The attendees were volunteers, and their mission was to phone-bank registered voters and ask if they supported taxing the rich. “Big statewide energy,” Stephanie Lemieux, from Brooklyn, wrote.
The call’s chat box filled up with names, pronouns, and affiliations, including ten different New York chapters of the Democratic Socialists of America (the rose is the group’s logo), from Buffalo to Nassau County. on a recent Sunday, faces and distinctive red-rose graphics began appearing in the windows of a Zoom meeting, as Pete Seeger’s “Which Side Are You On?” played in the background.
