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Well, if #DemocraticParty leaders who don't live in #Maine feel entitled to select our candidates, then this #DemocraticSocialist has no problem temporarily registering as a #Democrat for the upcoming primaries to help select candidates! And Maine allows us to vote for a party in a primary without leaving our parties, which works for me!
#MaineGreens #MaineDSA #GetOutAndVote #Elections2026 #MainePol #USPol
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Well, if #DemocraticParty leaders who don't live in #Maine feel entitled to select our candidates, then this #DemocraticSocialist has no problem temporarily registering as a #Democrat for the upcoming primaries to help select candidates! And Maine allows us to vote for a party in a primary without leaving our parties, which works for me!
#MaineGreens #MaineDSA #GetOutAndVote #Elections2026 #MainePol #USPol
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Well, if #DemocraticParty leaders who don't live in #Maine feel entitled to select our candidates, then this #DemocraticSocialist has no problem temporarily registering as a #Democrat for the upcoming primaries to help select candidates! And Maine allows us to vote for a party in a primary without leaving our parties, which works for me!
#MaineGreens #MaineDSA #GetOutAndVote #Elections2026 #MainePol #USPol
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Well, if #DemocraticParty leaders who don't live in #Maine feel entitled to select our candidates, then this #DemocraticSocialist has no problem temporarily registering as a #Democrat for the upcoming primaries to help select candidates! And Maine allows us to vote for a party in a primary without leaving our parties, which works for me!
#MaineGreens #MaineDSA #GetOutAndVote #Elections2026 #MainePol #USPol
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Well, if #DemocraticParty leaders who don't live in #Maine feel entitled to select our candidates, then this #DemocraticSocialist has no problem temporarily registering as a #Democrat for the upcoming primaries to help select candidates! And Maine allows us to vote for a party in a primary without leaving our parties, which works for me!
#MaineGreens #MaineDSA #GetOutAndVote #Elections2026 #MainePol #USPol
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NOW ON VERDANT SQUARE RADIO ==
NOW PLAYING == Bernie Sanders from Parma, Ohio 5/1/26 on the existential threat of #AI and endless #war https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08z0yXb0T94 #news #uspol #socialjustice #BernieSanders #fightingoligarchy #democraticsocialist #humanrights #activism #activist #peace #geopolitics #LearnSomething #vsn #resist #radio #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia
https://mastodon.social/@VerdantSquareRadio/116533907926934517
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NOW PLAYING == Bernie Sanders from Parma, Ohio 5/1/26 on the existential threat of #AI and endless #war
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08z0yXb0T94
#news #uspol #socialjustice #BernieSanders #fightingoligarchy #democraticsocialist #humanrights #activism #activist #peace #geopolitics #LearnSomething #vsn #resist #radio #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia
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@mullvadnet Probable cause left to a disintegrating judicial system?..
May as well move you and yours to #EmergingEconomies in #DevelopingCountries, before wasting good money, going after collapsing Capitalism.
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@takeitev The criminalization of entrenching fossil fuels as a root infrastructure monopoly, started soon after industrialization. Exxon had an independent study done on the effects of burning fossil fuels, and it found #GreenhouseGases accelerating in our atmosphere, to an unsustainable ratio... DECADES ago. More solid science has proved this out, time after time, yet Western Capitalism, along with nihilistic Communism, have virtually condemned future generations to a world of Hell, all the while profiting on genocidal insanity.
#Ecocide #Genocide #ClimateCrisis #DemocraticSocialist #Revolution
Make #BehavioralScience #CoreEducation or #BackIntoCaves -
@takeitev The criminalization of entrenching fossil fuels as a root infrastructure monopoly, started soon after industrialization. Exxon had an independent study done on the effects of burning fossil fuels, and it found #GreenhouseGases accelerating in our atmosphere, to an unsustainable ratio... DECADES ago. More solid science has proved this out, time after time, yet Western Capitalism, along with nihilistic Communism, have virtually condemned future generations to a world of Hell, all the while profiting on genocidal insanity.
#Ecocide #Genocide #ClimateCrisis #DemocraticSocialist #Revolution
Make #BehavioralScience #CoreEducation or #BackIntoCaves -
@takeitev The criminalization of entrenching fossil fuels as a root infrastructure monopoly, started soon after industrialization. Exxon had an independent study done on the effects of burning fossil fuels, and it found #GreenhouseGases accelerating in our atmosphere, to an unsustainable ratio... DECADES ago. More solid science has proved this out, time after time, yet Western Capitalism, along with nihilistic Communism, have virtually condemned future generations to a world of Hell, all the while profiting on genocidal insanity.
#Ecocide #Genocide #ClimateCrisis #DemocraticSocialist #Revolution
Make #BehavioralScience #CoreEducation or #BackIntoCaves -
@takeitev The criminalization of entrenching fossil fuels as a root infrastructure monopoly, started soon after industrialization. Exxon had an independent study done on the effects of burning fossil fuels, and it found #GreenhouseGases accelerating in our atmosphere, to an unsustainable ratio... DECADES ago. More solid science has proved this out, time after time, yet Western Capitalism, along with nihilistic Communism, have virtually condemned future generations to a world of Hell, all the while profiting on genocidal insanity.
#Ecocide #Genocide #ClimateCrisis #DemocraticSocialist #Revolution
Make #BehavioralScience #CoreEducation or #BackIntoCaves -
@Sheril It is, but #TechBros dangle the proverbial carrot in outer space, while they subjugate you and root infrastructure, here on Earth, enslaving you in #PlannedObsolescence metrics via Western Capitalism.
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@jwildeboer It's fair to claim that the 'American Experiment' is based on the wealthiest controlling root, vital infrastructure, to setup and continue abuses such as this. #PlannedObsolescence #education, #UltraProcessedFoods diminishing vitality range - especially brain function based on gi tract depletion - conditioning into trickle-DOWN economics, without symmetrical return.
Since a Mamdani/Bernie/AOC team needs scale, a #DemocraticSocialist #Revolution is required. So how to get started?..
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@ChrisMayLA6 Indeed, a #DemocraticSocialist #Revolution requires #ConflictOfInterest laws, enforced by justly supported courts.
This is becoming too far of a leap for Capitalism to manage.
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Look, L0OK at my SOCIALIST TREES!
