From The Ground Up: Lessons Learned At The Local Level
We have collected the following vignettes and anecdotes from R&R comrades and friends, highlighting lessons learned in organizing at the local level.
Category: Feminist & LGBTQ Liberation
Daughters of Rabotnitsa: Lessons From The Russian Revolutionary Women’s Movement
FEBRUARY, 1917. Scores of women textile workers take strike action on their own initiative. The strike mushrooms into mass meetings and demonstrations throughout Petrograd. Slogans rapidly evolve from the demand for bread to the end of the war and the …
Leading The Fight For Trans Liberation
By Sarah Milner On March 28th and March 31st YDSA and DSA held their respective days of action as part of the nationwide campaign for Trans Rights and Bodily Autonomy (TRBA). Around 100 chapters participated and thousands of people across …
Alexandra Kollontai: A Portrait of a Revolutionary
By Claire Schachtely Alexandra Kollontai’s Life and Work – from Valiant Attempts to Liberate Working-Class Women in Soviet Russia to her Radical Writings on Love and Sex – Echo Into the Present, with Important Implications for Socialist Feminists Today Alexandra …
TRBACC Report #4: None of Us Can Do It Alone
By Sarah Milner and Judith Chavarria [For an overview of the campaign please read this article “Organizing a Fighting DSA Campaign for Bodily Autonomy“, prior reports from the TRBACC Steering Committee can be found here: Report #1: DSA’s Campaign for …
Organizing a Fighting DSA Campaign for Bodily Autonomy
By Judith Chavarria To Build an Exciting and Flourishing Campaign, a Clarity of Vision is Needed. [This article was written for our quarterly magazine. To read updates on the current developments of DSA’s campaign for trans rights and bodily autonomy, …
Abortion Access in Ohio: How a Movement Won Back Reproductive Rights
By Luke Branagan The Battle for Reproductive Justice Transformed DSA in Ohio A one-hundred year old process allowing Ohio voters to amend their own constitution has become the last hope for Abortion rights activists – and the last bulwark against …
TRBACC Report #3: Every Part of DSA Has a Role to Play!
Sarah’s Report One Day Before the Next Steering Committee Meeting of DSA’s Campaign for Trans and Reproductive Rights on November 20 By Sarah Milner and Judith Chavarria See also report #1: DSA’s Campaign for Trans and Reproductive Rights, and report …
2nd TRBACC Report: Urgent Time to Move the Campaign Forward!
Sarah’s Report from the Second Meeting of the Steering Committee of DSA’s Campaign for Trans and Reproductive Rights on October 23 By Sarah Milner The second meeting of the Trans Rights and Bodily Autonomy Campaign Committee (TRBACC) took place on …
Report: DSA’s Campaign for Trans and Reproductive Rights
Sarah’s Report from the First TRBACC Meeting on October 8 By Sarah Milner DSA held the inaugural meeting of its Trans Rights and Bodily Autonomy Campaign Committee on October 8. This meeting brought together the 13 person leadership body for …