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sabrina ❀ ୨୧⋆୨୧ ⁺‧♡ᥫ᭡⋆⁺✰❀ retweeted
Hakeem Jeffries is imposing a false choice: under his leadership as Speaker, he will support the Green New Deal for Public Housing, fully funding Section 9. But in exchange, he and the billionaire zionist class want loyalty (and support for israel).
sabrina ❀ ୨୧⋆୨୧ ⁺‧♡ᥫ᭡⋆⁺✰❀ retweeted
This is an unconscionable false choice: funding and expanding public housing & the livelihood of millions of poor, majority Black & Brown US’ians, or the lives & freedom of Palestinians. This is the division that we’re being confronted with and must address.
sabrina ❀ ୨୧⋆୨୧ ⁺‧♡ᥫ᭡⋆⁺✰❀ retweeted
That’s why it’s important we look to history and ongoing for case studies and lessons on what “worked,” and define it as the ability to remove all capitalist and for-profit interests and values, for example.
sabrina ❀ ୨୧⋆୨୧ ⁺‧♡ᥫ᭡⋆⁺✰❀ retweeted
When people ask “where is the money?” the money is in policing, prisons, detentions, and international support for violent ideologies like zionism and white supremacy. This is very expensive at the cost to poor people.
sabrina ❀ ୨୧⋆୨୧ ⁺‧♡ᥫ᭡⋆⁺✰❀ retweeted
It would be in a local politician’s interest to advocate to end support zionism so that U.S.’ians can get the basics—clean air, clean water, public housing, etc.
sabrina ❀ ୨୧⋆୨୧ ⁺‧♡ᥫ᭡⋆⁺✰❀ retweeted
The problem is that israel is connected to U.S. politics, local and federal. Local municipal budgets feed into federal budgets, allocated by ideological values like zionism. The U.S.’ support for israel & zionism means a budget that reflects that.
sabrina ❀ ୨୧⋆୨୧ ⁺‧♡ᥫ᭡⋆⁺✰❀ retweeted
They know poor U.S’ians are hurting and are betting that poor ppl will tolerate receiving some economic relief even if means supporting Palestinian genocide in exchange.
sabrina ❀ ୨୧⋆୨୧ ⁺‧♡ᥫ᭡⋆⁺✰❀ retweeted
This is precisely my concern, and the establishment class knows this. The billionaires, zionists, & capitalists will concede some money & political power for marginal improvements & relief w/ the intention of maintaining their violent ideological agendas.
sabrina ❀ ୨୧⋆୨୧ ⁺‧♡ᥫ᭡⋆⁺✰❀ retweeted
“You want your homes repaired, you want to fully fund public housing? Okay. Then shut up about genocide.” That’s what’s being presented by the establishment class, and it’s unfair, wrong, and divisive to pit two marginalized and colonized groups against each other.
sabrina ❀ ୨୧⋆୨୧ ⁺‧♡ᥫ᭡⋆⁺✰❀ retweeted
The third option, fully funding, preserving, rehabilitating, repairing, and expanding Section 9 public housing nationwide w/out private market gimmicks, tricks & poison pills requires a cultural & political revolution/regime change to remove capitalist and zionist leadership.
sabrina ❀ ୨୧⋆୨୧ ⁺‧♡ᥫ᭡⋆⁺✰❀ retweeted
Capitalism’s crisis and liberal social democracy’s concession bring two options:
1) End Section 9 completely & privatize the rest of the housing stock
2) Continue privatization as an option while fully funding Section 9 under (capitalist, zionist) establishment leadership
sabrina ❀ ୨୧⋆୨୧ ⁺‧♡ᥫ᭡⋆⁺✰❀ retweeted
My concern is the strategy and optics of trading funding for public housing with support for and the normalization of zionism. Hard to swallow & I can assume that this trade off is intentional—to get public housing fully funded, Hakeem wants full loyalty.
sabrina ❀ ୨୧⋆୨୧ ⁺‧♡ᥫ᭡⋆⁺✰❀ retweeted
In the context of post industrial capitalism and wealth inequality, yes, the intentional inclusion of marginalized people as the center of democracy is critical.
sabrina ❀ ୨୧⋆୨୧ ⁺‧♡ᥫ᭡⋆⁺✰❀ retweeted
Democracy isn’t defined by billionaire-backed, well-resourced interest groups like Open NY and TransAlt who can use their money to buy politicians and their agendas.
sabrina ❀ ୨୧⋆୨୧ ⁺‧♡ᥫ᭡⋆⁺✰❀ retweeted
Yes, over the past 20+ years, NYC has gotten whiter and wealthier with a ~200k decline in the Black population since 2002. This means wealthier & white ppl have more political power & money to get what benefits them: such as more luxury units, bike lanes, outdoor dining.
sabrina ❀ ୨୧⋆୨୧ ⁺‧♡ᥫ᭡⋆⁺✰❀ retweeted
City of yes, abundance, government streamlining & efficiency means disproportionately wealthy & white gentrifiers get the bike lanes, outdoor dining, & luxury units when they want at the expense of poor ppl who lose democratic input & public housing & see prices skyrocket
sabrina ❀ ୨୧⋆୨୧ ⁺‧♡ᥫ᭡⋆⁺✰❀ retweeted
independent autonomous communist orgs/groups are the move, not trying to unify ppl under one umbrella under the “dsa” or the “democratic party” or even the communist party (cpusa). centralized leadership is good & helpful but maintaining autonomy is important
i discuss this a bit through the lens of coops w/ similar lessons learned re: scale & principles integrity
matrixgoth.substack.com/p/wh…
matrixgoth.substack.com/p/th…
and about the limits and dangers of social democracy: matrixgoth.substack.com/p/th…
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