For a lot of people, staying alive, keeping hope, is what you are doing. Just educating ourselves in a way that helps us see the world and the people in it more clearly, to recognize the connections between us and society, is itself a revolutionary act.
I had the privilege of being elected by my city’s DSA chapter to attend the national convention this year. And believe me, we are building that infrastructure. The sense of connectedness and shared mission along with about 1200 socialist organizers, not just online weirdos but actual wonderful, committed, very busy and diverse people, it has been an incredible feeling each time I was sent.
But there is a cost. I’ve been doxxed, I have my own KeyWiki page. I’m in several databases, I’ve written articles in my own name. But at a certain point I just started to see people as having a target on their back because of nothing they did, it came down to the color of their skin, their gender, who they love, what they believe or where they came from. As an middle age dude I just figured if they have a target on their back then I should do something to put one on mine too.
I’m not a fraction of the man’s measure, but Eugene Debbs, who got a million votes for president from prison in 1920, said at his trial for sedition in 1918, “As long as there is a soul in prison, I am not free.”
When you’re ready and able to join the movement, I’ll have saved a place for you in it.
For a lot of people, staying alive, keeping hope, is what you are doing. Just educating ourselves in a way that helps us see the world and the people in it more clearly, to recognize the connections between us and society, is itself a revolutionary act.
I had the privilege of being elected by my city’s DSA chapter to attend the national convention this year. And believe me, we are building that infrastructure. The sense of connectedness and shared mission along with about 1200 socialist organizers, not just online weirdos but actual wonderful, committed, very busy and diverse people, it has been an incredible feeling each time I was sent.
But there is a cost. I’ve been doxxed, I have my own KeyWiki page. I’m in several databases, I’ve written articles in my own name. But at a certain point I just started to see people as having a target on their back because of nothing they did, it came down to the color of their skin, their gender, who they love, what they believe or where they came from. As an middle age dude I just figured if they have a target on their back then I should do something to put one on mine too.
I’m not a fraction of the man’s measure, but Eugene Debbs, who got a million votes for president from prison in 1920, said at his trial for sedition in 1918, “As long as there is a soul in prison, I am not free.”
When you’re ready and able to join the movement, I’ll have saved a place for you in it.