Podcasts about nyc dsa

It's the free one! Riley speaks with DSA members Grace and Alvaro about the long years and efforts the organisation put in to secure Zohran Mamdani the democratic nomination for NY mayor… apparently it's more than just TikToks! But first, we revisit an old, old friend and look at a shiny new piece of hardware. Check out the Mamdani campaign site here! The national site for the Democratic Socialists of America is here! And the site for NYC DSA is here! MILO ALERT Check out Milo's tour dates here: https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and November (@postoctobrist)

In this installment of our election year series, a look into what the candidates -- especially former Governor Andrew Cuomo and Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani -- might do as mayor to influence the Israeli-Palestinian conflict one way or another. Jim Walden, a former federal prosecutor who ran as an independent in the NYC mayor's race, first explains his support for Cuomo, who signed an executive order as governor barring the state from doing business with any organization that participated in the BDS movement. Then, Jeremy Cohan, sociologist and NYC-DSA leader and spokesperson, breaks down Mamdani's Not On Our Dime Act, intended to punish organizations that aid Israeli West Bank settlers.

First, we speak with Indy editor Nicholas Powers about his cover story detailing how Zohran Mamdani was able to break through idealistic leftist circles to genuinely hear and respond to the needs of working class people of color. Then speak with Eric Thor, the former co-chair of NYC-DSA, about the Zohran Save Calculator, an app which tells you how much you would save under Mamdani's policies.

We speak with Eric Thor, the former co-chair of NYC-DSA, about the Zohran Save Calculator, an app which tells you how much you would save under Mamdani's policies.

Decode The Left is a strategic intelligence platform that exposes far-left extremism using their own materials—documents, videos, internal trainings, activist guides, and more. We collect and analyze primary source content directly from radical organizations and break it down into actionable insights for the public, the media, and institutional leaders.If you value my work, please consider a $8/month or $80/year subscription. I'm funded entirely by you.Want to know why Zohran Mamdani won the NYC Mayor's Democratic Primary? I recorded a private meeting of the NYC Democratic Socialists of America. They supported a massive voter registration and turnout effort.In this video, I explain what I learned in that meeting. Find all of their charts below. Zohran Mamdani won by 12% of the vote, completely blowing out Andrew Cuomo. You can see all the precincts he won in yellow. This win is the result of a massive voter registration and voter turnout effort by the NYC DSA, specifically targeting new voters.On these charts, the orange graph on the left was Zohran support, while the green and purple chart on the right is turnout. There is a very high correlation between voter turnout and Zohran support, indicating the results were directly because of the get out of the DSA's work.The NYC DSA focused on registering younger voters to support Zohran, resulting in a massive increase in voter registration in NYC among ages 18-39.The NYC DSA registered upwards of 50,000 new voters in the 100 days leading up to the Democratic Primary for mayor. This is why Zohran Mamdani completely blew out polling expectations.In this case study, the NYC DSA specifically started a district that didn't typically participate in Democratic Primaries, and did outreach to Trump voters. They ended up converting them to Zohran voters, massively increasing turnout with Zohran winning 71% of the vote.An interesting note is that Andrew Cuomo performed exactly as the polls expected him to perform. It was Zohran who blew out expectations because of the voter registration and turnout effort.Overall, the NYC DSA knocked on 1.6 million doors, made 2.3 million phone calls, and had over 30,000 volunteers working with them. They held over 3,000 events in NYC leading up to the election.And this is possibly the scariest chart of all: Zohran raised $8 million due to a matching campaign the city supports, from over 20,000 individual donors. The average contribution was $80. Andrew Cuomo had 2,700 individual donors. Curtis Silwa had less than 900.Zohran Mamdani won because the NYC DSA is massively activated and mobilized. He will carry all of this into the general election and be very difficult to beat. Decode The Left with Karlyn Borysenko is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit karlyn.substack.com/subscribe

Award-winning journalist, author, and lifelong New Yorker Spencer Ackerman joins the show to talk about the world from a New York point of view: The importance of NYC-DSA and the Zohran Mamdani mayoral campaign; how New York's oligarchs used unfounded claims of anti-semitism to protect class privilege; ICE's preparations to do mass extraordinary renditions; how Donald Trump's presidency has become the Global War on Terror that he used to mock George W. Bush for; and why US Central Command's new viceroy inflates the Iran threat (it's for Israel). Subscribe to the Forever Wars Newsletter: https://www.forever-wars.com/ Subscribe to the Un-Diplomatic Newsletter: https://www.un-diplomatic.com/

Featuring NYC DSA co-chairs Gustavo Gordillo and Grace Mausser on how Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic mayoral primary. NYC DSA spent years building an electoral juggernaut that has now made history and offers a model for the left everywhere across the United States. A behind-the-scenes look at how NYC DSA and the Zohran campaign did it! Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Check out the Summer 2025 issue of Social Research: An International Quarterly at www.socres.org  Get 50% off Immigration Detention Inc. and other books in your first order from plutobooks.com with code DIG50

Featuring NYC DSA co-chairs Gustavo Gordillo and Grace Mausser on how Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic mayoral primary. NYC DSA spent years building an electoral juggernaut that has now made history and offers a model for the left everywhere across the United States. A behind-the-scenes look at how NYC DSA and the Zohran campaign did it! Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Check out the Summer 2025 issue of Social Research: An International Quarterly at www.socres.org  Get 50% off Immigration Detention Inc. and other books in your first order from plutobooks.com with code DIG50 The Dig goes deep into politics everywhere, from labor struggles and political economy to imperialism and immigration. Hosted by Daniel Denvir.

Will Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani become the next mayor of New York City? I went inside the NYC DSA organizing call tonight, and what I learned about how they won the nomination shocked me.Decode The Left with Karlyn Borysenko is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Watch the full call I watched here. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit karlyn.substack.com/subscribe

We speak with two organizers from NYC-DSA's Independent Working Class Organizing Initiative, which is organizing tenants to directly resist the landlord class. IWCO will be holding a citywide tenant assembly this Sunday, May 4, from 1–6 p.m. at the Sixth Street Community Center in the East Village.

