LeftRoots

LeftRoots is associated with the Freedom Road Socialist Organization/Liberation Road. It launched as a formal organization in 2014 with our first local branch in the San Francisco Bay Area. We are now working with comrades around the United States to start branches in a number of other cities. It came out of Steve Williams and N'Tanya Lee's Ear to the Ground Project.

In 2018 LeftRoots "is a national organization of 250 frontline organizers and activists, committed to politically developing their members to lead social movements across the U.S."

The LeftRoots publication is Out to Win!.

Election 2020

LeftRoots, a social­ist orga­ni­za­tion, doesn’t nor­mal­ly get involved in cam­paigns.

This year is dif­fer­ent. In the wake of a cat­a­stroph­ic Trump pres­i­den­cy, LeftRoots took a step back to review the whole pic­ture. Sev­er­al times a week the orga­ni­za­tion mobi­lizes its mem­bers and net­works to can­vass, phone bank and text bank for Biden through Seed the Vote, a vol­un­teer-based coali­tion work­ing with already-exist­ing groups pro­vid­ing grass­roots efforts to get out the vote.

“In this moment, defeat­ing not just Trump, but also the forces that he rep­re­sents, is our num­ber one task,” says Milena Velis, LeftRoots’ train­ing direc­tor. ​“That’s because of the real dan­ger this white suprema­cist author­i­tar­i­an minor­i­ty that’s vying to take con­trol of the coun­try right now pos­es for our com­mu­ni­ties and for our orga­niz­ing going forward.”

Cam­paign­ing for Biden has not been an easy deci­sion. The estab­lish­ment Demo­c­rat, who vot­ed for the 2003 inva­sion of Iraq and rejects key left demands like Medicare for All, doesn’t reflect the social­ist val­ues that LeftRoots holds. ​“Biden is not a left-wing can­di­date,” Velis explains. ​“It requires us to both be hon­est and to not lose sight of our vision. We have to be talk­ing about much big­ger change than Biden’s plat­form policy.”

In its recent­ly released sit­u­a­tion­al objec­tive doc­u­ment, Left­Roots says that left forces work­ing to oust Trump should not ​“hide our pol­i­tics,” nor become sub­sumed with­in the Democratic Party. Rather, the group says it ​“sees the defeat of Trump not as an end­ing, but as the launch­ing point for new strug­gle.” The orga­ni­za­tion argues that ​“when­ev­er pos­si­ble we should be open social­ists against Trump, vot­ing for Biden, defend­ing democracy.”

So far, the call to action appears to be work­ing. The enthu­si­asm from the LeftRoots com­mu­ni­ty around get­ting out the vote has been strong, despite the many oth­er issues staff and vol­un­teers jug­gle. ​“Many folks who are on the front­lines of com­mu­ni­ty orga­ni­za­tions, who are real­ly engaged in fights against evic­tions, or try­ing to fight for labor pro­tec­tions for work­ers, at the end of the long day are get­ting on the phones for two hours to call some­one in a swing state,” Velis says.

Taking over the Democrats?

One evening in late May 2019, upward of 50 grassroots organizers from different groups around the country gathered at a union hall in Dorchester, Mass. They were grappling with some of the Left’s age-old questions: In a future where the Left wins political power, what would we like to see happen? And more pragmatically: What would it take to get there?

A local community organizer sets the scene: “It’s 2019. Burning issues are facing our communities.” She lists off galloping inequality, a trigger-happy white nationalist movement, looming environmental disaster. It’s urgent, she says, to do “more cross-fertilization work” to harness progressive forces (like the striking teachers around the country) to build solidarity across issues.

In that union hall near Boston (which LeftRoots requested not be named, out of “an abundance of caution” about redbaiting), close to 100 area organizers also participated, representing groups like City Life/Vida Urbana, Dominican Development Center, New England United for Justice, Boston Liberation Health and Right to the City Boston, groups fighting for everything from racial, economic and environmental justice to land, labor and housing rights.

The discussion closed with long-term questions: Should the Left prepare to launch a third party or commit to a takeover of the Democratic Party? And speaking of takeovers, how cool would it be if workers in weapons factories just took the damn things over and retrofit them for green purposes?

