Daria Liza Avila Chevalier

Like, let's make action when others talk about action.

And that partnership between PeerTalk, America Warrior Partnership, and all of those that are supporting it has been just hands down so amazing.

We have a terror warning in Northern Virginia.

Radical Islam has designs openly on the West.

The FBI thwarted a terror plot on New Year's Eve.

Violence attack over the Halloween weekend in Michigan.

Protests on college campuses showing no signs of stopping.

I'm Maria Lisa Avila Chevalier, and I'll defend New York by abolishing ICE.

I'm Claire Valdez, and I'll stand up against bad landlords and greedy corporations.

I came to my politics of socialism, democratic socialism through a race system.

lens, right?

I was doing a lot of reading of the Black radical tradition.

I was doing a lot of organizing around ending mass incarceration, around immigration justice.

I was part of BYP100, Black Youth Project 100, Families for Freedom doing immigration justice organizing, and a number of other organizations around racial justice and economic justice.

And even my research, my doctoral research is around a lot of these issues.

And

For me, racial justice and economic justice have always been inextricable.

And that is how I came to a politics of socialism, right?

That phrase, yes.

I still believe that all deportations are wrong.