Twin CitiesDemocratic Socialists of America 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. On January 18, Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, who went by the name Tortuguita, was murdered by… Read more »
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… Read more »
Rebellion in Peru – Dispatches #0 and #1
Dispatch #0Sunday, January 22. 10.54am The people hold Lima. Last night the capital city of Peru, Lima, remained occupied by thousands of people. The streets are a feast, a celebration of the power of the workers and indigenous nations standing up against the capitalists. At the moment there’s no government. There are institutions remaining that… Read more »
Far Away From Home: Amazon’s Pattern of Abusing the Vulnerable
It was kind of strange for me as an immigrant, to start working at a company that brags about their “technical advances” and the “logistics and robotics” making it sound like they’ve figured out the magic formula bosses have been after since Merlin the sorcerer. I was curious about it. We’ve seen the famous scene… Read more »
The Battle Against Cop City in Atlanta
For progressive activists, Atlanta’s PSTC represents something of a perfect storm: a single project that catalyzes fears of ecological degradation, state-sponsored violence, police militarization, environmental racism, opaque governance, and the long legacy of white supremacy. — David Peisner, “The Forest for the Trees,” The Bitter Southerner, Dec. 13, 2022.
City Council Demolition Vote – Against EPNI 7-6
On Tuesday, seven members of the Minneapolis City Council showed how hollow their platitudes regarding equity in the city and concerns about environmental racism were as they voted to approve the demolition of the Roof Depot Building in the Phillips Neighborhood of Minneapolis. Since 2014, the East Phillips Neighborhood Institute (EPNI) and community residents have… Read more »
Twin Cities DSA Little Red Letter #97: Winter in the Twin Cities and Kicking off 2023
Twin CitiesDemocratic Socialists of America Little Red Letter #97 Winter in the Twin Cities and Kicking off 2023 The first newsletter of 2023 has some catching up to do. Though we hope all comrades were able to find time to rest in the interim, late December was not a quiet time. Quarry Encampment Eviction The… Read more »
Reflections of Cannon Valley DSA
Part two, with part one published in our December 16, 2022 newsletter. From the failure of our first attempt at getting Cannon Valley DSA off the ground, I concluded that, to be successful, we would need more support from members of Cooperation Northfield (now renamed Red Pine). In the summer of 2021, when the chapter… Read more »
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,… Read more »
Democratic Snow-cialism: Report back from Snow Shoveling Program
Following large snowfall and arctic temperature drops across Minnesota, several chapter volunteers stopped by a local houseless encampment in South Minneapolis. Coordinated by the chapter’s Street Corps Working Group, this first day of action for the new Snow Shoveling Program had these volunteers shovel around the encampment to ensure it was accessible to its residents,… Read more »
18000 Amazon Layoffs: Two, Three, Many Amazon Unions Nationwide to Stop This Attack
Working at Amazon modifies your perception of time. The “process” Amazon is so proud of in their logistics carries a default mark. It does not care about human life. The extraction of skills that are put into sliding carts (that’s all their robotics really) and stats to maximize our effort is solely oriented to extracting… Read more »
Latest news from the Democratic Socialist Caucus
On Sunday, January 8, the Democratic Socialist Caucus (DSC) held its third annual convention, in fully virtual mode. The Democratic Socialist Caucus was formed in 2019-2020 with the intention of becoming a Community Outreach Organization within the Democratic Farmer Labor (DFL) Party, and eventually a Community Caucus of the organization. As detailed in this story… Read more »