hey guys i know its easy to be cynical but Marxist Unity Group and other left caucuses in the DSA are successfully pushing a petition to re-instate the national BDS working group. So far it has 900 signatures to the pro-NPC's 300 signatures. let's keep ratioing these soy losers and show them how little they are liked
The only part of this that worries me is the clause calling for the right of local chapters to publicly criticize higher bodies, key word there being "publicly."
Like the NPC dissolving the BDS working group is anti-Palestine, anti-internationalist clownshoes shit, and all the committee members who voted for it deserve to be out on their asses. But to have anything approaching a DemCent structure, there needs to be a level of public-facing unity of message. Can't have that if every chapter is allowed to dunk on leadership on twitter for the world to see, with no repurcussions. Look how liberal opportunists are already pouncing on this to further the division. There needs to be structures put in place to allow for internal debate and criticism that isn't fucking corporate social media.
I signed for the sake of getting the DBS working group back, but this incident ought to open up a broader discussion about message discipline and the organization's structure writ large.
hey guys i know its easy to be cynical but Marxist Unity Group and other left caucuses in the DSA are successfully pushing a petition to re-instate the national BDS working group. So far it has 900 signatures to the pro-NPC's 300 signatures. let's keep ratioing these soy losers and show them how little they are liked
https://docs.google.com/document/d/12qZ0RHglL2zsDfAZtEA6D-0b_6tWQUkrwSnGYJYyzN8/edit
The only part of this that worries me is the clause calling for the right of local chapters to publicly criticize higher bodies, key word there being "publicly."
Like the NPC dissolving the BDS working group is anti-Palestine, anti-internationalist clownshoes shit, and all the committee members who voted for it deserve to be out on their asses. But to have anything approaching a DemCent structure, there needs to be a level of public-facing unity of message. Can't have that if every chapter is allowed to dunk on leadership on twitter for the world to see, with no repurcussions. Look how liberal opportunists are already pouncing on this to further the division. There needs to be structures put in place to allow for internal debate and criticism that isn't fucking corporate social media.
I signed for the sake of getting the DBS working group back, but this incident ought to open up a broader discussion about message discipline and the organization's structure writ large.
Very prescient observation.
The opportunists will still pounce and do their shit, but not being able to twitter dunk removes a path of valid action.
i assume one has to be a card carrying member to sign, yea? otherwise i imagine this would have the same effect as most petitions.
The form asks for your name and chapter, so I assume they're checking for membership.