Twin Cities DSA 🌹

Twin Cities DSA was out in force this weekend! Our members ran a brake light clinic in North Mpls, held an event on ICE's ongoing "Shadow Surge" and how we can organize, knocked thousands of doors in support of Renter Right to Repair, and broke down how Frey's budget for MPD is hurting all of us.

Join Twin Cities DSA on Election Night at 8pm at Dilla Sports Bar (1625 University Ave W, St. Paul). Celebrate the hard work this year we've put into building a socialist movement, and cheer on our Twin Cities DSA endorsed candidates and ballot measures across the metro!

🚨 Pack the Courtroom for Alexio! 🚨 Alexio assisted in resisting ICE during Operation Metro. This is a moment to remind Trump and his masked goons an injury to one is an injury to all.

Join us for the first rendition of a new training: How to Host a Town Hall or Panel! Town halls and panels are a great way to engage your campaign base, provide political education, and generate hype! RSVP for the zoom link. RSVP here: buff.ly/omEzIzC

📢 TURNOUT AND SPEAK UP WITH OUR UNHOUSED NEIGHBORS! 📢 Come join TCDSA at the hearing for Safe Parking Spaces. Its time to creates areas for our unhoused neighbors to reside safely in their vehicles. Can't make it? Make a public comment here: buff.ly/vWLyWYo

🍨 HERE'S THE SCOOP! 🍨 TCDSA's Melt ICE is hosting an ICE CREAM social after our monthly meeting this Thursday. Eat a sweet treat and learn how you can disrupt the ICE deportation pipeline.

🍂This evening we will be hosting the second MELT ICE Zine Workshop at the office at 4pm. Hope to see you there! ID: Blue/White restaurant order receipt with the words "ZINE WORKSHOP 2.0 October 17, 2026. TCDSA Office 4-6PM. CREATE - GAB - ASSEMBLE." with a red rose in the bottom right corner.

Meet our Co-chair Tim Hart! Tim highly values his work in the Internal Organizing committee welcoming new members, building orientations, skill development, social hours and member sports all of which help support and grow the TCDSA chapter community.

Meet our Co- Chair Aminah Sheikh! Aminah is proud to organize in DSA as well as with the Inside Organizer School, and on International Women’s Day and on May Day with her comrades.

It’s spooky season so it’s time to help people with the scariest thing of all… cops pulling folks over for garbage reasons. 🙀 Come out to the Brake Light Clinic - be fixing community members’ head and tail lights free of charge. No experience needed! buff.ly/KhNLGQa

No president should be weaponize the federal government against his enemies. Although Ilhan is not a DSA-endorsed candidate, she has fought for working people, supports Medicare for All, and called to abolish ICE. She has our back, and we have hers. Join us at 4PM today at Powderhorn Park!

For a long time, I’ve thought about what it would look like to create spaces to have real conversations. In Minneapolis, we fight for what we believe in. I wanted to create an event that highlighted the issues we fight for, and the people who are making it happen.

Join the Stop Data Centers working group on Tuesday, Oct 13th. The city council will be hearing from neighbors and we need you to voice your opposition to data centers!! (Swipe for a pic from the Stop Data Centers social and my new favorite meme)

🐈‍⬛ FIGHT THE FRIGHT 🐈‍⬛ Join TCDSA's Queer Liberation and Tea Time for a fun night of drag, dance, costumes and prizes! Funds raised will go to TCDSA's Trans Relocation Project and Tea Time's Trans Resource Center.

📢 CELEBRATE PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE! 📢 Join the Free Palestine Coalition at our anual march this weekend. From the River to the Sea...Palestine will be free!

👻 Its spooky season! 👻 And nothing's more spooky than becoming an organizer! Learn about TCDSA and Queer socialist politics at our upcoming TCDSA 101

Join us to enjoy food, drink, and great conversations! We are ~1 month out from the MPLS city council voting to extend the data center moratorium or implement policy and less than 2 weeks out from the end of the public comment period. Let's stop data centers! RSVP link in bio

🔥 Six months after Metro Surge, ICE is still here. Join TCDSA organizers and community leaders to learn about the "Shadow Surge" and how we can organize to stop it. 🔥 This event will be hybrid. Come in person or host a watch party in your local Rapid Response neighborhood! RVSP link in bio.

We are publishing a new book! Lol, jk, but you definitely should find us at the upcoming Minneapolis Budget Hearings to tell Frey to fund community not cops! Find all the dates and information on how to testify here: buff.ly/TacgJuj

Join us every Friday at Arbeiter Brewing Company to have a cold one with comrades!!!

