NYC DSA chapter moving into luxe new digs — as nepo baby Gustavo Gordillo and comrade secure cushy salaries

The New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America is ditching its dingy Lower East Side headquarters and spending $22,000 a month on two new offices — in Midtown and Bed-Stuy.

Co-chair Grace Mausser broke the news to her comrades at a recent meeting, as she presented the chapter’s budget — while also making the case for giving embattled co-chair Gustavo Gordillo and herself $95,000 salaries each.

The new Manhattan office is in a 14-story building on West 35th Street in Hudson Yards, complete with a doorman, 24/7 security and furnished rooftop. At $15,000 a month, it will be the chapter’s second-largest monthly expense — after Mausser and Gordillo’s salaries.

The socialists — who regularly rail against landlords — didn’t seem to have any qualms renting from one of Gotham’s biggest and most controversial real estate developers as they moved to deluxe digs in the sky.

Their new landlord, the Chetrit family, has faced class-action lawsuits from Brooklyn tenants for allegedly skirting rent-stabilization laws.

The DSA is scheduled to hold a first meeting in the stylish space, an entire floor spanning 5,150 square feet, on Sept. 27.

“Nothing says ‘we hate capitalism’ like sitting in a high-rise Midtown boardroom cosplaying as extras in Succession,” quipped former NYC Council minority leader Joe Borelli.

From https://www.dsausa.org/washing-our-hands-of-data-harvesting-part-i/

...The point of these anecdotes is not to give you anything approaching an overview of the true scale and stakes of data harvesting. Trust me, take what you assume it is and double it, at least.

Instead, my hope is that these anecdotes have left a germ of discomfort that might, now or in the future, grow into an awareness of what data harvesting really is. Mundane data harvesting, even when done the ‘proper’ way, reaches into the most intimate aspects of our lives (such as a teenager’s pregnancy). When this data is poorly secured, it can expose any number of secrets (just ask Ashley Madison’s users). Moreover, data harvesting is practically ubiquitous across the all levels of the internet (see Firefox’s 450 billion trackers blocked, and AWS’s monopoly on internet infrastructure). Our data can be put to the most disparate purposes, many of which we have no idea about (both smart cars and a ‘smart’ police state). And given the capitalist hellscape we’re living in, the companies overseeing this mundane data harvesting are actively incentivized to be as indescriminant as possible with our data (that’s how they make their trillions of dollars).

Instead of Vanderbilts or Morgans or Rockefellers, today we have Bezoses, Gateses, Pages and Brins, Jobses and Cooks. At the turn of the 20th century, the robber barons were the point of the capitalist spear subverting true democracy at home and abroad. If we’re not careful, these new data barons will do the same for the turn of the 21st century.

Not so fast, DSA. I took your advice, assumed it is BS, halved it and still came up with these add-ons.

Lee S Halprin his widow, Abby Rockefeller and DSA; imperfect together

Fromhttps://www.influencewatch.org/person/lee-halprin/

Halprin and his wife Abby Rockefeller hosted a fundraiser for Council for a Livable World and Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. 10 The event featured U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Obama administration foreign policy advisor Sarah Sewall. Halprin also gave money to Council for a Livable World’s project PeacePAC, which has exclusively supported Democratic candidates. 11

Lee Halprin was on the board of the David Rockefeller Fund, a Rockefeller family-associated grantmaking nonprofit. 12 David Rockefeller Fund supports left-of-center advocacy groups, including National People’s Action, Appalachian Voices, and Center for Constitutional Rights. 13

From https://capitalresearch.org/article/lee-halprin-who-funds-both-socialists-and-liberals/

...He is also a major funder of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the largest socialist political organization in the United States. In a 2016 magazine piece, the DSA recognized Halprin’s role in supporting their “Anti-capitalist Capital Campaign.”

The DSA has endorsed more than 60 elected officials at the local through federal levels. Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) are members of the group. Ocasio-Cortez, Tlaib, and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) were each endorsed by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC), to which Halprin has given $18,000. Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), the fourth member of the “Squad,” has received money from Halprin since 2009. Halprin has also given to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) over the years.

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