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Twin Cities DSA January Round-Up
Welcome to your quick glimpse into the work of the chapter over the last month, prepared for Little Red Letter #134.
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Delta Workers Rally for a Union with Sara Nelson in Jam-Packed Union Hall
On January 25, workers from Delta Air Lines organized an inspiring rally at the St. Paul Labor Center. The ramp, cargo, and tower workers are fighting to join the International Association of Machinists (IAM), and flight attendants are fighting to join the Association of Flight Attendants at Delta, the most profitable airline in the industry. …
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All We Need Is a Little Enteignen
Decommodification of Housing in Berlin and how we can learn from it in the Twin Cities(Originally Published in Streets.MN) BERLIN, GERMANY — Berlin residents have shown a path out of our global housing crisis via the Deutsche Wohnen & Co. Enteignen (DWE) movement — a mass civil society campaign to socialize tens of thousands of…
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Twin Cities DSA’s Anti-Zionist Resolution: An Important Step Towards Palestinian Liberation
A Line in the Sand On September 28, 2024, the Twin Cities Democratic Socialists of America (TCDSA) etched its name into the annals of socialist anti-imperialist struggle. By passing the resolution “Make Twin Cities DSA an Anti-Zionist Organization in Principle and Praxis,” the chapter didn’t just condemn Zionism—it declared war on the settler-colonial project itself.…
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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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Just Vibes: Evaluating MnDOT’s Rethinking I-94 Alternative Scores
MnDOT is “confident in their analysis”. They shouldn’t be. Report authored by Mateo Frumholtz in collaboration with TCDSA, Our Streets, and the Minnesota Communities over Highways Coalition. The attached report outlines the inconsistencies and biases in MnDOT’s decision making process using information gathered from a FOIA request.
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Liberals, the Dems and Non-Profits Are Bankrupt and Have No Answers
For decades now the federal government has, to a certain extent, mediated relations between the classes through the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the National Mediation Board (NMB), the Department of Labor (DOL), the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), etc. The Labor Bureaucracy has been fine with that because it kind of keeps them…
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Mass Work Caucus: A Vision for Revolutionary Change Grounded in Everyday Struggle
In a world where capitalism’s crises grow more acute with each passing day, the need for a truly revolutionary socialist movement has never felt more urgent. Yet within the broad left, a crucial question persists: How do we transform our principles into mass movements powerful enough to challenge, and eventually overthrow, the capitalist system? An…
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Option 2: Reclaiming the Working Class after the 2024 US Presidential Election
“Everybody thought the way to fight fascism was to get Kamala Harris elected.” — Anonymous “It should come as no surprise that the Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.” — Bernie Sanders Bernie Sanders issued a statement on Wednesday outlining for America what happened…
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Why TCDSA Stands With Union Educators for Palestine
Twin Cities DSA stands with Minneapolis union educators who hosted an event for educational professionals to support and educate each other in standing on the side of justice through their work. Like many residents of the Twin Cities area, they cannot stand by while Israel annihilates the Palestinian people and pushes us toward wider war…
2023 Elections Aisha Chughtai Anti-imperialism Association of Flight Attendants Book review Ceasefire in Gaza Delta Delta Air Lines Democratic Party/DFL East Phillips Neighborhood Institute/EPNI East Phillips Urban Farm Electoral Committee Endorsements Environmental racism General Strike Three International Association of Machinists International Brotherhood of Teamsters Jason Chavez Labor MFT/ESP MFT59 Minneapolis Minneapolis Police Department Minnesota Uber/Lyft Drivers Association (MULDA) MN Governor Tim Walz Mutual aid Nelsie Yang Omar Fateh Political education Rent control Rent Stabilization Ordinance Robin Wonsley Roof Depot Soren Stevenson St. Paul Starbucks Starbucks Workers United TCDSA Teamsters UFCW 663 Ukraine invasion 2022 Union Organizing United Auto Workers (UAW) Unite HERE Local 17 YDSA