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  • Twin Cities DSA Little Red Letter #102: East Phillips, Union Strikes, Socialists in Office, and More!

    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

    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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  • Twin Cities DSA Little Red Letter #100: Developments in the East Phillips Fight, UMN Graduate Labor Union, and More!

    Twin Cities DSA Little Red Letter #100: Developments in the East Phillips Fight, UMN Graduate Labor Union, and More!

    Twin CitiesDemocratic Socialists of America Little Red Letter #100 Developments in the East Phillips Fight, UMN Graduate Labor Union, and More! For Minneapolis, the last week has seen rapid changes in the fight around the Roof Depot demolition. For more context, see the update written by Connor S featured below. TCDSA members came together Saturday […]

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  • No Demo!

    No Demo!

    The East Phillips Urban Farm fight just had a huge victory! Monday, February 27, was the anticipated first day of demolition of the Roof Depot building. But on Friday, February 24, the judge granted a temporary injunction on demolition for at least two weeks. EPNI needs to raise $10,000 in that time to post bond […]

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  • Twin Cities DSA Little Red Letter #99: Standing Up, Fighting Back

    Twin Cities DSA Little Red Letter #99: Standing Up, Fighting Back

    Twin CitiesDemocratic Socialists of America Little Red Letter #99 Standing Up, Fighting Back Our last edition started with a few recent events, ones which put the brutality of the system in sharp focus. Frustration, anger, and grief are all understandable reactions to the ruling class’s tools of oppression and goal of exploitation. Organizing in the […]

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  • Neoliberals on Display

    Neoliberals on Display

    East Phillips is a neighborhood plagued by industrial pollution, with children there suffering abnormally high rates of asthma and other respiratory ailments. Under a cloak of progressive rhetoric and talk of equity, the majority on the Minneapolis City Council steamrolls over both the the community vision and fears of increased pollution. With this 7-6 vote, we see the neoliberal project on full display.

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  • Labor Movie Night: Teamster Rebellion

    Labor Movie Night: Teamster Rebellion

    Protesting low wages, Minneapolis Teamsters went on strike in 1934 in what would become a turning point in the labor movement nationally.

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  • Twin Cities DSA Little Red Letter #98: The Brutality of the System

    Twin Cities DSA Little Red Letter #98: The Brutality of the System

    Events from the last couple weeks need to be addressed before anything else. Multiple examples, local and national, of the brutality of our current system.

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  • EPNI Holds Community Meeting for Moving Forward with Urban Farm

    EPNI Holds Community Meeting for Moving Forward with Urban Farm

    On January 22, approximately 70 people gathered in the East Phillips Park Cultural and Community Center for a community meeting held by the East Phillips Neighborhood Institute (EPNI) to give an update on the East Phillips Urban Farm fight. The meeting began with a song and a prayer by the group Hoka Hey. Then Joe […]

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  • Twin Cities DSA Joins East Phillips Urban Farm Fight

    Twin Cities DSA Joins East Phillips Urban Farm Fight

    This past December, Twin Cities DSA voted overwhelmingly to join the East Phillips Urban Farm fight as part of its 2023 campaign priorities and policy platform. Residents of East Phillips and the East Phillips Neighborhood Institute (EPNI) have been working for years to convert the Roof Depot building into an urban farm, solar array, market, […]

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  • Twin Cities DSA Little Red Letter #96

    Twin Cities DSA Little Red Letter #96

    Twin CitiesDemocratic Socialists of America Little Red Letter #96 Setting Directions, Labor Actions, and Debriefing Elections December General Meeting Recap There was a full schedule at the December 2022 general meeting. Starting with updates on how our chapter’s capacities are being developed, inspiring work being done by local YDSA chapters, and preparations by labor allies […]

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  • Post-Election Debrief: Recentering After Two Years

    Post-Election Debrief: Recentering After Two Years

    On December 10th, Twin Cities DSA members met to discuss what is the role of electoral campaigns going forward. In light of the potential approval of the policy platform and chapter priorities proposals, we discussed how this work could advance TCDSA’s political vision, what the chapter is seeking from the endorsement process, how to build […]

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