January 12, 2025
Palestine Organizing in Connecticut: Reflecting on Ceasefire Resolutions
Garnet OakThis past September, Connecticut DSA convened to reflect on efforts, in the past year, to pass municipal ceasefire resolutions across the state. The reflection panel focused specifically on the experience of organizers in four towns: New Britain, Hartford, New Haven, and Hamden. These case studies provide valuable lessons for future…
January 12, 2025
January 10, 2025
Amazon Teamsters and Starbucks Workers United Go on Holidays Strike
Garnet OakLast month, Amazon Teamsters and Starbucks Workers United (SBWU) launched a Holidays strike and were joined by dozens of CT DSA members across the state, with thousands of workers across the country walking off their jobs ahead of the busiest season in their respective industries.Amazon Teamsters, a project which unites…
January 10, 2025
June 26, 2024
The Communist Horizon of Social Housing
HousingJustice-CTDSA
The term “social housing” has gained traction on the US Left today. Prominent political currents in the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) have become more comfortable using the term to gesture vaguely at some more just allocation of housing than what currently exists. For example, DSA’s “Building for Power” (B4P)…
June 26, 2024
June 22, 2024
Agitating for Liberation: CT DSA’s Palestine Political Education Series
Garnet Oak
Tens of millions across the globe have stood up in opposition to the Israeli genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and the broader settler-colonial occupation and apartheid regime managed by the Israeli state across the historic lands of Palestine. As we write today, Israel is intent on completing a…
June 22, 2024
February 25, 2023
On the Path to Power – CT DSA 2022 Year in Review
Garnet Oak
Following the labor of love and principled example from chapter secretary Jason R. in reviewing CT DSA’s organizing in 2021, it is my honor to reflect on our efforts this past year in building democratic socialism and working class power in Connecticut.
February 25, 2023
March 17, 2022
Landing On Our Feet: a CT DSA Year in Review
Garnet Oak
A retrospective on the 2021 efforts of Connecticut DSA.
March 17, 2022