Alex P 🌹

@perniexanders.bsky.social

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Member of Boston DSA democratic socialist @socialistmajority.com Editorial team for the Agitator Seahawks fan

Screenshot from Groundwork article: "Comrades in my chapter have often heard me remark about being on-call for some weeks. I remember one week being on-call and having to walk out in the middle of a general body membership meeting to attend my job! It would have been incredibly alienating to have been deprived of all my decision making power as a result. While easy for some to take time off work (or not have to at all!) and travel to Chicago for our National Convention, this proves much more difficult for others. To build a true mass movement, we need to include a mass number of people, and not exclude them from weighing in on the direction our organization will take. "
Marge Simpson saying “Hmm. That’s true but he shouldn’t say it”
Screenshot from the Red Star article, which states, in part, that "the genocide in Palestine has been a flashpoint, and spurred on a more organized and mobilized anti-imperialist left than the US has seen in decades. But DSA is being left behind by refusing to center this work, tighten our tent on anti-Zionism, or associate closely with the movement."
Screenshot of Red Star article, which states (in part) that National DSA "staff wield outsized influence. This is done both informally...as well as formally, via the Staff Union filing grievances and NLRB charges during the recent layoffs."
Positive comments from Raul Hilberg about Finkelstein's book
Passage from All the Pretty Horses by cormac McCarthy
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots by the Flaming Lips
Quote from an address Fain gave, in which he mentions Mahmoud Khalil "who has now been detained for over a month for protesting a war"
Resolution text. Reads "DSA orients itself in opposition to all ruling class political forces. DSA's project is to unite workers to win the battle for democracy and bring about socialism, not to seek a governing coalition with a perceived lesser evil under the current undemocratic political system"
Resolution text: Reads "Replace all indirect taxes with a single progressive income tax"
Resolution text. Reads "The right to expropriate property for the public good without compensation for the private owner"
Resolution text. Reads "Abolition of the rights and powers reserved to States; formation of regional and municipal governments to be a guaranteed right for all peoples within the boundaries of the state"
Text from the resolution. Reads "The right to freedom of information. Release state secrets and the open and transparent operation of government"
A screenshot of a CNN headline - "Americans will pay $6 trillion for Trump's tariffs - the largest tax hike in US history". Someone quote-tweeting it saying "Nothing - absolutely nothing - prevented news organizations from running this headline before the election, when it was equally true as now and could have made a difference"