After decades in the political wilderness, the American Left is aware of the obstacles to a more egalitarian world. But in rooms like this, where political imagination and analytic rigor walk hand in hand, you can see possibilities unfold, a tapestry of radical hopes and ideas. In an increasingly desperate moment, it’s a refreshing revival: an old socialist tradition being built upon and refined and expanded to ensure meaningful participation for all, particularly working-class communities—of color, especially.

National conference

LeftRoots to Brazil

Support LeftRoots comrades to attend the international school of Transnational Decolonial Black Feminism in the Americas to be held in Cachoeira, Bahia, Brazil from July 29 to August 2, 2019.

With some support from LeftRoots, 7 cadres will be traveling to Bahia, Brazil to learn and engage with Black Feminists from across the Americas and the globe to deepen our feminist socialist praxis. We are raising $10,000 by April 19 to go toward airfare and other travel costs in order to attend the program.

Black women are a driving force in the movement for social and economic justice in Brazil, even as far-right president Bolsonaro pushes a racist and homophobic agenda centered on militarization and privatization. We continue to mourn the brutal assassination of activist and politician Marielle Franco and honor her legacy and call to resist. We see the Decolonial Black Feminism school as an opportunity to practice internationalism and learn from Black feminists across the diaspora.

Delegates included Vanessa Moses, Brianna Gibson, Jayanni Webster, Lisa Husniyyah Owens, Sian Miranda Singh OFaolain IV, Paige Amanda Kumm.

Promising future

According to Carl Davidson, North Star 8/11/14.

"Leftroots has a promising future because, one, it has 21st century socialism as its aim, and two, because it is very multinational and largely young, those in and around the Millennial cohort, and three, because they are well-embedded in a vast net of progressive mass organizations, including unions and NGOs. They are neither dogmatists nor pure-and-simple anarchists, and they are seeking ways to contend in elections, among many other tactics. They have only formed a cadre organization that one can apply to join in the Bay Area, so far anyway. But they have a rather large national network that gathers online in 'hangouts', and a three-year plan to develop core organization in key cities across the country. Most socialist groups are too old, too white or too doctrinaire. They are a refreshing break from all three of those limitations. That's why I'm behind them. I don't see them in opposition to Philly Socialists--although if and when they set up in Philly, we'll see. It depends on how you guys want to relate to them. It's very important that the critical mass at their core are people of color, although whites are involved too. With that problem in hand, stronger alliances are possible at the base. I suggest you join some of their monthly on-line 'hangouts.'

"They have between 50 to 100 people in the Bay Area cadre group. They just decided to for the 'cadre' group out of the 'network' a few months ago, so you're not going to find any long group history. You can find the articles by Steve Williams and N’Tanya Lee, especially the one where they interviewed 100 or so organizers around the country. In the wider network they may have around 1000 people, but fairly atomized, save for the conference calls. In the records of the calls, you many find long threads of discussion around certain topics (I did one for them on strategy) or reports from the various mass groups they lead.

Black Lives Matter

"Topple capitalism"

N'Tanya Lee and Steve Williams on their vision for LeftRoots.

Chilean political scientist Marta Harnecker offers a useful definition of the Left as those “forces that oppose the capitalist system and its profit motive and which are fighting for an alternative humanist, solidarity-filled society, a socialist society, the building blocks of which are the interests of the working classes. This society would be ‘free from material poverty and the spiritual wretchedness engendered by capitalism.’” Based on this definition, we begin from the standpoint that the objective of any left strategy must be to topple capitalism in order to make way for an economic system that allows for all people around the world to develop their capacities to the greatest extent possible in harmony with the planet.

LeftRoots leaders

In 2014, N'Tanya Lee, Cinthya Munoz, Maria Poblet, Josh Warren-White, and Steve Williams were members of the LeftRoots Coordinating Committee.

The LeftRoots Coordinating Committee, August 2014;

Subject: Celebrate LeftRoots 1st Anniversary! Become a LeftRoots Compa! /Celebrar el Primer Aniversario de LeftRoots!

