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Claudia De la Cruz and Karina Garcia are running for President and Vice-President of the United States on the ticket of the Party for Socialism and Liberation.

Claudia de la Cruz was born and raised in the South Bronx, New York to immigrant Dominican parents. As a teenager, she regularly participated in campaigns calling for an end to the U.S. blockade in Cuba and calling out police terror. While completing her degree in forensic psychology at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, a City University of New York college, de la Cruz helped create Palenque. Palenque was a group focused on bringing together young people to study the history of struggles and resistance by marginalized groups. During the Iraq War, de la Cruz organized some of these members as well as church members to rally against the war. She also helped found Da Urban Butterflies, a youth leadership development project for women from Washington Heights and the Bronx. Later on, de la Cruz co-founded The People’s Forum in New York City, a place dedicated to making space for working-class people. De la Cruz is also a mother and a pastor for the United Church of Christ, a Christian denomination that has historically been involved in social justice work.

Karina Garcia grew up in East Harlem, also known as El Barrio, in New York, as well as California. She attended Columbia University on a full scholarship and organized fellow students to speak out against the U.S. invasion of Iraq and to advocate for immigrant rights. After completing a degree in economics, Garcia became a high school math teacher in New York City. During that time, she advised a student group on issues like police brutality and school budget cuts. In 2012, she took up an organizing position at the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice. She is also a mother and writer for Breaking the Chains, a feminist and socialist magazine under the PSL.

The Party for Socialism and Liberation is comprised of leaders and activists, workers and students, of all backgrounds. Organized in branches across the country, their mission is to link the everyday struggles of oppressed and exploited people to the fight for a new world.

The Party for Socialism and Liberation believes that the only solution to the deepening crisis of capitalism is the socialist transformation of society. Driven by an insatiable appetite for ever greater profits regardless of social cost, capitalism is on a collision course with the people of the world and the planet itself. Imperialist war; deepening unemployment and poverty; deteriorating health care, housing and education; racism; discrimination and violence based on gender and sexual orientation; environmental destruction—all are inevitable products of the capitalist system itself.

For the great majority of people in the world, including tens of millions of workers in the United States, conditions of life and work are worsening. There is no prospect that this situation can or will be turned around under the existing system.

The idea that the capitalists’ grip on society and their increasingly repressive state can be abolished through any means other than a revolutionary overturn is an illusion. Equally unrealistic are reformist hopes for a “kinder, gentler” capitalism, or solutions based on economic decentralization or small group autonomy. Meeting the needs of the more than 6.5 billion people who inhabit the planet today is impossible without large-scale agriculture and industry and economic planning.

The fundamental problems confronting humanity today flow from the reality that most of the world’s productive wealth—the product of socialized labor and nature—is privately owned and controlled by a tiny minority. This minority decides what will be produced and what will not. Its decisions are based on making profits rather than meeting human needs.

There are really only two choices for humanity today—an increasingly destructive capitalism, or socialism

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      • someone [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        18 days ago

        Shit. Well I’m out of ideas.

        I kid! Here’s some of mine. Now my tastes run pretty artsy, so these are more like “movies with quality scripts and acting that inspire the same feelings of isolation and fear as Alien”. But maybe there’s something on here that you’d like.

        First off, “From Beyond”. Made by, and starring, most of the same people as Re-Animator. If you only watch one of these movies, make it this one. Re-Animator walked so that From Beyond could soar. This is a masterpiece of horror. Lovecraftian things are afoot. A scientist and his lab assistant (Jeffrey Combs giving 100%!) are working on a device that, when powered on, allows our universe to co-exist with another. We can see Them, and They can see us. The first test ends with the scientist dead and the lab assistant as a gibbering wreck in a mental hospital as the only murder suspect. The police have no idea what to do, so the lab assistant is released to the custody of a psychiatrist of questionable ethics (Barbara Crampton giving 100%!). A cop (Ken Foree giving 100%!) joins them to supervise as they all stay at the house where the experiments took place. Things go very badly - just assume all the CWs. But holy cow, this is Barbara Crampton’s crowning glory. That woman is absolutely fearless and she stole every scene she was in.

        “2001: A Space Odyssey”. There’s some deep cosmic horror lurking under the surface. Nothing’s going to wrap itself around our gallant astronauts’ faces but there’s unseen terror a-plenty. And it’s co-written by Arthur C. Clarke himself, so you know the writing is going to be good and be loaded with Troubling Unresolved Questions And Doubts About Humanity’s Safety In The Universe.

        “Forbidden Planet”. Yes, it’s a 1950s science fiction movie. But the effects have mostly held up, and the script has absolutely held up. Star Trek meets Shakespeare’s The Tempest. But again, that hidden cosmic horror factor is at work - and sometimes not hiding at all.

        Neco z Alenky, a Czech mostly-stop-motion adaptation of the classic Lewis Carroll Alice stories. It’s the right kind of adaptation - the events are completely different and original, so you’re still on edge waiting to see what happens. But the tone is perfect. It all feels like what Carroll would have written himself if he had been born 100 years later. The stop-motion work for the non-Alice taxidermy characters (Alice is played by a real little girl) is disturbing bordering on frightening. It looks so wrong for a dead stuffed rabbit with glass eyes to move the way it moves or to have the changing facial expressions it does.