Collection of pieces from Palestine Can’t Breathe – Save Sheikh Jarrah Protest at the Madison Capitol building on 5/15/21 Rally Report By Scot McCullough Approximately 150 people gathered in Madison on Saturday, May 15 in solidarity with Palestinians for a … Continue reading From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will be Free
By Brian BB Benford I hope that you are all well and finding joy. As I type this note, I join countless housing activists and advocates in mourning what has become of Madison. At its Tuesday, May 4th meeting, the … Continue reading Dear Friends and Neighbors
As the struggle to stop the expansion of a tar sands pipeline heats up, activists share tips for people looking to join the fight to stop Line 3. Continue reading A Guide to Joining the Fight Against Line 3
The Abolitionist Working Group of the Madison Area Democratic Socialists of America (MADSA AWG) denounces all forms of law enforcement violence. Continue reading Solidarity with Recent Victims of Police Violence in Madison
A solidarity statement from the Socialist Feminist Working Group of the Madison Area Democratic Socialists of America Continue reading Against Anti-Asian Violence and Racism
What will it take to stop the jail? Karl Locher argues that it’s time to examine past strategies and begin deep organizing. Confronting the jail is a community responsibility. Continue reading The end of the road for the Doyle Resolution is a new beginning for abolitionists
In advance of a Madison DSA event, Building the Union Without Permission, Monday February 1st at 6:30pm, Frank Emspak spoke with Angaza Laughinghouse, member of North Carolina Public Services Union and veteran of black liberation, anti-imperialist, and workers’ rights struggles. … Continue reading “We Brought Our Fighting Spirit From the South” – An interview with Angaza Laughinghouse, UE 150
US cultural memory seems to embrace the defeat of the South in the US Civil War as an exoneration of the North. But the North has racism baked into its core. The contemporary and historical experiences of Black Americans in the North – especially in the Great Lakes region – show how true this is. Continue reading It’s Not Just the South: Anti-Black Racism in the Great Lakes
We’re now in the midst of what we can definitively say is the biggest wave of mass protests in the United States since the 1960’s. Protests have emerged in all fifty states, in every major city. The character of these uprisings has been less like protests and more like a rebellion with tens of thousands of people taking to the streets, blocking highways, burning and destroying police cars, tearing down confederate monuments and every symbol they could think of economic and racial oppression. Continue reading Racism, Capitalism and Rebellion
by Haley Pessin This is a talk given to Madison Area Democratic Socialists by Haley Pessin (Queens DSA, Afrosocialists & Socialists of Color Caucus), “Racism, Capitalism and Rebellion” about the political moment around the George Floyd protests and uprising. Continue reading Racism, Capitalism and Rebellion
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