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The Michael Derry Show is on the air.

The sun may have set over our city this evening, but as Eugene Debs once said, I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity.

I am young, despite my best efforts to grow older.

I am Muslim.

I am a democratic socialist.

And most damning of all, I refuse to apologize for any of this.

We have to continue to elect more socialists, and we have to ensure that we are unapologetic

about our socialism.

There are also other issues that we firmly believe in, whether it's BDS or whether it's the

end goal of Seasons and Production.

I am a Democratic Socialist.

I also wouldn't be the first Democratic Socialist mayor.

We've had a number. And we've even had a mayor who was a member of the Democratic Socialist of America. That's David Dinkins.

You know, not just a few decades ago. And people ask me, how can this interact with New York City being the home of global finance?

And I say my focus as a democratic socialist is ensuring that every New Yorker lives a dignified life.

We can establish community land trusts to gradually buy up housing on the private market and convert it to community ownership.

We can give tenants to write a first refusal to buy out their landlords when buildings go up for sale.

And we can fully commit to a new era of social housing.

Ending subsidies for luxury housing development and using our wealth to build beautiful, high-quality social housing projects

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