DSA Joins National Day of Action for Safe Schools
As school districts across the country contemplate reopening, without the resources to do so safely, people are rising up.
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Low Ebb for the Pink Tide: What’s Going Wrong in Latin America?
How is it possible to defeat democratically those who do not believe in democracy?
Trouble for the Mexican Left: President López Obrador’s Denialism and Ineptitude
“AMLO” seemed poised to establish himself as the most effective and progressive of Latin American leaders. What happened instead was heartbreaking.
How an Eight-Year-Old Girl Made Disability History: A Conversation with Activist Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins and Children’s Book Author Annette Bay Pimentel
“I wanted to make sure that not only my generation of kids with disabilities would be represented, but future generations of kids with disabilities as well. “
They are Passing On–We’ve got to keep up the Pace! Jonathan W. Hutto Remembers Rev. C.T. Vivian and Congressman John Lewis
My mother remembers Rev. C.T. Vivian as a young pastor in Chattanooga, Tennessee, during the early 1950s. He would come to her elementary school on East 5th Street and lead Bible-inspirational lessons with the students, teaching them about pride and perseverance within the Jim Crow South. Mom educated me in my childhood to what many…
Gene Debs Looks Toward Socialism
As they did in Volume I of the series, Tim Davenport and David Walters have given us a real treasure, and a restoration. In truth, looking at these pages, we are reminded that Debs was a lucid thinker, a fine writer, astute and discerning.
“Good Trouble”: John Lewis’s Life Reverberates on Film
“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.”
Remembering Harry Britt
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.
DSA after Juneteenth: Notes From the Uprising
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…
The Coronavirus Pandemic and Medicare for All
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.