Brian Dickey
Brian Dickey
Disavowing Police Organizing
Resolution 7: Disavowing Police Organizing Voted on at October 21st, 2017 Passed by Majority at Convention Sponsor(s): Brian Dickey, Natarajan Subramanian, Daniel Hafner, Austin Kendall
On Disavowing Police Organizing
- Metro DC DSA shall commit to not, under any circumstance, organizing with any direct police union.
Under capitalism the police exist, as an institution, to uphold the power of capitalists. They serve to protect the property of those capitalists and subjugate the masses, most specifically black persons and others persons of color. While we as socialists enthusiastically support workers organizing and unions as a whole, we cannot support any work with a police union as they do not organize worker power but instead organize capitalist power. When we accept police officers and organizers as comrades, we risk signaling to the communities they are charged with subjugating that we do not prioritize their struggles or desire to fight with them for their liberation. This would catastrophically damage our ability to organize alongside marginalized groups and betray our stated values as socialists.[1]
DSA-LSC Discussion & Debate Facebook group
Members of the DSA Libertarian Socialist Caucus Discussion & Debate Facebook Closed Facebook Group, as of August 21, 2017 included Brian Dickey.[2]
Democratic Socialists of America-Jorge Posadist Caucus
Members of the Democratic Socialists of America - Jorge Posadist Caucus Closed Facebook Group, as of August 7, 2017, included Brian Dickey.[3]
DSA Dank PDF Stash
Members of Democratic Socialists of America Dank PDF Stash closed Facebook group as of August 18, 2017, included Brian Dickey.[4]
Metro DC DSA Public Facbook group
Members of the Metro DC Democratic Socialists of America, public Facebook group, as of March 12, 2017 included Brian Dickey.[5]
Gay Space Communism Caucus
Members of the Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism Caucus, DSA, members, as of June 4, 2017 included Brian Dickey;[6]
"Wholesome Meme Stash"
Members of the Democratic Socialists of America Wholesome Meme Stash closed Facebook group, accessed November 14, 2017 included Brian Dickey.[7]
Harassment Working Group
In 2017, Brian Dickey of Metro DC Democratic Socialists of America, was a signatory to a statement by the Democratic Socialists of America Harassment Working Group.