We were talking tenants rights on this week's Indypendent News Hour. In our first segment, co-hosts John Tarleton and Amba Guerguerian speak with journalist Steven Wishnia and Alina Shen, organizing director of CAAAV Voice, a group that fights against gentrification in working class Asian communities, about the history of rent control and why a rent freeze is needed now. In our second segment, we speak with two organizers from NYC-DSA's Independent Working Class Organizing Initiative, which is organizing tenants to directly resist the landlord class. IWCO will be holding a citywide tenant assembly this Sunday 1-6 pm at the Sixth Street Community Center.

The Indypendent's John Tarleton speaks with NYU student activist Anita Talukder about her university' recent capitulation to lawsuits brought by Zionist students alleging pro-Palestinian protests were anti-semitic and how the logic of the Israeli occupation is spreading to Americna universities like hers. We also speak with Danny Pearlstein of the Riders Alliance about the struggle to revive congestion pricing and with Josh Kraushauer of NYC DSA about how organizing softball leagues, family picnics, reading clubs & more is essential to nurturing a socialist movement that is sustainable for the long haul.

Tonight, we continue our series of interviews with NYC- DSA's 2024 slate of endorsed candidates and will be talking with Eon Tyrell Huntley, a retail worker, father and tenant running for Assembly District 56 in Bed Stuy and Crown Heights. We'll talk to Eon about the beauty of Bed Stuy, fighting for affordable rent, standing in solidarity with Palestine despite facing AIPAC money and so much more.To learn more about Eon: www.eonforassembly.com 

Tonight, we're talking to Claire Valdez, a NYC-DSA endorsed candidate for Assembly District 37 in Queens about what being endorsed by NYC-DSA and UAW Region 9A means to her, how she plans to bring her union organizing experience of becoming ‘more powerful than the boss' to the halls of power in Albany and much more. There are currently 8 socialists endorsed by NYC-DSA serving in Albany in the Senate and Assembly. If electoral organizers get their way- that number could be 11 next year - the largest socialist block ever elected in New York.NYC-DSA has voted to endorse three new-insurgent candidates this year- Claire in Queens, Eon Huntley in Brooklyn and Jonathan Soto in the Bronx. As we do every year, we will talk to all of the new-dsa endorsed candidates here on Revolutions Per Minute and tonight is the first in that series of interviews with the NYC-DSA's 2024 slate. So stick around to hear from Claire, a union organizer running for Assembly District 37 in Queens - stretching from Long Island City, Sunnyside and Maspeth to Ridgewood. To learn more visit  https://claireforqueens.com/ and to sign up for a canvassing shift https://claireforqueens.com/events/

Much of NYC's fate is decided in Albany where a new session of the state legislation has begun. We speak with State Sen. Jabari Brisport and Assemblymember Marcela Mitaynes, both Democratic Socialists, about their top priorities and how to make state government work for working people. In the second half of the show, we speak with Jonathan Soto, a public-education advocate and NYC DSA-endorsed candidate for the NY State Assembly. If he wins, Soto will be the first Socialist legislator elected from the Bronx in more than a century.

We speak with Jonathan Soto, a public-education advocate and NYC DSA-endorsed candidate for the NY State Assembly. If he wins, Soto will be the first Socialist legislator elected from the Bronx in more than a century.

Join Alex Kane (Jewish Currents), Hannah Fertig (Justice Democrats), and Jason Farbman (Jewish Voice for Peace) for a panel moderated by Sumaya Awad (Adalah Justice Project) exploring the US-Israel relationship, with a focus on the role of the Israel lobby in domestic politics. ———————————— This event is sponsored by Adalah Justice Project, NYC-DSA, and Haymarket Books and is part of Until Liberation: A Series for Palestine by Haymarket Books cosponsored by Palestinian American Organizations Network, Mondoweiss, Spectre, Dissenters, Tempest, Palestine Deep Dive, The New Arab, and more. Watch the live event recording: https://youtube.com/live/I_0iBTZ1JDg Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

There's no shortage of discussion when it comes to the left's fissures on Israel. Jeremy Cohan, co-chair of NYC-DSA's steering committee, explains the Democratic Socialists of America's pro-Palestine stance and their involvement in a widely criticized Manhattan protest the day after the October 7th attacks. Plus: JC shares an inside look at how the organization decides upon their policy stances, how they work with endorsed elected officials, and their broader vision for our political future.

There's no shortage of discussion when it comes to the left's fissures on Israel. On Today's Show:Jeremy Cohan, co-chair of NYC-DSA's steering committee, explains the Democratic Socialists of America's pro-Palestine stance and their involvement in a widely criticized Manhattan protest the day after the October 7th attacks. Plus: JC shares an inside look at how the organization decides upon their policy stances, how they work with endorsed elected officials, and their broader vision for our political future.

There's no shortage of discussion when it comes to the left's fissures on Israel. On Today's Show:Jeremy Cohan, co-chair of NYC-DSA's steering committee, explains the Democratic Socialists of America's pro-Palestine stance and their involvement in a widely criticized Manhattan protest the day after the October 7th attacks. Plus: JC shares an inside look at how the organization decides upon their policy stances, how they work with endorsed elected officials, and their broader vision for our political future.

