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Twin Cities DSA Little Red Letter Round Up – April 2025 Edition
Welcome to your quick glimpse into some of the work of the chapter over the past couple of months, prepared for the Little Red Letter #135. The I-94 Fight Continues Organizers kept the pressure on after our joint event with Our Streets to shine light into MNDOT’s opaque and undemocratic process at the January Political…
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Who’s Afraid of Power?
Author’s Note: This article was written and initially posted to slack prior to the vote for endorsement in the Mayoral election, however due to the author’s laziness it was not finished in time for the prior newsletter. Because the thrust of the article is caution against the socialist electoral project taking executive offices, rather than…
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April Labor Branch Newsletter: The Resistance to Trump is beginning – Protest Saturday & other events
The Trump administration is carrying out a historic power grab. The Republicans are trying to cut taxes for billionaires, gut public services and environmental regulations, destroy unions, and intimidate workers. To distract and divide the working class, the Trump Administration is ramping up deportations of immigrants and attacking LGBTQ+ folks, abortion rights, and racial justice…
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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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