
Chi Ossé: Why I Became a Socialist
After years of fighting austerity, real estate, and machine politics from inside city hall, I joined the Democratic Socialists of America because only a mass movement can make those fights winnable.
Chi Ossé is the council member for New York City’s Thirty-Sixth District, representing Bedford-Stuyvesant and North Crown Heights.

After years of fighting austerity, real estate, and machine politics from inside city hall, I joined the Democratic Socialists of America because only a mass movement can make those fights winnable.