Disability activist Ady Barkan’s Be A Hero campaign helped mobilize millions to vote in 2018/2020 and to demand justice after the election.
Buffalo, NY, DSA helped propel community organizer and union activist India Walton to victory in the city’s Democratic mayoral primary.
How do we build a mass movement needed to support and inspire more leaders like Cori Bush?
COVID-19 and its Delta variant are not the only reasons people are reluctant to return to work. Sometimes the jobs just aren’t there; many of us believe that the truly unemployed vastly outnumber job openings.
Christine Riddiough talks with veteran activists Heather Booth and Judith Arcana In late August, Texas governor Gregg Abbott, signed into law the most restrictive anti-abortion bill since the landmark abortion-rights case Roe v. Wade was decided. Women in Texas and around the country are outraged and fearful that other states will follow suit. Before Roe,…
And as a New Yorker, I truly resented how the collective trauma we faced was used to inflict pain on the innocent.
When we lost Ed Asner last week, DL reached out to comrades who worked with him to build what was then an embrsyonic formation of socialists in America–and then became the national network we know today. Below, Kim Fellner and Michael Lighty salute an incredible artist and comrade we already miss. Union Leader True to…
A new documentary, The Co-op Wars , tells a story of conflict in the Minneapolis-St. Paul food co-ops and counterculture. The conflict was precipitated by a group of community activists (my comrades in the Coop Organization or CO) who took over the People’s Warehouse in Minneapolis in 1975. The documentary accurately portrays the mistakes of…
As Cori Bush said, “Our government has allowed this crisis to continue and worsen for too long… It is our duty to make people’s lives better. Ending this crisis requires a comprehensive approach. We all have a role to play.”
What do we actually do about immigration policy in the United States? At its core, Immigration Matters struggles with this question.
