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West Side Community Organization Shows Us What Organizing Can Do
Report Back from WSCO’s Annual Meeting and Reflections on Community Organizing and Direct Democracy West Side Community Organization (WSCO), the neighborhood organization of St. Paul’s West Side and the Planning Council for St. Paul’s 3rd planning district, is unique among district councils in St. Paul. WSCO actually represents and organizes its community. At the annual…
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Looking Forward to 2023 Elections in Minneapolis & Saint Paul
A quirk in redistricting laws has the Minneapolis election season kicking off just eleven months after the City Council was sworn in. Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) incumbents Jason Chavez and Robin Wonsley launched their re-election campaigns earlier in November. Both kickoffs emphasized the role of DSA elected officials in supporting working class movements across…
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Hard Travelin’ and Lightening the Load
A Book Review of “Woody Guthrie: An Intimate Life” by Gustavus Stadler Woody Guthrie knew hard traveling. He traveled on fast, rattling box cars and hitchhiked across the USA in the midst of the Depression. He organized farm workers in Hooverville shanty-towns and sang for miners and factory workers on the picket lines. He always…
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Twin Cities DSA Newsletter #94: Red Cup Rebellion, Midterm Elections, and Moving the Chapter Forward
Red Cup Rebellion, Midterm Elections, and Moving the Chapter Forward
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The Dangers Ahead
Driven by voters who wanted to defend the right to abortion and those who understood that Republican victories on Election Day would lead to a curtailment of democratic rights, the Democratic Party dodged a bullet. With young voters leading the way, a Red Tide was stopped. This was despite the Democratic Party’s absolute refusal to…
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Twin Cities DSA Little Red Letter #94: Red Cup Rebellion, Midterm Elections, and Moving the Chapter Forward
Yesterday Starbucks workers at 300 Snelling in St Paul and at the St Anthony store held a one day strike action during the annual “Red Cup Day”, one of the busiest days of the year for Starbucks (and the most stressful for understaffed workers!). Workers staged a “Red Cup Rebellion” across the country at over…
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Twin Cities DSA Statement on the 2022 Election
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 10, 2022 Contact: steering@twincitiesdsa.org We want to start by congratulating our TCDSA-endorsed candidates: Zaynab Mohamed, Omar Fateh, Samantha Sencer-Mura, Athena Hollins, Mai Chong Xiong, and Aaron Wagner all won their elections! They and all of the dedicated folks who made their victories possible should be proud of the organizing they’ve done.…
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Twin Cities DSA Newsletter #93
A Vision, an Election, and the Power of Organizing Calling all TCDSA members to share their voice in deciding what our work looks like over the next year! Come to an all-chapter visioning session and be prepared with your ideas and to roll up your sleeves and get involved or LEAD! We invite all members…
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Twin Cities DSA Little Red Letter #93: A Vision, an Election, and the Power of Organizing
Calling all TCDSA members to share their voice in deciding what our work looks like over the next year! Come to an all-chapter visioning session and be prepared with your ideas and to roll up your sleeves and get involved or LEAD! We invite all members to sessions on October 29th (In-Person) and October 30th…
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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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Starbucks Workers Face Down A Hostile Company
Starbucks management is turning up the heat. Faced with an expanding national movement by Starbucks workers to unionize (256 stores have won to date), Starbucks has been hitting back with firings, suspensions, constantly changing hours, store closures and safety infractions. On Wednesday, October 26 the first bargaining session for 6 Minnesota unionized stores was supposed…
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Twin Cities DSA Little Red Letter #92: Visioning for the Year Ahead
Over the past few weeks, the old and new steering committees have been meeting together to share our experiences and analysis and prepare for the year ahead in TCDSA. Later this month you’ll have the chance to share in this process. On October 29th (In-Person) and October 30th (Virtual), we’ll host visioning sessions to begin…
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