Claudia De la Cruz and Karina Garcia are running for President and Vice-President of the United States on the ticket of the Party for Socialism and Liberation.
Claudia de la Cruz was born and raised in the South Bronx, New York to immigrant Dominican parents. As a teenager, she regularly participated in campaigns calling for an end to the U.S. blockade in Cuba and calling out police terror. While completing her degree in forensic psychology at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, a City University of New York college, de la Cruz helped create Palenque. Palenque was a group focused on bringing together young people to study the history of struggles and resistance by marginalized groups. During the Iraq War, de la Cruz organized some of these members as well as church members to rally against the war. She also helped found Da Urban Butterflies, a youth leadership development project for women from Washington Heights and the Bronx. Later on, de la Cruz co-founded The People’s Forum in New York City, a place dedicated to making space for working-class people. De la Cruz is also a mother and a pastor for the United Church of Christ, a Christian denomination that has historically been involved in social justice work.
Karina Garcia grew up in East Harlem, also known as El Barrio, in New York, as well as California. She attended Columbia University on a full scholarship and organized fellow students to speak out against the U.S. invasion of Iraq and to advocate for immigrant rights. After completing a degree in economics, Garcia became a high school math teacher in New York City. During that time, she advised a student group on issues like police brutality and school budget cuts. In 2012, she took up an organizing position at the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice. She is also a mother and writer for Breaking the Chains, a feminist and socialist magazine under the PSL.
The Party for Socialism and Liberation is comprised of leaders and activists, workers and students, of all backgrounds. Organized in branches across the country, their mission is to link the everyday struggles of oppressed and exploited people to the fight for a new world.
The Party for Socialism and Liberation believes that the only solution to the deepening crisis of capitalism is the socialist transformation of society. Driven by an insatiable appetite for ever greater profits regardless of social cost, capitalism is on a collision course with the people of the world and the planet itself. Imperialist war; deepening unemployment and poverty; deteriorating health care, housing and education; racism; discrimination and violence based on gender and sexual orientation; environmental destruction—all are inevitable products of the capitalist system itself.
For the great majority of people in the world, including tens of millions of workers in the United States, conditions of life and work are worsening. There is no prospect that this situation can or will be turned around under the existing system.
The idea that the capitalists’ grip on society and their increasingly repressive state can be abolished through any means other than a revolutionary overturn is an illusion. Equally unrealistic are reformist hopes for a “kinder, gentler” capitalism, or solutions based on economic decentralization or small group autonomy. Meeting the needs of the more than 6.5 billion people who inhabit the planet today is impossible without large-scale agriculture and industry and economic planning.
The fundamental problems confronting humanity today flow from the reality that most of the world’s productive wealth—the product of socialized labor and nature—is privately owned and controlled by a tiny minority. This minority decides what will be produced and what will not. Its decisions are based on making profits rather than meeting human needs.
There are really only two choices for humanity today—an increasingly destructive capitalism, or socialism
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recording a cassette for the first time in like 25 years, and like, um holy shit cassettes are hi-fi actually, I picked Mahler's 1st symphony as a stress test due to the dynamic range, and a new old stock SA90 I bought from a local record store, and uh theres more hiss in the digital recording (since I think its a remaster of an old recording, Bernstein conducting, my favourite version of this symphony) than on the tape. I can't even tell the difference when A/B ing digital source (ripped from CD) vs tape. I have sone prerecorded tapes and they had tons of noise. Like my copy of Justice - Justice is missing the entire top end compared to digital, but clearly thats just the tape, because it is indistinguishable in the one I'm recording now.
I'm not even using NR.
I don't really know anything about tape or audio except that giant tape reel storage is still used for some really critical stuff.$
Could pre-recorded tapes have worse sound bc they were mass produced and quality control wasn't high?
The analog tape duplication process involves several layers of generation loss and the intermediates would be used to duplicate a lot of tapes before being replaced, making the later tapes from a given batch lower in fidelity. Some later releases from the mid-90s or so were duplicated from digital to avoid this, it's often marked as such on the package. Of course, pre-recorded cassettes are also decades old and most have a lot of wear on them.
This explains it, then!
Further findings: I can definitely hear the difference between Type I and Type II tapes, the higher noise floor is very apparent on Type I, but it's less of a problem for noisy/low dynamic range tracks. I'm not sure if my partner's car can play Type II/NR properly actually, and since I recorded a tape for him this aft I did a Maxell UR.
When I was really young I used to make mixtapes all the time but I never really knew about things like noise floors, generation loss, speed/alignment calibration, two vs. three head decks, etc. etc. I live for learning about this kinda stuff
edit: his car can do B-NR but like i don't think he'd turn it on ever lol, he's really not fussy about audio quality, so i'll probably still skip recording with it