Regular listeners of Revolutions per Minute will be familiar with our coverage of Palestine solidarity work within the Democratic Socialists of America. We recognize that the struggle for Palestinian liberation and the violence of settler colonial displacement are both ongoing. Tonight, our coverage continues with a live conversation with Sumaya and Daphna, two NYC-DSA members and organizers with deep experience in Palestine solidarity work. We discuss this month's outbreak of violence in Palestine and Israel, which has led to the genocidal and illegal bombardment of Gaza happening as we speak. Socialists in New York and across the country have joined forces with the multi-cultural, international movement for Palestine solidarity, with hundreds of thousands flooding the streets of major cities, conducting civil disobedience, and calling on the country's leadership to end United States support for Israel and a ceasefire now. Join us to learn more about why Palestine liberation is a priority for socialists.  Visit https://socialists.nyc/no-money-for-massacres/ to find an upcoming NYC-DSA-endorsed solidarity phone bank or action. Visit gazaispalestine.com to find or post an upcoming protest in your city anywhere in the United States.

Join us as we celebrate our 200th episode! We've been broadcasting on WBAI and online for almost five years and in that time, have featured the stories of hundreds of workers, tenants, and organizers fighting for socialism in New York City, in the United States, and around the globe. It's a true honor and privilege to bring these stories to you, and we're looking forward to what the future has in store! For this week's show, we're joined live by Honda Wang of DSA Labor. As a New York City delegate to the recent national DSA convention in Chicago, Honda will be sharing his analysis of the present and future of DSA and what's next in the struggle for socialism. We also hear from Mac, Smitha, and Adam, three  NYC-DSA members who were inspired by their work in DSA to start organizing for tenants' rights in their own buildings and neighborhoods. Take the DSA Labor Strike Ready pledge to support workers at the UAW Big 3: dsausa.us/UAWPledge Donate to the DSA Labor Solidarity Fund: donate.laborsolidarity.com.

Lizzy Oh (@breadpipeline) and Stylianos Karolidis (@stylianos_k) from NYC-DSA (@nycDSA) join Jorge to discuss the historic passing of the Build Public Renewables Act, the first real step towards an equitable climate transition. In the episode, Lizzy and Stylianos walk through the history of the campaign, what it took to win, and how you can reproduce the lessons learned there to any organizing campaign. How is the Build Public Renewables Act and the Green New Deal related to socialism? Is this just a social democratic reform or is there an opportunity for revolutionary change? How can we connect this with anti-imperialism? Tune in to find out the answer to these questions and more. Checkout the podcast Stylianos does: Left on Red. Follow us on Twitter: @ELCpod Follow us on IG: everybodylovescommunism Sign up as a supporter at fans.fm/everybodylovescommunism or Patreon.com/everybodylovescommunism to unlock tons of bonus content and our Discord community! Like what you heard? Be sure to give us a 5 Star Rating on Apple Podcasts!

Two weeks ago, millions of New Yorkers were devastated and horrified to learn of the murder of Jordan Neely on the New York City subway. Neely, a young Black person and street artist experiencing homelessness, was held in a chokehold on the F train by a white man who remained unidentified for several days after the incident. In the weeks since Neely's killing by the man identified as Long Island native Daniel Penny, the impact of this story has continued to unfold with reactions pouring in from across the city and country. While NYPD brutalized protestors and press at vigils and actions demanding justice for Jordan, Daniel Penny was allowed to turn himself in on a charge of second-degree manslaughter. On tonight's show we're live with Andrew, an organizer with NYC-DSA's Racial Justice Working Group,  on how they have reacted to Jordan Neely's murder and the socialist demands that we believe will make New York a truly safer place. We also hear from the WBAI listening audience with perspectives from the public on this story. RSVP for NYC-DSA's Socialist Approach to Mental Health and Public Safety town hall event TONIGHT, 5/17, at bit.ly/nycdsa-townhall. RSVP for NYC-DSA's Racial Justice Working Group Vigil and Teach-in for Jordan Neely on Saturday, May 27: https://actionnetwork.org/events/jordan-neely-deserved-better-a-vigil-teach-in Follow the Racial Justice Working Group on Instagram or Twitter @nycdsarjwg. 

Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the show by the DSA International Committee's Marvin Gonzalez, Mirah and Jorge Rocha. Marvin Gonzalez is president of the Campaign Workers Guild, founder of Repatriotas and a member of the National Political Committee of DSA, as well as the NPC's liaison to the IC. Mirah is co-chair of the IC's Middle East & Africa Subcommittee. Jorge sits on the Steering Committee for DSA's International Committee and is currently on NYC-DSA's Citywide Leadership Committee. He is also the cohost, along with friends of the show Jamie Peck and Aaron Thorpe, of the podcast Everybody Loves Communism. After welcoming Marvin and Mirah to the Delete Your Account family, the gang discusses the IC's organizing and role within DSA. Marvin, Mirah and Jorge clarify their positions on some of the most complex and divisive questions facing the left today, including the war in Ukraine, China's global influence, “anti -war” conservatives, and what socialist internationalism means today.   Follow Marvin on Twitter @Sulliedsubjects, Mirah @snackvampire and Jorge @LineGoesDown (you can also follow the Everybody Loves Communism show account @ELCPod). Learn how you can support Marvin's organizing around Puerto Rico here and follow his new organization Repatriotas @repatriotasPR. And most importantly, if you are a DSA member, get involved with the IC from wherever you are by visiting international.dsausa.org and find out more about the IC's Cuba Solidarity campaign here.  If you want to support the show and receive access to tons of bonus content, subscribe on our Patreon page for as little as $5 a month. Also, don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review the show on iTunes. We can't do this show without your support!!!

Tonight, RPM goes global. Strikes and protests have rocked the country of France in response to President Macron's reform of the social pension system, lifting the country's retirement age and robbing millions of their retirement. We will hear from Emre, an activist based in Paris with La France Insoumise, about these strikes & protests, and what the Left can do to fight Macron and the far-Right. Plus, we speak to Maia and Erl from NYC-DSA's Healthcare Working Group on the ongoing organizing to bring universal healthcare to the United States - starting right here in New York. Learn more and RSVP for the April 15 bike ride and rally for the New York Health Act: https://www.mobilize.us/ourrevolution/event/552943/. 

