Friday, August 07, 2009

Media Cover Up of American Socialist Leaders



They are America's largest socialist organization. Their mission:
We are socialists because we reject an international economic order sustained by private profit, alienated labor, race and gender discrimination, environmental destruction, and brutality and violence in defense of the status quo.
Here's the leadership of the Democratic Socialists of America:
National Political Committee

Theresa Alt
Virginia Franco
David Green
Michael Hirsch
Barbara Joye
David Knuttunen
Simone Morgen
Michele Rossi
Joseph Schwartz
Timothy Sears
Herbert Shore
John Strauss
Corey Walker

Honorary Chairs

Bogdan Denitch
Barbara Ehrenreich
Dolores Huerta
Eliseo Medina
Eugene "Gus" Newport
Frances Fox Piven
Gloria Steinem
Cornel West

Vice-Chairs

Elaine Bernard
Edward Clark
Jose LaLuz
Steve Max
Harold Meyerson
Maxine Phillips
Christine Riddiough
Rosemary Ruether
Joseph Schwartz
Ruth Spitz
Motl Zelmanowicz
How many times have you seen Professor Cornel West referred to as a socialist by the NYT? Is the Washington Post afraid to identify columnist Harold Meyerson as a socialist leader? Ever seen feminist icon Gloria Steinem referred to as a socialist by Time or Newsweek?