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The Revival of the Street Corps Working Group
I started the Street Corps Working Group shortly after I joined Twin Cities DSA back in 2021 in response to the collapse of the previous Mutual Aid and Solidarity Economy (MASE) Working Group. Besides filling in the important organizing around mutual aid and dual power that I believed this chapter should be doing, I wanted…
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Twin Cities DSA Little Red Letter #123: Putting Our Office To Work, Sending YDSA Members To Conference, and A Ceasefire Remains Critical
Twin Cities Democratic Socialists of America Little Red Letter #123 Putting Our Office To Work, Sending YDSA Members To Conference, and A Ceasefire Remains Critical Putting Our Office To Work Before anything else, let’s start off with an invitation to our upcoming office open house. Details are further below, but as we have mentioned, last…
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The Democratic Party is a Capitalist Party
“[The] Working Class doesn’t have its own political party”. This phrase opened up Professor August Nimtz Jr.’s intriguing presentation to UMN YDSA and Twin Cities CDSA members on June 15 at the University of Minnesota’s (UMN) Folwell Hall.
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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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Twin Cities DSA Little Red Letter #103: DSA in Action, Cub Foods Strike Averted, State Power Struggles and More!
Over the last few editions we have noted current events near and far as we continue to watch and participate in the struggle for a better world. That fight begins with organization, and today we look at what DSA is doing to build and sustain the fight.
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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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YDSA and the Teamsters Fight at the University of Minnesota
YDSA played purely a support role for the Teamsters Local 320. Being a studentorganization, our primary aim was to educate students about the working conditions at theuniversity, and to build up support for the union among the student body. With this goal in mind,we went about tabling outside of dorm cafeterias, lit-dropping pro-Teamsters literature inuniversity…
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