Alicia Garza, Maria Poblet, Timmy Lu, Josh Warren-White, Alex Tom, Cinthya Munoz, Steve Williams, N'Tanya Lee.

First anniversary 2015

LeftRoots is a national formation of social movement organizers and activists who want to connect grassroots struggles to a strategy to win liberation for all people and the planet.

Dear Friends and Comrades,

Remarkably, it's already been a year since we launched LeftRoots. Starting a new kind of national Left project is, it turns out, not a small undertaking! Emerging from the intensity of this first year of organization-building, it's time to celebrate, and it's time to grow.

You can help grow new Branches, contribute to our political and financial independence, and build towards a National Congress in 2018 to discuss and debate proposed Strategies for National Liberation. Together we can develop a "next Left" that's vibrant, skilled, rooted in working class struggles, and truly preparing to win.

CELEBRATE! JOIN THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY PARTY FESTIVITIES!

Friday, September 5th, 6-9pm * Bayanihan Center, 1010 Mission St, San Francisco

We launched the first LeftRoots Branch, with 50 cadre members in the Bay Area. Members are building a new type of vibrant, Left political vehicle whose points of unity, program and plans reflect lessons from 20th Century socialist experiments and our many generations of grassroots movement-building struggles.

Over 400 movement activists participated in one or more of LeftRoots' 15 national online HangOuts and local Community Conversations. The vast majority are people of color, engaged directly in movement-building on the ground.

We committed to build towards a national congress in 2018, before which we will develop grounded strategies for national liberation. LeftRoots members and families are developing a new kind of Left culture that reflects our values around participatory democracy, self-and-social transformation, protagonism, support & accountability, and grassroots feminism!

We began building with some of the globe's most inspiring, new Left formations, like SYRIZA in Greece, Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution, and South Africa's powerful, socialist workers union, NUMSA.

Next, we will be launching new Branches in 2015! If you and a few activists are interested in participating in a local Assessment Process to help us identity where the soil is fertile for a LeftRoots cadre Branch - or for us to deepen relationships with organizers and activists in your community - please email us at left...@leftroots.net.

BECOME A LEFTROOTS COMPA!

As we celebrate this Anniversary, we're pushing for 100 LeftRoots supporters like you to become Compa Members in the next month. Signing up is easy.

LeftRoots Compa are committed supporters of LeftRoots who 1) agree with the LeftRoots Points of Unity, and 2) make a monthly financial contribution to help ensure the success of this liberatory political project. Compa are part of the LeftRoots membership community, receiving special invitations to LeftRoots programs, including our national LeftRoots HangOuts and local Branch events.

Your Compa contribution matters. Outside of the nonprofit structure, we are building a new kind of Left political organization funded more than 90% by Compa and Cadre membership dues and contributions. Cadre are now contributing between 1 to 5% of their annual income; and Compas have already contributed thousands of dollars. It is not a slogan to say that our capacity to grow nationally is entirely dependent upon you.

The LeftRoots Points of Unity - which you can read in full here - are uniting radicals, revolutionaries and social movement leftists across the country around a set of ideas that build upon lessons from grassroots people's struggles here in the US and internationally, and from the 20th Century socialist experiments:

SOCIALISM IS THE FUTURE! LET'S BUILD IT NOW! “Capitalism must go if humanity is to survive and if liberation is to be achieved…” END ALL OPPRESSION FOR LASTING HUMAN SOLIDARITY. “White supremacy, patriarchy, homophobia and other forms of oppression are deeply embedded in modern capitalism…” VICTORY WILL REQUIRE BOTH POPULAR MOVEMENTS AND AN ORGANIZED LEFT. “Liberation will only be achieved as a result of the power of the people…” STEWARDSHIP, NOT OWNERSHIP. INTERDEPENDENCE, NOT EXPLOITATION. “The planet is not a commodity to be possessed, owned and exploited by humanity for our own purposes. …” LIBERATION MUST CROSS ALL BORDERS. “All peoples around the globe have equal claim to justice and liberation… “ TRANSFORM SOCIETY, TRANSFORM OURSELVES. “The current order alienates us all from our ourselves, from our labor, from others and from the planet…” STRATEGY, NOT DOGMA, MUST BE OUR GUIDE. “Revolutionary movements must reflect the unique conditions of the nations in which they operate, which means that all effective movements must innovate…” Are you ready? We hope so! Because nobody from ruling class, nor any of their foundations, is chipping in to build a new Left organization led by organizers of color, committing to winning a society led for and by oppressed people and the working class. (And, we're not asking). It's up to all of us!

