Collin Baker
Collin Baker
Activism
In 2020, I was a co-chair on Konstantine Anthony’s working group for his Burbank City Council campaign where he won, and eventually has become the first socialist Mayor in Burbank.
After that, I was a part of the subcommittee that wrote our chapter’s Democratic Socialist Program for Los Angeles, which involved months of research and interviews with local working group leads as well as the actual process of writing the document. I’m incredibly proud of what we were able to accomplish with the Program and set forward a democratically decided vision for what the chapter sees as our near term goals.
Most recently, I was a co-chair on Hugo Soto-Martinez’s working group for his LA City Council campaign, easily the most intensive, but rewarding, campaign I’ve been a part of and I was lucky enough to learn an unbelievable amount of lessons from the comrades who joined us in this effort. I’m now serving on the Electoral Politics committee as we develop our Socialists in Office strategy to maintain our connection with our electeds and build the level of cogovernance and collaboration we have with them.[1]
Statement on Anti Blackness in the DSA
Statement on Anti Blackness in the DSA was released in February 2021:
We as the AfroSocialist and Socialists of Color Caucus stand in solidarity with the Black woman in DSA North Texas who was wrongfully suspended by DSA North Texas Co-chairs. This action by the DSA North Texas Co-chairs is racist and in particular anti-Black. This is not an isolated incident of racism but represents a pattern of anti-black and white supremacist actions within DSA which must be acknowledged, held accountable and systematically rooted out. There is a pattern of anti-black behavior that stems from the founding of DSA North Texas that has led to each generation of Co-chairs either perpetuating or being complicit in anti-black racism.
Signatories included Collin Baker Los Angeles Democratic Socialists of America .[2]