🚨 YDSA Elects “Break the Law and Get Away With It” Organizer to DSA’s National Leadership Mae Bracelin and James Hernández, two Bread & Roses–backed, labor-focused YDSA organizers, have won their races for YDSA co-chair and will now sit on DSA’s National Political Committee, effectively its board of directors. Bracelin, a University of Oregon student organizer, has argued that labor activists must learn to “start breaking the law and getting away with it.” She boasts that her union practiced “a lot of militancy,” carried out direct actions, “broke a lot of rules,” and won. She also celebrates bringing Students for Justice in Palestine onto the picket line and says she has worked to prepare unions for a May Day 2028 general strike. That is especially notable because YDSA just passed a resolution committing the organization to help build toward that same May Day 2028 general strike as part of an international effort. Interesting days ahead.

Cordelia, I don't know if you know this, but this is an amendment you cosponsored

“I would call him Napoleon, but Napoleon made his way to empire over broken oaths and through a sea of blood. This man never broke his word. I would call him Cromwell, but Cromwell was only a soldier, and the state he founded went down with him into his grave. I would call him Washington, but the great Virginian held slaves. This man risked his empire rather than permit the slave trade in the humblest village of his dominions. You think me a fanatic, for you read history, not with your eyes, but with your prejudices. But fifty years hence, when Truth gets a hearing, the Muse of history will put Phocion for the Greek, Brutus for the Roman, Hampden for the English, La Fayette for France, choose Washington as the bright, consummate flower of our earlier civilization, then, dipping her pen in the sunlight, will write in the clear blue, above them all, the name of the soldier, the statesman, the martyr, Toussaint L’Ouverture.” -Wendell Phillips