Jen Lin
Jennifer Lin is a San Jose activist.
US Teamsters on the Frontlines!
US Teamsters on the Frontlines! was a July 16 2023 Freedom Road Socialist Organization/FightBack! webinar on the looming UPS strike.
Participants included Jen Lin.
FRSO/Tampa 5
20 activists and community members held a rally, June 9 2023, to demand dropping the charges against the Tampa 5, the five University of Southern Florida of protesters who were brutalized by police and wrongfully charged.
The community emphasized the threat of the bill, now law, that the Tampa 5 were protesting, warning, “Republicans, responsible for setting frightening new precedents with legislation attacking LGBT people, women, reproductive rights, and the undocumented, will not be merciful, and will use the HB 999 to silence all dissenting voices,” said Andy Schaefer, a member of the Silicon Valley Unemployed Committee.
Diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, which HB 999 defunds by name, “assist colleges in increasing student and faculty diversity, which can apply to race and ethnicity, as well as sexual orientation, religion and socioeconomic status,” said Schaefer. David Delfim Almeida, a member of Students for Democratic Society SJSU, described the treatment of the Tampa 5 as a “blatant attack on students and faculty of color.”
Jennifer Lin, speaking on behalf of Freedom Road Socialist Organization/FightBack! (FRSO), stated that First Amendment rights that the Tampa 5 were exercising “only exist on paper and are never fully granted to the people, especially not those fighting back against injustice.”
“The state is only heightening their attacks on us because they're actually afraid,” proclaimed Lin. “They're afraid of what we can do when we band together and fight.”[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 Jen Lin Greater Detroit Democratic Socialists of America.[2]