• East Phillips Urban Farm Update

    East Phillips Urban Farm Update

    Rally and Make Art!  Join East Phillips organizers and community on October 9, 1PM, at the Roof Depot intersection. This will be a community rally and art-making event! The city recently tore down all the signs there, so folks will be making more to put up.  Update: On Thursday, September 22, 2022, amid ongoing protests…

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  • Twin Cities DSA Little Red Letter #90: Convention Recap, Nurses and More!

    Twin Cities DSA Little Red Letter #90: Convention Recap, Nurses and More!

    Thank you to everyone who joined our annual convention on Sunday, Building Community, Class Struggle, and Capacity: Fighting for our Future in the Autumn of Capitalism. Well over 100 members joined us in-person or online to debate chapter business, meet our candidates for Steering Committee, and hear from an Amazon worker about their organizing efforts.…

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  • Labor Rebellion

    Labor Rebellion

    The outlines and depth of a labor uprising are becoming clearer with everyday. The rail workers group, Rail Workers United (RWU), issued a statement in support of striking Minnesota Nurses explaining that rail workers face the same conditions and problems as nurses; speed up, lack of staffing, more dangerous conditions and an attempt by bosses,…

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  • A Better World is Possible, Comrades

    A Better World is Possible, Comrades

    (This post has been adapted from the convention speech given by outgoing co-chair Ian R.) Given that this is my last meeting as co-chair, I wanted to share a few parting thoughts as we transition to a new steering committee and a new page in the life of our chapter. The past several years have…

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  • 2022 TCDSA Convention Voting Results

    2022 TCDSA Convention Voting Results

    Bylaws and resolutions results: Bylaws Change 1: Operations Coordinator – passes. 66% required to pass. 93% in favor, 7% opposed or abstained. Bylaws Change 2: Sortition Officers – fails. 66% required to pass. 39% in favor, 61% opposed or abstained. Resolution 1: Minnesota Health Plan – passes. 50% + 1 to pass. 75% in favor,…

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  • On the Direction for the Future of TCDSA

    On the Direction for the Future of TCDSA

    On September 14, 2022, the members of Twin Cities DSA voted to pass the following resolution. Whereas, the right wing is advancing – Key recent examples from the last few months include the  overturn of Roe v. Wade, the expansion of gun rights despite increasing mass slaughter, EPA rulings that accelerate climate catastrophe, and revelations…

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  • Get on the picket line: MN Nurses Strike!

    Get on the picket line: MN Nurses Strike!

    TIME SENSITIVE: Twin Cities DSA invites you September 12-14 to join the 15,000 nurses making history with their largest ever private sector strike! Ways to get involved below. This strike comes after months of failed negotiations with various hospital systems across Minnesota, with pickets happening at the following campuses:  * Abbot Northwestern (Minneapolis) * Children’s…

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  • Twin Cities DSA Little Red Letter #89: CONVENTION SEASON IS IN THE AIR

    Twin Cities DSA Little Red Letter #89: CONVENTION SEASON IS IN THE AIR

    We started off this summer with a chapter conversation about goals for our organizing. The results were overwhelmingly in favor of more socials and opportunities for engagement. Through ice cream socials, movie nights, rallying, canvassing, picketing, book discussions, and sipping coffee in solidarity, the structures of camaraderie and action are being built and reinforced. We…

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  • Labor Day, Anti-Racism, and the New Labor Movement

    Labor Day, Anti-Racism, and the New Labor Movement

    By Cynthia S. How should anti-racists celebrate Labor Day? Or rather, how is the labor movement related to the work we do in fighting for racial justice? Scholar and activist, Ruthie Wilson Gilmore (whose forthcoming book on racial capitalism is worth pre-ordering) reminds us that from the beginning “capitalism require[d] inequality, and racism enshrine[d] it.” How? By…

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  • 2022 Chapter Leadership Candidates

    2022 Chapter Leadership Candidates

    The following candidates are running for various positions in the Twin Cities DSA 2022 Convention this September. Descriptions for each of the positions can be found here. Co-chairRecording SecretaryTechnology CoordinatorTreasurerPolitical Action CoordinatorOperations CoordinatorPolitical Education CoordinatorMembers At-Large Co-chairs (2, at least one may not be a cis male) Arianna F. she/herHi, I’m Arianna (she/her). I have been…

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  • Twin Cities DSA Little Red Letter #88: LABOR! LABOR! LABOR!

    Twin Cities DSA Little Red Letter #88: LABOR! LABOR! LABOR!

     Starbucks and Trader Joe’s workers forming unions locally, nurses and UMN workers demanding better conditions – people are flexing their labor power! And here at the TCDSA Labor Branch, the calendar is teeming with events to advance our struggles in the workplace. Below you’ll find three events for all sorts of comrades — a movie…

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