Elizabeth Kramer
Template:TOCnestleft Elizabeth Kramer aka Elizabeth A'ya is a Tampa activist.
Fight Back! supporter
Fight Back! / ¡Lucha y Resiste! is a Facebook group for readers and supporters of Fight Back! / ¡Lucha y Resiste! the newspaper of Freedom Road Socialist Organization/FightBack!
As of July 5 2020 members included Elizabeth Kramer.
Tampa Bay SDS
Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society public Facebook group funtioned from circa 2010 to 2015. Members included Elizabeth Kramer.
FRSO member
Elizabeth A'ya is a member of Freedom Road Socialist Organization/FightBack!.
Tampa Bay SDS
Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society December 3, 2015:
A few of the members of Tampa SDS, flyered and had a banner drop in support of #AffirmativeAction — with Ronnie Riots, Elizabeth A'ya, Gage Lacharite and Danya Zituni.
Fundraiser 4 Rasmea
Danya Zituni September 13, 2015;
At Dabke & Dessert - Fundraiser 4 Rasmea, where we raised monies for & learned about a real fighter for the people, #RasmeaOdeh!
Photo credit: Michela <3 — with Homam Zituni, Jared Austin, Gage Lacharite, Jerrica Hoey, Sam Beutler, Adriana Beatríz, Elizabeth A'ya, Taina Pantoja, Chrisley Carpio, Jessica Schwartz, Fabrizio Godomar, Ionie Lopez and Ashley Evans.
FRSO school
On September 10th, 2016, thirty-five students and community members gathered from Florida and North Carolina to participate in a day school hosted by members of the Student Commission of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization/FightBack!). The event consisted of presentations on revolutionary theory and how students apply it to their activism.
Fern Figueroa of the FRSO opened the event saying, “Students can play a special role in uniting and organizing sectors of people by learning revolutionary theory, engaging in their own struggle on campus, and ultimately by joining history's greatest revolutionary class - the working class.”
Tampa Bay FRSO member Danya Zituni explained, “The role of the university under this capitalist system is to indoctrinate students with the ideas of the ruling class. By mobilizing students to fight, we can learn about the nature of the system we are up against and what methods are effective against it.”
Taina Pantoja, of Tampa Bay SDS said, “It’s important to understand that Marxist-Leninist theory provides us with a guide for making actual material change.”
The event ended with a speech by Tallahassee FRSO member Zachary Schultz who said, “The Day School represents a real development in the revolutionary movement among students. Students are wanting and ready to take up Marxism-Leninism, the theory of revolution. Students are learning and organizing to build the movements of oppressed nationalities and workers to overthrow the capitalists.”[1]
Those signalling their intention to attend on Wherevent included;
Taina Pantoja, Danya Zituni, Jessica Schwartz, Regina Joseph, Ionie Lopez, Yu Sun, Jade Weiss, Angelica Hernandez, Elizabeth A'ya, Sarah Owusu-Tweneboah, Marc Silverstein, Idris Aderoju, Matt Schott, Josiah Shand, Matthew Morrow, Fern Figueroa, Jon Mitchel, Collin Pelletier, Chrisley Carpio, Noah Peretz, Zachary Schultz, Albert Kishek, Jack Ling, Sam Beutler, Bill Aiman, Jerry Evans.[2]
Organizing against Trump
Join Tampa Anti-War Committee on Friday, Jan 20th at 6pm as we protest the Inauguration of Donald Trump. We will be out protesting Trump's racist, sexist, anti-immigrant, anti-refugee, anti-worker, and pro-war movement. We demand that he stop attacks on immigrants and refugees, and end US wars abroad.
Following the protest, we will be having Organizing Against Trump: General Body Meeting on Jan 25th to discuss how we can move forward organizing under a Trump presidency. — with Anita Stewart, Jack Ling, Sara Cutlip, Leonie Barkakati, Eric Jones, Dani Vinson, Noah Peretz, Bill Aiman, Gague Lacharite, Matt Schott, Henry HN, Elizabeth A'ya, Taina Pantoja, Sam Alex, Anthony Thomas, Sami Salhab, Sam Beutler, Danya Zn, Thomas Albert, Chrisley Carpio, Dylan Thomas, Jerrica Hoey, Tori Stratis and Regina Joseph.
Tampa SDS comrades
Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society November 12, 2015 ·
Marching from Cooper Hall to the C.W. Bill Young (ROTC) building — with Irving Evans, Ashley Evans, Chris J. Light, Richie Barber, Elizabeth A'ya, Jack Ling, Isabella Kosal and Danya Zituni.
"Free speech" webinar
On March 31 2021 students at the University of South Florida (USF) and members of the Tampa community attended a virtual webinar event, focused on the ongoing incidents of anti-protest repression from USF. The webinar was hosted by Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) to demand that USF respect progressive free speech and drop SDS's suspension.
Since the 2020 fall semester, students and groups at USF who’ve advocated for demands such as defunding campus police, keeping the college of education open after budget cuts, and increasing the enrollment of Black students have been met with threats made by USF administration in the form of arrests, suspensions and threats of expulsion. SDS invited other groups like Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), who have also been threatened by USF administration when they attempted to host a protest of their own in August.
The speaker panel for the webinar included members of Tampa Bay SDS and Tampa Bay Community Action Committee (TBCAC) who spoke about the arrests made at USF on February 9th and SDS’s ongoing struggles with their suspension.
Gia Davila, a member of Tampa Bay SDS stated, “The webinar gave us as students a space to advocate for the right to free speech without the school threatening us with expulsions or arrests. The school has selectively chosen to silence students who challenge their beliefs and lean further to the left.”
On a statewide level, TBCAC member Elizabeth Kramer discussed how Governor DeSantis is working to stifle the people’s right to protest with House Bill 1 after the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement this past summer. If passed, this bill would make activist and organizing work more difficult and dangerous.[3]
FRSO Presents International Women's Day
Event by Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Freedom Road Socialist Organization - Tampa and 3 others
Saturday, March 6, 2021 at 6 PM EST – 8 PM EST
Join us for our International Women's Day event! We'll be hearing from different forces from around the country about how to organize for socialism to deal blows against patriarchy and gender oppression! Speakers:
- Syd Loving, Coordinator for the Dallas Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression
- Tracy Molm, FRSO
- Cherrene Horazuk, labor leader
- Marisol Marquez, Chicana activist and FRSO member
- Elizabeth Kramer, Labor Organizer[4]
SDS
2019 Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society member, Elizabeth Kramer.[5]
FRSO
Circa 2017 Elizabeth Kramer was a 22 year old Freedom Road Socialist Organization/FightBack! member in Florida.