“History is the judge — its executioner, the proletarian” // tenant unionist - fair housing advocate
Brooklyn, NY
Joined August 2009
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My worldview in four texts:
Honorable mentions: Blood in My Eye by George Jackson, Prisoner of the American Dream by Mike Davis, Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P Newton, Golden Gulag by Ruth Gilmore
Proof that any relative autonomy a movement/party has — if it attempts to capture high office ie the state without first a majoritarian support for the program planks like defund towards abolition — cannot overcome/reform the character of the state itself.
⚡️ Mayor Zohran Mamdani's NYPD is poised to sign a three-year, $750,500 no-bid contract with Israeli surveillance firm Cognyte for FalcoNet, an AI-driven device that mimics a cell tower to track phones and can be mounted on police cars and drones or hidden in a backpack, the New York Daily News reported.
Cognyte won a tender to sell intercept spyware to Myanmar's state telecom weeks before the 2021 military coup, Reuters previously reported. Meta banned the firm the same year, saying its customers used fake accounts to target journalists and politicians in Kenya, Mexico and Indonesia.
The firm is part of an Israeli surveillance industry that grew big as a result of the military's monitoring of Palestinians, whose phone calls Israel's Unit 8200 has intercepted and stored by the millions, including to carry out genocide in Gaza and enforce a brutal illegal occupation in Jerusalem and the West Bank.
this partisan framing has got to stop from our so called non-partisan journalist in chief. burying the most important and historic lede (the first NYCHA slate - FEC tenants - winning) is egregious
are dsa people a tu ally mad at this or is it just ultras outside of the org with parasocial fandoms to caucuses like they are houses in game of thrones? if you're mad at this you are the bad type of gay
The first time I was a delegate to NYC-DSA convention was 2022. It's the very heart of DSA's democracy.
And this year, I’m voting for the Socialist Majority slate. Vote by Sunday night: vote.socialistmajority.com/n…
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A tenacious group of tenants is fighting a teardown plan in one of Manhattan's most desirable neighborhoods that could spell the end of public housing as we know it? I wrote for @newrepublic about their struggle and the fate of government-run homes in the US.
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One thing YIMBY’s aren’t telling you is that tenants who are forced out NYCHA units aren’t guaranteed the same number of bedrooms. A family of 4 who lived in 3 bedrooms can be jammed into 1.
Not to mention the well known eviction issue w/ PACT.
Many mechanisms for displacement
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Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed His Secret Negotiations—Including More Than $700 Million In Transfers vanityfair.com/story/jared-k…
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Let’s be honest about why GW is going so hard for the demolition of public housing. “We need housing now.” WE as in the upper middle class white people who comprise much DSA’s base.
Bulldoze the Black and brown tenants out, replace them with white market rate tenants. YIMBY 101.
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Most tenants DO NOT agree with the plan. Only 550 (16%) of the residents voted for what was misleadingly called “new construction.” The word demolition wasn’t used in NYCHA’s survey. FEC residents’ own survey collected over 1,000 no demolition signatures.
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public housing resident donates $100 to try to save her home: *sectarian socialists freak the fuck out*
known-evil developer spends $5mil to influence city politics, is now working with zohran on demolition: *silence* – at Brooklyn, NY
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a lot of hay made over my friend celines donating to the only mayoral candidate who promised not to demolish her home. little attention paid to the political donations of the developer pushing that demolition: instagram.com/p/DdkQhPRRPkS/ – at Brooklyn, NY
no, the definition of social housing — under DSA's own Housing Justice Commission. back to the original point, City if Yes is in fact privatization and this person should never be listened to when talking about housing issues. just loudly and arrogantly showing their ignorance.
liberal entryists won't even study lit of the org their trying to subvert and it makes it impossible to have a coherent conversation with them lol housing.dsausa.org/socialhou…