“When you see something that is not right … say something! Do something!” Lewis often says in his speeches. He counsels his audiences on the constant need for “good trouble, necessary trouble.”
Harry always identified as a socialist. He personally made sure that I went from a campus “Youth Section” leader to an activist in SF DSA. He was a founding member and experienced leader of DSA in 1982, and became a DSA Vice-Chair.
The uprising that began May 30 has been growing, and DSA chapters are working hard to support the Movement for Black Lives. Again, this is just a glimpse from Twitter; more actual prose to come, as well as photos from Occupy City Hall in Manhattan. The New York City Council is scheduled to vote by…
In one way or another, many countries less financially well off than the United States manage to provide medical service to all who need it. our system is a piecemeal patchwork, leaving many vulnerable. And, as COVID-19 makes inescapably clear, so long as any of our neighbors are at risk, not one of us is safe.
Believing military leaders’ condemnations of brutality requires ignoring the inevitability of the wars they helped start.
Now is the time for peace, not war. And for fearless, unrelenting struggle.
The political opening places new opportunities and new burdens before socialists.
What we are not good at is a sustained, thoughtful analysis of all the ways communities of color have lost their children and the boring, unglamorous steps necessary to stop it from happening. We don’t learn how to stop them because we don’t remember.
History may not repeat, but it sure rhymes.
Non-reformist reforms can change the rules of the game.