Always towards liberation.

in solidarity,

The LeftRoots Coordinating Committee

Alicia Garza, Maria Poblet, Timmy Lu, Josh Warren-White, Alex Tom, Cinthya Munoz, Steve Williams, N’Tanya Lee.

Strategy team

LeftRoots strategy team, October 2017.

Soya Jung back center. Maria Poblet front left N'Tanya Lee front center, Merle Ratner front second from right, Steve Williams, front right

Vietnam connection

In December, 2017, three LeftRoots cadres—Merle Ratner, N'Tanya Lee, and Rose Brewer—got to spend a few weeks on women’s delegation to Vietnam, one of the few surviving 20th century socialist experiments. On April 19, 2018, the three of them, along with LeftRoots compas and fellow delegates Cathy Dang and Juliet Ucelli, hosted a national LeftRoots hangOut to talk about their experience.

The delegation included US-based movement leaders from the labor movement, Black Lives Matter and national women’s organizations. It was hosted by the Vietnam Women's Union.

Vietnam Women's Union President H.E. Nguyen Thi Thu Ha and the American Women's delegation

LeftRoots HangOuts

LeftRoots HangOuts are national, online political education spaces for social movement leftists - revolutionaries and radicals engaged in frontline mass organizing, movement building, people's struggles - to have dialogue about critical left ideas and inspiring movement work collectively. Past HangOuts have featured Alicia Garza on Black Lives Matter, Marta Harnecker on 21st Century Socialism, George Ciccariello-Maher on Venezuela, comrades from MXGM & FRSO on Jackson Rising, and Sandra Moran on Grassroots Internationalist Feminisms, M. Adams, a Black Queer Wimmin, dad, political theorist, movement scientist and community organizer. She is the co-executive director of Freedom Inc. and co-founder of Young Gifted and Black Coalition in Madison, WI. Biju Mathew is Secretary of the National Taxi Workers Alliance and is active in developing transnational strategy to combat the religious right.

• Transformation of Self & Society with Raquel Lavina, Staci Haines & Spenta Kandawalla (2013.11.08)
• Venezuela & the Bolivarian Revolution with George Ciccariello-Maher (2014.04.03)
• Jackson Rising with Ash-Lee Henderson & Sacajawea Hall (2014.04.29)

LeftRoots HangOut with Willie Baptist

Please join LeftRoots Friday August 15th (2014) for our next HangOut with Willie Baptist about the importance of leadership, leadership development and understanding who the ruling class is and what their strategies are.

On May 1, 1990, the National Union of the Homeless (NUH) launched a nationally coordinated campaign taking over federally-owned houses in eight cities across the country. Willie Baptist, our guest on the next LeftRoots HangOut, was one of the organizers of the NUH.

Founded in 1985 by formerly homeless people, the Union was on the move in the late 1980s. At its height, the Homeless Union counted on 25 chapters with as many as 15,000 members. Then, through a combination of drugs, prison-sentencing and co-optation, the ruling class mounted a concerted effort to break the Union. The organization dissolved by 1993.

Willie Baptist is one of the best examples of a movement intellectual. Willie is a formerly homeless father who came out of the Watts Uprisings, the Black Student Movement and has been an organizer with the United Steelworkers as well as the National Union of the Homeless and the Kensington Welfare Rights Union. Today, Willie is the Scholar-in-Residence with the Poverty Initiative.

The LeftRoots CC: Alex Tom, Alicia Garza, Cinthya Munoz, Josh Warren-White, Maria Poblet, N’Tanya Lee, Steve Williams and Timmy Lu.

Ferguson report back HangOut

Resistance in Ferguson, led primarily by young Black people, has continued for more than two months, with direct action, organizing, base-building and other forms of resistance. To date, hundreds have been arrested seeking justice—organizers want to make sure there is not only not one more Mike Brown, but also not one more Darren Wilson.

