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** Little Red Letter No. 52
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Call to Action
DON'T FORGET TO VOTE
and support Nelsie Yang for St. Paul Ward 6! Details here ([link removed]) .
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My Vote, Ricardo Levins Morales ([link removed])
Fight money in politics
The Twin Cities DSA Electoral Branch is working on creating a database of donors to Minneapolis and Hennepin county elected officials, and we need your assistance. We are looking for people who can do some simple data entry for the chapter. If you can help, please email the Electoral Branch at [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) .
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Come to the Socialist Feminist Reading Group
We will be discussing the book The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by local author Junauda Petrus. Join us on 11/9, at the Rondo Community Library, Meeting Room B, at 2pm.

Internationalist Commune World Resistance Day for Rojava ([link removed])

Come to the chapter meeting!

📣NOVEMBER 17th
📣1:30 - 4:30pm
📣GEORGE LATIMER LIBRARY
📣IT'S GONNA BE COOL
📣SEE YOU THERE
Upcoming Events:
DSA at the Twin Cities Bernie Rally!
Sun, Nov 3, 4pm – 8:30pm
RSVP here ([link removed])

Operations Committee Meeting
Mon, Nov 4, 7pm – 9pm
Mpls Central Library, room N-202 (map ([link removed]) )

Mutual Aid Working Group Meeting
Tues, Nov 5, 6:15pm – 7:45pm
Merriam Park Library (map ([link removed]) )

Planning meeting: Fight concentration camps and ICE!
Hosted by No Cages Minnesota
Tues, Nov 5, 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Mpls Central Library, room N-202 (map ([link removed]) | FB ([link removed]) )

Communications Meeting
Thurs, Nov 7, 6:30pm – 8pm
Mpls Central Library (map ([link removed]) )

SocFems Reading Group
Sat, Nov 9, 2pm – 4pm
Rondo Community Library (map ([link removed]) )

Electoral Branch Meeting
Sat, Nov 9, 2pm – 3:30pm
Rondo Community Library. room C (map ([link removed]) )

Socialize with Ramsey County Branch!
Mon, Nov 11, 7pm – 9pm
Black Hart of St. Paul (map ([link removed]) )

TCDSA Reading Group
Sat, Nov 16, 11am – 12:30pm
Boneshaker Books (map ([link removed]) )

TCDSA November Member Meeting
Sun, Nov 17, 1:30pm – 4:30pm
George Latimer Library (map ([link removed]) )

Operations Committee Meeting
Mon, Nov 18, 7pm – 9pm
Mpls Central Library, room N-402 (map ([link removed]) )

Twin Cities DSA for Bernie: Debate Watch Party!
Weds, Nov 20, 7pm – 10pm
Clockwerks Brewing (map ([link removed]) )

Left Social Democrats
Thurs, Nov 21, 7pm – 8pm
Barnes & Noble HarMar (map ([link removed]) )

MASE book and tabletop game swap social
Sun, Nov 24, 1pm – 4pm
Rondo Community Library (map ([link removed]) )

SocFem Branch Meeting
Tues, Nov 26, 6pm – 7:15pm
Mpls Central Library, room N-202 (map ([link removed]) )

& keep an eye on our calendar ([link removed]) for more events as they're scheduled or changed!
What we're up to...
If You're So Rich, How Come You're Not Smart?
We have come to a point in late-stage capitalism where a lot of the so-called philanthropy vying for well-meaning control of our lives is so inept, so blinkered by ideology, that it has become its own opposite. (Read more... ([link removed]) )
- Deb K.R.
Labor News Roundup: Early Nov. 2019 Edition
Comrades, we are in the midst of a wave of labor actions and agitation as the working class reasserts itself with greater urgency every day. People fighting for their communities, fighting to save the planet, and fighting to get just a little more justice in their lives every day.
All labor actions involve surprises, good and bad, and as socialists we must always examine events with a sober perspective so that we can learn from successes and downturns. Here are a couple recent local labor developments and opportunities for us all to show solidarity. (Read more... ([link removed]) )
- Anders B.
Do you have opinions? Hot takes? Cool things you've been doing with DSA or our allies? Write for us ([link removed]) !
For Further Review
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With so many great podcasts, articles, books and videos coming out, it's easy to miss something great. Here's a few things members have found and loved recently.
The World is Burning: Your Guide to the Current Uprisings ([link removed])
While Behind the Bastrds isn't an explicitly leftist podcast, I still found these interviews and overviews deeply moving and informative. I highly recommend listening, especially to the interview with northern Syrian journalist Khabat Abbas, who calls for all feminists around the world to stand with Rojava. - ARB

