3/12/2017

POLITICS/PROTESTS: “[T]hey rallied in support of the International Women’s Day strike, demanding social and economic equality for women.
These weren’t liberals. They were card-carrying members of the Democratic Socialists of America, one of the fastest growing groups on the American left.
The surge of activism sweeping the U.S. since Donald Trump’s election has energized the nation’s largest socialist organization, which has tripled in size over the last year to claim more than 19,000 dues-paying members. That’s a record for the DSA, which was founded in 1982.
‘People really felt that they had to do something to combat the incoming Trump administration,’ said David Duhalde, the deputy director of the Democratic Socialists of America’s national leadership, which helps coordinate chapters spread across 40 states. ‘We’re not only somebody you can resist Trump with, we’re somebody you can build a better world with.’ “

-Matt Pearce, “Seeing red: Membership triples for the Democratic Socialists of America,” The Los Angeles Times online, March 12, 2017