Letters: Socialist News And Views Episode # 43 (2/16/2023)

NEWS + MUSIC + LETTERS (1934 Teamsters Strike) and (Democratic Party and Farmer Labor Party Bloc) NEWS: City Council Demolition Vote – Against EPNI 7-6: https://twincitiesdsa.org/2023/01/city-council-demolition-vote-against-epni-7-6/ As hunger rises in Minnesota, House passes school meals for all bill: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2023/02/09/as-hunger-rises-in-minnesota-house-passes-school-meals-for-all-bill Atlanta Police Foundation Refuses to Comply with Zoning Appeal, in Violation of County Law: https://atlantapresscollective.com/2023/02/11/atlanta-police-foundation-refuses-to-comply-with-zoning-appeal-in-violation-of-county-law/ Defend the Atlanta Forest @defendATLforest on Twitter implicates Norfolk Southern in Cop City: https://twitter.com/defendATLforest/status/1624437258316128258 Pete Buttigieg’s Transportation Department Is Skirting Safety Standards: https://jacobin.com/2023/02/department-of-transportation-train-brake-regulation-ohio-derailment Drive for profits leads to fiery train wreck, toxins on board: https://www.workers.org/2023/02/69300/ Nick Drom - What is happening in East Palestine Ohio?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYIIQwejUjs ---- MUSIC (RAW VIDEO from the live event): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wUQ7q8ZW1o ---- LETTERS: Meridel Le Sueur Biography on Marxist.org: https://www.marxists.org/glossary/people/l/e.htm#lesueur-meridel 1934: Mill City Revolt podcast: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/1934-mill-city-revolt-710375 Meridel Le Sueur - Murder in Minneapolis (August 7, 1934): https://www.marxists.org/subject/women/authors/lesueur/minneapolis.html A Life of Struggle: Grace Carlson: https://againstthecurrent.org/atc213/a-life-of-struggle-grace-carlson/ On December 7, 1941, the United States declared war on Japan. Three days later, after Germany and Italy declared war on it, the United States became fully engaged in the World War II: https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/united-states-history-primary-source-timeline/great-depression-and-world-war-ii-1929-1945/world-war-ii/#:~:text=On%20December%207%2C%201941%2C%20following,in%20the%20Second%20World%20War. The DFL was officially created on April 15, 1944, with the merger of the Minnesota Democratic Party and the larger Farmer–Labor Party: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Democratic%E2%80%93Farmer%E2%80%93Labor_Party#:~:text=The%20DFL%20was%20created%20on,the%20larger%20Farmer%E2%80%93Labor%20Party. Grace Carlson - Workers’ Forum First Effect of Minn. Bloc with Democrats (29 June 1940): https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/carlson/1940/06/flp.html (also of interest - Irving Howe - A Minnesota Witch Hunt (November 1941): https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/howe/1941/11/witchhunt.htm) ----