Shane Darby
Shane Darby is a Delaware activist. Delaware Democratic Socialists of America member. She is the founder of Black Mothers in Power, has been a vocal advocate for police reform, reproductive justice, and the Black Lives Matter movement, and is a young, dynamic voice for change. She also has experience working from the very bottom up in politics-before she was a city councilwoman, she worked with Co-Chair Jonathan Tate while they attended Temple University together in the Residence Hall Association!
Education
Shane Darby studied at Temple University, earning a Bachelor's Degree in Mass Communication & African Studies and a Master's Degree in Africana Studies.
'Black and Palestinian Solidarity'
Moderator Councilman Shane Darby. Speakers Rob Abel, Dr. Amer Zahr, Jeffrey Richardson, Rep. Madinah Wilson-Anton.
DSA support Shane Darby
Jonathan Tate, Shane Darby, James Dahlke.
2024 DSA re-endorsement
Okinawa letter
October 31, 2022 more than 40 US elected officials, apparently all members of Democratic Socialists of America signed a letter to Jack Reed, Chairman, Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate/
- We, the undersigned civil society groups, write to make urgent requests regarding the Japanese and U.S. governments' plan to construct a U.S. military base at Henoko-Oura Bay in Okinawa, promoted as a replacement facility for the U.S. Marine Corps Futenma Air Station located in the middle of Ginowan City on Okinawa Island (FRF project)...We ask the U.S. Congress to review the FRF construction plan with the same integrity and determination that it has shown in protecting the coastal and ocean environments of the United States.
Signatories included Shane Darby, Delaware State Representative (DE), as well as Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, World BEYOND War, The Red Nation, Nodutdol, Center for Biological Diversity, Worker Communist Party of Iraq, CODEPINK, New York Peace Council, Democratic Socialists of America International Committee. and many others.[1]
Delaware DSA endorsement
Delaware Democratic Socialists of America endorsement 2022.
Bans Off Our Bodies Rally
Delaware Democratic Socialists of America May 14 2022.
It was great to see so many of our elected officials out at the Bans Off Our Bodies Rally in Wilmington today, including DSA members Councilwoman Shane Darby and Rep. Madinah Wilson-Anton, DSA-endorsed Sen. Marie Pinkney, as well as Rep. Melissa Minor-Brown, Lt. Gov. Bethany Hall-Long, and Sen. Kyle Evans Gay (not pictured). Thank all of you so much for coming out and for using your voices to fight back against this GOP-packed Supreme Court’s unprecedented attack on abortion rights!
Scarane's slate
TIn 2020 Delaware US Senate candidate and Delaware Democratic Socialists of America member Jess Scarane, ran a a slate of several candidates against the Delaware Democratic Party establishment. The slate, backed by the Working Families Party, includes two candidates for Wilmington City Council (Shane Darby in the 2nd District and Coby Owens in the 1st), three state House candidates (Eric Morrison, Madinah Wilson-Anton, and Larry Lambert), and a state Senate candidate Marie Pinkney).[2]
Delaware DSA endorsements
I’m imploring Delawareans to vote in these upcoming primaries for candidates who support universal health care. I’m supporting candidates who support Medicare for all:
- Jess Scarane for US Senator,
- Marie Pinkney, Delaware State Senate District 13
- Larry Lambert, Delaware House of Representatives District 7
- Madinah Wilson-Anton, Delaware House of Representatives District 26
- Eric Morrison, Delaware House of Representatives District 27
- Coby Owens, Wilmington City Council District 1
- Shane Darby, Wilmington City Council District 2
All of them are endorsed by the newly-formed forming Delaware Chapter of Democratic Socialists of America: an organization I’m proud to help stand up in my community. I’m urging all my neighbors to vote for universal health care and only support and vote for candidates who are willing to support Medicare for all and universal health care.