Matt Maresca
Labor organizer with NYC-DSA's Labor Working Group and political organizer at Doctors Council SEIU, advocating for the Delivery Protection Act against Amazon's subcontracting model.
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Oct 10, 2026
Garrison DavisHOST
What has the organizing around this bill, uh, looked like on the ground and also, you know, in the digital sphere?
Matt MarescaGUEST
On our end, so as the labor working group, we've really been focused on, uh, a large scale canvassing operation for the bill.
Matt MarescaGUEST
Um, we printed a lot of literature with her face on it, demanding that she get onto the bill, and, uh, she immediately got on.
Matt MarescaGUEST
So I have about four thousand pieces of literature that I can no longer use, which is a, a good problem to have.
Matt MarescaGUEST
Uh, since then, we made new lit that doesn't have anyone's face on it because we've been flipping more council members.
19 MINS LATER
Garrison DavisHOST
But she's not the only one who's changed tune since DSA and the Teamsters upped their organizing this summer.
Garrison DavisHOST
What has the organizing around this bill, uh, looked like on the ground and also, you know, in the digital sphere?
Matt MarescaGUEST
On our end, so as the labor working group, we've really been focused on A large scale canvassing operation for the bill.
Matt MarescaGUEST
Um, we printed a lot of literature with her face on it, demanding that she get onto the bill, and, uh, she immediately got on.
Matt MarescaGUEST
So I have about 4,000 pieces of literature that I can no longer use, which is a, a good problem to have.
Matt MarescaGUEST
Uh, since then we made new lit that doesn't have anyone's face on it because we've been flipping more council members.
19 MINS LATER
Garrison DavisHOST
But she's not the only one who's changed tune since DSA and the Teamsters upped their organizing this summer.
Garrison DavisHOST
What has the organizing around this bill, uh, looked like on the ground and also, you know, in the digital sphere?
Matt MarescaGUEST
On our end, so as the labor working group, we've really been focused on, uh, a large scale canvassing operation for the bill.
Matt MarescaGUEST
Um, we printed a lot of literature with her face on it, demanding that she get onto the bill, and, uh, she immediately got on.
Matt MarescaGUEST
So I have about four thousand pieces of literature that I can no longer use, which is a, a good problem to have.
Matt MarescaGUEST
Uh, since then, we made new lit that doesn't have anyone's face on it because we've been flipping more council members.
25 MINS LATER
Garrison DavisHOST
But she's not the only one who's changed tune since DSA and the Teamsters upped their organizing this summer.