Duluth for Justice and Liberation

08/20/2026

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07/17/2026

EMERGENCY CALL CAMPAIGN - SHARE WIDELY

The people in charge in our community have abandoned our neighbors to choke on smoke. Anyone without the resources to filter the air in their living space is in DANGER. Call those in power and demand they use the DECC as an emergency shelter per their flood plan and protect our neighbors living in unfiltered air.

Script:

“Hello ______. I am calling to demand that you work to open the DECC as an emergency shelter per the flood plan. I am concerned about members of this community who are living without filtered air. This is a crisis needing an immediate response. Yesterday the air quality index reached almost 1200 and we saw the worst air on the planet. Elders, children, chronically ill folks, and our unhoused neighbors are at extreme risk if they continue to breathe this air. Take immediate action to protect our neighbors and open the DECC.”

07/17/2026

Pretty amusing that Superior Water Light & Power is claiming it's not their fault their rates are so much higher than every other water utility in the state of Wisconsin. There was a lot of public hand-wringing last night, but the reason SWLP's rates are higher than public utilities is simple: Public utilities don't constantly ask for rate increases because they don't have a profit motive. In other words, they don't have to pay a CEO and profitholders. It's only natural public rates are less everywhere else in the state after decades of private ownership.

Last night, the "Superior Community Coalition," which was represented by a retired SWLP worker, and an attorney hired by the utility, gave Mayor Paine 15 minutes to present his case at the Billings Park Civic Center in Superior, and then took 15 minutes each for their own presentations, stacking the deck in their favor. The coalition used the same process Google did in Hermantown for the data center presentation--they didn't allow questions from the audience during presentations and instead offered snacks and questions at tables afterwards.

SWLP insisted the city can't afford their price tag and thus the city shouldn't move forward with the referendum.

But it's the Public Service Commission that sets the price AFTER voters approve a referendum of willingness to purchase. If the PSC sets the price too high, the city has already stated it wouldn't move forward with the purchase. An audit done by the city, however, revealed a much lower price tag.

All of this begs the question: If SWLP is really so confident in their pricing, then why are they so sure the referendum is a bad idea?

A real public information session will be held at Superior's Public Library on July 30th at 6 p.m. Questions will be taken from the audience. Link to newscast in comments below.

07/17/2026

Trying to intimidate people? Spent all their money on surveillance tech and need hand me downs from the military? Maybe they just like cosplay? What do you think?

07/14/2026

07/02/2026

Reminder: Superior (and Duluth) Police are murderers. Cops have no obligation to protect you, or anyone. We keep us safe. Justice for David Menton.

05/19/2026

Over the past weeks there has been controversy during the MN legislative session over gun control bills, such as HF3874/SF4067. The bills, if passed, would have included a ban on the sale of semiautomatic military-style assault weapons and magazines over 17 rounds. As Socialists, we support the ownership of these tools by the Workers. This is because we do not envision a future where capitalism will be reformed away, as the social democrats and liberals who support these measures might. We know that the fight to end capitalism will be decades long and require every tool at our disposal. By examining history, we know that giving the fascist imperium a monopoly on violence is a horrible idea when our goal is the complete abolition of capitalism in this land.

As socialists, it has been frustrating for us to sit between the two sides of this debate: Social Democrats and Liberals (our supposed allies) want to deprive The People of one of that tools that make revolution possible. They have an extremely short memory on the subject, as just a few months ago we saw images of the People holding down city blocks with fi****ms in Minneapolis while the police and national guard did nothing but help ICE enforce their reign of terror on the city.

On the other hand, we have conservatives and fascists who are against these laws for wholly different reasons from us: When Alex Pretti was executed in the streets by an ICE thug, these same fascists were winging over the fact that he was carrying a pistol while defending the lives and freedoms of his neighbors. These fascists desire for firearm ownership only extends as far as it advances an agenda of fascism and white supremacy. We can see this pattern repeated in history when California, under the governorship of Ronald Reagan, passed strict firearm laws in order to suppress the Black Panther Party for Self Defense.

We cannot ignore the violence that has lead us to this debate. School shootings and other forms of violence are abhorrent, and are a sign of social decay under capitalism. We must fight for concessions for the Workers that will make healthcare, crisis intervention, and safe firearm storage more accessible for all Workers. But we must never forget that We Keep Us Safe. Not the police, not the capitalist state (no matter how outwardly progressive).

As Socialists, we believe that All Power belongs to The People, and that all of our efforts must go towards increasing that power, not decreasing it. For these reasons, we do not support the surrender of fi****ms to the capitalist state.

05/15/2026

Pushing for warrantless searches for existing grandfathered in gun owners is a huge contradiction when we just fought the state over ICEs extrajudicial killings and terror in the streets with those same fi****ms…and they were doing warrantless searches too.

Gun bans that only target aesthetic features, rather than the actual mechanics of the gun, are meaningless anyway. What really matters is not banning guns, but imposing red flag laws, more extensive background checks and restrictions for people with violent histories, a more comprehensive application process for open/concealed carrying, and actually addressing social decline, poverty, and meeting people’s needs by expanding access to social services and mental healthcare.

RIGHT NOW: A sit-in over gun legislation is underway at the Capitol. Duluth Rep. Liish Kozlowski is leading it and it’s likely to last 36+ hours.

Just before 9 p.m. a vote to take up gun legislation failed on a 67-67 vote. It was followed by Rep. Kozlowski saying they will begin a sit-in until the next gavel-in, which is noon Saturday. “Until we hold a vote, we will sit.”

Then, when a Republican member tried holding what they called a moment of honor for Annunciation victims, some DFL members started chanting “hold that vote.” Speaker DeMuth gaveled out.

We’ll show you the dramatic end to the day and remarks from Rep. Kozlowski on the Northern News Now at 10 on channel 6.