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Post-Election Debrief: Recentering After Two Years
On December 10th, Twin Cities DSA members met to discuss what is the role of electoral campaigns going forward. In light of the potential approval of the policy platform and chapter priorities proposals, we discussed how this work could advance TCDSA’s political vision, what the chapter is seeking from the endorsement process, how to build…
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Twin Cities DSA Little Red Letter #95: The December General Meeting, Labor Actions,2023 Elections (Already??) and More!
All of the work mentioned below happens because our members and allies make it happen. Join us at the Dec. 5th member meeting as we lay out our plan for the years ahead. Twin Cities DSA will discuss the most significant opportunity for labor to exercise power in the region in almost a century. We…
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Twin Cities DSA Newsletter #95
The December General Meeting, Labor Actions, 2023 Elections (Already??) and More!
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We Need Some Rail Solidarity
The railroad workers of this country have been embroiled in a contract fight spanning the last three years, struggling to improve their material and working conditions, and they need our support.
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The monster is back …
The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters. Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks, loose translation by Slavoj Zizek Post-electoral thoughts: The Republicans didn’t get the Senate, but they came out strong in the lower house. I would have thought that the triumph of DeSantis in…
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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…
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