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You're (Not) on Your Own
February 21, 2021
The past week saw a devastating winter storm sweep Texas, plunging the state into darkness and cold as infrastructure failed and politicians stood by. We stand in solidarity with our Texan comrades, and encourage those with means to donate to the…
Read more →2021 Lebanon Voter's Guide
February 15, 2021
Make Sure Your Voice is Heard. Lebanon City Voting is Tuesday March 9. This guide is prepared for the people of Lebanon by the Upper Valley DSA. We've gathered information from a number of official sources, to make it easier for you to cast your…
Read more →Gravitating towards a City budget where people come first
November 29, 2020
On November 18th, 2020, the Upper Valley DSA presented our Care Not Cops proposal to the Lebanon, NH City Council. The proposal is wide-ranging, but can be summarized by our central demand: reallocate 50% of the Lebanon Police Department budget to…
Read more →Open Letter about the Care Not Cops Presentation to Lebanon's City Council
November 20, 2020
The people of Lebanon have spoken. At the City Council meeting on November 18th, over 40 people responded to our CareNotCops proposal. Of that 40, around 30 were in favor. Some commenters brought their compassion and shared pleas for greater…
Read more →Organise
November 4, 2020
As the dust settles on the most contentious and bizarre national election in living memory, many of us are left with a profound dissatisfaction. Having been forced to choose between two elderly, white, male, sexual predators for the umpteenth time…
Read more →Making socialism discussions more accessible
October 6, 2020
As Democratic Socialists, we strive to be as inclusive and welcoming as possible, but we also live in an unbelievably complex world. Part of being inclusive means acknowledging that very complexity. We must not reduce the struggles of marginalized…
Read more →Why the Working Class
September 29, 2020
To answer the question “Why the working class?” we have to start with what the working class is not. Contrary to what we see in popular culture, class is not expressed in cultural traits, such as whether you drink beer on the front stoop or sip…
Read more →Save the Postal Service - beyond November!
September 1, 2020
The United States Postal Service is enshrined in the U. S. Constitution. In the early years of this country, the construction of post offices and roads to serve postal routes, as well as the subsidy of rail lines, and other networking made the…
Read more →Weekly Update
August 17, 2020
If you’re a socialist, last week’s political news might have felt like a gut punch. On Wednesday, in the middle of a nationwide uprising against police violence, Joe Biden selected former prosecutor and “top cop” Kamala Harris as his running mate for…
Read more →Standing Together Against Sexual Violence at Dartmouth: Interview with Dartmouth Feminists
July 27, 2020
In early July, a federal court judge signed off on a $14.4 million class-action settlement between Dartmouth College and more than seventy women who, over sixteen years, were subjected to sexual harassment and assault by three celebrated—and well…
Read more →Solidarity with Maha Hasan Alshawi
July 25, 2020
Earlier this month, Dartmouth College settled a $14.4 million class-action lawsuit with more than 70 women who were subjected to sexual harassment, degradation, and rape by three professors in the department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. The…
Read more →Challenging racism at its roots
July 19, 2020
The Valley News recently featured an article describing how the wave of white-supremacist activity sweeping our nation is evident in towns across the Upper Valley. Despite what recent New York Times best-sellers or corporate media might tell you, it…
Read more →Statement on Hanover Town Meeting
July 8, 2020
At last night’s Town Meeting, Hanover residents were asked to vote on multiple budget increases for the police department, including money specifically allocated for the purchase of “ballistic vests.” Numerous speakers at the meeting outlined the…
Read more →A Semester to Die For
July 6, 2020
“Covidiots” is what one colleague called the ten administrators who, representing an annual base salary pool of more than $2 million, delivered a reopening roadmap identical to just about everyone else’s, lampooned by McSweeney’s as “A Letter from…
Read more →Region’s budgets for police show warped values
June 29, 2020
If you can judge a town’s values by how it spends its money, then the Upper Valley’s values are all out of whack. Hartford is one of the more forward-thinking towns in the region when it comes to policing. Earlier this year, Hartford voters were the…
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