East Phillips Urban Farm
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Twin Cities DSA Little Red Letter #110: UPS, Starbucks, Half Price Books, Delta, Organizing Everywhere and More!
UPS, Starbucks, Half Price Books, Delta, Organizing Everywhere and More!
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Twin Cities DSA Little Red Letter #109: What’s in the News, Making the Most of Summer, Finding Joy in the Fight, and More!
Twin CitiesDemocratic Socialists of America Little Red Letter #109 What’s in the News, Making the Most of Summer, Finding Joy in the Fight, and More! First off, something a little different in this edition. All the normal headlines you would find here are posted to this article, also in the featured news section. This includes…
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Twin Cities DSA Little Red Letter #108: Starting off Summer – Open Streets, General Strike Three Inaugural Season, Socialist Education and More!
Twin CitiesDemocratic Socialists of America Little Red Letter #108 Starting off Summer – Open Streets, General Strike Three Inaugural Season, Socialist Education and More! Summer is here and Twin Cities DSA is making the most of it! It has been a busy couple of weeks, and it’s not slowing down. Important today, all are invited…
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Twin Cities DSA Little Red Letter #107: Space for our Growing Chapter, Progress Prompts Headlines, and Twin Cities DSA in the Community
Twin CitiesDemocratic Socialists of America Little Red Letter #107 Space for our Growing Impact, Progress Prompts Headlines, and Twin Cities DSA in the Community Our Chapter Needs Space to Grow!First off, we have an ask for members and readers. Last fall the membership of Twin Cities DSA voted for the chapter to obtain an office…
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Amidst Working Class Progress, the Ruling Class Strikes Back
It’s been kind of a wild ride. It started with Victor Martinez, Minneapolis Ward 5 candidate for city council, accusing Twin Cities DSA (TCDSA) of sabotaging the ward’s DFL convention. Next came the disruption of the Ward 10 DFL convention by city council candidate Nasri Warsame and his supporters. This made it impossible for the…
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Twin Cities DSA Little Red Letter #106: An End to the Hiawatha Expansion Plan, the Legislative Session Ends, and a Convention is Forced to Adjourn
Twin CitiesDemocratic Socialists of America Little Red Letter #106 An End to the Hiawatha Expansion Plan, the Legislative Session Ends, and a Convention is Forced to Adjourn If you’re reading this as soon as you get it, workers at the Cedar and 47th Starbucks store are on strike this weekend in response to management unjustly…
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Building a Sustainable Socialist Movement in 2023
Last year our chapter overwhelmingly voted to approve the True North Resolution and voted for a new steering committee slate that pledged to implement that resolution. It’s been an intense eight months since October, 2022. Our level of activity has stretched us to the limit of our leadership and structure. Guiding all of our activity…
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Twin Cities DSA Little Red Letter #104: Conventions, Elections, Rallies, Progress, and More!
Members had a busy couple weeks between the local endorsement meeting, Delta organizing rally, the YDSA and DSA conference, and more to come.
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Update: East Phillips Urban Farm in Sight
Comrades, we’ve just passed Earth Day, and in that spirit, we are thrilled to share positive news about the effort in East Phillips to avoid demolition of the Roof Depot and realize the community’s vision of an indoor urban farm, housing, and community hub. In a meeting on Wednesday, April 19, with the East Phillips…
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Thoughts on Environmental Racism for Earth Day 2023
The ongoing fight against fracking, pipelines and all extractive industries We lost the battle if not the war on Line 3. It’s done, it’s dusted and it’s leaking into groundwater even as you read this. (See KSTP Eyewitness News for reporting on the 153 cases of pollution control violations in the latter half of 2022.)…
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Twin Cities DSA Little Red Letter #102: East Phillips, Union Strikes, Socialists in Office, and More!
Another eventful week, let’s start local. More stories to come in our featured news section.
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Twin Cities DSA Little Red Letter #101: Ruling Class Backlash and Movement Solidarity
Our last edition described major developments in the fight around the Roof Depot. The dynamic has changed, but the intensity of the ruling class hostility has not diminished.
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