Abortion providers across the country are bracing this week for a decision expected soon out of a Texas federal court which will immediately block access nationwide to one of the two medications commonly used for medication abortions. As the anti-abortion lobby and their allies in the United States government attempt to deal yet another blow to this fundamental human right, organizers here in New York state are continuing the struggle to ensure abortions remain safe and accessible for all. On tonight's show, we are live with Nix from Reproductive Justice Collective and Marian from NYC-DSA's Socialist Feminist working group to discuss the upcoming decision and what it means for abortion providers and patients. We'll also hear about their efforts to ensure abortion access in NY state and how you can get involved with this crucial struggle. Visit https://reprojusticecolumbia.org/abortion-pills to learn more about the campaign to ensure access to abortion on college campuses, then text NYCREPRO to 50409 to ask your elected officials to sign on the New York state legislation. Follow @NYCSocFem on Twitter for updates on NYC-DSA's Socialist Feminist Working Group. 

The yearly NYC DSA convention is back, with about 100 delegates from every corner of the city gathering to discuss the path forward for our organizing community. After taking some serious losses in electoral organizing and membership enrollment, socialists in the city seek to find their place in the movement, to re-engage in the work and to bring our neighbors into our vision of a socialist future for our beloved city of new york.

We are joined by Jad from NYC DSA to talk about Selena, Maga Communism, and this guy that has been terrorizing Yew York socialists for years by making weird videos of himself in the shower. Enjoy! FOR FULL EP GO TO PATREON.COM/PODDAMNAMERICA

This week Carla and Joy embark on yet another two-part issue exploration — this time, on radicalization. They kick off the episode by sharing their journeys to becoming leftists, and round out the show by exposing the failures of our systems —  from health care to housing and beyond — to meet our needs. Whereas this episode highlights the systemic failures that should act as radicalizing forces for all of us, next week's episode will explore the nefarious radicalization that is right wing extremism.Have thoughts/comments/reactions to this episode? We'd love to hear from you! Email us at sipandpolitic@gmail.com.References in the show:NYC-DSA tenant organizing guide: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SApAkZZG9zqOnvTTIGI59sdd6VFcA92V/viewFollow us on social media:@sip.and.politic (TikTok)Carla: @carlaxmariee (TikTok) | @carlamariexnyc (Instagram)Joy: @joy.malonza / @thedownballot.org (TikTok) | @thedownballot (Instagram)

For the first time in the nation's history, the Colombian people have elected a leftist to the presidency. Gustavo Petro defeated far-right populist, Rodolfo Hernández. The former guerilla has pledged to challenge economic inequality and fight climate change by transforming the country's energy system. What does this victory mean for socialism in Latin America? DSA National Political Committee Member Marvin Gonzalez joins us to discuss that and much more. Here in New York City, the city council and Mayor Adams passed a new budget last week that funnels money to private creditors and the cops while cutting funds for education and other social services. We'll hear from Kay Gabriel on why this budget is an attack on the working class and how NYC-DSA plans to build a movement to fight back.

It's Casual Friday! Emma hosts David Griscom, co-host of Left Reckoning, to round up the week in news. Then, Emma is joined by the DSA's Stylianos Karolidis and Sumathy Kumar to discuss their For the Many candidate slate in New York City. First, Emma dives deep into yesterday's debut of the primetime 1/6 hearings, appreciating the committee's breadth of day-one topics, from Trump's 7-point plan to overturn the election, the complete disconnect between him and any federal defense agencies, and the impact of his “stand back and stand by” tweet, to the role of Bill Barr and the barebones, yet horrifying, unseen footage of the coup attempt. Next, she's joined by Left Reckoning's David Griscom as they dive into the Texas-centric news of the week, starting off with the more hopeful news of an Austin Starbucks' successful unionization vote, before diving into a conversation on policing that begins with a contrast between Capitol Police's treatment of BLM protesters and 1/6 Coup attempters, and shifting to the continued lies and cowardice of the Uvalde police as an example of the extreme disinvestment from public good that the neoliberal era has created. Next, David and Emma tackle the crisis of Texas' power grid, as Ted Cruz blames rising prices on the (nonexistent) Texas Green New Deal, rather than their hyper-privatized power grid which serves profit overall, including a recent approval of price-fixing for Bitcoin mining while the rest of the state is encouraged to minimize electricity consumption in +100ºF Weather. Griscom wraps up the interview by diving into HIS story of Texas, as he dissects and rejects this recent move by the far-right to paint a picture of a Straight, White, conservative, Christian Texas that's being invaded by Trans folks and immigrants, and walks through the challenges to Abbott's recent bill to investigate the parents of gender-affirmed trans kids. Then, Emma is joined by Stylianos Karolidis and Sumathy Kumar as they walk through the broader and more specific strategic goals of NYC-DSA's “For the Many” slate of 13 candidates across the City and up into the Hudson Valley, from pushing climate-centric discourse and working to reinvent NY housing policy to changing the culture of NY State Politics as a whole. And in the Fun Half: Anthony from NY calls in to reminisce on the beauty of Michael Brooks, Emma covers Ivanka coming out against her father's Big Lie, and parses through the myriad paths of culpability around 1/6, with a particular focus on the GOP enablers of the “Big Lie” conspiracy and the belief in insurrectionists that Donald Trump had asked this, and nothing else, of them. Dave Rubin dives into his friendship with Ben Shapiro, who thinks he is a sinner and mentally ill due to his marriage, and Crowder continues his transphobic bent, plus, your calls and IMs! Help out the DSA For The Many slate here! https://fortheturnout.nyc/ Become a member at JoinTheMajorityReport.com: https://fans.fm/majority/join Subscribe to the AMQuickie newsletter here:  https://madmimi.com/signups/170390/join Join the Majority Report Discord! http://majoritydiscord.com/ Get all your MR merch at our store: https://shop.majorityreportradio.com/ Check out today's sponsors: sunsetlakecbd is a majority employee owned farm in Vermont, producing 100% pesticide free CBD products. Great company, great product and fans of the show! Use code Leftisbest and get 20% off at http://www.sunsetlakecbd.com. And now Sunset Lake CBD has donated $2500 to the Nurses strike fund, and we encourage MR listeners to help if they can. Here's a link to where folks can donate: https://forms.massnurses.org/we-stand-with-st-vincents-nurses/ Support the St. Vincent Nurses today! https://action.massnurses.org/we-stand-with-st-vincents-nurses/ Check out Matt's show, Left Reckoning, on Youtube, and subscribe on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/leftreckoning Subscribe to Matt's other show Literary Hangover on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/literaryhangover Check out The Nomiki Show on YouTube. https://www.patreon.com/thenomikishow Check out Matt Binder's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/mattbinder Subscribe to Brandon's show The Discourse on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/ExpandTheDiscourse Check out The Letterhack's upcoming Kickstarter project for his new graphic novel! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/milagrocomic/milagro-heroe-de-las-calles Subscribe to Discourse Blog, a newsletter and website for progressive essays and related fun partly run by AM Quickie writer Jack Crosbie. https://discourseblog.com/ Subscribe to AM Quickie writer Corey Pein's podcast News from Nowhere. https://www.patreon.com/newsfromnowhere  Follow the Majority Report crew on Twitter: @SamSeder @EmmaVigeland @MattBinder @MattLech @BF1nn @BradKAlsop The Majority Report with Sam Seder - https://majorityreportradio.com/

