Nurses at Essentia's 3rd Street Clinic Unionize!

The Registered Nurses at Essentia Health's 3rd Street Clinic and Patient Flow Department announced this week that they are unionizing! The RNs are joining the Minnesota Nurses Association, and they will be following in the recent footsteps of the RNs at at the 1st Street Duluth Clinic, the 2nd Street Duluth Clinic, Solvay Hospice House who have also unionized this year. Congrats to the 3rd Street Clinic RNs and the MNA! Unionize every worksite!

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Calling Out Transphobia in Our Community

Over the weekend, one of the owners of At Sara's Table / Chester Creek Cafe, Barbara Neubert, shared a transphobic meme and at least one other meme in support of JK Rowling on her personal Facebook page. This might sound like an issue of free speech, but it's not, it's hate speech. Its purpose is to dehumanize us. That it was platformed by a respected elder in the local progressive and LGBTQ communities is even more concerning. Many politicians who have pushed for draconian transphobic laws have used JK Rowling's own tweets as a justification to punish us, and keep us closeted. It also came to light that her wife and co-owner, Carla Blumberg, told a non-binary employee that they ought to dress more feminine because "I get that your generation believes that sexual manipulation is utterly evil, but, nevertheless, it works." Then in a later "clarification" misgendered them, and said they "dressed like someone in the Seattle grunge scene while (

Superior Police Tase a Door Dash Driver After He Took a Wrong Turn

Ian Cuypers is a door dash driver who was delivering food in Superior in February. He was unfamiliar with the neighborhood, and while looking for an address he accidently took a wrong turn down a one way street. This led to Superior Police pulling him over. Multiple cops appeared on the scene. With weapons drawn and pointed at him, Ian was instructed to get out of the car with his hands up, to face away from the officers, and walk backwards towards them. When he attempted to explain himself, he was tased. This is an outrageous incident of unnecessary force. Video footage has been posted online. Here is the link for it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX_zKmiH3-E

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The Northwoods Socialist Collective is a group of working class activists based in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin. We believe everyone should have a say in the matters that affect their lives. That is why we are socialists. We advocate for a socialism that is revolutionary, internationalist and feminist, as well as being anti-racist, anti-ableist, anti-imperialist, environmentally sustainable and fully committed to LGBTQAI+ liberation. We invite you to join us in the struggle to make our communities and world a better place! Here are some of the resources and avenues we offer folks to plug into our group and the struggle for a better world: SOCIALISM AND A SLICE: These are public meetings we hold where we invite speakers to talk about current events, and/or important local activist projects. They are held in the Founders Room of the Duluth Building for Women. They're usually on the 2nd Monday of the month at 6pm, and we always have free pizza, beverages and socialis

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