Super important research!
Posts by Sam Poole
ICE out of Ithaca!
ICE out of Minneapolis!
Abolish and Prosecute!
Our family was proud to join the NYSA picket line outside NYP Allen Pavilion this afternoon to demand safe staffing levels and a fair contract for nurses.
ICE kidnaps our neighbors and murders protestors in cold blood. We don’t want these fascist thugs anywhere near our communities so let’s get out on the street and say so. We will not be intimidated! Join me at Foley Square tonight!
Hannah Shvets is the youngest elected endorsed by DSA in history at just 20 years old! Congratulations to Hannah and Cornell YDSA!
Incredibly proud of the volunteers and organizers from Cornell YDSA, Ithaca DSA and all of our allied organizations on Team Hannah Shvets for Ithaca that made this win happen! We won a mandate for Democratic Socialism in Ithaca’s 5th Ward. Now we get to work delivering on our promises!
Our Time Has Come! So excited to be here at United Palace with Inwood Indivisible and Uptown Community Democrats to see Zohran Mamdani and other incredible progressive leaders who support him!
Seven volunteers for Zohran Mamdani for Mayor, of various ages, ethnicities and genders, smiling in front of a bench in Inwood Hill Park.
I canvassed for Zohran for mayor in Inwood today! Lots of positive responses and great experience overall. Thanks to our campaign leads and Team Zohran for making it so easy to plug in. I highly recommend it!
If you want to help us win democratic socialism in Ithaca, fight for rent stabilization, just cause employment, and a higher minimum wage then pitch in now and help us get over the finish line in November!
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We’re facing Ithaca’s Andrew Cuomo, a conservative democrat who lost the primary and is now running as an independent promising to cut social services which he terms “bloat”, redirect city funds to even more police, and forcibly relocate homeless Ithacans.
We pulled off an incredible canvass launch yesterday with team Hannah Shvets for Ithaca! Volunteers from Cornell YDSA, Ithaca DSA, Ithaca Tenants Union, and Ithaca Sunrise came together to talk to our neighbors, eat some pizza 🍕 and start the general election off strong!
Miles O'Brien in Star Trek Deep Space Nine saying, "He was more than a hero. He was a union man."
Star Trek celebrates Labor Day
Such an important thread for everyone in DSA and particularly those involved with DSA electoral work to read!
We have an unprecedented opportunity to build momentum in local races all across the country and deepen our bench of socialist leaders. We must seize the moment!
Not involved in DSA caucus politics right now but I will just say Katie Sims has been an incredible comrade in our Ithaca chapter and super influential in the victories of both @jorgedefendini.bsky.social and Hannah Shvets for Common Council. We need her leadership and vision on NPC!
DSA runs people powered campaigns everywhere taking on special interests and winning! Right now campaigns are going on in Ithaca, Poughkeepsie, Jersey City, and more, low turnout local races that make a huge difference! This is about Zohran but more than just Zohran!
Today’s the day! If you are in Ithaca Ward 1 vote @compajorge.bsky.social if you are in Ward 5 vote Hannah Shvets and if you are in NYC vote @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social!
Polls are open till 9pm! VOTE!
TODAY: Anti-ICE protestors mobilized and forced back a van carrying our kidnapped neighbors in NYC! This is what real resistance looks like. They CAN be stopped!
No Cops, No KKK, No Fascist USA!
Just did my first canvass with the @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social for NYC Mayor campaign since coming back from Ithaca! We knocked 54 doors and had some amazing conversations with our own neighbors in Inwood! New Yorkers are ready for change not status quo corruption! #DontRankCuomo
Excited to be supporting a friend and fellow activist Hannah Shvets in her campaign to be the next alderperson for Ward 5 Ithaca Common Council! Join us this Friday to kick off her campaign and send an incredible student organizer to the Common Council to fight for us!
Gen Z: No one is coming to save us. It’s time to unionize.
The ultra-rich are ruining the lives of the next generation. The solution is to organize for power, fight, and win.
On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we remember all those murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust: 6 million Jews—2/3 of Europe’s entire Jewish population wiped out—millions of political dissidents and queer & trans people, and 250,000 Roma people.
Never again means never again for anyone.
The problems of racial injustice and economic injustice cannot be solved without a radical redistribution of political and economic power. - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Southern Christian Leadership Conference (1967)
What does it mean to pursue racial and economic justice? Radical change, radical redistribution of power and resources. #MLKday
One of my favorites if not my favorite song EVER!
Solidarity forever! ✊🪧
Deeply disappointed to see my own Rep Josh Riley on this list! So many activists including pro-immigrant groups worked to get Josh Riley elected so for him to turn around and back mandatory detention at the same time as we’re fighting to affirm sanctuary protections in Ithaca is a slap in the face!
Fight organized greed with organized labor.
Everyone deserves housing.
Everyone deserves food.
Everyone deserves water.
Everyone deserves healthcare.
We have the resources. We just need a system that focuses on caring for people instead of making the rich richer.
As we head into 2025, a few reminders:
Our solidarity is our strength
All labor is skilled and has value
The union makes us strong
Solidarity forever! ✊
policy that helps everyday people instead of just helping the rich get richer is possible and we deserve leaders who will get it done.