Donate Here: New York Abortion Access Fund

Saturday, April 6th, 2019
2:00 to 4:00 pm

Classic Lanes
1840 Military Rd
Buffalo, NY 14217

We’re lacing up our bowling shoes and getting to work! Help us to #FundAbortionBuildPower. Your participation could be the difference between someone getting the abortion they need, and being forced to go without.

Send a message that you believe we all should be able to access abortion no matter how much money we make or where we live. Join us on April 6th to bowl for abortion access!

There’s been a ton of buzz around the proposal for a Green New Deal, on today’s show we’ll break down DSA Ecosocialists’ principles of a Green New Deal and see how the NYC DSA Ecosocialist Working Group is organizing an Energy Rights campaign and getting involved in the ConEd Rate Case to solve the climate crisis and the inequality crisis together.

Saturday, May 4, 2019
10 am – 3 pm

SEIU/1199 Main St. Office
2421 Main St, Buffalo, New York 14214

Come on out and have volunteers from Buffalo DSA change your brake light for FREE! Free coffee, doughnuts and legal advice while you wait.

This is our 4th Brake Light Clinic and each light replaced reduces the likelihood of interaction with the police.

How do we fight the demonic principalities behind climate change? Shay O’Reilly is an organizer for renewable energy in NYC, a DSA member, a Lutheran, and a graduate of UnionTheological Seminary. We chat with him on why he believes in demonic powers (see: white supremacy), why fighting climate change necessarily means fighting for socialism, how he got into environmental issues through anti-poverty work, as well as his experience of converting to Christianity shortly after coming out as trans and gay. Yes, it’s a packed episode! Follow him on Twitter @shaygabriel

Hudson Yards’ billionaire developer Steve Ross got far more in subsidies than Bezos, yet he is undercutting New Yorkers on the job everyday. On today’s show we talk to two carpenters about the battle that has been going on at Hudson Yards to keep the construction union.

At our March 3rd meeting the members of Charlotte Metro DSA engaged in the debate facing all of our fellow 60,000 comrades: whether to affirm the demands of the National Political Committee (NPC) and provide financial and labor support for Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign, and more broadly, what Bernie Sanders and his bid for president means to the burgeoning and resurgent Socialist movement in the United States.  Naturally, as good Socialists, we held a structured and comradery debate about what our role nationally is in relation to electoral politics and what our capabilities as a chapter are to affect change locally through elections and campaigning.  Our conversation about local needs and capabilities transitioned to why the national debate was happening so early in the 2020 election cycle, and was seemingly predetermined by the NPC, when an opportunity to decide this more democratically and transparently is only months away. 

 

Regarding the endorsement for Bernie Sanders for President set forth by DSA NPC, Charlotte Metro DSA decided to delay our decision whether to endorse in order to better focus on issues that affect our local communities and allow us to build a broader working class movement in the Charlotte Metro area. We also call on the NPC not to endorse at this time, especially under the current conditions of the endorsement presented.  This endorsement is too important and impactful to be decided by so few individuals and without the transparency necessary for a democratic organization.  Additionally, we are concerned that in its current form the endorsement will pull too much money away from other more necessary DSA-led endeavors to continue to build our movement, particularly by chapters outside of major metropolitan areas.  Due to the lack of horizontal participation and likely cost to Charlotte Metro DSA, we cannot at this time and in good conscience endorse Bernie Sanders for President, and we ask for the NPC to call off its vote for an endorsement and to instead let it be determined at the General Convention this August in Atlanta.  

 

In Solidarity, CLTMDSA

Today’s show is about radically re-imagining criminal justice, and approaching it from a socialist and anti-racist perspective. We’ll talk about NYC-DSA endorsed Tiffany Cabán's campaign for Queens DA and what she has the potential to do.

Are you curious about what democratic socialism is? Check out this visual PDF to find out,

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1. Introduction: April 13, 12pm, Grindhaus
   a. Emma Goldman on Wikipedia
   b. What I Believe (1908)
   c. A New Declaration of Independence (1909)
   d. Anarchism: What It Really Stands For (1910)
2. Feminism: May 18, 12pm, Grindhaus
   a. Anarchy and the Sex Question (1896)
   b. The Tragedy Of Women’s Emancipation(1906)
   c. The Traffic in Women (1910)
   d. Woman Suffrage (1911)
   e. Marriage and Love (1911)
3. Religion: June 15, 12pm, Grindhaus
   a. The Failure Of Christianity (1913)
   b. The Philosophy Of Atheism (1916)
   c. The Hypocrisy Of Puritanism (1917)
   d. Emma Goldman and the Soul of Anarchism , by Kim Domenico (2017)
4. State Repression: July 20, 12pm, Grindhaus
   a. Patriotism, a Menace to Liberty (1911)
   b. Prisons, a Social Crime and Failure (1917)
   c. Meeting of No Conscription League transcript (1917)
   d. The Individual, Society and the State (1940)
5. My Disillusionment in Russia: August 17, 12pm, Grindhaus
   a. My Disillusionment in Russia (1923)

Real democracy is a powerful thing. It means having ownership over the things that happen to you in your life. Yet, despite agreement about democracy as a good form of government, we don’t see this system of control play out in many aspects of our lives. This week we talked to some leaders in NYC-DSA about the D in Democratic Socialists of America.