Today the PTA, tomorrow the world.<\/p>\n
The city DSA issued<\/a> a rallying cry for its members to infiltrate parent and community groups \u2013 as they fight to push their agenda through government \u201cenemies\u201d including Gov. Kathy Hochul.<\/p>\n The newly emboldened local chapter of the far-Democratic Socialists of America is pushing its members in a takeover of \u201clower-level\u201d government entities to supercharge their far-left policies under the new face of their movement, mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.<\/p>\n Members of New York City\u2019s DSA are urging members to take over \u201clower-level\u201d entities, such as community boards and PTAs\/ Instagram\/nycdsa<\/p>\n \u2018[W]e must plug Zohran organizers and supporters into lower-level city institutions en masse,\u201d NYC-DSA co-chair Grace Mausser wrote in the magazine \u201cJacobin,\u201d<\/a> which dubs itself as the \u201cleading voice of the American left.<\/p>\n \u201cNew York City has hundreds of small semigovernmental bodies that are typically ceded to less progressive forces, such as community boards, and parent-teacher associations and community education councils,\u201d she continued in the manifesto, published weeks before Mamdani takes office.<\/p>\n Mausser urged the nearly 12,000 members, as well as other Mamdani supporters, to take advantage of volunteer spots at libraries and parks if they can\u2019t nab a city seat.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have the opportunity to create a sense of mass ownership over the city and build support for Zohran\u2019s agenda from the bottom of city government to the top,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n NYC-DSA co-chair Grace Mausser told members to take advantage of volunteer spots throughout the city. Michael Nagle<\/p>\n