Amid many intensifying contradictions, the white Christian nationalist right is organizing for and winning power. Today’s MAGA movement is not the same old right wing of capitalist consensus, but a radicalized neo-fascist force. Within and beyond this election, how can we fight the fascist right while building the power of the left? Join three organizations of socialists on the front lines discussing shared tactics and strategy.

Hosted by: Kristian Hernandez, Convergence Magazine Editorial Board

Panelists:

• Renée Paradis, Socialist Majority
• Jayanni Webster, North Star Socialist Organization
• Bennett Carpenter, Liberation Road

Renée Paradis is an elections attorney living in Oakland, California, where she works as Associate General Counsel for the Working Families Party. She is currently serving as a member of DSA’s National Political Committee, the organization’s elected leadership body. A DSA member since 2017, she was a founding leader of the Socialist Majority Caucus. She also helped build and launch CA-DSA and served as one of its inaugural co-chairs. She has provided legal counsel for numerous progressive and socialist campaigns and candidates, including the Bernie 2016 primary campaign, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and most recently Jamaal Bowman and Cori Bush, as well as Listen to Michigan, the political committee behind the Michigan “Uncommitted” campaign, and for Democratic general election candidates such as Barack Obama and Harry Reid.

Jayanni Webster currently serves on the leadership committee of North Star Socialist Organization. North Star is a new cadre organization made up of revolutionary socialists connected to mass struggles who are committed to carry out liberatory strategy. She is also an organizer for a national housing and land justice organization. She has 13+ years of experience in student, labor and community organizing ranging from anti-death penalty efforts to reproductive justice and campus worker organizing. Jayanni is a committed socialist, Black feminist, and internationalist. She is based in her hometown of Memphis, Tennessee.