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Twin Cities DSA Statement of Solidarity with Atlanta DSA to Stop Cop City
Twin Cities DSA Statement of Solidarity with Atlanta DSA to Stop Cop City Twin Cities DSA stands in solidarity with Atlanta DSA and all others in the struggle to stop Cop City. We unequivocally oppose the City of Atlanta’s project to destroy the Weelaunee Forest in order to build a police training facility, where law…
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News Roundup – Supreme Court Rulings, DSA Electeds in the News, and Labor Near and Far
News doesn’t slow down in the summer, here is some of everything that happened since our last edition. The Supreme Court issued final rulings in a variety of cases at the end of their session, including rulings prohibiting affirmative action as we know it while letting stand exemptions for legacy admissions and military academies, allowing…
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The Democratic Party is a Capitalist Party
“[The] Working Class doesn’t have its own political party”. This phrase opened up Professor August Nimtz Jr.’s intriguing presentation to UMN YDSA and Twin Cities CDSA members on June 15 at the University of Minnesota’s (UMN) Folwell Hall.
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Twin Cities DSA Little Red Letter #108: Starting off Summer – Open Streets, General Strike Three Inaugural Season, Socialist Education and More!
Twin CitiesDemocratic Socialists of America Little Red Letter #108 Starting off Summer – Open Streets, General Strike Three Inaugural Season, Socialist Education and More! Summer is here and Twin Cities DSA is making the most of it! It has been a busy couple of weeks, and it’s not slowing down. Important today, all are invited…
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Gutted Rent Stabilization Spurs Tenant Organizing
On February 13th, 2023, every resident of my apartment complex received a postcard from the city of Saint Paul explaining that our landlord had applied for an exception to the city’s rent stabilization ordinance (RSO), meaning that they could raise the rent up to 8% in one year.
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Twin Cities DSA Little Red Letter #107: Space for our Growing Chapter, Progress Prompts Headlines, and Twin Cities DSA in the Community
Twin CitiesDemocratic Socialists of America Little Red Letter #107 Space for our Growing Impact, Progress Prompts Headlines, and Twin Cities DSA in the Community Our Chapter Needs Space to Grow!First off, we have an ask for members and readers. Last fall the membership of Twin Cities DSA voted for the chapter to obtain an office…
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Who in the world was István Mészáros, and why is he essential for 21st-century socialists?
A Political Education Snippet A book review of The Challenge and Burden of Historical Time by István Mészáros, Monthly Review Press Mészáros was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher who participated in the 1956 revolt against an autocratic Soviet-style state. He was exiled to Italy and then England, where he continued to teach, write and study Marxism.…
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Amidst Working Class Progress, the Ruling Class Strikes Back
It’s been kind of a wild ride. It started with Victor Martinez, Minneapolis Ward 5 candidate for city council, accusing Twin Cities DSA (TCDSA) of sabotaging the ward’s DFL convention. Next came the disruption of the Ward 10 DFL convention by city council candidate Nasri Warsame and his supporters. This made it impossible for the…
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Shame on Walz. The Fight Is Not Over.
Governor Tim Walz had the opportunity to stand with Minnesota’s rideshare workers and pass a bill that would have ensured them fair wages and worker protections. Instead, he sided with Uber and Lyft bosses in Silicon Valley and issued a veto.
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Twin Cities DSA Little Red Letter #106: An End to the Hiawatha Expansion Plan, the Legislative Session Ends, and a Convention is Forced to Adjourn
Twin CitiesDemocratic Socialists of America Little Red Letter #106 An End to the Hiawatha Expansion Plan, the Legislative Session Ends, and a Convention is Forced to Adjourn If you’re reading this as soon as you get it, workers at the Cedar and 47th Starbucks store are on strike this weekend in response to management unjustly…
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We Can’t Count On Walz
As the previous newsletter highlighted, bills at the legislature have faced corporate pushback from Mayo Clinic, which threatened to pull investments over the Keeping Nurses at the Bedside Act supported by the Minnesota Nurses Association (MNA). This bill would set up committees that would include hospital staff and among other things, they would be able…
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Minneapolis DFL Turmoil
On Saturday, May 13, the Minneapolis DFL held their Ward 10 endorsing convention. It would be forced to adjourn partway through as Warsame supporters began to physically confront and assault Chughtai supporters, with the convention becoming unsafe for all participants.
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