LeftRoots sent a delegation to St. Louis to lend our support to the leaders from organizations like Millennial Activists United, Hands Up United, Organization for Black Struggle, and Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment. We know that to turn this from a moment into a movement, we will need to connect our seemingly isolated fights around gentrification, workers rights, police violence, education justice and more into a strong, resilient and connected movement that can transform our communities, our country and our world.

The program will include reflections from Alicia Garza, Neva Walker, Christine Cordero, Lucia Lin and Steve Williams as well as others who participated in the Weekend of Resistance.

Book talk with Jamala Rogers

518 Valencia St, San Francisco Sunday 7 February 2016, organized by Michelle Foy "Book talk with Jamala Rogers, founder of the St. Louis based Organization for Black Struggle & author of Ferguson is America: Roots of Rebel".

Jamala will explore the roots of the Ferguson Rebellion and the practical lessons for organizing.

"There is no algorithm, no theory that can predict when human rage reaches its boiling point. I wanted to expose to some and to remind others that there is another side of Ferguson, St. Louis County, USA that exists...if we work together in a respectful & disciplined way, a new Ferguson, St. Louis, & USA, is possible." —Jamala Rogers

Those signalling their intention to attend on Wherevent included Georgia Faye Hirsty, Melanie McCrea, Joe Navarro, Michelle Foy, Cynthia Fong, Gerald Lenoir, Fernando Marti, Lucia Aguilar-Navarro, Joyce Nakamura, Jeremy Gong, Jason Wallach, Andrew Rogge, Lucy Clarke, Colleen FitzSimons, Saima Hashimi, Rachel Rye Butler, Pam Tau Lee, Afomeia Tesfai, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Kari Riesgo Banuelos, Eva Martinez, Justin Tombolesi, Josh Warren-White, Kate Sorensen, Malkia Cyril, Lelia Gomez, Mark Prudowsky, N'Tanya Lee, Marcy Rein, Finley Coyl, Shina Riane, Ken Yamada, Dyan Ruiz, Nancy Wan, Sarah Jarmon, Mark McBeth, Leon Sun, Sabrina Cascos Peterson, Mary Sweeters, Eric See, Dani Gonzalez, Mashael Majid, Susan Weiss, Juan Gamboa, Jr., Amy Sonnie, Felicia Gustin, Mickey Ellinger, Betty Pazmino, Charlie Fredrick, Aimee Molina Cuellar, Becki Ming-Yoke Hom.

Sponsored by: Freedom Road Socialist Organization/Organización Socialista del Camino para la Libertad and LeftRoots.

"Education for Liberation"

Education for Liberation

Public · Hosted by LeftRoots and the Center for Political Education

Wednesday, November 15 at 7 PM - 9 PM PST

The Greenlining Institute, 360 14th St, Oakland, California 94612

Education for Liberation: The Role of Political Education in the PAIGC's Struggle for Independence and the Lessons for Today.

Center for Political Education and LeftRoots are proud to host a conversation with thinker and activist Sonia Vaz Borges. Sónia, who is of Cape Verdean descent, is a leading scholar on the education programs at the core of Amilcar Cabral's national liberation struggle in Cape Verde and Guinea Bissau during the 1960s and 70s. Sónia will help us develop a useful understanding of what militant education is, how it worked in the international struggle against colonialism in Africa, and its lessons for movement building today.

Steve Williams of LeftRoots and Rachel Herzing of the Center for Political Education will join Sónia to highlight some of the challenges and opportunities for theory, strategy, and unity facing our movements in the Bay Area and beyond.

