Ithaca DSA

Maribel Tineo interviews Nada Matta. Israel has been illegally driving Palestinians out of East Jerusalem. Palestinians have become more unified in their resistance to Israeli colonization. The ...

http://ithacadsa.blogspot.com/2021/08/palestine-flares-up-again.html

Ethan Oro and Daeha Ko of the NYC DSA Tech Action Group tell Maribel Tineo why they pursue broadband that is publicly owned and publicly operated. Internet is infrastructure. Private providers h...

http://ithacadsa.blogspot.com/2021/07/public-broadband.html

David Foote and Theresa Alt were among the seven from Tompkins County who drove to Albany to rally for passing the New York Health Act. We assembled in a park, held up traffic, marched to the le...

http://ithacadsa.blogspot.com/2021/07/new-york-health-albany-action.html

David Foote interviews Aurora Rojer. Middle and high school teachers are required to teach classes with some students in the room and others online — frustrating. This has motivated teachers t...

http://ithacadsa.blogspot.com/2021/06/schools-reopen-in-ithaca.html

Ithaca City Alderperson Ducson Nguyen discusses with Theresa Alt approaches to getting affordable housing in the City. The State now offers municipalities the right to opt in to rent stabilizati...

http://ithacadsa.blogspot.com/2021/06/etpa-comes-to-council.html

Ian Greer tells Theresa Alt how the Co-Lab at ILR mobilizes research resources at Cornell to work on practical matters. They include the question of setting the minimum wage in Tompkins County a...

http://ithacadsa.blogspot.com/2021/05/living-wage-is-it-feasible.html

New York City teacher Daniel Jerome tells Maribel Tineo about reopening schools after COVID. The pandemic has hurt the mental health of teachers and especially pupils. As of early March elementa...

http://ithacadsa.blogspot.com/2021/05/new-york-city-reopens-schools.html

David Foote interviews Suzy Lee. She sees the prevalent view of immigration policy as exaggerating the power of racism and nativism. The vast majority of Americans support policies like amnesty ...

http://ithacadsa.blogspot.com/2021/05/immigrant-rights-labor-success.html

Jason Leifer tells Maribel Tineo that there are two models of municipal broadband. A town can provide it or just own the infrastructure. The barriers are political. Dryden Town will own and oper...

http://ithacadsa.blogspot.com/2021/05/broadband-for-everyone.html

Augie Faller tells Theresa Alt how the EcoSocialist Working Group of Ithaca DSA is in a statewide coalition to push a NYS bill that would let the State generate power and supply it to customers....

http://ithacadsa.blogspot.com/2021/04/ecosocialists-push-public-power.html

René Rojas interviews Alex Hastings. Hunts Point is the biggest fruit and vegetable market in the country. Workers there struck over $1/hour and won. New York City DSA supported by joining the ...

http://ithacadsa.blogspot.com/2021/04/bronx-hunts-point-workers-win.html

Maribel Tineo interviews Jeremy Cohan about the campaign to levy higher taxes on the rich and especially on the super-rich in New York State’s budget. The increased revenue is necessary to ach...

http://ithacadsa.blogspot.com/2021/03/taxing-rich.html

Tax fairness activist John Paraskevopoulos tells Theresa Alt about New York City DSA’s Tax the Rich campaign and the broader statewide coalition Invest in Our NY. The campaign aims to tax high...

http://ithacadsa.blogspot.com/2021/03/tax-rich.html

Patricia Rodriguez of the Tompkins County Immigrant Rights Coalition tells David Foote about ICE detention at Batavia near Buffalo. It has long been an unpleasant place, especially since COVID-1...

http://ithacadsa.blogspot.com/2021/02/ice-gets-nasty-immigrants-in-danger.html

Rebecca Garrard tells David Foote about New York State housing laws. New York City tenants had won protections long ago, but only in 2019 were upstate cities allowed to opt in to ETPA to win lim...

http://ithacadsa.blogspot.com/2021/01/first-steps-to-rent-control.html

Maribel Tineo talks about the importance of passing the New York Health Act. She interviews Scott Marsland, a registered nurse, who talks about the interest nurses and all healthcare workers hav...

http://ithacadsa.blogspot.com/2021/01/new-york-health-inside-view.html

Maribel Tineo speaks with Susan Beckley about the New York Health Act, which would establish single-payer health insurance in New York State, benefiting counties, school districts, small busines...

http://ithacadsa.blogspot.com/2020/12/maribel-tineo-speaks-with-susan-beckley.html

Ellen David Friedman tells David Foote that Marx helps a labor organizer focus on reality. The nature of work is changing worldwide. A workforce constantly switching jobs presents a challenge fo...

http://ithacadsa.blogspot.com/2020/11/organizing-workers.html

David Foote interviews lifelong labor organizer Ellen David Friedman focusing on teachers’ struggles. A decade ago in Chicago the teachers’ union, led by the rank and file caucus, instead of...

http://ithacadsa.blogspot.com/2020/11/teachers-organize.html

Theresa Alt and Conor Bednarski talk about their visions for affordable housing. Examples really exist. In the 20th century until the 1970s unions supported housing construction in New York City...

http://ithacadsa.blogspot.com/2020/08/housing-people-can-afford.html

David Foote and Theresa Alt look at DSA’s support for police abolition. The endorsed website #8toAbolition gives a good framework: 1) Defund the police; 2) Demilitarize communities; 3) Remove ...

http://ithacadsa.blogspot.com/2020/08/police-abolition.html

René Rojas reemphasizes that people who emigrated from the South to Northern cities and faced unemployment were forced to turn to crime to survive. Policing and incarceration are a cheap respon...

http://ithacadsa.blogspot.com/2020/08/police-issues-where-we-go-next.html

René Rojas tells Deirdre Silverman that today’s protests are much larger and more widespread than those of the civil rights era. They involve all levels of society, urban & rural. Police are ...

http://ithacadsa.blogspot.com/2020/07/police-issues-how-we-got-here.html

Attorney Bill Niebel tells Theresa Alt what tenants should be aware of even before they sign a lease, as well as what their rights are to privacy and a habitable place to live while they are ren...

http://ithacadsa.blogspot.com/2020/07/tenants-know-your-rights.html

Barbara Chasin and Dick Franke tell David Foote about the State of Kerala in southern India. For a few decades a communist party has been in charge. Health and literacy statistics are excellent ...

http://ithacadsa.blogspot.com/2020/06/kerala-peoples-movement.html