Written debriefs are useful in organizing both as a medium to organize one's thoughts in the present as well as something that can be revisited in the future to see how an organization has grown. I hope to set down here what I believe to have been the successes and limitations of my time on Steering Committee and provide whatever useful insight I can to the chapter.

I’ve co-chaired the North Carolina Triangle chapter of DSA for the past year. This report attempts to follow the example of our national leaders on the 2023-2025 National Political Committee issuing transparent write-ups on their political perspectives and rundowns of national meetings. This report is also a collective self-criticism and a historical record about this particular moment of DSA as experienced in one of the largest chapters in the South.

Every anti-Zionist queer person has heard it by now:

“How can you support Palestine? They’d behead you for being queer over there!”

It’s a question that isn’t really a question. It’s a statement, rooted in queerphobia, islamophobia, and racism. What people who say that don’t realize is that we are killed for being queer over here.

Luxury housing, like other forms of wealth, will not trickle down.

Durham's tenants are in a crisis, and despite proponent’s claims, the developer-and-landlord-led “fix” to the building code known as “Simplifying Code for Affordable Development,” or SCAD, will neither solve or barely improve affordable housing in our community.

Six months ago, President Biden ended the pandemic state of emergency and declared COVID over. From the way government officials and the media are – or more accurately, aren’t – talking about the pandemic, it might seem one has no choice but to believe that Biden was right.

Except that the pandemic is not over. By what metric was Biden measuring? Hospitalizations? Deaths?

On Tuesday, October 17th, 2023, the Carrboro Town Council voted to move forward with the Bolin Creek Greenway selecting the path along the Creekside sewer easement as the preferred alignment. After over a decade of unnecessary delay, Carrboro will make progress toward a green infrastructure project that will play a crucial role in fighting the climate crisis on a local scale. The expanded greenway will create shared natural spaces that everyone can safely use to get around town and help cut off our car and fossil fuel dependency. 

Explore the long history of abortion and the anti-abortion movement in America in this article by our member Saige. Content Warning: this post contains mentions of rape, forced sterilization, eugenics, white supremacy, and chattel slavery.

On May 16th, 2023, the NC GOP, the majority of whom were men who had no consultation from women and ignored warnings from medical professionals, voted to override Governor Cooper’s veto of SB-20, a bill that bans abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy and includes medically unnecessary restrictions.

The North Carolina Piedmont chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America strongly and unequivocally supports the nationwide uprising for justice for Ahmaud Arbery, Akiel Denkins, George Floyd, Tony McDade, Nina Pop, Breonna Taylor, and the countless Black victims of white supremacist violence and the police state.

In response to the Board of Trustees decision to re-enshrine Silent Sam, a monument to UNC students who fought in defense of slavery and white supremacy, worker-activist Maya Little and others at UNC have called on all UNC TAs and faculty to withhold final grades for the semester until the following demands are met…