Won’t be long, hopefully, these are all over my ‘hood. At least four more for 44th betw 9th & 8th.
Time for #Mamdani to use our tax dollars on improving the lives of everyday people, count me in.
#MamdaniMandate #ZohranMamdani #NYC #DemocraticSocialist #Democratic #Socialism #quality of #life #trees #sidewalk #shade #purify #healthy #air #green #plant #NewYorkCity #midtown #Manhattan -
Look, L0OK at my SOCIALIST TREES!
Won’t be long, hopefully, these are all over my ‘hood. At least four more for 44th betw 9th & 8th.
Time for #Mamdani to use our tax dollars on improving the lives of everyday people, count me in.
#MamdaniMandate #ZohranMamdani #NYC #DemocraticSocialist #Democratic #Socialism #quality of #life #trees #sidewalk #shade #purify #healthy #air #green #plant #NewYorkCity #midtown #Manhattan -
Look, L0OK at my SOCIALIST TREES!
Won’t be long, hopefully, these are all over my ‘hood. At least four more for 44th betw 9th & 8th.
Time for #Mamdani to use our tax dollars on improving the lives of everyday people, count me in.
#MamdaniMandate #ZohranMamdani #NYC #DemocraticSocialist #Democratic #Socialism #quality of #life #trees #sidewalk #shade #purify #healthy #air #green #plant #NewYorkCity #midtown #Manhattan -
Look, L0OK at my SOCIALIST TREES!
Won’t be long, hopefully, these are all over my ‘hood. At least four more for 44th betw 9th & 8th.
Time for #Mamdani to use our tax dollars on improving the lives of everyday people, count me in.
#MamdaniMandate #ZohranMamdani #NYC #DemocraticSocialist #Democratic #Socialism #quality of #life #trees #sidewalk #shade #purify #healthy #air #green #plant #NewYorkCity #midtown #Manhattan -
Look, L0OK at my SOCIALIST TREES!
Won’t be long, hopefully, these are all over my ‘hood. At least four more for 44th betw 9th & 8th.
Time for #Mamdani to use our tax dollars on improving the lives of everyday people, count me in.
#MamdaniMandate #ZohranMamdani #NYC #DemocraticSocialist #Democratic #Socialism #quality of #life #trees #sidewalk #shade #purify #healthy #air #green #plant #NewYorkCity #midtown #Manhattan -
@cR0w @iamnickw And it's not just "rich people", it's oppressive, 'squeezing' effects of an overextended #duopoly, that should have been graduated beyond the thirteen colonies, scaling to sustainable proportions in 50 state growth. It eventually collapses the middle (read: excluded middle) and virtually screams for a Mamdani or better, to usurp abusive trickle-down economics (read: scale down from top, to local proportions).
They've even kept superior educational systems from influencing the masses, into organized rebellion - even tho the country was built on such.
Right now, as far as legal solves go, a #DemocraticSocialist revolution is order.
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@GreenFire The wealthiest 1% Capitalists, taking more and more, giving less and less, are striving to control as much vital infrastructure as possible, leaving the 99% to suffer more and more.
Replace them with the most ethical root infrasctructure scientists, asap.
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More comics from #InTheseTimes (sorry, there doesn't seem to be AltText associated with the images. Bummer!).
https://inthesetimes.com/article/comics-retirement-corporations-investment-trump
#Socialist #Cartoons #PoliticalCartoons #DemocraticSocialist #SocialistPublication #ReadItWhileItsStillLegal
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It's always best to defer to #facts and logic.
The facts (and you can look this up) indicate, that, over decades, the countries with what Americans call " #DemocraticSocialist " policies are more #productive and have happier, healthier #economic majorities ( #workingclass , #disabled , #elderly , etc.) than in countries that don't.Now, for my opinion: It's completely unpatriotic to buy into the "it can't work here" rhetoric. If #America is "exceptional," then we damn well can make it work here. #FDR did.
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About half of Dems voted with the fascists, falsely linking communism with democratic socialism. There are no moderate Democrats, they're all conservative. The only liberal democrats are AOC/ Bernie, a handful.
#socialist #USA: #public #schools #roads #hospitals, the #FireDepartment #PoliceDepartment #libraries #beaches = #Socialism #PostOffice #SocialSecurity #Medicare #DemocraticSocialism #Europe & #Nordic #countries are #DemocraticSocialist #EatTheRich #PresidentMusk
https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-of-democrats-voting-to-condemn-socialism-as-mamdani-comes-to-town-11088383 -
Seattle Elects a Left-Wing Mayor With a Light Résumé but #Mamdani Appeal
#KatieWilson, who narrowly defeated the incumbent, Bruce Harrell, emerged from the city’s left-wing activist class and brings with her little experience in governing.
from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
[shareable 30-day gift article]In a state without an income tax, the mayor-elect has promised to pursue what she calls “#progressive” new sources of revenue to pay for #housing and other basic services, including potential local taxes on capital gains, digital advertising and buildings purposely left vacant. She has pledged to push a $1 billion bond to build more homes and new protections for renters, who make up 56 percent of the city.
“There was a time when we saw #Seattle as kind of a laboratory for progressive policy,” Ms. Wilson said in an interview this fall. “And that time’s not now anymore. But why can’t it be?”
#USA #US #USpol #politics #news #DemocraticSocialist #socialist
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It's #abuser / bully mentality.
The #Republicans shut down the government and refuse to release funds to feed poor kids.The population responds by overwhelming support for #Democrats, including a #democraticsocialist in the year's elections.
Republicans double-down on refusing to continue #medical subsidies and get the crony #SCOTUS to approve starving poor kids.
They're just not good people, and they hate #America.
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Missed this one: #DemocraticSocialist #DenzelMcCampbell wins #Detroit City Council race. 🌹 👍 😁 #Politics #USPol #Michigan #DSA #DemocraticSocialistsOfAmerica #Socialism #MichiganChronicle https://michiganchronicle.com/detroits-new-democratic-socialist-councilman-elect-wants-residents-to-have-say-in-city-funding/
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“In this moment of political darkness, New York will be the light.”
Careful... this guy might give you hope. This Democratic Socialist might have ideas you like and want. This might be what progressive politics and politicians should be.