Invited on Facebook

• Liz Cho
• Kendra Royster
• Ruben Leal
• Michael Siegel
• Tim O'Toole
• Danza Clara Doula
• Ellen Barry
• Septima Cabral
• Kimberly Craige
• Ibrahim Robert Haddad
• Darwin BondGraham
• Claude Marks
• Danny Murillo
• Makayla David
• Rosslyn Wuchinich
• Houman Barekat
• Nicole Hunt
• Angelique Marie Gonzales
• Michael Mullins
• David Cosca
• Gary Broderick
• Kana Azhari Healing Kitchen
• Dania Cabello
• Tania Chatterji
• Brandon K. Evans
• Ryan Nissim-Sabat
• Mordecai Cohen Ettinger
• Eric See
• Karen Gonzalez Pedraza
• Hamid Khan
• Amy Vanderwarker
• Annie Morgan
• Katharine Cristiani
• Casey Goonan
• Rosslyn Wuchinich
• Che Ma
• Daria Ovide
• Patricia Salazar
• MJ McClure
• Anisha Chemmachel
• Molly Porzig
• Andrew Cohen
• Van Sam
• Leilani Ann
• Alyssa Giachino
• Kazu Haga
• Mia House
• Emma Maria Worthington
• Richard Rodriguez-Leon
• Gloria Esteva
• Jessica Black
• Chris Dixon
• Dawn Phillips
• Princess Beverly Williams
• Strike San Fran
• Leslie Mullin
• Lalo Velasco
• Kay Kersplebedeb
• Ashoka Alvarez
• Kathleen Culhane
• Feng Kung
• Jose Palafox
• Amanda Bloom
• Dan Berger
• Neva Walker
• Jasmine Kiana
• Tara Adiseshan
• Ellen Brotsky
• BK Williams
• Dolores Canales
• Michael Mullins
• Kalexa Hella Zapantista
• Nicole Hunt
• Jenna Loyd
• Cpmp Valle
• Christina Loomis
• Freddy Gutierrez
• Z. Lula Haukeness
• Magatte Ayinde
• Sam Stoker
• Matthew Furshong
• Jason Negron-Gonzales
• Michelle Mascarenhas-Swan
• David Bacon
• BrookLynn SalsaBar
• Josh MacPhee
• Julia Amua Whaipooti
• Dan Siegel
• Adele Elele
• Hannah Ontiveros
• Dana Aleshire
• Swati Rayasam
• Sarah Baker
• Nisha Anand
• Monna Wong
• Marko Muir
• Camilo Sol Zamora
• Phil Hutchings
• Brendan Walsh
• Mimi Ho
• Tim Barnes
• Jonathan Nack
• Dylan V. Cooke
• Kawal Ulanday
• Khary L. Moye
• Trilce Santana
• Jeanelle Nicolas Ablola
• Mamie Chow
• Taina Vargas-Edmond
• Joss Taylor
• Rose Braz
• Antony Dugdale
• Jayden Donahue
• Spenta Kandawalla
• Cassandra Shaylor
• Brooke Terpstra
• Lee Strieb
• Newt Tran
• Malav Kanuga
• Marshall R. Trammell
• Amie Ruth
• Felwine Sarr
• Walter Riley
• James Tracy
• Harmony Goldberg
• Rahula Janowski
• Alicia Garza
• Bato Wato
• Jonathan Barnes
• Rob Mcb
• Paula Austin
• Tere Almaguer
• Roy San Filippo
• Amy Sonnie
• Don Misumi
• Cynthia Choi
• Ivy Climacosa
• Mabel Tsang
• Jaron Browne
• Bethany Holmes
• Nicole Zapata
• Sarah Reilly
• William Ramirez
• Aimee Suzara
• Donna Willmott
• Jack Aponte
• Stephen Rice
• Lori Hurlebaus
• Hannah Strange
• Terry Valen
• Adam Patten
• Nadia Khastagir
• Joel Tena
• Mary Agnes Sutton
• Liz Lee
• Charles Weigl
• Eddy Zheng
• Rama Ali Kased
• Giulio Salvador Noor Sorro
• Jim Kane
• Sami Kitmitto
• Jen-Mei Wu
• Lisa Taylor Aragbaye
• Jeff Perlstein
• Matt Larson
• Flora Zulli
• Calvin Cheung-Miaw
• Miya Yoshitani
• De Mi Alma
• Kitzia Esteva
• Diego AP
• Andrew Barney
• Katharine Cristiani
• Teju Naga
• Robbie Clark
• Mia Carbajal
• George Ciccariello-Maher
• Cinthya Oyolohtli
• Michelle Eskesen
