Mayor Bowser's botched public safety policy
Legislative Let-Down: Fighting for Good Cause and Public Renewables
The elected officials of New York State ended their legislative session in Albany on June 2nd. They are headed home for the summer after failing to secure the rights of tenants or meeting New York state’s climate goals, refusing to pass Good Cause Eviction and the Build Public Renewables Act. What happened? To try and answer this and more, we bring on socialist organizers to break down what happened in Albany and how New York lawmakers left tenants and the climate out to dry. Tonight, we are joined by Avi, a tenant organizer fighting for the Right to Remain, and RPM’s co-host and ecosocialist specialist, Lee Ziesche. We will assess the situation in Albany and the movement necessary, both inside and outside the halls of the State Capitol, to defeat the corporate opposition and make Good Cause and BPRA a reality in the Empire State.
Visit right2remain.com to learn more about the ongoing campaign to pass Good Cause Eviction legislation in New York state.
On this show, Lee references the Sane Energy Project (saneenergy.org) and No NBK Pipeline Coalition (nonbkpipeline.org) as well as the NYC-DSA Ecosocialist Working Group (https://ecosocialists.nyc/).
On education, Mayor Bowser's talk is too cheap
Thoughts on Queer Liberation & other radical concepts (w/Marie Lewis)
Our June Issue
Volume 1, Issue 8
Our May Day Playlist
By Seth
‘Anyone Can Join A Union’ Pamphlet
Download and print your own copy of our International Workers’ Day pamphlet from the first annual Janesville May Day Celebration.
June Education Night: The Fight for Abortion in the 1970s
Before the abortion clinic bombings of the nineties, before the anti-feminist political backlash of the eighties, before the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, feminists fought for abortion both covertly and publicly. Some through organizing mutual aid networks like the Jane Collective, while others in legal challenges against state abortion prohibitions like Women Versus Connecticut.
On our education night for June we’ll discuss these important groups and how feminist resistance of the past can inform present and future struggles. It will take place on Tuesday, June 7 at 7pm (CT) on zoom. Our two readings are:
Genevieve Carlton, “Inside The Jane Collective, The Underground Abortion Network That Helped Thousands Of Chicago Women Before Roe V. Wade,” All That’s Interesting (2022).
Women Versus Connecticut, “Women vs. Connecticut Organizing Pamphlet” hosted by History is a Weapon (1970).
If you can’t read the text before the meeting, we’d still love to have you! Someone will summarize the readings and there’ll be time during the meeting for skimming the works. Register now!
Columbus DSA Housing Priority Campaign Statement in Support of Our Unhoused Neighbors
Access to safe, affordable housing is a right. However, the city of Columbus insists on letting a “market” dictate this basic necessity, where only individuals who have enough wealth to participate in the system can afford housing. The city’s reliance on handouts to developers instead of directly working to solve the housing crisis leads to residents becoming displaced by rising rents, inflated property values, and an ever-dwindling supply of affordable options. Housing does not belong in a market.
To this end, we affirm and support unhoused encampments in our city, including @heertoserve and @firstcollective614 located on East Mound Street. Unhoused communities are a direct result of the city’s market-based approach to the housing crisis. As long as the city persists in this approach, our community will have residents who cannot access housing. Until we have affordable housing for all, we must stand with unhoused neighbors who deserve the dignity to live as they can.
We demand housing justice for all.
In solidarity,
Columbus Democratic Socialists of America
Housing Priority Campaign