NYC DSA Planning Meeting on Occupy Wall Street When: Sunday, October 30 | 4:00PM Where: 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 505 (Manhattan) Many NYC DSAers have been involved in the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protests. This work has been very useful and important, but in order to build NYC DSA and to maximize the strategic impact of our [...]
Archive for October, 2011
Planning meeting: DSA & OWS
Posted in Uncategorized on October 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Let’s Meet the 99 Percent Where They’re At
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Occupy Wall Street, protests on October 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »
NYC DSA member Chris Maisano on the #OccupyWallStreet protests: As the #OccupyWallStreet protests in lower Manhattan near their one-month anniversary, it’s worth taking stock of what has been accomplished so far and what remains to be done in the weeks, months, and even years ahead. Since its birth on September 17, this phenomenon (I still [...]
From Protest to Disruption: Frances Fox Piven on Occupy Wall Street
Posted in Uncategorized on October 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Frances Fox Piven has spent decades writing about and participating in social movements in the United States. She was gracious enough to sit down for an interview with Chris Maisano, a writer and activist in the New York local of Democratic Socialists of America, to discuss the Occupy Wall Street protests, the complex interplay between [...]
Come to the DSA National Convention!
Posted in Our Movement on October 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A message from new DSA National Director Maria Svart: We Want YOU to Attend the National Convention – Register Now! Join us at the 15th biennial convention of Democratic Socialists of America, November 11-13 in the Washington D.C. suburb of Vienna, Va. Register now. We are the alternative to the tea party conservatives, the Republicans [...]
NYC DSA is Marching on Wall Street
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged direct action, Occupy Wall Street on October 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This Wednesday, labor, community, and student groups will march in solidarity with the courageous and inspiring members of the Occupy Wall Street encampment – and NYC DSA will be there with them. All DSAers in and around New York City are strongly encouraged to join us this Wednesday and lend their voices and their hearts [...]