• Carlos Manuel Martinez
• Danielle Marilyn West
• Kimi Lee
• Francesca Fiorentini
• Phoebe Barton
• Deirdre Tansey
• Maria Elena Corzo Allain
• Ivan Silva
• Clay Bear
• Andrew Wood
• Sakina Arsiwala
• J. Tyson Casey
• Shaw San Liu
• Walidah Imarisha
• Genevieve Negron-Gonzales
• Anita Johnson
• Hillary Ronen
• Genaro Lopez-Rendon
• Sanyika Bryant
• Danishta Rivero Castro
• Innosanto Nagara
• Ryan Nissim-Sabat
• Caitlyn Vassaur
• Chris Ealham
• Malkia Cyril
• Danielle Mahones
• Pedro Kapila
• Sarwang Parikh
• Ken Epstein
• Ashley Hunt
• Sameena Usman
• Martin Aranaydo
• Sarah Jarmon
• Sydney Fang
• Gopal Dayaneni
• Felicia Gustin
• Suzanne Shaffer
• Brent Plater
• Dunya 'Alwan
• Brian Helmle
• Rajasvini Bhansali
• Victor Chavez
• Charandev Singh
• Sally Hindman
• Gordon Mar
• Matt Ray
• John Murphy
• Michelle Foy
• Michael Kaib
• Aditi Rao
• Scott Braley
• Adam Gold
• Mickey Ellinger
• Anasuya Sengupta
• Phuong Quach
• Sara Kershnar
• Wei Lee
• Serena Arge
• Ria Merian
• Kate Jessica Raphael
• Cece Carpio
• Supriya Lopez Pillai
• Maria Poblet
• Ben Hadley
• Robert Naylor
• George Galvis
• Ayoka Turner
• Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi
• Lily Wang
• Fernando Marti
• Yakira Teitel
• Siri Margerin
• RJ Maccani
• Margi Clarke
• Lian Alan
• Anantha Sudhakar
• Malachi Garza
• Saarika Sharma
• Eleanor M. Sananman
• Richard Healey
• Erica Marcus
• Maurice Moe Mitchell
• Nora Barrows-Friedman
• Maeve Kerry
• Kasi Chakravartula
• Gurinder Singh Wadhwa
• Pam Tau Lee
• Steven Pitts
• Robynn Takayama
• Poonam Whabi
• Sarah Lazare
• Nihar Kirtidev Bhatt
• Camilo Gaston-greenberg
• Mia Birdsong
• Christine Ahn
• Laura Y. Liu
• Angie Junck
• Brian Edwards-Tiekert
• Liz Samuels
• Erin Gray
• Linda M. Thurston
• Cat Brooks
• Seth Newton Patel
• Kazembe Balagun
• Christine G. Cordero
• Chelsea Boilard
• Yoel Bitran
• Ali Issa
• Liz Derias-Tyehimba
• Melissa Crosby
• Ian Fay
• Tash Nguyen
• Le Tim Ly
• Vincent Pan
• Ariana Gil BC
• Harjit Singh Gill
• Armael Bulawin Malinis
• Gregory Sempervirens
• David Langstaff
• Lacey Hunter
• Stacey Milbern
• Ken Wang
• Mari Posa
• Sarah McDermott
• Jesse Frederick
• Bhav Tibrewal
• Ajay Tallam
• Molly Jane
• Chika Okoye
• Kamau Walton
• Heather M. O'Brien
• Rebecca Ming-Yoke Hom
• Eli Isaacs
• Hajra Ahmed
• Jessica Choy
• Tuhina Rasche
• Nathaniel Moore
• Layidua Salazar
• Sagnicthe Salazar
• Saara Ahmed
• Hill Arielle
• KS Peters
• Ritika Aggarwal
• Bill Hogan
• KellyLou Densmore
• Kori Saika Chen
• Dylan Rodriguez
• Kayan Cheung-Miaw
• AJ Pluss
• Sarah Lyons
• Becca Tumposky
• Jason Serko
• Sophia Simon-Ortiz
• Lucas Guilkey
• Isaac Leviathon
• David Stein
• Jen Prather Ontiveros
• Teresa Cheng
• Lucia Luz Libre Kimble
• Lu Lin
• Mashael Majid
• Emily Harris
• Reem Assil
• Mike Bishop
• Alexis Wielunski
• Juan Garcia
• Melanie Cervantes
• Samantha Rajapaksa
• Ellen Choy
• M. Solis Whelan
• Jesse Stout
• Kristin Campbell
• Marie B. Choi
• Timmy Lu
• Linda Lee
• Mario Yedidia
• Toussaint Losier
• Julia Wong

