In Los Angeles the DSA did mobilize mutual aid networks. We still are. The PSL is embarrassing at best, typically using BLM and other protests and a chance to proselytize for PSL. I follow both groups but DSA is by far the more powerful and mature org.
—Ryan > On Feb 24, 2021, at 9:04 PM, Roger Kulp <[email protected]> wrote: > > > In addition to the lack of urgency to abolish ICE, in 2020 the DSA missed > several opportunities to mobilize its members to confront the right and to > become a struggle organization fighting alongside workers. For example, when > the pandemic hit, DSA chapters should have established mutual-aid networks to > help communities, the elderly, and nurses who were fighting for PPE. > > > Here are just two examples of how the PSL ,much smaller and less well funded > than the DSA, sprang into action in the early days of COVID-19 to do just > this. There are many more. > > > https://www.liberationnews.org/ppe-for-the-people-campaign-to-produce-and-distribute-masks-in-boston/ > https://phillyliberationcenter.org/work/unity-and-survival-program/ > > The second and even more appalling failure happened right after the national > uprising against racism and police violence that was ignited by the murders > of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and Nina Power. Again, the > national leadership of the DSA and the largest socialist publication, > Jacobin, failed to appropriately connect with the new movement > > > The national leadership of the PSL helped coordinate,and organize numerous > street actions against police killings and brutality, with special organizing > webinars by the national leadership, complete with templates of protest > materials for branches to download and use. > > You might also want to listen to what Brian Becker had to say last year > ,about the police. > https://podbay.fm/p/loud-and-clear > > As far as I can tell, the DSA has a sort of identity crisis. Do they want to > be a revolutionary , movement oriented organization ,geared towards > organizing the poor and working class towards radical change, or do they > simply want to elect progressives to public office, to try to move the > Democratic Party to the left? The article here seems to be making the very > same point. > > I am looking, but I can't seem to find a lot of COVID-19 activism, and mutual > aid, from Socialist Alternative. Any links would be appreciated. > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#6710): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/6710 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/80806395/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
