Joel Sipress
Template:TOCnestleft Joel Sipress is a Duluth Minnesota activist.
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.[1]
Signatories included Joel Sipress 2nd District Duluth (MN) City Councilor.[2]
Minnesota Meeting
Nikki Villavicencio, Tina Liebling, Joel Sipress.
DSA candidates forum
Twin Ports Democratic Socialists of America, April 30, 2017;
- Second District City Council Candidate, Joel Sipress
Democratic Socialists of America Unity
Joel Sipress supported the Democratic Socialists of America Unity grouping, established for the 2017 Democratic Socialists of America National Convention in Chicago.[3]
Socialist victories
November 7, 2017 city council seat victories for socialists include self-described democratic socialist Tristan Rader in Lakewood, Ohio; and Democratic Socialists of America members Denise Joy in Billings, Montana, who won by more than eight hundred votes; Charles Decker in New Haven, Connecticut; Justin Farmer in Hamden, Connecticut; and Joel Sipress who won with 67 percent of the vote in Duluth’s 2nd District. Democratic Socialists of America Buffalo vice chair Brian Nowak also won a seat in Cheektowaga, as did dues-paying Democratic Socialists of America member Ross Grooters, who ran a campaign championing clean water and living wages.[4]
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 Joel Sipress, Duluth City Council.