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Meeting Recorded (1/30/2022) and Special Uploaded (2/10/2022) Find Minneapolis United for Rent Control (MURC) on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mpls4RC?s=20 Find MURC on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MinneapolisUnitedForRentControl CURA Rent Stabilization Report: https://lims.minneapolismn.gov/Download/FileV2/23362/Rent-Stabilization-Research-Final-Report.pdf Met Council Affordability Limits: h...

Recorded (2/1/2022) -- Uploaded (2/3/2022) We talk to Jess Spear the author of the in-depth article Save our seas, save ourselves --- which you can find here ----> https://rupture.ie/articles/save-our-seas Spear is an eco-socialist and socialist feminist and was previously a climate scientist at the US Geological Survey and Burke Museum of Natural History at the University of Washington and has si...

Recorded (1/22/2022) and Posted (1/27/2022). A meeting entitled Solidarity with the Kazakhstan Uprising [in English, French, Russian] was held on Saturday January 22nd 2022. In this Special Report we hear audio from a previous 3 minute news update we had in the archive about the situation in Kazakhstan in 2011. This Special Report also contains the majority of this past weekends meeting about the...

(1/20/2022) Currently the Omicron wave is overwhelming many institutions including healthcare institutions and hospitals. Currently in the US the pandemic is out of control. But many of the problems in US hospitals that have made the situation worse like short staffing were problems that existed long before the pandemic. And unfortunately US hospitals failed to prepare for a pandemic even though a...

NEWS + MUSIC + Abdirahman's audio letter "Another Response on China" NEWS: Fighter with a big heart: activist, journalist, MSR stalwart Mel Reeves passes at age 64: https://spokesman-recorder.com/2022/01/06/a-fighter-until-the-end-activist-journalist-mel-reeves-passes-at-age-64/ Mel Reeves, a stalwart of Minnesota activism and community journalism, dies from complications of COVID-19: https://saha...

The death of long-time Journalist and Activist Mel Reeves at 64 was announced by the Minnesota Spokesman Recorder on January 6th 2022: https://spokesman-recorder.com/2022/01/06/a-fighter-until-the-end-activist-journalist-mel-reeves-passes-at-age-64/ In this speech from the archive we hear Reeves speaking to the Minneapolis School Board in October of 2010 on behalf of the Save North High Coalition...

Special Report: Desmond Tutu Gave Us Hope (1/6/2022) You can view this report also on YouTube with accompanying slide show: https://youtu.be/GJ9sFMEtyu8 Fox 6 Milwaukee (clip): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06gAR-GPJl0 We Have a Choice Speech - Desmond Tutu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efLO0G2axUo Music by Hugh Masekela: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbzCmcDJpvE

HOLIDAY Special Report (12/30/21) Our Holiday Special Report is like a fruit cake with lots of different stuff in it. Here is what we've got: Eugene V. Debs “Jesus, the Supreme Leader” - recently published in Jacobin : https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/12/debs-jesus-christmas-working-class-revolution-socialism Enrico Caruso - Cantique de Noël (O Holy Night) (1916): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF...

Interview (12/23/21) with Ashley (Youth Homelessness Non-Profit Worker - West Coast) about the current crisis of the unhoused and specifically focusing on youth homelessness. Here is the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver episode mentioned in this interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liptMbjF3EE SNV Special Report referenced in this interview: https://soundcloud.com/socialistnewsandviews/snv...

NEWS + MUSIC + LISTENER PERSPECTIVES ON CHINA NEWS: Potter Trial https://spokesman-recorder.com/category/kim-potter-trial-2/ https://minnesotareformer.com/2021/12/10/potters-former-supervisor-says-it-was-legal-for-her-to-fire-gun-at-wright/ U of M Morris boarding school https://sahanjournal.com/education/native-american-burial-site-university-of-minnesota-morris-2/ Consumer prices rise 6.8% - 40-y...

Full Audio Recordings from Special Interview

Interview (11/29/2021) with Rick Majumdar (Dallas Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression)who recently returned from travel to India. Here we talk about a number of audio clips and discuss the recent victory of the Indian Farmers against the Modi government. You can find more from the farmers movement here: https://www.facebook.com/KisanSabha.org Full Audio Clips from this show can be heard...

NEWS + MUSIC + The Parable of the Water Tank by Edward Bellamy READ by Barry Shillingford NEWS LINKS: Thank you, Cam Gordon: https://southsidepride.com/2021/11/15/thank-you-cam-gordon/ Immigrant students rally to save a small St. Paul high school from closing. ‘It feels like you belong in this country,’ a recent graduate says of the program: https://sahanjournal.com/education/leap-st-paul-public-s...