Join Haymarket for a discussion celebrating the release of Olivier Besancenot and Michael Löwy's Marx in Paris, 1871. This deeply informed, eminently enjoyable work of historical fiction places Karl Marx in the thick of the unprecedented events of the Paris Commune. In disguise, employing imperfect but serviceable French, Karl and his eldest daughter, Jenny, encounter and debate many important figures of the movement, including Léo Frankel, Eugène Varlin, Charles Longuet, Elisabeth Dmitrieff, and Louise Michel, eventually returning to England with a profoundly changed sense of political possibility. “This book adds to the tradition evolving since Marx and Lenin. Remarkably accessible, it refreshes, provokes, and thereby develops that movement still further.” — Richard Wolff “This fictional account is a remarkable piece of historical criticism and revolutionary imagination.” —Enzo Traverso Get Marx in Paris, 1871: Jenny's “Blue Notebook” from Haymarket here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1770-marx-in-paris-1871 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Speakers: Michael Löwy is emeritus research director at the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research). His books, including On Changing the World and the Politics of Combined and Uneven Development, have been translated into thirty languages. Natalia Tylim is active in the NYC-DSA labor branch. She's a restaurant worker, a founding member of DSA's Restaurant Organizing Project, and a member of the Tempest Collective. Valerio Arcary is a professor at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology in Brazil. Todd Chretien (moderator) is an organizer, author, translator, and high school Spanish teacher. He has contributed to several books, including Socialist Strategy and Electoral Politics, and is editor of Eyewitnesses to the Russian Revolution. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/HdPcBkE7OlM Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

Tonight we're joined live in the studio by Sessi Kuwabara Blanchard  and Jacob Clary, organizers from NYC-DSA's Socialist Drug Politics Organizing Committee. We discuss the class politics of drug use, overdose prevention centers AKA safe injection sites, and much more. Learn how the transformative perspective of socialist drug politics offers different ways of understanding drug use and the social forces that shape users' experience. We also return to the South Bronx, where survivors of January's devastating Twin Parks fire and their supporters are fighting for what they are owed from the city and landlord, in the face of corruption that may go all the way to the top of New York's political structure. We speak to Ariadna Phillips from South Bronx Mutual Aid and Misra Walker from Take Back the Bronx on building real tenant power. Follow the Socialist Drug Politics Organizing Committee on Twitter @socialistdrugs. Join VOCAL-NY's Users Union for a Statewide Day of Action on April 7. The NYC event is a rally on the steps of City Hall at 11am. Sign up to receive more details here: https://vocal-ny.org/event/04-07-22-users-union-statewide-day-of-action/

Tonight on RPM we continue our series of conversations with DSA's 2022 For The Many candidate slate with Illapa Sairitupac. Illapa is social worker and climate organizer who has been endorsed by NYC-DSA for Assembly District 65, a Lower East Side district once held by the notorious Sheldon Silver.  We'll talk to Illapa about running a campaign for working class New Yorkers in a district that also includes the capital of capitalism: Wall Street.We'll also hear from members of the NYC-DSA Housing Working Group who were out canvassing in lower Manhattan with Illapa this weekend for the Right to Remain campaign - to pass the Good Cause Eviction bill.Plus a breaking news update on the REI Soho Union vote with Amy Wilson. For more info on Illapa: https://illapa.nyc/To learn more about Right to Remain and the NYC-DSA Housing Working Group: https://linktr.ee/nycdsa_housing

TMBS 37 aired on April 24, 2018. Episode summary: Michael explains how capitalism fuels climate change and how we can work together to combat both. Shout-out to NYC-DSA for bouncing Milo. H. Bomberguy (@Hbomberguy) calls in to talk about the strange world of right-wing YouTube. Anoa Changa (@TheWayWithAnoa) joins us for a special Gulag segment. Corey Pein (@CoreyPein) is in studio to take us through his new book “Live, Work, Work, Work, Die” and a new investment opportunity with laborize.com. TMBS ReAirs come out every Tuesday wherever you get your podcasts or on The Michael Brooks Show YouTube Channel. This program has been put together by The Michael Brooks Legacy Project. To learn more and rewatch the postgame content visit https://www.patreon.com/TMBS

