New York City just elected a progressive, immigrant, Muslim, democratic socialist as its next mayor. Our movements did this.
JVP Action endorsed Zohran on day one of his campaign in October 2024, and we have been mobilizing toward this victory every step of the way. Over the last year, our canvasses sent out over 5,000 people and knocked on 200,000 doors. Now, we continue the fight for a better future for all, from New York City to Palestine.
Our fight is only growing from here — and we need you with us. Will you support our work to defend and elect champions for Palestine and the working class?
Zohran’s campaign was about lifting up and listening to the communities across NYC that are too often ignored and oppressed, including working class, Muslim, Palestinian, Arab, immigrant, Black, Latinx, trans and queer people. Now that Zohran has been elected, it is our job to keep organizing to actually build a New York City for the many, not the few.
Here’s what Zohran had to say about our work in this historic campaign:
“I’ve been so proud to have the support of my friends at Jewish Voice for Peace Action since day one of this campaign. JVP Action has been mobilizing mass support to knock doors across this city, and they’re showing that every New Yorker can unite around our agenda of affordability and safety. This campaign is about creating a NYC for all and demonstrating a politics of consistency. JVP Action is a core part of this fight and the work ahead.” — Zohran Mamdani
It’s no coincidence that JVP Action has been throwing down throughout his entire campaign. We’ve built a years-long relationship with him as part of our work backing electeds who back Palestine — from launching the Not On Our Dime legislation in 2023 to cut the tax-exempt status of groups funding violent Israeli settler groups, to him joining our sister organization JVP’s historic Grand Central Station and Wall Street shutdown protests to demand a ceasefire in Gaza.
As Zohran’s support skyrocketed, mainstream politicians and media tried desperately to torpedo him with blatantly Islamophobic smear campaigns. JVP Action led hundreds of canvasses and launched “Jews for Zohran,” exposing the lie of the false and weaponized allegations of antisemitism he faced over his uncompromising stance on Palestinian humanity.
Together, we showed loudly and clearly that New York Jews support Zohran, not in spite of, but because of his support for Palestinian rights and commitment to ending U.S. complicity in Israel’s apartheid and genocide. We fought back against the racist and Islamophobic smear campaigns run by Andrew Cuomo and his Trump-supporting billionaire backers. And we proved that Palestinian rights are popular.
Onwards,
Beth Miller
Political Director
(Taken from an email sent to me by Jewish Voice for Peace Action. Emphasis original.)
Today I listened to one of the glen diesen podcast episode about american economics. I think its good analysis to say the vastest employers in the usa are retail and shipment.
The us is the epitome of imperialism because its citizens dont produce stuff but only ship the stuff made by china et al. They have organized themselves around non industries like marketing, stock trade, private equity, ai, etc.
None of these build houses or machines or tools. The vast majority of those is imported afaik.
This led to manual “skilled” labor which ultimately should be the backbone of any country as it is needed if the house of cards collapses. What this means to me is that the us basically only has clerks, lawyers and postmen, essentially. It is the epitome of a buerocracy.
This imo means that even if we could individualize the problem of marxism not playing a role inside the us at this point, we would be using metaphysics. It is absolutely unthinkable to have the three electricians in the us mount a revolution. The rest is hanging at the tit of imperialism and of the withdrawing government aid.
What marxists in the us (like madeleine templeton or what her name is) and what european marxists are doing is groundwork which doesnt show nationally or internationally, and for good reason.
This ultimately leads to: we should of course criticize but we should keep in mind that there are clear ways to do this, pointed out by those who came before us. I for my part am trying to build up a network of MLs and am already cooperating with other leftists and am running a neighborhood help space to build up that “skilled” labor locally.
Just to give you a reality check: the rest will collapse and there is nothing we will do about that. Millions will die. There is nothing to be done about that and hence why bother? The soc dems have historically stemmed the tide and the marxists have built thhe foundations from below, together with the anarchists, to be fair, and then burst through the ground with huge followings which werent known before.
So yes, shit is bad. Lets work on it. Lets connect our small networks and get shit done.