From the Boston Political Education Editorial Committee
Boston City Hall Photo by Naquib Hossain on Flickr On Feb. 21st Boston DSA emailed out the following call to action to Boston residents encouraging them to give public testimony on how the Mayor’s rent control proposal is in need of serious changes Tomorrow, Wednesday, Feb. 22nd, at 10 am the Boston City Council will be hearing public …
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The first thing I want to say about our December 10 defense of the Fall River Pride Committee’s drag story time is that we succeeded. I wanted to start out that way because between all the various mediocre news stories and online commentaries, you might not realize it. But we succeeded. When neo-Nazi group NSC …
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The rail freight carriers that employ approximately 125,000 unionized employees have spent years prioritizing shareholders and executives, making record profits for the railroad industry. At the same time, the carriers have downsized the rail workforce by furloughing approximately 30% of rail workers, increasing the workload for those who remain. Workers do not receive paid sick …
Chalked messages of love and courage on the pavement Where we left off Five years ago I was at the counterprotests to Unite the Right, the fascist gathering in Charlottesville, Virginia, that culminated in a car attack that killed Heather Heyer and wounded many others, some quite seriously. I wrote about this for the PEWG …
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by the Boston DSA Direct Action, De-escalation, and Security (DADS) Committee Why Protest: Boston DSA stands in absolute solidarity with the mass protests that have broken out following the brutal police murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020. Wiser people than us have written about the multitude of abuses the police have casually heaped …
- Boston DSA Prison Abolition Working Group A socialist society cannot coexist with the prison system. This is a system that actively suppresses marginalized peoples, commits atrocities under the falsehood of justice, and fundamentally perpetuates capitalism through the prison-industrial complex. As socialists, we must dedicate ourselves to the destruction of the carceral state and the …
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- Perri M. As we gear up for our February 7 book launch of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal (Verso, 2019: see event details below), we revisit our December 2019 talk with Dr. Billy Fleming, author of the Places journal article “Design and the Green New Deal.” Fleming, who …
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- Joey P There was a police riot at the Straight Pride Parade. Straight Pride is Hate Pride was a peaceful protest marred by repeated attempts by the police to turn it into a riot, and when they failed, they rioted themselves. We don't have a full accounting of everything the police did, but we …
- George T. Summers According to the Fall 2017 issue of the Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association newsletter Pax Centurion, the members of the Resist Marxism Rally, who have since rebranded as Super Happy Fun America and staged the Straight Pride Rally on Sept 1, are “an eclectic band of 40 or 50 kooks supporting a …
- Ben Ewen-Campen, Somerville City Councilor According to DSA, there are now nearly 100 members holding elected office across the country. Over the weekend of August 3rd and 4th, 28 of us gathered in Atlanta as part of DSA’s National Convention. I was elected to the Somerville City Council in 2017 (with the support and endorsement …
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