#Mamdani #NewYorkCity #NYC #Hope #EndHate #HousingCrisis #DemocraticSocialist
https://youtu.be/kOQT_4A1eb8?si=jDFkQrabW6I6nx0p&t=840 -
He’s a 33-year-old Pro-#Palestine #Muslim Who’s Winning the #Jewish Vote, a #DemocraticSocialist Whom Every Dem Party Leader in NY Has Refused to Endorse, and a #US Citizen for Only 7 Years!
Of Course He’s the Next Mayor!
from #MichaelMoore
Aug 12, 2025[Damn. I wish I could write like this. Article is a bit dated, some #DemocraticParty leaders have endorsed him now.]
#news #politics #USpol #Mamdani #ZohranMamdani #NYC @progressivepolitics
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I am a #progressive #DemocraticSocialist and I own a #shotgun, a #handgun, a #revolver, and I have a #CCW. I also don't believe in the #2A but I challenge any MAGA neo-Libertarian wank stain to threaten me or my friends & family.
There's a lot more progressive people that own #guns that conservative boot lickers don't want to admit. We just don't have a fetishistic relationship with our guns and our penises are of sufficient size where we don't feel the need to cosplay with ours. -
I am a #progressive #DemocraticSocialist and I own a #shotgun, a #handgun, a #revolver, and I have a #CCW. I also don't believe in the #2A but I challenge any MAGA neo-Libertarian wank stain to threaten me or my friends & family.
There's a lot more progressive people that own #guns that conservative boot lickers don't want to admit. We just don't have a fetishistic relationship with our guns and our penises are of sufficient size where we don't feel the need to cosplay with ours. -
I am a #progressive #DemocraticSocialist and I own a #shotgun, a #handgun, a #revolver, and I have a #CCW. I also don't believe in the #2A but I challenge any MAGA neo-Libertarian wank stain to threaten me or my friends & family.
There's a lot more progressive people that own #guns that conservative boot lickers don't want to admit. We just don't have a fetishistic relationship with our guns and our penises are of sufficient size where we don't feel the need to cosplay with ours. -
I am a #progressive #DemocraticSocialist and I own a #shotgun, a #handgun, a #revolver, and I have a #CCW. I also don't believe in the #2A but I challenge any MAGA neo-Libertarian wank stain to threaten me or my friends & family.
There's a lot more progressive people that own #guns that conservative boot lickers don't want to admit. We just don't have a fetishistic relationship with our guns and our penises are of sufficient size where we don't feel the need to cosplay with ours. -
It’s Official: Mamdani Defeats Cuomo
Three lies the election shattered (I believed them)from #KenKlippenstein
Jul 01, 2025
"In a paragraph, let’s review: A machine politician, former governor and scion of a political dynasty lost to a 33-year-old #Muslim, #immigrant, and #socialist who is unapologetically critical of #Israel. The political ruling class and the news media assumed #AndrewCuomo, but more than that, they dismissed the people’s choice, assembling their pipe dream on the it’s-the-party-elder’s-turn proposition.I didn’t expect #ZohranMamdani to win. I thought the Party machinery was unbeatable. I was wrong. I’ve learned some mind-bending lessons.
* Money Doesn’t Decide.
* Young People Do Vote.
* Saying Controversial Things is Okay"#USA #US #USPolitics #NYC #NewYorkCity #DemocraticSocialist
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And THIS is one of the reasons why I'm a #DemocraticSocialist!
#Unions and Community Unite for #MayDay: Lessons for the Fight Ahead
Posted by #ToddChretien | Jun 16, 2025 |
This article is reprinted from the Socialist Forum, a publication of #DSA. It was authored by Todd Chretien, who serves both on DSA’s Editorial Board as well as Pine & Roses’ Editorial Collective. It was originally published on May 30, 2025.
What happened?
"Hundreds of thousands of workers marched and rallied on May Day, making it the largest International Workers Day since 2006 when two million immigrant workers left work and marched to demand their rights. Protests were organized in 1300 locations, large and small; no doubt the first May Day protest in many places. Broadly speaking, there were three different levels of mobilization. First, as in 2006, Chicago stood out with some 30,000 marching, organized by a mass coalition of labor and immigrant rights organizations. Second, cities like Philly, New York, Baltimore, San Francisco, Oakland, Burlington, and #PortlandME mobilized between two and fifteen thousand. Third, hundreds of cities and towns turned out crowds from a couple dozen to hundreds, including smaller cities like Davis, California. This ranking is not intended as a judgement on the organizers. In fact, some of the smaller rallies included higher percentages of the population than the largest. For instance, in the town of #WayneME — population 1,000 — seventy-five people turned out for both morning and evening rallies.
"It’s worth noting that the crowds were not as large as the #April5 day of protest initiated by #Indivisible; however, participants were noticeably more #multiracial, younger, and #radical with widespread support for #TransgenderRights and opposition to the genocide of #Palestinians in #Gaza. Though an important step in the process of building working-class unity against the billionaires and capitalist class, these efforts have a long way to go. For instance, although multiracial, at the national level, the marches did not entirely reflect working-class diversity. And if immigrant rights organizations were critical in many cities, Trump’s reign of terror against immigrant workers suppressed turnout from this community in many places.
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New York City
"On the day, NYC-DSA turned out some 500 members, many of whom marched with their unions. They did so while keeping up with other work—DSA member #ZohranMamdani is running for mayor—with #NYCDSA labor organizers having advanced a month-long Build to May Day campaign. Organizers called on committees and working groups across the chapter to make May Day a priority, turning out members and volunteer marshalls. The chapter is now in a stronger position to discuss next steps with the broader coalition and consolidate a layer of new members and allies. There’s more pain ahead, but May Day helped gather working-class forces together for action and to take the temperature of the most active and militant layer of trade unionists and community activists. As NYC-DSA Labor Working Group member David Duhalde suggests, 'The New York City May Day rally and march from Foley Square to the iconic Wall Street Bull statue was a microcosm of the shift in energy in labor during Trump’s second term.' How far that shift goes can only be tested in practice.