Considered on its own, the New York Police Department is in the top ten largest armies in the world. Why? As working-class New Yorkers struggle to stay fed and safely housed, the NYPD enjoys nearly unlimited resources and sees no issue with using those resources to oppress and surveil the city's population. On tonight's show, we speak to Khalil from NYC-DSA's Defund NYPD campaign on why socialists' commitment to REAL public safety remains strong. We also take calls live from the WBAI audience. In international news, capitalists and war-mongers are pushing for further escalation in the Russia-Ukraine dispute. We'll hear from Gerard of the Democratic Socialists International Committee on their recent statement opposing US militarization and interventionism in Ukraine and Eastern Europe and calling for an end to NATO expansionism. Join NYC-DSA's campaign to Defund NYPD: https://www.defundnypd.com/get-involved Read the International Committee's statement in English, Russian, or Ukrainian: https://international.dsausa.org/statements/no-war-with-russia/ On this episode, Lee Ziesche shares a brief public service announcement about this month's sky-high ConEd bills. We will be covering this issue more in depth on future episodes, but visit bit.ly/conedbill to learn more about how this situation was created by New York politicians' climate inaction and how DSA is fighting back. 

Yesterday two very different visions for the future of New York's energy system were presented at a marathon 12+ hour long budget hearing on environmental conservation. On one hand, New York's regulators argued to stay the course and continue to let the market and capital be the primary drivers of building renewable energy, despite the state having missed it's renewable energy goals year after year and currently only 6% of New York's energy comes from wind and solar. Community advocates and DSA-electeds had a different view - one where the future is a public good- and renewables are being built at the scale the climate crisis demands and are publicly-owned. Tonight we'll continue our series of interviews with NYC-DSA's 2022 slate and are joined live by Sarahana Shrestha a candidate for Assembly District 103 in the Mid-Hudson Valley and member of the NY Public Power Coalition who is running under the slogan - the future is a public good. More info about Sarahana: www.sarahanaforassembly.comMore info about Public Power: www.publicpowerny.org

Starting late last year in Buffalo, NY, a union wave has spread all over the country as workers at an ever-increasing number of Starbucks coffee shops are getting organized and making demands on their boss and on the multi-national corporation that employs them. This movement is gaining speed every day - and to help us understand what's going on from a worker perspective, we're joined live in the studio by James, a worker-organizer with Starbucks Workers United in Buffalo. Another national movement is mobilizing to defend access to abortion as the right-wing assault on this fundamental right continues to escalate. With landmark legislation Roe V. Wade on the verge of being rolled back, socialists are continuing to organize for grassroots solutions to this national crisis that center anti-racism, abolition, and a no-holds-barred approach to guaranteeing access to safe abortion. We'll hear from Ali of Chicago DSA and Chicago for Abortion on this crucial struggle. On this show, Jack makes a brief announcement about the New Deal for CUNY. Learn more and get involved at bit.ly/action-nd4c. Find a local abortion fund to support if you can: https://abortionfunds.org/funds/ Follow along with James and the Starbucks partners at @SBWorkersUnited. Current Starbucks partners can email sbworkersunited@gmail.com to get connected to an organizer. This episode is dedicated to the memory of our NYC-DSA comrade, Alex Z. 

Tonight on our show we will be talking about our host Desiree Joy Frias' home of the South Bronx where capitalist interests and government failures are continuing to cost lives. In the middle of brutal winter weather and yet another Covid spike, tenants are once again mobilizing to defend against evictions and build working-class power with all of New York City's residents, including the 1 in 12 New Yorkers who live in public or section 8 housing. Last week's tragic and preventable Twin Parks fire on 181st street in the Bronx and yesterday's Con Edison explosion on Fox Street less than two miles away are just the latest examples of the ongoing violence of landlord neglect and failures by the federal and local government to provide adequate public housing and public infrastructure. Con Edison is responsible for yesterday's explosion that killed one, injured seven  and  leveled an entire row home in the South Bronx. This exploitative monopoly spends millions in lobbying fees to fight green projects and remain the sole provider of power to over 12 million customers.   To discuss these preventable tragedy and how socialists are organizing for tenant power, we're live in the studio with RPM comrade and fellow Bronx/Upper Manhattan DSA member Bernard  Goyder and an organizer from NYC-DSA's Brooklyn Housing Working Group, Isaac. Tonight you'll learn about NYC-DSA's Right to Remain campaign to pass Good Cause Eviction, transformative legislation that will protect millions of tenants just like us. Keeping with the uptown theme, we'll also hear an update on the successful strike by the Student Workers of Columbia. Get organized, get involved, help your neighbor, call your legislator: https://linktr.ee/nycdsa_housing Read more on South Bronx Mutual Aid and others' efforts to support tenants in the Bronx: https://twitter.com/booksandrose/status/1483854067457826822?s=20

It's never been easy to be a front-line retail or customer service worker at the holidays, and with a dramatic surge in COVID cases affecting New York City, this year is even harder. For our Revolutions per Minute holiday special, we're joined live by Eric Dirnbach of the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee, DSA's national project in partnership with the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America, as well as Aria, a retail worker who participated in a successful strike last year at the Good Vibrations sex shop in Massachusetts with support from EWOC.Plus, a special correspondent, Shen, visits the picket line in Chinatown to speak with Liang, a restaurant worker at the historic dim sum restaurant Jing Fong.We are fundraising for the WBAI end of year Tower Fund with some help from our NYC-DSA chorus, Sing in Solidarity. Give to the Tower Fund at towerfund.wbai.org and follow our chorus on Twitter @nycdsachoir.Sign the petition to support Jing Fong workers and stop displacement in Chinatown at bit.ly/stopdisplacement.Are you a retail or service worker looking for support organizing your worksite? You are not alone. Support and help is available. Visit https://workerorganizing.org/support/. 

