Eugene Puryear
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Born | (1986-02-28) February 28, 1986 (age 38) |
Alma mater | Howard University |
Occupation(s) | Journalist, activist |
Political party | D.C. Statehood Green Party, Party for Socialism and Liberation |
Eugene Puryear (born February 28, 1986, in Charlottesville, Virginia) is an American journalist, writer, activist, politician, and host on BreakThrough News. In 2014, he was a candidate for the at-large seat in the DC Council with the D.C. Statehood Green Party. In the 2008 and 2016 United States presidential elections, Puryear was the vice presidential nominee of the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL).[1]
In 2014, Puryear ran as a D.C. Statehood Green Party candidate for the At-Large City Council seat held at the time by Anita Bonds.[2] His campaign put forward a 10-point program, which describes some of the policy positions taken by Puryear. On April 1, 2014, Puryear won the party's nomination, defeating G. Lee Aikin 67.3%–25.1%.[3] On November 4, 2014, Puryear placed sixth out of 14 candidates in the general election.[4]
Puryear wrote the book Shackled and Chained: Mass Incarceration in Capitalist America, which was published by PSL Publications.[5] Among the book's innovative contributions is a critique of Michelle Alexander's "The New Jim Crow," because it doesn't attend to the historical transformations of white supremacy and capitalism. He stated that mass incarceration "is a political and state response to the masses of Black people being thrown out of the productive process altogether," whereas "slavery and Jim Crow were designed around Black people actually laboring."[6]
Puryear writes regularly for Liberation News, the newspaper of the Party for Socialism and Liberation.[7] He has co-edited some of the PSL's books, such as Imperialism in the 21st Century: Updating Lenin's Theory a Century Later.[8] He was the host of the daily political talk show By Any Means Necessary, on Russian government-owned Radio Sputnik. He is currently the host of the shows The Freedom Side LIVE and the Punch Out on BreakThrough News.[9] Additionally, he taught a 4-part digital course for Liberation School titled, "Black Struggle is Class Struggle," which analyzes Black Revolutionary History in the United States and its central role in the development of U.S. society.[10]
Puryear studied at Howard University, where he became a lead organizer with the anti-war ANSWER coalition[11] and has helped organize large protests against the Israeli blockade of Gaza.[12] Puryear and the ANSWER coalition were involved in the campaign to free the Jena 6.[13] As a freshman at Howard in 2005, Puryear was interviewed by The Washington Post as an "activist-in-training" and cited his engagement with activism against gentrification, racism, the US occupation of Iraq and other issues.[14]
Puryear has been deeply involved in the Black Lives Matter movement.[15]
On October 8, 2023, the day after the Re'im music festival massacre, Puryear helped organize a rally in support of Palestine in Times Square. He stated during a speech, “And as you might have seen, there was some sort of rave or desert party where they were having a great time, until the resistance came in electrified hang gliders and took at least several dozen hipsters, and I’m sure they’re doing very fine despite what the New York Post says,” referring to the Hamas massacre of civilians at a music festival. [16][17][18][19]
In2008, Puryear ran on the Party for Socialism and Liberation's ticket alongside presidential nominee Gloria La Riva. The La Riva/Puryear slate was on the ballot in six states and received 6,818 total votes.[20]
In July 2015, Puryear was announced as the running mateofGloria La Riva, the Party for Socialism and Liberation's 2016 presidential nominee. However, he was not eligible to hold the office, as he would not have been at least 35 years old by Inauguration Day.[21] He was critical of the Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.[22]
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Eugene Puryear, who helped organize the event in behalf of the A.N.S.W.E.R. coalition, said the absence of the NY-DSA politicians at the event was telling.
Eugene Puryear: "The whole reason I'm yelling is because the powers that be in New York City and New York state don't want this rally to happen.
One of the protesters, named Eugene Puryear, said that city authorities "don't want us to have any sound amplifiers because they don't want the people of New York to hear us because they don't want people to know that the Palestinians are right to oppose to the occupation. Resistance to apartheid is not terrorism," he said.
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