Category: DSA Positions
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Portland DSA calls for the immediate impeachment and removal of Trump from office.
Portland DSA calls for the immediate impeachment and removal of Trump from office, the expulsion of all members of Congress who aided this coup attempt, and the beginning of a nationwide commitment to antifascist praxis by socialists of all tendencies. We are witnessing an attempted coup in real time. It is already too late to… read more
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Statement in Response to Governor Kate Brown’s COVID Restrictions
Starting today, Governor Kate Brown has ordered a two-week “freeze” on a wide range of social and commercial activities in order to slow the alarming spike in COVID-19 cases in Oregon. This rapid and deadly spread has hit working class people, communities of color, and immigrants hardest. While the Portland chapter of the Democratic Socialists… read more
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End Cooperation with the Joint Terrorism Task Force 2020
On September 8, 2020, 27 organizations (and two individuals) signed a letter urging Portland City Council to end all Portland Police cooperation with the Joint Terrorism Task Force. Most of the groups were involved in the 2017 campaign which led to the removal of two part-time Portland Police officers from the JTTF in 2019. However,… read more
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Letter from an Occupied City
To all the cities, movements, rebellions, DSA chapters, and individuals who have shown our city solidarity and support, directly or indirectly, we send our love, our gratitude, and our hope for a new future much different from this present world. We will never forget how you have aided us while you yourselves are fighting against… read more
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RALLY TO DEMAND SAFETY AND EQUITY IN OUR SCHOOLS
Contact: Laura Wadlin, 503–332–7236Location: Beaverton City Library, 12375 SW 5th St, Beaverton, OR 97005Time: Monday August 3, 6:30pm [Beaverton, OR, August 3, 2020] Portland DSA will demonstrate alongside students, parents, educators, and union members across the country on August 3rd, 2020, demanding a safe, scientific, racially just and publicly-funded approach to supporting our schools and… read more
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Resolution for DSA Portland to reaffirm our solidarity with the Filipino people against Duterte by endorsing the Philippine Human Rights Act
DSA National Political Committee Statement, December 2019: “Democratic Socialists of America calls on the U.S. government to immediately cease all funding and related support to the Duterte administration and the Philippine military and police…Finally, DSA calls on its members to support peaceful resistance to the Duterte administration, through their local chapters and in solidarity with… read more
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End the Curfew and Stop Police Violence
We in Portland DSA loudly denounce the punitive curfew instituted by Ted Wheeler and the Portland City Council. Curfews are a form of collective punishment on an entire community. This curfew was intended to rebalance power away from protesters and back to the police. The curfew has given police full permission to attack and arrest… read more
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Portland DSA Calls on the NPC to Pass Resolution 11
The Portland DSA Steering Committee urges the National Political Committee to take up Resolution 11 from the 2019 Convention. The resolution reads: “Therefore be it resolved employment as a Law Enforcement Officer is in opposition to the principles of the organization as outlined by the DSA Constitution Article II. Persons employed as Law Enforcement Officers… read more
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On Looting and Police Murder in a Capitalist State
A Statement from Portland DSA on the Murder of George Floyd and the Uprising in Minneapolis George Floyd, 46, was murdered by the Minneapolis Police on Monday, May 25. We know he was beloved. He was killed by police under suspicion from a grocery worker that he was writing a bad check. This follows the… read more
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Portland DSA May Day 2020 Statement
May Day, 2020 — Portland DSA calls on the working people of Portland to use the COVID-19 crisis to organize in their workplaces and in their neighborhoods against capitalism. Before COVID-19, this country was in a crisis. Supposedly low unemployment numbers and a record stock market disguised the harsh conditions of the working class in the United… read more