How to set-up a mobile mutual aid herbal apothecary ([link removed])
Herbalists and plant foragers are creating mobile apothecaries! This can be part of climate change resilience work, and also mutual aid. Would anyone like to work on a project to start one here? Contact @kollontaiist on TCDSA Slack if so. - DKR

The Myth of Class Reductionism ([link removed])
Adolph Reed Jr. puts idea of class reduction to bed. - LH

So Many Secrets ([link removed])
Art and culture workers talk about labor organizing. Come for "Solidarity is the opposite of bad vibes"; stay for "Haley, what was your makeup theory of organizing?" (It's very good, trust me.) - TMW

Anti-Fascism Beyond Machismo: Gender, Politics, and the Struggle Against Fascism ([link removed])
After an analysis of the misogyny always present in fascist and far-right movements, this paper, available as a PDF download, examines the role of women in three anti-fascist struggles in history, then goes on to imagine and describe how machismo can be replaced with true feminist militancy to defeat the fascists of today. - DKR

How a Black, Socialist City Councilman Won His Seat in the Heart of the South ([link removed])
This brief Nation article contains a link to the podcast Next Left, featuring khalid kamau, a Black Lives Matter activist and Metro Atlanta DSA former chair, who is now a council member for the recently incorporated city of South Fulton. - DKR

Professional-Managerial Chasm ([link removed])
Here's a very long and analytical post in n+1 by Gabriel Winant that references the milestone work in modern Marxist theory by Barbara and John Ehrenreich that first defined the possibility of a new class - the PMC or professional-managerial class. These concepts are now an automatic part of our analysis even if we use different terms. The piece critically assesses the meaning of the PMC today almost 50 years later, and uses it as a lens to examine topics as widely diverse as the student movements of the 1960s and the differences between the supporters of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. - DKR
Apparently this one really riled up some people but I thought it was about the best analysis of class position and voter coalition makeup I have read in a good while. It’s being read as “another Sanders/Warren piece” but I don’t really think it’s that at all, more of a historical reading of the term “professional managerial class” and the position(s) of the group defined by that term. Very worth reading, I think. - RT

Manufacturing Consent: A Timeline of Policing and Propaganda in Minneapolis ([link removed])
A 200-year timeline of police violence, propaganda, and public discourse. You'll notice a throughline of business owners calling for increasing police presence and budgets, while residents of Minneapolis (which most MPD officers are not) call for their families not to be criminalized and shot
by cops. - TMW

The pundit and the hobo ([link removed])
This is a fun short piece on folk music and the limits of the conservative imagination both for artistic and practical purposes. - RT

Why 'the will of the people' is a myth in British democracy ([link removed])
The ever-thoughtful George Monbiot critiques British democracy and finds it severely wanting. He offers loads of counter-examples striking a balance between representative and direct democracy (somehow without mentioning the US at all!) A very useful article to spark discussion. - DKR

The Stigma of Poverty: In Conversation With Rebecca de Souza ([link removed])
Rebecca de Souza interview. De Souza has written a book called Feeding the Other: Whiteness Privilege and Neoliberal Stigma in Food Pantries, which is available as a download at no cost. - DKR

How to Think Without Googling ([link removed])
You think advances in neuroscience and how to protect your attention muscle from the weakening action of the internet is not about socialism? Au contraire. Because this is about the future and socialism is the future. - DKR

State shuts down Water Gremlin after finding lead poisoning in workers' children ([link removed])
Local workplace and environmental disaster news - Water Gremlin of White Bear Lake, a manufacturer of lead products including battery terminals, has been shut down for at least three days by state regulators (Dept. of Health and Dept. of Labor and Industry.) The company, which employs a diverse workforce including Latinx and Karen workers among others, has been failing to control workers' and their families' exposure to lead, with at least two children testing at health-threatening levels. And this is not Water Gremlin's only environmental problem. - DKR

Chile’s People Have Had Enough ([link removed])
A great primer on the crisis in Chile and how the mass demonstrations there are hard to pin down. - NR

New owner will preserve affordable housing in historic Minneapolis building ([link removed])
More local news features Homeline, where our member AP works. This concerns a historic building in NE saved from gentrification (we hope!) by being bought by Common Bond. - DKR

Solidarity with Striking UK Postal Workers at the Royal Mail Group ([link removed])
In the UK, CWU the Communications Workers Union, is striking Royal Mail, which was privatized by the Tory government. DSA has issued a statement in solidarity with them. - DKR

Peace Pipeline Reveal ([link removed])
TCDSA members participated in this. - ES

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