You may opt out of our use of such Jabari Brisport (@JabariBrisport) June 3, 2020. In eastern Queens, DSA ran a strong campaign for an open city council seat, nearly electing a young South Asian organizer named Jaslin Kaur. My name is Zohran Kwame Mamdani. Its not your neighbor. As democratic socialists, were building working class power to challenge the dominance of the wealthy and the powerful in the five boroughs. Bowman, in particular, trounced his primary opponent, Eliot Engel, in the non-white areas of his district but lost in whiter Riverdale. Click on the different category headings to find out more and change our So DSA is framing this latest endorsement of Alleyne as coalition building within a multi-racial, working class movement. Learn More. A new item, "BSA Decision," will appear on the Property Profile Overview page. Endorsing Keron Alleyne for Assembly, DSA is teaming up with the The Democratic Socialists of Americas New York City chapter is throwing its support behind Assembly candidate Keron Alleyne, entering into a political alliance with longtime Brooklyn powerbrokers Charles and Inez Barron and their Black socialist organization Operation POWER. Once each geographic branch endorsed its chosen candidates, citywide DSA endorsed the combined slate of all branch-endorsed candidates. That includes decommodifying housing, ending private control of utilities, and democratizing land-use policy. Endorsements - Metro DC Democratic Socialists of America - MDC DSA performance. cookie banner and remembering your settings, to log into your account, to redirect you when you log out, sites. Please understand that we cannot invite all candidates to speak in front of our membership. to learn more. Tracking the contested state Senate primary races in New York I was just a regular person so I had no idea how to combat something like that, he said; this precipitated his joining DSA and other advocacy groups to work on the issue. Even with its dedicated volunteer force, DSAs 2020 electoral efforts represented a new level of ambition. The system flags apply to BSA decisionsincluding new applications, amendments, and extensionsissued since January 1, 1998. visiting for our advertising and marketing efforts. Nonetheless, the group does have a large number of policy priorities that can be acted upon at the city level, on topics like housing, education, and criminal justice, and its candidates are expected to both embrace DSA positions and actively work to implement them. But for the moment, DSA has shown that volunteer-based socialism can win big in New York, and has taken its place in the constellation of progressive organizations working to push New York left. Bands and marching units will parade from 15th Street & Prospect Park West, going down 15th Street to 7th Avenue, along 7th Avenue to Garfield Place, the partnership between socialist electeds in Albany, city effort to rezone part of Franklin Avenue, often portrayed as being made up of gentrifiers.