Won't You Be My Comrade?

For this month's episode, we interview members of the Pittsburgh Chapter of the Sunrise Movement. The Sunrise Movement is a youth movement to stop climate change and create millions of good jobs in the process. They are working to make climate change an urgent priority across America, end the corrupting influence of fossil fuel executives on our politics, and elect leaders who stand up for the health and wellbeing of all people.To learn more about the Sunrise Movement, visit https://www.sunrisemovement.org/To learn more about the Pittsburgh DSA and to join our work to facilitate the transition to a truly democratic and socialist society, visit https://pghdsa.org/

For this month's episode, we interview members of the Pittsburgh Chapter of the Socialist Rifle Association. The SRA advocates and advances an inclusive, safe, and healthy firearms culture in America to combat the toxic, right-wing, and exclusionary firearm culture in place today. They are dedicated to educating on and advocating for all aspects of self and community defense, including topics such as firearms, disaster relief, medicine, logistics, agriculture, general survival skills, and other pursuits necessary to unify and strengthen communities against the hardships of life under capitalism.To learn more about the Pittsburgh SRA, visit https://pgh-sra.org/To learn more about the Pittsburgh DSA and to join our work to facilitate the transition to a truly democratic and socialist society, visit https://pghdsa.org/

September 28th was International Safe Abortion Day, an annual day of action in support of the right to safe abortion. On October 2nd, 2021, the Pittsburgh Chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America held a pañuelazo demonstration at Schenley Plaza sharing the symbol of the panuelo, the green scarf used in mass demonstrations throughout Latin America.In this episode, we speak with the organizers of that demonstration and two reproductive health workers from Allegheny Reproductive Health Center on the recent attacks on Roe v. Wade and the future of abortion access in America.To learn more about the Pittsburgh DSA and to join our work to facilitate the transition to a truly democratic and socialist society, visit https://pghdsa.org/

For the second episode of "Won't You Be My Comrade?", we interview members of the Pittsburgh DSA's Elections & Pressure Campaigns Committee on their work to get socialists elected and hold our local elected officials accountable.To learn more about the Pittsburgh DSA and to join our work to facilitate the transition to a truly democratic and socialist society, visit https://pghdsa.org/

In July 2021, the Pittsburgh Chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America voted to endorse an amendment to the home rule charter known as Community Control of Police or CCOP. In this inaugural episode, we interview members of Stop the Station ( https://stopthestationpgh.com/ ) to discuss their work fighting to get CCOP on the ballot.To learn more about the Pittsburgh DSA and to join our work to facilitate the transition to a truly democratic and socialist society, visit https://pghdsa.org/