2021 has been another incredibly tough year, with the pandemic and climate crisis exacerbating income inequality and dire living situations for working class people across the globe. Tonight we'll catch up with a few DSA working groups to talk about the organizing they've done to build working class power and solidarity this year and what's coming up for 2022. Our guests tonight are Joel from the BDS and Palestine Solidarity Working Group on the Boycott Puma campaign and the power of a consumer boycott, Emma Claire from the Healthcare Working Group on universal healthcare and labor rights for home health care workers, and Josh and Robert from Eco-Socialists on the Green New Deal for Public Schools and the New York Public Power campaign. To learn more or get involved with NYC-DSA's eco-socialist organizing, visit https://ecosocialists.nyc/join-us/. Find NYC-DSA's Healthcare Working Group on Twitter or Facebook @NYCDSAHealth or email the organizers at healthcare@socialists.nyc. Curious about the BDS movement and DSA's Palestine solidarity work? View the primer and FAQ: https://palestine.dsausa.org/palestine-and-bds-faq/. Throughout this episode and all our remaining 2021 episodes, we are fundraising for WBAI's rent on the transmitter at 4 Times Square. We encourage all who are able to donate what they can, even a small amount, toward this important community institution. Visit towerfund.wbai.org to give. 

*and Cypress Hills, and Ocean Hill!Believe it or not, 2022 is right around the corner and will bring with it a new electoral cycle and a new slate of DSA-endorsed socialist candidates for office. On tonight's show, we kick off our series of interviews with NYC-DSA's 2022 slate as we speak LIVE with Samy Nemir Olivares, candidate for Assembly District 54 in Bushwick, Cypress Hills, and Ocean Hill. Hear from Samy on their experience as a community organizer in North Brooklyn, the radical legacy of queer and trans people of color, the next steps for socialists in Albany, and smashing gender binaries right alongside capitalism. We also speak to Gabriel Hernandez of NYC-DSA's Queer Caucus on building queer community and mentorship for socialists. Finally, we hear a brief update on the struggle for free, equitable higher education for all from the New Deal for CUNY coalition. To learn more about Samy Nemir-Olivares and support his run for Assembly, visit: https://www.samyfornewyork.com/ To learn more about NYC-DSA's Queer Caucus, sign up for their mailing list here: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/queer-caucus-interest-form For more on the December 11 action for a New Deal for CUNY, visit: https://psc-cuny.org/SatDec11

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters just held a pivotal leadership election that will set a new course for one of the most storied unions in existence. The election officially marked the end of the Hoffa era—James P. Hoffa, son of Jimmy Hoffa, retired as Teamsters General President. In a major shift that will have significant ripple effects within the Teamsters and the labor movement writ large, members elected the Teamsters United reform slate headed by incoming president and Hoffa critic Sean O'Brien. As journalist Indigo Olivier wrote for Jacobin, “With 1.4 million members, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) election results have implications not just for the massive upcoming United Parcel Service (UPS) contract, but for organizing Amazon and pushing labor-friendly legislation like the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act. The election marks the first time that a coalition backed by Teamsters for a Democratic Union, a rank-and-file reform caucus, will head the union since former IBT president Ron Carey was removed from office on false corruption charges in 1997.”We will bring you a rank-and-file breakdown of the election in the coming weeks, but for now we are publicly releasing one of our recent Working People bonus episodes so listeners can have some context to understand the importance of this election. In this episode, recorded in October, we talk with Indigo Olivier about the Teamsters leadership election and the 46th annual Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU) convention, which was held in Chicago on Oct. 1-3. Olivier is a 2020–2021 fellow with In These Times' Leonard C. Goodman Institute for Investigative Reporting and her writing has been featured at outlets like Jacobin, In These Times, and The Nation. She is also a member of NYC-DSA.Additional links/info below...Indigo's Twitter page: https://twitter.com/IndigoOlivierIndigo's author page at In These Times: https://inthesetimes.com/authors/indigo-olivierIndigo Olivier, Jacobin, "Teamster Rank-and-File Reformers Are Making a Bid for Union Leadership": https://jacobinmag.com/2021/10/teamsters-tdu-convention-reform-amazon-election-upsIndigo Olivier, Jacobin, "With Reformers Victorious, It's a New Day for the Teamsters": https://jacobinmag.com/2021/11/teamsters-united-democratic-union-ibt-electionWorking People, "The Teamsters Have Entered the Chat (w/ Joe Allen)": https://www.patreon.com/posts/53478081Ryan Haney, Labor Notes, "Teamster Insurgents Plan for a Win—And What Comes After": https://labornotes.org/2021/10/teamster-insurgents-plan-win-and-what-comes-afterAndy Sernatinger, In These Times, "Hoffa's House Divided: The 2021 Teamster Election, Explained": https://inthesetimes.com/article/hoffa-teamsters-for-a-democratic-union-reform-labor-militancy-electionInternational Brotherhood of Teamsters Election Results: https://www.ibtvote.org/Election-ResultsFeatured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive at freemusicarchive.org): Jules Taylor, "Working People Theme Song"Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer: Donate: https://therealnews.com/donate-podSign up for our newsletter: https://therealnews.com/newsletter-podLike us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/therealnewsFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/therealnews

Election day was Tuesday and DSA's 30+ nationally-endorsed campaigns were put to voters. With a nearly 70% win rate for DSA's campaigns nationally, there's much to discuss about organizing for socialism at the ballot box and the rising tensions between the left and the existing Democratic establishment. On tonight's show,  we'll share provisional election results and an interview with a DSA-endorsed candidate for Somerville, Massachusetts City Council, Tessa Bridge. Here in NYC, Eric Adams has -- unfortunately -- swept to victory as mayor. Adams has publicly distanced himself from the left and socialism, so to extend the courtesy, let us just say that *all* cops are bastards.  How are we going to beat Adams and the bourgeois, capitalist interests he represents? We discuss that question live with our comrade Robert Cuffy, a union city worker and police abolitionist who organizes with NYC-DSA's Labor Branch and Afrosocialist Caucus. We also hear a report from RPM's antifascist correspondent Amy Wilson on the rise of far-right organizing in New York City around the wedge issue of mandates for COVID-19 vaccine. Keep up with the results of DSA's nationally-endorsed races as they develop, thanks to our comrades at Metro DC DSA: https://washingtonsocialist.mdcdsa.org/station-z/dsa-races-2021 

