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Years: 2024 2023

Statement on the Results of the 2024 General Election
11/11/2024

Statement on the Results of the 2024 General Election by the Keweenaw Socialists Administrative Council.


Keweenaw Socialists Quarterly Q3 2024
10/24/2024

The pentultimate issue of our first year. This issue covers the People's Conference for Palestine, unsettled grounded normativity, a discussion of voting and harm reduction, reflections on the 1973 Chiean coup, discussion of white settler perception, and a window into the past of the Portage Lift Bridge.


Gaza War News Update
Updated 10/4/2024
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Regular updates on Israel, the Settler Movement, and Zionism, the Pro-Palestine Protest Movement, and Repression, and Israel’s War Conduct in Gaza


Keweenaw Socialists Quarterly Q2 2024
6/30/2024

Our second issue of our first year. This issue covers generative refusal, public libraries, poetry honoring Dr. James Turner, analysis of the Copper Country rental housing market, municipal socialism in Carbondale, IL, and reprinting on free speech and socialism and religion.


Somebody Blew Up Israel, Oct. 7, 2023
6/12/2024

A poem in support of Palestinian Resistance by Jack Jones


Statement on War with Iran
4/16/2024

Statement on War with Iran by the Keweenaw Socialists Administrative Council.


Municipal Report: Special Joint Meeting of Hancock and Houghton City Councils
4/4/2024

CEO of the MTEC SmartZone and Houghton and Hancock City Managers discuss building occupancy and grant reciept by MTEC SmartZone and urban development in Houghton and Hancock


New Online News Source Comes to the Keweenaw
4/3/2024
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Bazhiba’igan, "The Spear", launches on April 4th, bringing indigenous and worker focused reporting and publishing to the Keweenaw Peninsula.


Michigan Tech Wins CCHA Tournament against Bemidji State
3/24/2024
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The Michigan Tech Huskies took home the Mason Cup after defeating Bemidji State 2-1 in the CCHA Championship.


Keweenaw Socialists Quarterly Q1 2024
3/6/2024

The very first issue of the Keweenaw Socialist Quarterly, picking up radical publishing in the Keweenaw where Työmies left off, with a theme of Rediscovery. This issue covers the history of the aforementioned radical publishing in the Keweenaw; discussion on municipal socialism in the Copper Country; poems about patriotism, the Russia-Ukraine war, and landlords; solidarity with Palestine; discussion on healing generational trauma from an indigenous perspective; and a reprinting on union scabbing.


AISES Public Statement
12/6/2023
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The American Indian Science and Engineering Society at Michigan Technological University would like to issue a public statement in regard to the canceled event, Guidance for (Land) Acknowledgements within Ojibwa Homelands, that was to occur on November 30, 2023, at 5PM in the Walker Arts and Humanities Center. It is with great disappointment that we share with our friends, families, colleagues, and communities the lack of inclusion of us, Indigenous people and students, in this event and past events that discuss Indigenous-related issues and topics.


AISES Letter to Land Acknowledgement Event
11/30/2023

We, the undersigned–the Indigenous students and allies of Michigan Technological University–want to express our disgust at the egregious lack of inclusivity on this university campus: we continue to be treated as our ancestors were treated at the creation of the treaties...


The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
11/29/2023

What is happening in Gaza today is part and parcel of a 75-year-old enterprise of ethnic cleansing. This is the Zionist enterprise for the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. We are presently witnessing in real time the murder of thousands of Palestinians, the bombings of hospitals in Gaza...


Statement Retraction
10/18/2023

The Keweenaw Socialists have chosen to retract a public statement we made on October 8, 2023. We stand by the sentiment of the statement, that Palestinian armed resistance is justified in the face of Israeli armed oppression...


Palestine Solidarity Statement
10/17/2023

The Keweenaw Socialists continue to stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine. We mourn the thousands of Palestinian and Israeli lives lost in the last week’s violence, the tragic result of decades of Israeli occupation and apartheid...