Trump's targeting of the community and union activists known as the Minnesota 15 is an attack on the entire anti-ICE movement. Join us Saturday for this march of unions and community groups to demand justice for all victims of ICE violence and state repression!

Juntos Podemos is supporting families with rent assistance and requests donations as we approach the first of the month. Rooted in unity. Powered by community. buff.ly/NLUQrDJ

Team Fateh lawn signs are officially here! 🪧🏡 Do you live in Senate District 62? Show your support for our campaign! See the Minneapolis neighborhoods that SD62 is comprised of. Request your sign today: www.fatehfor62.com/sign Our team will deliver one straight to your lawn!

Join us tonight at Arbeiter Brewing at 8pm to socialize with court observers who have been spending the last month at the Bishop Henry Whipple Building. Show up to learn how you can get involved and keep protecting our neighbors from ICE.

Join TCDSA Labor Committee to support CTUL Workers Center in this action against the billionaire Pohlads!

MPD is defunding Minneapolis as Jacob Frey is pushing a $30 million increase to an already bloated budget that cuts funds for our schools, parks, and climate initiatives. Join TCDSA’s Abolition Working Group this Friday 6-8pm at the TCDSA Office to fight for a people’s budget.

My statement on Minneapolis Public Schools’ proposed “school transformation” plan.

We had a great time at the Tax the Rich bonfire and social this weekend! Burgers! Corn! Pie! Cake! and of course, Comrades!! Thanks to everyone who came out - excited to work with you all to TAX THE RICH!

This Wed. the 23rd @ 6pm, we're having a Fight Back Against Data Centers panel and discussion at Minneapolis Central Library in Pohlad Hall. The panel will include elected officials, community organizers, and lawyers who are working to protect us against data centers. RSVP: buff.ly/iZigB6Y

Rally to stop the Hermantown Data Center! Wear red, bring a sign of resistance to ai data centers, copper-nickel mining, surveillance technology and the corporate capture of our democracy. This is a peaceful family friendly event.

Want to get involved with our Melt ICE Priority? Check out these different ways to engage! Melt ICE is hosting a social for our Court Observers and members interested in Immigration Court Observation. Enjoy a cold one and learn about how you can get involved on Thursday, Sep 24 @ 8 pm at Arbeiter

Interested in supporting the Trans Relocation Fund? Donate with the link in our bio! You can also get involved with the Queer Liberation Working Group by emailing us at queerliberation@twincitiesdsa.org

TCDSA will be tabling at events all over the Twin Cities this weekend! Come find us!

Join us to show solidarity for condo workers fighting for their first contract! Saturday, September 12th, 1-4pm | Gateway Park (1 South 1st St. Mpls. Bounce for a fair contract - party in the bouncy house! Ice cream and other delights will be available!

Join Chris Smalls in conversation about his book When the Revolution Comes: A Fight for the Future of the Working Class at Moon Palace Books on Friday, September 11th at 7:00pm. Chris will be joined in conversation by Aminah Sheikh. buff.ly/9ZcVcAE

DSA is hosting a Fight Back Against Data Centers panel! Join us at the Minneapolis Central Library (Pohlad Hall) on 9/23, at 6pm and learn from experts on what YOU can do to join the movement to protect our community from big tech company exploitation.

TCDSA will be doing targeted door knocks against data centers every Saturday in September! Let’s make every resident aware of what data centers are, that there is a risk for them to pop up anywhere in the city, not just downtown, and that now is the time to fight back! RSVP link in bio.

🌟 CALL FOR INDIGENOUS PERFORMERS! 🌟 We are hosting our first Queer Carnival at Wicahapi Park! If you are interested in performing email us at queerliberation@twincitiesdsa.org.

Who doesn't love a socialist craft night? 🔥 🧊 Join the Melt ICE Priority for a Zine Workshop and Social this Saturday from 4-6PM. 🧊🔥 buff.ly/LYJUyzC

🌈 Join us for a family friendly night of fun and community! Every dollar raised goes to TCDSA's Trans Relocation Fund for Trans Refugees fleeing violent state governments. 🌈 Purchase tickets at buff.ly/NxZSR2z 🤮 If you don't come, you're homophobic.

Twin Cities DSA members spoke in support of the MN15 following a court hearing in Minneapolis on Aug. 27. This as the state has entered a "Shadow Surge", with abductions and deportations climbing in recent months.