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Portland, Maine
"Maine DSA’s Labor Rising working group decided to focus on May Day in December, laying the basis to help initiate an organizing meeting open to all community groups and unions. Maine AFL-CIO leaders and UAW graduate students participated in a preliminary meeting to brainstorm ideas, and more than 70 people attended an April 12 meeting in the South Portland Teamsters’ Hall, where the group democratically planned Portland’s May Day. Working groups took up all aspects of the action, and we took all important decisions back to the coalition for votes. Running a long a related track, Maine Education Association and Maine AFL-CIO leaders called for actions across the state, amplifying the Chicago May Day Strong call and dramatically broadening what the Portland coalition could organize.
"Nearly 2,000 people turned out in Portland, starting with a rally at the University of Southern Maine to back UAW graduate students’ demands for a first contract and then marching to the Post Office to hear from postal workers. Members of the Portland Education Association and a trans student poet headlined the stop at Portland High School and a librarian union rep spoke in Monument Square before the final rally that heard from the president of the Metal Trades Council at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, a rep from the Maine State Nurses Association, members of the #MaineCoalitionForPalestine, an organizer from #LGTBQ+ community group #PortlandOutright, a local immigrant rights group called Presente! Maine, and others. It was a great demonstration and showed the thirst for a broader coalition. Twenty-five other towns held actions, bringing the total number of Maine participants to over 5,000, the largest Maine May Day anyone can remember.
"It would be shortsighted to overstate the power and stability of this fledgling coalition. Large doses of patience and understanding will be necessary to foster bonds of trust. Sectarian pressures to draw 'red lines' that exclude workers new to political activity and organizations who have various programs and interests represent one danger. A narrow focus on the midterm elections represents another. Fortunately, there’s a lot of room for creativity between those two extremes.
Long road ahead
"May Day was the first test of strength for the left and working class against #Trump, #MAGA, and forty-plus years of #neoliberal rot. We face a long, complex problem where political pressures to return to passivity will be strong, but May Day 2025 constitutes a small step towards healing deep wounds in the American working class, the divide between organized and unorganized, immigrant and US born, etc. If brother Fain’s call for 2028 is to grow strong, then 2026 and 2027 must be practice runs. If 2026 and 2027 are to be real demonstrations of strength, they must grow out of tighter bonds between labor, community, and the left, more active membership participation in all of those forces, and a combination of defensive struggles we are forced to fight and battles we pick on our own terms. As Sarah Hurd, co-chair of DSA’s National Labor Commission, spells out, 'This year’s May Day actions showed the power of what we can accomplish just by setting a date and inviting people to take action together. It has also highlighted what work we need to do to scale up our level of organization in the next three years.'
"What did May Day teach us? Fittingly, the last word goes to Kirsten Roberts, a rank-and-file Chicago teacher, 'The most important element of #MayDay2025 is the explicit entry of organized and unorganized labor into #resistance to Trump. Trump’s attacks are aimed directly at dividing the working class and turning ordinary people against one another while the billionaires rob and plunder us all. An agenda for working class unity can be built when we stand up for those most victimized and vilified by the right-wing bigots AND when we stand together to fight for the things that the billionaire class has denied us—the fight for healthcare, education, housing, and good-paying jobs for starters. For decades, we’ve been told by both parties that funding war, incarceration, and border militarization are their priorities. May Day showed that working people have another agenda. Now let’s organize to win it.”
https://pineandroses.org/reports/unions-and-community-unite-for-may-day-lessons-for-the-fight-ahead/
#MaineResists #NYCResists #ResistTrump #ResistFascism #Socialism #CapitalismKills #MaineDSA #PinesAndRoses #DemocraticSocialistsOfAmerica
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And THIS is one of the reasons why I'm a #DemocraticSocialist!
#Unions and Community Unite for #MayDay: Lessons for the Fight Ahead
Posted by #ToddChretien | Jun 16, 2025 |
This article is reprinted from the Socialist Forum, a publication of #DSA. It was authored by Todd Chretien, who serves both on DSA’s Editorial Board as well as Pine & Roses’ Editorial Collective. It was originally published on May 30, 2025.
What happened?
"Hundreds of thousands of workers marched and rallied on May Day, making it the largest International Workers Day since 2006 when two million immigrant workers left work and marched to demand their rights. Protests were organized in 1300 locations, large and small; no doubt the first May Day protest in many places. Broadly speaking, there were three different levels of mobilization. First, as in 2006, Chicago stood out with some 30,000 marching, organized by a mass coalition of labor and immigrant rights organizations. Second, cities like Philly, New York, Baltimore, San Francisco, Oakland, Burlington, and #PortlandME mobilized between two and fifteen thousand. Third, hundreds of cities and towns turned out crowds from a couple dozen to hundreds, including smaller cities like Davis, California. This ranking is not intended as a judgement on the organizers. In fact, some of the smaller rallies included higher percentages of the population than the largest. For instance, in the town of #WayneME — population 1,000 — seventy-five people turned out for both morning and evening rallies.
"It’s worth noting that the crowds were not as large as the #April5 day of protest initiated by #Indivisible; however, participants were noticeably more #multiracial, younger, and #radical with widespread support for #TransgenderRights and opposition to the genocide of #Palestinians in #Gaza. Though an important step in the process of building working-class unity against the billionaires and capitalist class, these efforts have a long way to go. For instance, although multiracial, at the national level, the marches did not entirely reflect working-class diversity. And if immigrant rights organizations were critical in many cities, Trump’s reign of terror against immigrant workers suppressed turnout from this community in many places.
[...]
New York City
"On the day, NYC-DSA turned out some 500 members, many of whom marched with their unions. They did so while keeping up with other work—DSA member #ZohranMamdani is running for mayor—with #NYCDSA labor organizers having advanced a month-long Build to May Day campaign. Organizers called on committees and working groups across the chapter to make May Day a priority, turning out members and volunteer marshalls. The chapter is now in a stronger position to discuss next steps with the broader coalition and consolidate a layer of new members and allies. There’s more pain ahead, but May Day helped gather working-class forces together for action and to take the temperature of the most active and militant layer of trade unionists and community activists. As NYC-DSA Labor Working Group member David Duhalde suggests, 'The New York City May Day rally and march from Foley Square to the iconic Wall Street Bull statue was a microcosm of the shift in energy in labor during Trump’s second term.' How far that shift goes can only be tested in practice.
[...]
