“We created the first-in-the-nation Office of Worker Power to put the full weight of City Hall behind the people who keep New York running,” said [NYC Mayor] Mamdani. “The nurse working a double shift. The teacher working a second job. The warehouse workers organizing for a union. Every New Yorker working hard to build a life and support a family. On Labor Day, we honor the workers who came before us by fighting for the workers who come next.”
Julie Su, the former acting US Labor Secretary who now serves as New York City’s deputy mayor for economic justice, will oversee the new office, which will be led by longtime union organizer Tony Perlstein.
Y’know, this is a really big fuckin’ deal right now. Not this specifically, but the DSA-type principles, or progressive, or whatever you want to call it - getting a huge win in NYC and showing the rest of the nation some of the things that can be accomplished.
I know MAGA won’t see this and even if they do it won’t change their minds, but this is the kind of thing that will change SOME minds.
These are the types of things that can be done if we elect actual progressives. But we need a supermajority with both houses of congress, as well as the president, and at this point, with stacking SCOTUS.
If we could somehow manage that, we could fix this country.
I sure hope that progressivism succeeds. If it doesn’t, America will either descend into being Nazi America or suffer a 2nd American Civil War.
I would prefer a better society emerging without bloodshed. War is a painful thing, full of hardship for just about everyone. I want to spend my time reading manga, and voting for Mamdani’s 2nd term.
Very much agree. We’re on the verge of fascism, and I don’t know if we can save this or not, but I sure hope so.
I don’t think I’ll be alive to see it, though.