Interested

• Carolina Rain
• Claudette Colvin
• Michael Gasser
• Edan Eugene
• Loren Fulcher
• Christina Heatherton
• Alma Blackwell
• Chance Grable
• Alvin Akira Alinea Rosales
• Nikita Mitchell
• Nancy Pants
• Nick DeRenzi
• Pamela Joan Baez
• Anna Lei
• Brock Baker
• Lidia Salazar
• Tristen Schmidt
• Ev Bendek
• Monique Luz Koller
• Ricky Saenz
• DN Liu
• Wolfman Aguirre
• Madeleine McCarthy
• Mikela French
• Mei-ying Williams
• Vanessa Moses
• Sue Taylor
• Nuri Pie
• John Torok
• Andrew Kodama
• Regan Brashear
• Deirdre Elmansoumi
• Sameer Dossani
• Linh Linh Trinh
• Jonathan Feingold
• Cecilia Cissell Lucas
• Brooke Anderson
• Lisa Moore
• Erica Shane
• Joyce Xi
• Navkiran Kaur
• Yousef Baker
• Nicole Deane
• Neda Said
• Mimi Kim
• Akinyele Sadiq
• Elena Yesno
• Max Airborne
• Lulu Palestina
• Caroline Truong
• Abel Eissimed
• Irma Shauf-Bajar
• Karen Zapata
• Nichola Torbett
• Anne Deane Berman
• Alex T. Tom
• Heather Appel
• Rohit Upadhya
• Sabiha Basrai
• Shira Shaham
• Dawn Haney
• Amy YL
• Jason Ferreira
• Karen Ta
• Adrienne Fong
• Alegria Barclay
• Michael Pineschi
• Vida Kuang
• Sacha Maniar
• Lily AH
• Torin Coffino
• Suzanne Vyborney
• Joanne Tien
• Eric Mar
• Venuri Siriwardane
• Vignesh Ram
• Martina Does
• Sonya Mehta
• Pete Woiwode
• Shaun Kennedy
• Vivian Liang
• Cesar Rodriguez
• Tony Marks-Block
• Paige Amanda Kumm
• Nicole Wires
• Diana Wu

Went

• Mariam Ali
• Sharif Zakout
• Marc Mascarenhas-Swan
• Beatriz Adriana Sanchez
• Jensine Sultana
• Lemy Garcia
• Shokka King
• Leticia Arce
• Steve Williams
• N’Tanya Lee
• Craig Gilmore
• Sadieh AbdalJawwad
• Adrian Leong
• Shari Davis
• Julieta Murga Kusnir
• Najla Gomez
• Paula Miranda
• Ginny Browne
• Helena Wong
• Jason Wallach
• Marcy Rein
• Erika Vivianna Cespedes
• Sonia Vaz Borges
• Ari Clemenzi
• Jay Conui
• Jennifer Phung
• Carmen L. JovFig
• Josh Warren-White
• Troya Ouroboros
• Lara Kiswani
• Vivian Yi Huang
• Scott Sellers
• Levana Saxon
• Ying-sun Ho
• Jamilah Bradshaw

LeftRoots 1 year anniversary!

Chelsea Boilard November 7, 2014 ·

LeftRoots 1 year anniversary!

Likes Beatriz Vargas-Zenteno, Catherine Marroquin, Lorraine Hanks, Ligia Montano, N'Tanya Lee, Tami Bryant, Mahnani Clay,Nicole Plata, Nato Green, Alex Tom, Ayoka Turner, Kimberly Dorthea, Natalia Vigil, Chery Mena, Pam Tau Lee, Belinda Bellinger, Ken Wang, Chris Longenecker, Maria Ixchel Zamudio.