Portland, Maine
"Maine DSA’s Labor Rising working group decided to focus on May Day in December, laying the basis to help initiate an organizing meeting open to all community groups and unions. Maine AFL-CIO leaders and UAW graduate students participated in a preliminary meeting to brainstorm ideas, and more than 70 people attended an April 12 meeting in the South Portland Teamsters’ Hall, where the group democratically planned Portland’s May Day. Working groups took up all aspects of the action, and we took all important decisions back to the coalition for votes. Running a long a related track, Maine Education Association and Maine AFL-CIO leaders called for actions across the state, amplifying the Chicago May Day Strong call and dramatically broadening what the Portland coalition could organize.
"Nearly 2,000 people turned out in Portland, starting with a rally at the University of Southern Maine to back UAW graduate students’ demands for a first contract and then marching to the Post Office to hear from postal workers. Members of the Portland Education Association and a trans student poet headlined the stop at Portland High School and a librarian union rep spoke in Monument Square before the final rally that heard from the president of the Metal Trades Council at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, a rep from the Maine State Nurses Association, members of the #MaineCoalitionForPalestine, an organizer from #LGTBQ+ community group #PortlandOutright, a local immigrant rights group called Presente! Maine, and others. It was a great demonstration and showed the thirst for a broader coalition. Twenty-five other towns held actions, bringing the total number of Maine participants to over 5,000, the largest Maine May Day anyone can remember.
"It would be shortsighted to overstate the power and stability of this fledgling coalition. Large doses of patience and understanding will be necessary to foster bonds of trust. Sectarian pressures to draw 'red lines' that exclude workers new to political activity and organizations who have various programs and interests represent one danger. A narrow focus on the midterm elections represents another. Fortunately, there’s a lot of room for creativity between those two extremes.
Long road ahead
"May Day was the first test of strength for the left and working class against #Trump, #MAGA, and forty-plus years of #neoliberal rot. We face a long, complex problem where political pressures to return to passivity will be strong, but May Day 2025 constitutes a small step towards healing deep wounds in the American working class, the divide between organized and unorganized, immigrant and US born, etc. If brother Fain’s call for 2028 is to grow strong, then 2026 and 2027 must be practice runs. If 2026 and 2027 are to be real demonstrations of strength, they must grow out of tighter bonds between labor, community, and the left, more active membership participation in all of those forces, and a combination of defensive struggles we are forced to fight and battles we pick on our own terms. As Sarah Hurd, co-chair of DSA’s National Labor Commission, spells out, 'This year’s May Day actions showed the power of what we can accomplish just by setting a date and inviting people to take action together. It has also highlighted what work we need to do to scale up our level of organization in the next three years.'
"What did May Day teach us? Fittingly, the last word goes to Kirsten Roberts, a rank-and-file Chicago teacher, 'The most important element of #MayDay2025 is the explicit entry of organized and unorganized labor into #resistance to Trump. Trump’s attacks are aimed directly at dividing the working class and turning ordinary people against one another while the billionaires rob and plunder us all. An agenda for working class unity can be built when we stand up for those most victimized and vilified by the right-wing bigots AND when we stand together to fight for the things that the billionaire class has denied us—the fight for healthcare, education, housing, and good-paying jobs for starters. For decades, we’ve been told by both parties that funding war, incarceration, and border militarization are their priorities. May Day showed that working people have another agenda. Now let’s organize to win it.”
https://pineandroses.org/reports/unions-and-community-unite-for-may-day-lessons-for-the-fight-ahead/
#MaineResists #NYCResists #ResistTrump #ResistFascism #Socialism #CapitalismKills #MaineDSA #PinesAndRoses #DemocraticSocialistsOfAmerica
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And THIS is one of the reasons why I'm a #DemocraticSocialist!
#Unions and Community Unite for #MayDay: Lessons for the Fight Ahead
Posted by #ToddChretien | Jun 16, 2025 |
This article is reprinted from the Socialist Forum, a publication of #DSA. It was authored by Todd Chretien, who serves both on DSA’s Editorial Board as well as Pine & Roses’ Editorial Collective. It was originally published on May 30, 2025.
What happened?
"Hundreds of thousands of workers marched and rallied on May Day, making it the largest International Workers Day since 2006 when two million immigrant workers left work and marched to demand their rights. Protests were organized in 1300 locations, large and small; no doubt the first May Day protest in many places. Broadly speaking, there were three different levels of mobilization. First, as in 2006, Chicago stood out with some 30,000 marching, organized by a mass coalition of labor and immigrant rights organizations. Second, cities like Philly, New York, Baltimore, San Francisco, Oakland, Burlington, and #PortlandME mobilized between two and fifteen thousand. Third, hundreds of cities and towns turned out crowds from a couple dozen to hundreds, including smaller cities like Davis, California. This ranking is not intended as a judgement on the organizers. In fact, some of the smaller rallies included higher percentages of the population than the largest. For instance, in the town of #WayneME — population 1,000 — seventy-five people turned out for both morning and evening rallies.
"It’s worth noting that the crowds were not as large as the #April5 day of protest initiated by #Indivisible; however, participants were noticeably more #multiracial, younger, and #radical with widespread support for #TransgenderRights and opposition to the genocide of #Palestinians in #Gaza. Though an important step in the process of building working-class unity against the billionaires and capitalist class, these efforts have a long way to go. For instance, although multiracial, at the national level, the marches did not entirely reflect working-class diversity. And if immigrant rights organizations were critical in many cities, Trump’s reign of terror against immigrant workers suppressed turnout from this community in many places.
[...]
New York City
"On the day, NYC-DSA turned out some 500 members, many of whom marched with their unions. They did so while keeping up with other work—DSA member #ZohranMamdani is running for mayor—with #NYCDSA labor organizers having advanced a month-long Build to May Day campaign. Organizers called on committees and working groups across the chapter to make May Day a priority, turning out members and volunteer marshalls. The chapter is now in a stronger position to discuss next steps with the broader coalition and consolidate a layer of new members and allies. There’s more pain ahead, but May Day helped gather working-class forces together for action and to take the temperature of the most active and militant layer of trade unionists and community activists. As NYC-DSA Labor Working Group member David Duhalde suggests, 'The New York City May Day rally and march from Foley Square to the iconic Wall Street Bull statue was a microcosm of the shift in energy in labor during Trump’s second term.' How far that shift goes can only be tested in practice.
[...]
