Labor Organizer w/ WGAE 📣. Board Prez of Park Slope Food Coop🥕. Socialist w/ NYC-DSA🌹. Member CB6 📊. WFMU listener 📻. A better New York is possible!✊🏾https://bsky.app/profile/brandonwestnyc.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/brandonwestnyc.bsky.social/post/3muhnepk33s2qHaving seen the best and worst of nonprofits and movement spaces, I think DSA and NYC-DSA should professionalize more and rely less on rotating volunteer labor for institutional memory. The local chapter however should hire a full time ED and move admin work off the co-chairs.01 Sep 2026 14:35 +0000at://did:plc:renhkrbbfe4pfmfvn5dctc6d/app.bsky.feed.post/3muhnepk33s2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/brandonwestnyc.bsky.social/post/3mpp5r5ytms2eYou can’t expect leftists, immigrants, and marginalized folks to vote strategically for Democrats, but turn around and look at the corporate media consolidation, climate change, and the march of fascism and then refuse to work with anti-capitalist because you don’t like the vibe.02 Jul 2026 23:11 +0000at://did:plc:renhkrbbfe4pfmfvn5dctc6d/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpp5r5ytms2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/brandonwestnyc.bsky.social/post/3mp2u5vodc22yAs someone who has and continues to work across the political spectrum within the left, I’m hearing some very tired arguments from people who are not happy with the results. For many years leftists and socialists lost and experienced petty attacks.24 Jun 2026 21:26 +0000at://did:plc:renhkrbbfe4pfmfvn5dctc6d/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp2u5vodc22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/brandonwestnyc.bsky.social/post/3mowj4nszbc2vPeople need to come to grasp with the fact that the whole rugged (selfish) individualism that pervades US thinking makes its way into left organizations ALL THE TIME. You are not immune. You are also not immune to white supremacy or misogyny either. It’s the air we breathe.23 Jun 2026 03:58 +0000at://did:plc:renhkrbbfe4pfmfvn5dctc6d/app.bsky.feed.post/3mowj4nszbc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/brandonwestnyc.bsky.social/post/3movv4pf77c2qHaving organized within @socialists.nyc for over 8 years, I’ve seen a lot of electoral cycles. Regardless of the results tomorrow I hope the org does a good and sincere autopsy of what worked and what didn’t so we don’t repeat past oversights. Volunteer orgs lose too much to turnover.22 Jun 2026 22:00 +0000at://did:plc:renhkrbbfe4pfmfvn5dctc6d/app.bsky.feed.post/3movv4pf77c2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/brandonwestnyc.bsky.social/post/3mnkcl4qrbc23One of the reasons why I think social media is counter revolutionary is because it rewards binary thinking about important ideas and encourages squashing nuisance. It’s either one or the other. Good or bad. The Marjane Satrapi conversation on Twitter is a good example.05 Jun 2026 14:04 +0000at://did:plc:renhkrbbfe4pfmfvn5dctc6d/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnkcl4qrbc23https://bsky.app/profile/brandonwestnyc.bsky.social/post/3mltzieqcls2gBeing cliquey and mean to others in organizing spaces is counter revolutionary.14 May 2026 23:57 +0000at://did:plc:renhkrbbfe4pfmfvn5dctc6d/app.bsky.feed.post/3mltzieqcls2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/brandonwestnyc.bsky.social/post/3mlrbtfyy4k2tMy new op-Ed in @citylimitsnews.bsky.social on @emilyassembly.bsky.social and @juliasalazar.bsky.social Small Business Rent Stabilization Act. Let’s fight to keep our neighborhood businesses open and from big real estate controlling nyc! https://citylimits.org/opinion-commercial-rent-stabilization-is-our-only-hope/13 May 2026 21:49 +0000at://did:plc:renhkrbbfe4pfmfvn5dctc6d/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlrbtfyy4k2thttps://bsky.app/profile/brandonwestnyc.bsky.social/post/3mljg7pjfrs24It’s not possible to hate people who you don’t agree with politically, and have a capacity to really get good at organizing mass politics. I don’t know what to call it, but if you can’t see people as people, you can’t be that good at bringing people together collectively.10 May 2026 18:46 +0000at://did:plc:renhkrbbfe4pfmfvn5dctc6d/app.bsky.feed.post/3mljg7pjfrs24https://bsky.app/profile/brandonwestnyc.bsky.social/post/3mk6i7dz7q22vIf we are operating only within the bounds of normal politics, then the most important thing the left can do is fight back against the conservative media apparatus. Otherwise we will all be crushed and there is no way out. Or, it’s mass politics y’all. And this ain’t exactly it.23 Apr 2026 16:57 +0000at://did:plc:renhkrbbfe4pfmfvn5dctc6d/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk6i7dz7q22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/brandonwestnyc.bsky.social/post/3mjrjrqocsc2aThere isn’t a model of building long term political power in NY that can challenge Hochul and capital that doesn’t involve people needing to be able to have a non transactional conversation with your black middle aged neighbor.18 Apr 2026 13:20 +0000at://did:plc:renhkrbbfe4pfmfvn5dctc6d/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjrjrqocsc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/brandonwestnyc.bsky.social/post/3mj36y2ywhc2tFor a few years, after having lived it, I’ve been telling dsa that if we want to run on the Dem line, we need to understand the political structure. Of course I get ridiculed for it. Now we face challenges navigating state power to get wins and people are surprised?09 Apr 2026 16:09 +0000at://did:plc:renhkrbbfe4pfmfvn5dctc6d/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj36y2ywhc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/brandonwestnyc.bsky.social/post/3mirvbhiwvs2pEvery time I go see my mother in South Orange I have to drive by the mental gymnastics house that has a peace pole and a “We Stand with Israel” sign on the front lawn.05 Apr 2026 23:21 +0000at://did:plc:renhkrbbfe4pfmfvn5dctc6d/app.bsky.feed.post/3mirvbhiwvs2phttps://bsky.app/profile/brandonwestnyc.bsky.social/post/3mijt6siht22oThe left will keep losing races if we don’t get out of the thinking that makes elections more about individuals and how great they are, instead of about the people and movements. It will always be advantageous for someone to raise their brand and spoil a coalition’s effort.02 Apr 2026 18:22 +0000at://did:plc:renhkrbbfe4pfmfvn5dctc6d/app.bsky.feed.post/3mijt6siht22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/brandonwestnyc.bsky.social/post/3mh7wuyahyc2s17 Mar 2026 02:37 +0000at://did:plc:renhkrbbfe4pfmfvn5dctc6d/app.bsky.feed.post/3mh7wuyahyc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/brandonwestnyc.bsky.social/post/3mgzj7cuxvs2tAfter I stopped paying for Spotify, I started to listen to music lyrics more closely. People only sing about two things. Self focused expressions of desire (I want you, you make me feel X) or mortality. That’s it.14 Mar 2026 13:16 +0000at://did:plc:renhkrbbfe4pfmfvn5dctc6d/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgzj7cuxvs2t