In this Special Interview (11/4/2021) we talk with Kieran Knutson who recently appeared in The Baldies documentary on Twin Cities Public Televion (TPT) about how he thought the documentary turned out. The Baldies were a Minneapolis skinhead crew that fought racists in the 1980s and beyond. We encourage you to check out the 52 minute documentary linked below. The Baldies documentary on TPT: https:/...

SOCIALIST NEWS AND VIEWS SPECIAL REPORT on The Minneapolis City Council Candidates + Interview with David Rosenfeld (Socialist Workers Party Candidate for Ward 12) David Rosenfeld and The Socialist Workers Party (SWP): https://themilitant.com/ Robin Wonsley Worlobah and Robin for Mpls: https://robinformpls.com/ Aisha Chughtai and Aisha for Ward 10: https://www.aishaforward10.com/ Sheila Nezhad and...

NEWS + MUSIC + Roberta Malles and Parntner Lynette talk about the 1970 Minneapolis CO-OP WARS (Part 2). ------------------------------------------------------------------ Links to News Articles from News segment: Ten Years Later – The Importance of Occupy Wall Street: https://www.socialistalternative.org/2021/10/07/ten-years-later-the-importance-of-occupy-wall-street/ Chevron’s puppet judges sente...

Prison Industrial Complex Stats: https://www.sentencingproject.org/criminal-justice-facts/ https://www.prisonpolicy.org/profiles/US.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_rate ------------------------------------------------------------- Juvenile incarceration: https://www.aclu.org/issues/juvenile-justice/youth-incarceration/americas-addiction-juvenile-incarceration-state-s...

Raoul Duke (a nom de plume as a nod to Hunter Thompson) speaks to us about A.M.L.O. (Andrés Manuel López Obrador) and the 4th Transformation of Mexico. You can find AMLO's YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/lopezobrador/videos If you have additional comments, questions or concerns about the content of this interview please send those to: socialist.news.views@gmail.com and that content...

NEWS + NIBI (Water) Song @ Minnehaha Falls + Roberta Malles and Parntner Lynette talk about the 1970 Minneapolis CO-OP WARS (Part 1). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Links to News Articles from News segment: Abolitionist Candidates Are Running for Office Across the Country: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/abolitionist-candidates-running-for-office Outbreaks...

NEWS + INTERVIEW with Troy Amlee/Akicita Sunka-Wakan Ska with Unicorn Riot + WHY SOCIALISM? by Albert Einstein read by Abdirahman Hassan AR6 Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/ Unicorn Riot: https://unicornriot.ninja/ Why Socialism by Albert Einstein: https://monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/why-socialism/ Music from Einstein Background: 30 minutes of b...

Host Nick Shillingford does a Special Interview on the continuing Police Brutality and State Violence being used against movements for social justice in Colombia. Show solidarity by getting involved in this cause that should matter to organized labor around the globe. Video version of this interview can be found here: https://youtu.be/FdfvyPdSbKY Letter from McGovern and 55 Members of US Congress:...

NEWS + POEM + Interview with Mumia Abu-Jamal on the prison narrative + MUSIC Find more interviews and commentaries from Mumia Abu-Jamal on PrisonRadio.org here: https://www.prisonradio.org/correspondent/mumia-abu-jamal/

NEWS + MUSIC + Audio Essay by Writer and Activist David Cummer "Equality and Christianity" + What is Terfism and How do We Fight It? - a talk by Kate Frey an Independent Socialist from We are Many They are Few Youtube Channel. We Are Many They Are Few on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/user/Katie1918/videos MUSIC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeKTQLXGxwc

NEWS + MUSIC + THREE PERSPECTIVES ON AMERICAN GUN CULTURE Listen to our previous Special Interview with Robin 4 Minneapolis here: https://soundcloud.com/socialistnewsandviews/special-interview-with-robin-for-minneapolis-robin-wonsley-worlobah-1152020

NEWS + SPEECH from Russian Revolutionary Alexandra Kollontai + MUSIC (lyrics linked below) + INTERVIEW with Laci, South Minneapolis Activist, talking about Stop Line 3 Movement, Abolishing Police, and Activist Burnout. George Floyd Square on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/38thandchicagogfs/?hl=en Stop Line 3 on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StopLine3 Music Lyrics from this episode: http...