Portland, Maine
"Maine DSA’s Labor Rising working group decided to focus on May Day in December, laying the basis to help initiate an organizing meeting open to all community groups and unions. Maine AFL-CIO leaders and UAW graduate students participated in a preliminary meeting to brainstorm ideas, and more than 70 people attended an April 12 meeting in the South Portland Teamsters’ Hall, where the group democratically planned Portland’s May Day. Working groups took up all aspects of the action, and we took all important decisions back to the coalition for votes. Running a long a related track, Maine Education Association and Maine AFL-CIO leaders called for actions across the state, amplifying the Chicago May Day Strong call and dramatically broadening what the Portland coalition could organize.
"Nearly 2,000 people turned out in Portland, starting with a rally at the University of Southern Maine to back UAW graduate students’ demands for a first contract and then marching to the Post Office to hear from postal workers. Members of the Portland Education Association and a trans student poet headlined the stop at Portland High School and a librarian union rep spoke in Monument Square before the final rally that heard from the president of the Metal Trades Council at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, a rep from the Maine State Nurses Association, members of the #MaineCoalitionForPalestine, an organizer from #LGTBQ+ community group #PortlandOutright, a local immigrant rights group called Presente! Maine, and others. It was a great demonstration and showed the thirst for a broader coalition. Twenty-five other towns held actions, bringing the total number of Maine participants to over 5,000, the largest Maine May Day anyone can remember.
"It would be shortsighted to overstate the power and stability of this fledgling coalition. Large doses of patience and understanding will be necessary to foster bonds of trust. Sectarian pressures to draw 'red lines' that exclude workers new to political activity and organizations who have various programs and interests represent one danger. A narrow focus on the midterm elections represents another. Fortunately, there’s a lot of room for creativity between those two extremes.
Long road ahead
"May Day was the first test of strength for the left and working class against #Trump, #MAGA, and forty-plus years of #neoliberal rot. We face a long, complex problem where political pressures to return to passivity will be strong, but May Day 2025 constitutes a small step towards healing deep wounds in the American working class, the divide between organized and unorganized, immigrant and US born, etc. If brother Fain’s call for 2028 is to grow strong, then 2026 and 2027 must be practice runs. If 2026 and 2027 are to be real demonstrations of strength, they must grow out of tighter bonds between labor, community, and the left, more active membership participation in all of those forces, and a combination of defensive struggles we are forced to fight and battles we pick on our own terms. As Sarah Hurd, co-chair of DSA’s National Labor Commission, spells out, 'This year’s May Day actions showed the power of what we can accomplish just by setting a date and inviting people to take action together. It has also highlighted what work we need to do to scale up our level of organization in the next three years.'
"What did May Day teach us? Fittingly, the last word goes to Kirsten Roberts, a rank-and-file Chicago teacher, 'The most important element of #MayDay2025 is the explicit entry of organized and unorganized labor into #resistance to Trump. Trump’s attacks are aimed directly at dividing the working class and turning ordinary people against one another while the billionaires rob and plunder us all. An agenda for working class unity can be built when we stand up for those most victimized and vilified by the right-wing bigots AND when we stand together to fight for the things that the billionaire class has denied us—the fight for healthcare, education, housing, and good-paying jobs for starters. For decades, we’ve been told by both parties that funding war, incarceration, and border militarization are their priorities. May Day showed that working people have another agenda. Now let’s organize to win it.”
https://pineandroses.org/reports/unions-and-community-unite-for-may-day-lessons-for-the-fight-ahead/
#MaineResists #NYCResists #ResistTrump #ResistFascism #Socialism #CapitalismKills #MaineDSA #PinesAndRoses #DemocraticSocialistsOfAmerica
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And THIS is one of the reasons why I'm a #DemocraticSocialist!
#Unions and Community Unite for #MayDay: Lessons for the Fight Ahead
Posted by #ToddChretien | Jun 16, 2025 |
This article is reprinted from the Socialist Forum, a publication of #DSA. It was authored by Todd Chretien, who serves both on DSA’s Editorial Board as well as Pine & Roses’ Editorial Collective. It was originally published on May 30, 2025.
What happened?
"Hundreds of thousands of workers marched and rallied on May Day, making it the largest International Workers Day since 2006 when two million immigrant workers left work and marched to demand their rights. Protests were organized in 1300 locations, large and small; no doubt the first May Day protest in many places. Broadly speaking, there were three different levels of mobilization. First, as in 2006, Chicago stood out with some 30,000 marching, organized by a mass coalition of labor and immigrant rights organizations. Second, cities like Philly, New York, Baltimore, San Francisco, Oakland, Burlington, and #PortlandME mobilized between two and fifteen thousand. Third, hundreds of cities and towns turned out crowds from a couple dozen to hundreds, including smaller cities like Davis, California. This ranking is not intended as a judgement on the organizers. In fact, some of the smaller rallies included higher percentages of the population than the largest. For instance, in the town of #WayneME — population 1,000 — seventy-five people turned out for both morning and evening rallies.
"It’s worth noting that the crowds were not as large as the #April5 day of protest initiated by #Indivisible; however, participants were noticeably more #multiracial, younger, and #radical with widespread support for #TransgenderRights and opposition to the genocide of #Palestinians in #Gaza. Though an important step in the process of building working-class unity against the billionaires and capitalist class, these efforts have a long way to go. For instance, although multiracial, at the national level, the marches did not entirely reflect working-class diversity. And if immigrant rights organizations were critical in many cities, Trump’s reign of terror against immigrant workers suppressed turnout from this community in many places.
[...]
New York City
"On the day, NYC-DSA turned out some 500 members, many of whom marched with their unions. They did so while keeping up with other work—DSA member #ZohranMamdani is running for mayor—with #NYCDSA labor organizers having advanced a month-long Build to May Day campaign. Organizers called on committees and working groups across the chapter to make May Day a priority, turning out members and volunteer marshalls. The chapter is now in a stronger position to discuss next steps with the broader coalition and consolidate a layer of new members and allies. There’s more pain ahead, but May Day helped gather working-class forces together for action and to take the temperature of the most active and militant layer of trade unionists and community activists. As NYC-DSA Labor Working Group member David Duhalde suggests, 'The New York City May Day rally and march from Foley Square to the iconic Wall Street Bull statue was a microcosm of the shift in energy in labor during Trump’s second term.' How far that shift goes can only be tested in practice.
