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Kelsea Bond 🌹 @kelseabondatl.bsky.social · 12d

Folks, today’s the day! ⏰

Tired of status quo politics? Want to elect Atlanta’s first democratic socialist to office? Ready to win Beltline Rail, a green, walkable city, and an Atlanta for the 99%?

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DSA for a Green New Deal🌱🌹⚡️ @ecosocialists.dsausa.org · 27d

Cuba’s energy transition offers lessons for all of us fighting for a Green New Deal: join us tomorrow for a virtual panel: actionnetwork.org/events/power...

Power to the People: Cuba's energy crisis and transformation, a virtual panel happening on September 15th at 6pm EST. RSVP for link.

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Nick @ecosozialismus.bsky.social · Sep 11

This is going to be a great event!

If you’re sick of constantly being in defense mode and want to imagine a better future, join us!

Public Grids @publicgrids.org · Sep 11

If you're anywhere near Portland, Oregon, come join us for a night of song, stories, and solidarity on October 10!

We're cohosting this free event with Rumble on the River, @mitchgreen.bsky.social, @sarahana.bsky.social, and folks with @uniteoregon.bsky.social and @houseourneighbors.bsky.social!

Portland's Future: It's in Our Hands

An evening of music and ideas for building a Portland that provides and cares for everyone with new public investment in public goods.

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The Lever @levernews.com · Aug 31

This is the one Labor Day graph that tells you the actual problem in America.

The problem is not that America lacks abundance.

The problem is that a handful of oligarchs are hoarding America’s abundance.

www.levernews.com/the-labor-da...

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mitch (he/him) @drmitchpdx.bsky.social · Aug 21

this is so special, and earnest and i love it. i’m so lucky to represent folks who want to dream big

Victoria (like the goddess) @v-for-victoria.bsky.social · Aug 21

@drmitchpdx.bsky.social my girlfriend made something...

A collage including text like "MITCH for city councilor," "Go Green," "Social housing is Portland's housing answer," "Join our fight," "Socialism," "Sameer is cooking just trust him," and "Portland Oregon internationale." Also includes images of Mitch Green, roses, Portland, and the Portland sign with a hot dog on the stag

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Milwaukee DSA @mkedsa.bsky.social · Aug 19

Sign the petition:

actionnetwork.org/petitions/po...

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Louisville DSA 🌹 @dsa-louisville.bsky.social · Aug 21

Get On The Bus's monthly campaign mtg is NEXT Tue. 8/26 @ 6:30p (Library downtown, Board Room, 301 York). It's never too late to get involved in the fight for better public transit in Louisville. We hope to see you there—all are welcome!

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Kelsea Bond 🌹 @kelseabondatl.bsky.social · Aug 15

We have a plan for Beltline Rail. What we need is elected leaders with the willpower to get it done, and the backbone to tell astroturfed anti-transit groups and Big Business ™ to buzz off when they lobby against what’s best for Atlanta voters.

Urbanize Atlanta @urbanizeatl.bsky.social · Aug 14

“It’s not going to be delivered overnight"

Beltline reveals ambitious, $3.5-billion plans for transit

“It’s not going to be delivered overnight"

atlanta.urbanize.city

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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.bsky.social · Aug 13

I first learned about isaac's work from lizzy oh and have been learning a lot about public power and climate-related work from their writings ever since. This latest piece, with its mix of personal narrative and helpful reference links, is a great way for those new to the topic to get into it.

isaac @sevier.io · Aug 12

Hey guys check this out

A heatwave's lesson for the next front in climate activism

The public power movement in the U.S. is joining an already-in-motion, global struggle against privatization. If we are 'the next front in climate activism', realizing the full potential of our effort...

www.isaacsevier.com

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House the Future @housethefuture.bsky.social · Aug 12

NYC’s limited-equity co-ops—from Amalgamated Dwellings to Mitchell-Lama & HDFCs—offer lessons for #socialhousing. Join a virtual panel of authors and historians hosted by House the Future on Aug 24 @ noon to discuss their past & future.
RSVP: housethefuture.com/coop-panel

Co-op Panel

A panel discussion on cooperative housing in New York. Speakers: Ben Holtzman Nicholas Bloom Annemarie Sammartino Jonathan Tarleton Jennifer Baum

housethefuture.com

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DSA for a Green New Deal🌱🌹⚡️ @ecosocialists.dsausa.org · Aug 6

And if this all sounds cool but you’re not a DSA member, join today!

dsausa.us/GND1forthe99

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DSA for a Green New Deal🌱🌹⚡️ @ecosocialists.dsausa.org · Aug 6

If you’re a 2025 National Convention delegate, vote ✅YES for our GND Priority Resolution and ❌NO on amendment that decharters GNDCC for an unstructured, under-strategized, working group. If not a delegate, chat this up with delegates from your chapter!

