Alex Telecky
Alex Telecky is North Texas activist.
For a Political, Prolific and Democratic DSA Editorial Board
In May 2023 Alex Telecky signed a resolution "For a Political, Prolific and Democratic DSA Editorial Board" as one of the MUG and R&R's Joint Resolutions for the 2023 DSA National Convention in August in Chicago.
2021 exec
Democratic Socialists of America - North Texas 2021 executive.
Co-chairs Nora Soto, Alex Telecky, and Heather Allen.
- Lee Daugherty- Electoral Committee
- Andrew Kirk- Labor Working Group Lead
- Chris Wilkins- Healthcare Working Group Lead
- Sam Miller- Welcoming Committee
- Adam Bull- Treasurer
- Skylar Sands- Education Committee
- Brinda Gurumoorthy -EcoSocialist Working Group Lead[1]
Ecosocialist Working Group run
In 2019 Alex Telecky ran for Democratic Socialists of America - North Texas Ecosocialist Working Group Lead.
- I’ve been organizing with different socialist and environmental groups in the DFW area since the 2014 Denton referendum on fracking. I did graphic design work, canvassing, poll greeting, and planning for Gary Stuard’s 2015 Green Party campaign against Pete Sessions. In 2017 with comrades from DSA and Solidarity I helped start NTX Transit Riders in response to a threatened fare hike on DART. We fought for almost a year against the fare hike, pushed it back by 8 months and took out some of the steepest proposed increases, before the fare hike finally passed by only a single vote. We went on to campaign for and win improved amenities on DART and a low income fare. We built a strong relationship with local ATU 1338 representing DART operators and campaigned with them against the further privatization of DART paratransit. Since joining DSA a year ago I’ve served as one of the DSA NTX Ecosocialist WG leads since summer 2019. I would like to see Ecosoc keep working on NTX Transit Riders and Highland Hills CAC and build them up as independent organizations of the working class, as well as recruit new members to DSA through these campaigns. I want to do more internal organizing and political education in Ecosoc to develop all members’ confidence, thoughtfulness, and capacity to lead, and increase democratic participation in strategizing and decision making. And I would like us to keep developing our Peoples Climate Plan and organize new campaigns based on that plan, including energy democracy/a municipal takeover of Oncor and Atmos.
- I joined the DSA a little over a year ago, and have been filling in as one of the co-leads of the DSA NTX ecosocialist working group since the summer of 2019. During that time we’ve been working on two “base building” projects: the NTX Transit Riders and the Highland Hills CAC, as well as developing a People’s Climate Plan for Dallas to guide our future organizing. I’ve also been helping to organize the Collin County DSA, helping develop a Collin DSA Housing working group, and helping organize Collin’s response to a recent fascist convergence in McKinney. Ecosoc and Collin DSA have been my main DSA responsibilities, but I also have helped out with other working groups’ canvassing, text banking, or the chapter’s tabling events and mass mobilizations as I can.[2]
North Texas Medicare For All Committee
Alex Telecky is a member of Democratic Socialists of America - North Texas and is involved in the North Texas Medicare For All Committee.[3]
Racial Justice Working Group
Democratic Socialists of America - North Texas, Soraya Colli September 18, 2018 ·
🔥 Solidarity. Justice. Action. ✊🏼#DSANTX — attending Racial Justice Working Group Meeting with Alex Telecky, Genesis Robledo, Sean Kirkpatrick, Joel Constantine, Clarice Criss, Kristian Hernandez, Esti Romero and Conrad Lino at Lucky Dog Books - Oak Cliff, Every Book $3 or Less.
Solidarity Day School, Dallas
Solidarity Day School in Dallas, Texas, on Saturday, March 10, 2018, the first in what we hope will become a quarterly series of Day Schools for local leftists, movement activists, and organizers, all with differing levels of familiarity with Marxist theory. In doing so, we hope to demonstrate that our theoretical tradition arose from revolutionary organizing, and that same tradition is crucial to today’s leftist activism and organizing.
The event took place in two parts–the first held from 8:00 AM-4:00 PM in the Meadows Convention Center, a space designed to serve community organizers and area non-profits at no cost; the second at the Pan-Africa Connection from 7:30-9:00 PM, an amazing bookstore, art gallery, and cultural center in South Dallas. Participation in this inaugural event was based on intentional outreach rather than broad promotional efforts, including representatives from area community organizations, movement groups, and other organized socialists (especially the International Socialist Organization and many more from the Democratic Socialists of America - North Texas). Most significantly: participants also included community members whom we met in the process of collecting signatures, riding the trains and talking to passengers to fight Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART)’s proposed fare hike.
Throughout the day, topics also included ongoing, local movement organizing like the North Texas Transit Riders (NTTR), a rapidly expanding, deeply collaborative effort across multiple leftist organizers and activists and community members to fight DART’s (Dallas Area Rapid Transit) proposed fare hike. Robyn Kirk (of Democratic Socialists of America) described the ways she and Alex Telecky (of DFW Solidarity and the Green Party) worked to establish NTTR as a direct challenge to the logic of capitalism infiltrating every aspect of public transportation in Dallas. To date, NTTR petitions include almost 7,000 signatures. Before NTTR began their efforts several months ago, the DART Board strongly supported the proposed fare hike. NTTR efforts have made a significant impact, however. Last month, the DART Board passed the proposed fare hike by a very narrow margin. NTTR efforts continue in an attempt to overturn this unjust decision.[4]