by Jane Slaughter

In April Detroit DSA member Danielle Aubert was elected president of the faculty and academic staff union at Wayne State, running on a platform of more member activism, a transparent union, protecting job security, and resisting piled-on workloads.

Aubert won 329–298 against incumbent Charlie Parrish, who had been a union officer since the 1980s. It was the first time in over a decade there had been a contested race for president of the American Association of University Professors-American Federation of Teachers local (AAUP-AFT), which represents 1,700 faculty and academic staff. …

by Ken Jackson

by Ken Jackson

by Joanne Coutts

This article is the second in a two-part series. Read part one here.

If anyone is still under the impression that we, Detroiters, have a say in how our elected officials spend our tax dollars, a look at the recent budget process should shatter that illusion.

The Mayor’s Budget reflects his priorities, not ours

On March 5, 2021, Mayor Duggan gave a master class in “smoke and mirrors.” His budget presentation was rife with euphemistic language and carefully crafted propaganda.

In October 2020, the city began asking Detroiters how we wanted to spend our budget through a…

By Vince Carducci and Jason Krzysiak

For more than a century, the first of May has been a day of celebration, remembrance, and activism for workers around the world. On Saturday, May 1 this year, the Metro Detroit DSA joins comrades from DSA chapters across the country to mark International Workers Day with events that will raise awareness of and militate for passage of the Protect the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, currently before the Senate.

The first is an in-person, socially distanced gathering at noon under the soaring arcs of the public sculpture Transcending, the Michigan labor legacy monument…

by Vince Carducci

Between the start of Derek Chauvin’s trial and the return of the guilty verdict, 64 Americans died at the hands of police, more than half of them people of color, according to the New York Times. They include Daunte Wright, shot and killed in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center not more than 10 miles from where the trial was taking place.

In Michigan, Bridge Detroit reports, not a single piece of police reform legislation has been passed since George Floyd’s murder last May; bills that have been proposed have met with stiff resistance from the police…

by Ken Jackson

The following articles were originally published in Midwest Socialist — the official newspaper of the Chicago Democratic Socialists of America. Midwest Socialist reports on issues affecting Chicago and the Midwest generally, and occasionally republishes articles from the Detroit Socialist.

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by Hailey Rial
March 14, 2021

Treatment Not Trauma: An Interview With Alderman Rossana Rodriguez

by Keith Schnabel
November 21, 2020