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DSA for a Green New Deal🌱🌹⚡️ @ecosocialists.dsausa.org · Aug 6

Our 2025 Resolution asks DSA’s highest body to sustain existing campaigns prioritized by chapters, because our chapters are the beating heart of DSA’s democracy. The amendment proposes no plan, strategy, or democratic structure for continuing this work with our chapters.

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DSA for a Green New Deal🌱🌹⚡️ @ecosocialists.dsausa.org · Aug 6

Our report details the 100s of hours GNDCC has put into outreach to chapters, training leaders in skills and strategy analysis, building chapter capacities, and coordinating multiple chapters together through skills- and experience-sharing + troubleshooting.
ecosocialists.dsausa.org/report-to-th...

Report to the 2025 National Convention – Building for Power

This report provides an overview of Green New Deal campaign objectives, strategy, and organizing activities; a report of how the campaign carried out tasks outlined in the 2023 Resolution; and the suc...

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DSA for a Green New Deal🌱🌹⚡️ @ecosocialists.dsausa.org · Aug 6

This would unwisely retrace DSA’s steps at a pivotal moment in this country, a moment when DSA should be doubling down on mass campaigns and the structures that have succeeded at building them: GNDCC and our chapters across the country!

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DSA for a Green New Deal🌱🌹⚡️ @ecosocialists.dsausa.org · Aug 6

The 2025 amendment to GNDCCs CR03 cancels GNDCC, creates a new Ecosoc WG, for which it provides no democratic (or other) structure, and yet commits it to continuing the work GNDCC is already doing, without any strategy for how that will happen.

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DSA for a Green New Deal🌱🌹⚡️ @ecosocialists.dsausa.org · Aug 6

Contrary to the amendment's inaccurate statement, BPRA is a major climate success and continues to show how DSA's climate strategy, and B4P, organizes for the kinds of improvements that will build more power to win even bigger in the future.
ecosocialists.dsausa.org/campaign-qa-...

Campaign Q&A: Building Public Renewables in New York

Michael P. is an organizer with NYC-DSA. This interview has been edited for content and clarity. GNDCC: What is the Build Public Renewables Act (BPRA)? How did it happen? Michael P: New York State has...

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DSA for a Green New Deal🌱🌹⚡️ @ecosocialists.dsausa.org · Aug 6

Our Report recounts why, in 2023, due to the closing of federal pathways, DSA passed B4P as a national priority to turn our organizing to local campaigns. That year DSA climate organizers in NY passed the ground-breaking NY Build Public Renewables Act, confirming the local pivot.

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DSA for a Green New Deal🌱🌹⚡️ @ecosocialists.dsausa.org · Aug 6

GNDCC then organized a national GND summit with over 60 DSA chapters, and national campaigns for the PRO Act and GND for Public Schools. DSA's 2021 Convention adopted the GND priority and merged the Ecosoc WG into GNDCC to concentrate our forces.

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DSA for a Green New Deal🌱🌹⚡️ @ecosocialists.dsausa.org · Aug 6

DSA's 2019 Convention adopted the Green New Deal, interpreted in the Ecosocialist Principles as the revolutionary transformation of our social order, as a terrain of struggle. It also created GNDCC to carry out class-struggle campaigns under rigorous strategic analysis.

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DSA for a Green New Deal🌱🌹⚡️ @ecosocialists.dsausa.org · Aug 6

DSA’s climate organizing started in 2017 with launch of the Ecosoc. Working Group at Convention. In the next 2 years, EWG steering and a membership the size of a medium chapter, concluded that mass, federal campaigning was needed to meet the scale and speed of the climate crisis.

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DSA for a Green New Deal🌱🌹⚡️ @ecosocialists.dsausa.org · Aug 6

GNDCC does comprehensive organizing on climate, but also on uniting labor and the left around a vision of public ownership, and develops chapter party structures across the country. B4P pilots many things DSA members want national to do more of!
ecosocialists.dsausa.org/report-to-th...

Report to the 2025 National Convention – Building for Power

This report provides an overview of Green New Deal campaign objectives, strategy, and organizing activities; a report of how the campaign carried out tasks outlined in the 2023 Resolution; and the suc...

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DSA for a Green New Deal🌱🌹⚡️ @ecosocialists.dsausa.org · Aug 6

GNDCC’s Convention Report, posted last week, provides key context for deliberation on this year’s GNDCC Res (CR03) and the amendment. The history of GNDCC shows how the amendment would take DSA backwards without building internal democracy or deepening external strategy. 🧵

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Kelsea Bond 🌹 @kelseabondatl.bsky.social · Jul 13

Yesterday’s climate canvass was a great success! Our volunteers are ready to get out there and knock doors to win affordable housing, public transit, and an economy for the 99% 🌱🧱🚊🌹

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DSA for a Green New Deal🌱🌹⚡️ @ecosocialists.dsausa.org · Jul 1

Are you a delegate or alternate to @demsocialists.bsky.social 2025 Conventrion? Read our resolution and fill out our survey!

dsagnd.org/2025delegate...

2025 Convention

Are you a delegate or alternate at 202 Convention? Read our resolution, then fill out our survey.

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