We Get What We Organize For: Smith Foundry UpdateÂ
By Twin Cities DSA
/ June 11, 2024
Background Smith Foundry is an iron foundry that manufactures iron castings in the East Phillips neighborhood of South Minneapolis. Smith…
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Saturday July 27
- 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
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Casual Pickup Basketball
Weekly informal basketball pickup game with comrades. All skill/experience levels welcome.Check out the basketball Slack channel for details/event confirmation each week:Â #socialists-play-sports-basketball
RSVP: https://secure.everyaction.com/WdomAyGaZEWY6nsyOu936w2 - 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM
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Ice Cream Socialism
Building community is integral to building socialism, and what better way to get to know each other than over ice cream! RSVP here so we know how much ice cream to get! All are welcome, members and non-members alike. We will be at the South Picnic Tables – Approx.1300 E 35th St, Minneapolis, MN 55407.
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RSVP:Â https://secure.everyaction.com/E6n7pnmAm06vvvQbIxbgbQ2
Sunday July 28
- 9:30 AM – 11:30 AM
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Pickup Volleyball
Join us for an informal beach volleyball pickup game with comrades. All skill/experience levels welcome. Check out the volleyball Slack channel for details/event confirmation: #socialists-play-sports-beachvolleyballÂ
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Meet at the Theodore Wirth beach volleyball courts next to Wirth Lake beach. - 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
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Office Open Hours
Our chapter office will be open for members to drop in! Come on by to hang out, use the printer, read or check out books in the library, and more!
Our office is located on the first floor in Suite # 3
- 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
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Street Corps Working Group General Meeting
TCDSA Office (conference center) 1600 University Ave W
Saint Paul, MN 55104 - 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
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Solidarity Culture Summer Reading Series: Elite Capture
This is a recurring hybrid meeting in the front office of the TCDSA office so as not to conflict with coffee hours.
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Join members of the Solidarity Culture Committee for a casual book discussion around Olufemi O. Taiwo’s Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else). Happening Sundays weekly from 11am to 12, July 7th to July 28th
In-Person RSVP: https://secure.everyaction.com/PjgxHkJHsUezMAdPpusy9A2
Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0sf-ugqzwuHtAe2oYfGpc5cXeTAWVKeS_S#/registration - 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
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Priority-Setting Chapter-Wide Discussions: A Summer Series (LABOR)
This is a series of five topical chapter-wide discussions to help prepare members for advancing and choosing priorities during our September convention. Sessions will be recorded so that all members will have access to these discussions regardless of whether they can attend in person.
There will be a half hour training on chapter priorities before each discussion.
RSVP ->Â https://secure.everyaction.com/OTtT-KD71UqDFmrwzlLHmw2
- 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
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Camp Nenokaasi Support
A group of TCDSA members come to camp Nenokaasi every Sunday afternoon to help with food prep, doing dishes, cleaning, yurt construction, talking with residents and neighbors, building relationships, and connect immediate needs with a wider housing justice political program/policy.Â
Join the signal thread here:Â https://signal.group/#CjQKIJdN81U0ezdoPCzUhCYK3ieSb8-ikX-q6bdGWr24g–KEhC3pCxat2rA1pCo4aZ6FB1n
- 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
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United Front Committee Meeting
Meeting of the chapters United Front Committee.
We will be discussing new orgs to invite and nailing down the specifics of how we want to see this United Front operate!
Monday July 29
- 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
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Environmental Justice Meeting
This will be an outdoor hangout and meeting of TCDSA Environmental Justice Working Group. We will check in on our current EJ campaigns (HERC Incinerator, I-94, Camp Nenokaasi, Smith Foundry), and maybe planning some future EJ Political Education topics. All are welcome, come as you are!