[...]
Portland, Maine
"Maine DSA’s Labor Rising working group decided to focus on May Day in December, laying the basis to help initiate an organizing meeting open to all community groups and unions. Maine AFL-CIO leaders and UAW graduate students participated in a preliminary meeting to brainstorm ideas, and more than 70 people attended an April 12 meeting in the South Portland Teamsters’ Hall, where the group democratically planned Portland’s May Day. Working groups took up all aspects of the action, and we took all important decisions back to the coalition for votes. Running a long a related track, Maine Education Association and Maine AFL-CIO leaders called for actions across the state, amplifying the Chicago May Day Strong call and dramatically broadening what the Portland coalition could organize.
"Nearly 2,000 people turned out in Portland, starting with a rally at the University of Southern Maine to back UAW graduate students’ demands for a first contract and then marching to the Post Office to hear from postal workers. Members of the Portland Education Association and a trans student poet headlined the stop at Portland High School and a librarian union rep spoke in Monument Square before the final rally that heard from the president of the Metal Trades Council at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, a rep from the Maine State Nurses Association, members of the #MaineCoalitionForPalestine, an organizer from #LGTBQ+ community group #PortlandOutright, a local immigrant rights group called Presente! Maine, and others. It was a great demonstration and showed the thirst for a broader coalition. Twenty-five other towns held actions, bringing the total number of Maine participants to over 5,000, the largest Maine May Day anyone can remember.
"It would be shortsighted to overstate the power and stability of this fledgling coalition. Large doses of patience and understanding will be necessary to foster bonds of trust. Sectarian pressures to draw 'red lines' that exclude workers new to political activity and organizations who have various programs and interests represent one danger. A narrow focus on the midterm elections represents another. Fortunately, there’s a lot of room for creativity between those two extremes.
Long road ahead
"May Day was the first test of strength for the left and working class against #Trump, #MAGA, and forty-plus years of #neoliberal rot. We face a long, complex problem where political pressures to return to passivity will be strong, but May Day 2025 constitutes a small step towards healing deep wounds in the American working class, the divide between organized and unorganized, immigrant and US born, etc. If brother Fain’s call for 2028 is to grow strong, then 2026 and 2027 must be practice runs. If 2026 and 2027 are to be real demonstrations of strength, they must grow out of tighter bonds between labor, community, and the left, more active membership participation in all of those forces, and a combination of defensive struggles we are forced to fight and battles we pick on our own terms. As Sarah Hurd, co-chair of DSA’s National Labor Commission, spells out, 'This year’s May Day actions showed the power of what we can accomplish just by setting a date and inviting people to take action together. It has also highlighted what work we need to do to scale up our level of organization in the next three years.'
"What did May Day teach us? Fittingly, the last word goes to Kirsten Roberts, a rank-and-file Chicago teacher, 'The most important element of #MayDay2025 is the explicit entry of organized and unorganized labor into #resistance to Trump. Trump’s attacks are aimed directly at dividing the working class and turning ordinary people against one another while the billionaires rob and plunder us all. An agenda for working class unity can be built when we stand up for those most victimized and vilified by the right-wing bigots AND when we stand together to fight for the things that the billionaire class has denied us—the fight for healthcare, education, housing, and good-paying jobs for starters. For decades, we’ve been told by both parties that funding war, incarceration, and border militarization are their priorities. May Day showed that working people have another agenda. Now let’s organize to win it.”
https://pineandroses.org/reports/unions-and-community-unite-for-may-day-lessons-for-the-fight-ahead/
#MaineResists #NYCResists #ResistTrump #ResistFascism #Socialism #CapitalismKills #MaineDSA #PinesAndRoses #DemocraticSocialistsOfAmerica
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And THIS is one of the reasons why I'm a #DemocraticSocialist!
#Unions and Community Unite for #MayDay: Lessons for the Fight Ahead
Posted by #ToddChretien | Jun 16, 2025 |
This article is reprinted from the Socialist Forum, a publication of #DSA. It was authored by Todd Chretien, who serves both on DSA’s Editorial Board as well as Pine & Roses’ Editorial Collective. It was originally published on May 30, 2025.
What happened?
"Hundreds of thousands of workers marched and rallied on May Day, making it the largest International Workers Day since 2006 when two million immigrant workers left work and marched to demand their rights. Protests were organized in 1300 locations, large and small; no doubt the first May Day protest in many places. Broadly speaking, there were three different levels of mobilization. First, as in 2006, Chicago stood out with some 30,000 marching, organized by a mass coalition of labor and immigrant rights organizations. Second, cities like Philly, New York, Baltimore, San Francisco, Oakland, Burlington, and #PortlandME mobilized between two and fifteen thousand. Third, hundreds of cities and towns turned out crowds from a couple dozen to hundreds, including smaller cities like Davis, California. This ranking is not intended as a judgement on the organizers. In fact, some of the smaller rallies included higher percentages of the population than the largest. For instance, in the town of #WayneME — population 1,000 — seventy-five people turned out for both morning and evening rallies.
"It’s worth noting that the crowds were not as large as the #April5 day of protest initiated by #Indivisible; however, participants were noticeably more #multiracial, younger, and #radical with widespread support for #TransgenderRights and opposition to the genocide of #Palestinians in #Gaza. Though an important step in the process of building working-class unity against the billionaires and capitalist class, these efforts have a long way to go. For instance, although multiracial, at the national level, the marches did not entirely reflect working-class diversity. And if immigrant rights organizations were critical in many cities, Trump’s reign of terror against immigrant workers suppressed turnout from this community in many places.
[...]
New York City
"On the day, NYC-DSA turned out some 500 members, many of whom marched with their unions. They did so while keeping up with other work—DSA member #ZohranMamdani is running for mayor—with #NYCDSA labor organizers having advanced a month-long Build to May Day campaign. Organizers called on committees and working groups across the chapter to make May Day a priority, turning out members and volunteer marshalls. The chapter is now in a stronger position to discuss next steps with the broader coalition and consolidate a layer of new members and allies. There’s more pain ahead, but May Day helped gather working-class forces together for action and to take the temperature of the most active and militant layer of trade unionists and community activists. As NYC-DSA Labor Working Group member David Duhalde suggests, 'The New York City May Day rally and march from Foley Square to the iconic Wall Street Bull statue was a microcosm of the shift in energy in labor during Trump’s second term.' How far that shift goes can only be tested in practice.
