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Of those "front organizations" the I only recognize is CodePink. I might have heard of People's Forum in passing and BT News doesn't even show up in google results. Even then CodePink are absolutely not a household name and seem like a sister organization. I haven't seen the PSL put forward any tactic beyond media attention. From Claudia's presidential run to showing up at protests with buckets of signs, everything the PSL seems to do is just media attention.
I'd love to be proven wrong. I'd love to see some evidence of PSL chapters supporting a union drive, or pressuring a local government to pass some policy, or some sponsoring some mutual aid effort, or any sort of direct action. I'd love there to be an ML organization that had a strategy beyond a protest to recruit burnout cycle.
My branch got two counties to divest from Israel bonds
Hello? Based Department?
With respect to not dox, I'd love to see how that was accomplished.
Consistent pressure, building coalitions to lobby individual council members on the most relevant approaches, big public shaming media campaigns (Your tax dollars are funding genocide while they but education and transit, "progressive" county exec is responsible for genocide). We're hosting a statewide conference to help other counties achieve the same next month.
I've made similar comments in a different post and comrade @[email protected] had some good responses I'd recommend checking out: https://hexbear.net/post/4142649
This is all stuff that obviously happens, even materially probably, whether they succeed is a different question
Maybe branches are just as subject to regional differences as the DSA. All I see from the local branch is tailism, but I'm not plugged into literally every movement in the city.
Did you search bt news or breakthrough news. I just googled the latter and got tons of results, and I'm not even on the same continent as the PSL
Breakthrough News has a pretty big audience on youtube.
It's breakthrough news, I abbreviated it. They're not organising stuff on the ground, just doing daily news coverage online. They have about a million subs on YouTube.
That makes more sense. I still would not call it a household name.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DI1-jQlTmTq
They are currently in Sacramento trying to get SB332 passed to help keep utilities costs low. I think PSL has a chance to be the real deal.