YOU HAD ME AT NEW YORK

A super flirty fundraiser 4 people-powered candidates 

UPDATE: This event is now live! I you donate you will get your link to the event in the thank you email. Thank you so much to everyone who has donated! This is going to be transformative in supporting Marcela, Jabari, Julia, Phara, , and the events of the past week have shown how desperately we need new leadership in office.

On Sunday May 31st @ 6pm, your favorite deranged comedians Lorelei Ramirez (Adult Swim, HBO) and Morgan Bassichis team-up with the NYC-DSA to present a variety show-telethon-bonanza to launch four incredible democratic socialist candidates into state office. From the comfort of your couch you’ll get to know this inspiring slate of insurgent candidates and enjoy some of New York’s most exciting comedians, musicians, drag performers, and writers, including Jaboukie Young-White, Bowen Yang, Sarah Silverman, Julio Torres, Cynthia Nixon, Nina Turner and more!

Bernie may not have won the presidential primary, but the “Not Me, Us” movement has transformed the debate, putting Medicare-for-All, the Green New Deal, $15 minimum wage front and center. The COVID-19 pandemic has made the need for this agenda more clear and urgent than ever, especially here in New York, the epicenter of this crisis. The good news is that the New York City DSA is ahead of the curve and has endorsed four exciting challengers for the State legislature, who, like our lone DSA State Senator Julia Salazar and the powerhouse US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, are ready to fight for the working class. If Julia can help NY pass the most ground-breaking housing legislation in the country, imagine what we could do if there were five of her. The “DSA For the Many” slate includes:

• Jabari Brisport, a public school teacher and lifelong activist of working-class New Yorkers. He is the son of a Carribean immigrant and third-generation Brooklynite — born and raised in Prospect Heights. As a teacher, fully and equitably funding New York's public schools is one of his top priorities.
• Phara Souffrant Forrest, a union nurse, tenant activist, and life-long resident of Crown Heights. She is the daughter of Haitian immigrants and has lived in Crown Heights her entire life. As a Crown Heights Tenant Union leader she helped win landmark tenant protections as part of the Housing Justice for All campaign in 2019.
• Marcela Mitaynes, a Peruvian immigrant and longterm Sunset Park resident. She began her campaign to fight displacement when she was evicted from her rent-stabilized apartment of over 30 years. Through her work with Neighbors Helping Neighbors, Marcela was instrumental in the passage of the historic Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019.
• Zohran Mamdani, a Indian-Ugandan immigrant who was raised in New York. He fights against the inequities produced by our housing system daily as a housing counselor. Now he wants to bring that fight to Albany, where he will push for a homes guarantee to ensure all New Yorkers have a place to live in dignity.