Erik Hatlestad
Template:TOCnestleft Erik Hatlestad is a Minnesota activist. Energy Democracy Organizer at Cure MN River. Manages New London Food Co-op.
- I am an experienced and committed rural organizer. I grew up on a farm (where I still work) and the biggest town I've ever lived in was just a little under 30,000. I'm the co-convener of the Rural Socialists Working Group who's been working with rural organizers and chapters over the last year plus. I've got my finger on the pulse of the anti-capitalist current in the rural Midwest and beyond. I'm a county officer in the Farmers Union local (a national convention delegate), I organize cooperatives, and I was elected in 2016 to my hometown city council as an openly radical candidate.[1]
Workers be put at forefront of COVID-19 recovery
From In These Times: May 8, 2020.
- As democratic socialist elected officials from across the country, now more than ever, we’re fighting for a world in which human life is valued above profit. As the Covid-19 crisis has spread, at home and abroad, we’ve seen governments slow to invest in healthcare and hospitals, but quick to open up their wallets to bail out large corporations — just as before the pandemic.[2]
Signatories included Erik Hatlestad, City Council, New London, MN .[3]
DSA Elected Officials, March 2019
From a March 6, 2019 by DSA National Electoral Committee statement "DSA Elected Officials Support Teacher Power and Working People Everywhere."
Endorsing Democratic Socialists of America members included Erik Hatlestad, City Council, New London, MN.
DSA At-Large Delegate list
DSA At-Large Delegates, 2019 Convention included Erik Hatlestad Minnesota.
DSA - Rochester, MN Public Group
Members of the Democratic Socialists of America, Rochester MN Public Facebook Group, as of May 15 2018, included Erik Hatlestad.[4]
DSA Facebook
Members of the Twin Cities Democratic Socialists of America public Facebook group, as of June 2, 2018, included Erik Hatlestad.[5]
DSA National Climate & Environmental Justice Working Group
Members of the DSA National Climate & Environmental Justice Working Group closed FB page, as of April 26, 2018 included Erik Hatlestad.
DSA At-Large Delegate list
DSA At-Large Delegates, 2019 Convention included Erik Hatlestad Minnesota.
Endorsing Keith Ellison
Millennial Leaders Endorse Keith Ellison for DNC Chair was posted February 2017.
Young people have been at the forefront of every major struggle in our country to make real the promise of democracy. During the last election cycle, our generation played a pivotal role in bringing economic and racial justice to the forefront of political dialogue, and now we are marching in the streets, rallying at airports, and at town halls resisting Donald Trump’s cabinet and his agenda of hatred and greed.
That’s why we endorse Representative Keith Ellison for DNC Chair. We believe he can activate the millennial base of the party by working with the movements we have powered.
Signatories included Erik Hatlestad, New London, MN City Council.
SDS
West Central Minnesota Students for a Democratic Society February 21, 2017 ·
Rally on the campus mall. — at University of Minnesota, Morris.
Environmentalists
Erik Hatlestad March 14, 2015 ·
People support buffer strips, renewable energy, and conservation. The message is clear #BuffersNow #ActOnClimate — with Teresa Clarke, Ariel Herrod, Marvin Boike and Judi Boike, Duane Ninneman, Tim Beckmann, Delbert Wehrspann, Mary M. Sullivan, Sarina Otaibi, Peg Furshong, Janine Wojtalewicz, James Kanne and Laurie Driessen.