Sara Innamorato has remained silent.

In 2017, we endorsed Sara Innamorato’s campaign for State Representative because she came to us then as a member and a socialist sharing our vision for building a better world. In her application for our endorsement, she stated, “Yes, I am a democratic socialist, because I believe that government should put people first when making policy decisions.” 

As she made clear in her Allegheny County Executive campaign, Sara Innamorato either abandoned those ideals or never actually held them to begin with. Additionally, we can confirm as she’s stated, Sara Innamorato has not been a member of DSA since 2019.

Despite a strained relationship, we had been hopeful for what an Innamorato-era of Allegheny County could mean for the ability to build an Allegheny County for all. Many of our members volunteered on their own for her campaign, especially in the primary. Even after her condemnation of us, we’d held out hope that at least on local matters, she might still be more willing to fight for what’s right than the prior County Executive was.

But County Executive Innamorato’s continued silence, even when choices on whether to oppose or stand with Israel’s genocide come before her in her capacity as County Executive, calls into question whether Sara Innamorato will prioritize her support for genocide over the vision for an “Allegheny County for All” she campaigned on. Allegheny County includes Palestinian residents whose families and friends are being killed by weapons all of our tax dollars fund. Does her vision of an Allegheny County for All include Palestinians?

It is possible Sara Innamorato thought she was making a shrewd political calculation putting notions of electability over morality, but Innamorato’s stance is wildly out of step with the views of the public, especially those of her own party. According to a recent poll, 70% of Americans support a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. 83% of Democrats support a ceasefire, and 56% of Democrats believe Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

It is too late to have stood on the right side of this from the beginning, and there is real harm for her to repair for that. However, it is not too late to begin standing on the right side of history now. We call upon Allegheny County Executive Sara Innamorato to:

• Issue an acknowledgment of genocide and a statement in solidarity with the Palestinian people.
  
• Apologize for her previous remarks in support of ethnic cleansing.
  
• Fully disclose Allegheny County’s investments in the Israeli apartheid regime and those profiting off its genocidal war, especially weapons manufacturers.
  
• In her capacity as a Trustee of the University of Pittsburgh, push for Pitt to meet the demands of the Pitt student encampment, specifically:
  
  • Full disclosure of all university investments in the Israeli apartheid regime.
  • An acknowledgment of genocide and a statement in solidarity with the Palestinian people by the university administration.
  • Full material divestment from any entity associated with the Israeli apartheid regime including through academic boycotts and demilitarization.
  • Reject the normalization of ties with the Israeli apartheid regime.
  • Demand legal and disciplinary amnesty for all Pitt encampment arrestees, as well as all student protestors.

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After seizing control of an Alexandria city council meeting, Northern Virginia locals introduced and passed their own resolution calling for an end to Israel's genocide.