[...]
Portland, Maine
"Maine DSA’s Labor Rising working group decided to focus on May Day in December, laying the basis to help initiate an organizing meeting open to all community groups and unions. Maine AFL-CIO leaders and UAW graduate students participated in a preliminary meeting to brainstorm ideas, and more than 70 people attended an April 12 meeting in the South Portland Teamsters’ Hall, where the group democratically planned Portland’s May Day. Working groups took up all aspects of the action, and we took all important decisions back to the coalition for votes. Running a long a related track, Maine Education Association and Maine AFL-CIO leaders called for actions across the state, amplifying the Chicago May Day Strong call and dramatically broadening what the Portland coalition could organize.
"Nearly 2,000 people turned out in Portland, starting with a rally at the University of Southern Maine to back UAW graduate students’ demands for a first contract and then marching to the Post Office to hear from postal workers. Members of the Portland Education Association and a trans student poet headlined the stop at Portland High School and a librarian union rep spoke in Monument Square before the final rally that heard from the president of the Metal Trades Council at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, a rep from the Maine State Nurses Association, members of the #MaineCoalitionForPalestine, an organizer from #LGTBQ+ community group #PortlandOutright, a local immigrant rights group called Presente! Maine, and others. It was a great demonstration and showed the thirst for a broader coalition. Twenty-five other towns held actions, bringing the total number of Maine participants to over 5,000, the largest Maine May Day anyone can remember.
"It would be shortsighted to overstate the power and stability of this fledgling coalition. Large doses of patience and understanding will be necessary to foster bonds of trust. Sectarian pressures to draw 'red lines' that exclude workers new to political activity and organizations who have various programs and interests represent one danger. A narrow focus on the midterm elections represents another. Fortunately, there’s a lot of room for creativity between those two extremes.
Long road ahead
"May Day was the first test of strength for the left and working class against #Trump, #MAGA, and forty-plus years of #neoliberal rot. We face a long, complex problem where political pressures to return to passivity will be strong, but May Day 2025 constitutes a small step towards healing deep wounds in the American working class, the divide between organized and unorganized, immigrant and US born, etc. If brother Fain’s call for 2028 is to grow strong, then 2026 and 2027 must be practice runs. If 2026 and 2027 are to be real demonstrations of strength, they must grow out of tighter bonds between labor, community, and the left, more active membership participation in all of those forces, and a combination of defensive struggles we are forced to fight and battles we pick on our own terms. As Sarah Hurd, co-chair of DSA’s National Labor Commission, spells out, 'This year’s May Day actions showed the power of what we can accomplish just by setting a date and inviting people to take action together. It has also highlighted what work we need to do to scale up our level of organization in the next three years.'
"What did May Day teach us? Fittingly, the last word goes to Kirsten Roberts, a rank-and-file Chicago teacher, 'The most important element of #MayDay2025 is the explicit entry of organized and unorganized labor into #resistance to Trump. Trump’s attacks are aimed directly at dividing the working class and turning ordinary people against one another while the billionaires rob and plunder us all. An agenda for working class unity can be built when we stand up for those most victimized and vilified by the right-wing bigots AND when we stand together to fight for the things that the billionaire class has denied us—the fight for healthcare, education, housing, and good-paying jobs for starters. For decades, we’ve been told by both parties that funding war, incarceration, and border militarization are their priorities. May Day showed that working people have another agenda. Now let’s organize to win it.”
https://pineandroses.org/reports/unions-and-community-unite-for-may-day-lessons-for-the-fight-ahead/
#MaineResists #NYCResists #ResistTrump #ResistFascism #Socialism #CapitalismKills #MaineDSA #PinesAndRoses #DemocraticSocialistsOfAmerica
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#ZohranMamdani Delivers Progressive Win Over Democratic Establishment
Tuesday's victory by the self-described 'proud #DemocraticSocialist' signals a seismic shift in the balance of power between entrenched political institutions and a new generation demanding #progressive change.
from #CommonDreams [reprinted from #Pressenza]
David Andersson
Jun 25, 2025
"But the establishment’s machine was no match for the momentum behind #Mamdani, who worked closely with Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Their progressive political movement, deeply rooted in democratic socialism, has been steadily gaining ground—election after #election, neighborhood by neighborhood—through tireless grassroots organizing, door-to-door campaigning, and small-dollar donations.“This is a victory for every New Yorker who has been told they don’t have a voice,” Mamdani said in his victory speech. “It’s proof that organized people can beat organized money.”"
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Those MUST be paid actors, right?!!
Drawing huge crowds, #BernieSanders steps into leadership of the #AntiTrump #resistance
By STEVE PEOPLES
Updated 12:03 AM EDT, March 10, 2025WARREN, Mich. (AP) — "Bernie Sanders is standing alone on the back of a pickup truck shouting into a bullhorn.
"He’s facing several hundred ecstatic voters huddled outside a suburban Detroit high school — the group that did not fit inside the high school’s gym or two overflow rooms. The crowd screams in delight when he tells them that a combined total of 9,000 people had shown up for the rally.
"'What all of this tells me, is not just in Michigan or in Vermont, the people of this country will not allow us to move toward oligarchy. They will not allow Trump to take us into authoritarianism,' Sanders yelled. 'We’re prepared to fight. And we’re going to win.'
"At 83 years old, Sanders is not running for president again. But the stooped and silver-haired #DemocraticSocialist has emerged as a leader of the resistance to Donald #Trump’s second presidency. In tearing into Trump’s seizure of power and warning about the consequences of firing tens of thousands of government workers, Sanders is bucking the wishes of those who want Democrats to focus on the price of eggs or 'roll over and play dead.'"
https://apnews.com/article/bernie-sanders-democrats-trump-c213d5ae42737c956d46f6f7f17e5abd
#ResistFascism #ResistDOGE #USPol -
RAWWRRRR! GLOVES OFF: #BernieSanders drops BOMB on #ElonMusk
February 12, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txe2Zu3QbNU
#StillSanders #DemocraticSocialist #FuckOligarchy
