At the center of YDSA’s strategy and theory of change is the centrality of labor and building a democratic, militant, and powerful labor movement. Unfortunately though, the labor and socialist movements, especially the student socialist movement, have been separated. It’s our job to rebuild those organic connections.

Join us Monday, October 12th at 8:30 PM ET to discuss the importance of the labor movement to socialist organizing and the relationship between labor and student organizing.

We’ll be joined by two former Bernie 2020 campaign staffers and DSA organizers, Jonah Furman and Hannah Ehrlinspiel.

Jonah and Hannah will be discussing why as socialists we care so much about labor, their own experiences in the labor movement and on the Bernie campaign and how they relate to each other, and what we as YDSAers can do to help rebuild the labor movement.

Jonah was the National Labor Organizer for the Bernie campaign and before that, at various times, a union staffer, staffer for Labor Notes, and a rank-and-file activist in UFT and its reform caucus, MORE.

Hannah was one of the National Student Organizers for the Bernie campaign, helping run the Students for Bernie program, and before that was a head steward in UAW 2865 and vice-chair of East Bay DSA.