You're listening to Revolutions Per Minute live from the new WBAI studios, a socialist radio show and podcast from members of New York City Democratic Socialists of America. The Democratic Socialists of America is the largest socialist organization in the United States, with 95,000 members nationwide and NYC-DSA is its biggest chapter. We are run by our 9,000+ members and organizers who are working together to build democratic socialism in all five boroughs. A UAW worker on strike at a John Deere facility in Iowa was killed on the picket lines early this morning. We send our love and solidarity to his loved ones and his ten thousand union brothers and sisters still out there fighting for a dignified life. His sacrifice will not be forgotten. Unionization efforts and the strike wave continue to spread. Amazon workers in Staten Island announced an NLRB petition earlier this week. Thousands of academic workers unionized at the University of Pittsburgh while thousands more at Harvard today launched a three day work stoppage. Columbia academic workers walked out today are prepared to hit the picket lines next week here in New York. 45,000 healthcare workers at Kaiser Permanente have authorized a strike. NYC-DSA members this past weekend stood in solidarity with 2,000 healthcare workers on strike at Catholic Mercy Hospital in Buffalo. We'll hear from Charlie Baker on this struggle and the rally for DSA endorsed Mayoral candidate India Walton. Dozens of DSA candidates are running in races across the country from Massachusetts to New York to Florida. Jorge from Joel Brooks campaign in Jersey City joins to discuss their city council campaign in its final week. We'll also hear a special report from Lee on the victorious struggle led by NYC-DSA Ecosocialist Working Group to prevent a fracked gas power plant from being built in Astoria.

As regular listeners of Revolutions per Minute know, we are living in a time of many overlapping campaigns for justice for the working-class. Sometimes, organizing campaigns result in victory and opportunities for celebration while looking toward the next goal. Other times, campaigns require strategic escalation. On tonight's show, we'll speak to New York for Abortion Rights about a key victory in the struggle to protect access to abortion for all.  We'll hear from NYC-DSA member and Assemblymember from District 36 in Astoria Zohran Mamdani on the New York Taxi Workers Alliance sit-in at City Hall and why he's going on hunger strike alongside taxi workers to demand debt forgiveness.Finally, we travel to Little Rock, Arkansas, with Malik, a former NYC-DSA organizer, who is using lessons learned from NYC to build socialism in his hometown.Follow New York for Abortion Rights at abortionrights.nyc.Follow Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani at @ZohranKMamdani and learn more about the New York Taxi Workers Alliance sit-in at @NYTWA. Follow Central Arkansas DSA at @CentralARKDSA.

A strike wave is spreading across the United States. Thousands of nurses, carpenters, miners, factory workers, teachers and other workers are taking a stand against the big shots who steal the fruits of our labor. Unionization drives of academic, healthcare, and media workers have brought tens of thousands of new brothers and sisters into the organized labor movement. 60,000 IATSE film workers have authorized a sector strike in the entertainment industry as the hundreds of thousands of members in entertainment unions like SAG, WGA, and the DGA alongside the Democratic Socialists of America have committed to standing in solidarity. Has labor begun to turn the tide against capital in the United States? While Red for Ed and higher education unions across the country have launched major strikes of hundreds of thousands of workers united with their students over the past three years, the public sector stasis has yet to be broken in the heart of American social democracy. DSA members and other socialist labor organizers are preparing to bring the education strike wave to New York City. A huge coalition is building for the New Deal for CUNY. PSC, NYC-DSA, and YDSA organizers at CUNY campuses are uniting for a plan that will pay academic workers a living wage and make CUNY tuition free. As a historian and union worker and organizers at CUNY this fight is personal to me. NYC-DSA Assemblywoman Phara Souffrant Forrest spoke with us at NYC-DSA convention about the New Deal for CUNY and a potential political strike to make that happen. We'll also talk with my comrades in PSC and hear from YDSA organizers.

On Friday rent will be due for millions of New Yorkers. For tenants struggling to pay rent, this summer has been a roller coaster of ups and downs as hard fought for eviction moratoriums at the state and federal level have been won, overturned and finally reinstated here in New York, providing crucial protections until Jan 15, 2022. Today we will talk with NYC-DSA endorsed candidate and democratic nominee for City Council District 38 Alexa Avilés about why she was arrested earlier this summer fighting for housing justice, what caused New York City's housing crisis in the first place, and what her housing priorities are once she becomes a member of city council next year. For more info follow the Housing Justice for All campaign @housing4allNY on Twitter and Alexa Avilés @alexaforcouncil 

It's a Revolutions per Minute social and fundraising extravaganza! Tonight we're taking a break from our usual format to share a peek behind the scenes of the Revolutions per Minute collective: who we are, why we organize community radio for NYC-DSA, and why we support WBAI 99.5FM. Hear from our RPM hosts, producers, and behind the scenes comrades during this relaxed, casual show that emphasizes the importance of movement-based community media. Please consider giving to WBAI in the name of Revolutions per Minute. Monthly donations of any amount are appreciated, and giving $25 in a calendar year makes you a voting member of the station! To donate, visit give2wbai.org. We have more cool rewards coming, so keep listening and check back! To pitch a story for coverage on Revolutions per Minute, visit bit.ly/pitch2RPM. If you're a member of NYC-DSA looking to learn more or get involved with making RPM, please visit bit.ly/RPMJoinForm. This episode was recorded remotely during a night of heavy rain and catastrophic flooding in New York City. We urge you to join NYC-DSA's Ecosocialist Working Group or another local formation and get involved with the struggle to protect workers and tenants against climate catastrophe.