Barbara 🍎📚✏️

Wife, Mother, Educator, Union Leader- NYSUT, Long Island Federation of Labor delegate & former member Executive Board, Retiree Leader My opinions are my own

[Tom Bonier @tbonier]

To be clear, young Black women. In 2020 in that period about 2 of 5 new registrants were under the age of 30. In this period after VP Harris emerged as the nominee, almost 2 in 3 new registrants were under 30.

[Barbara 🍎📚✏️ @4BHAF]

Tell Albany: NYC public school kids should NOT foot the bill for charter rent.

[Barbara 🍎📚✏️ @4BHAF]

Check this out! https://t.co/CQibFk5Chf

[Barbara 🍎📚✏️ @4BHAF]

.@GovKathyHochul, Time is running out. Please sign S.2161-A/A.7035-A into law. This bill establishes a special needs assisted living program to serve people w/ neurodegenerative diseases experiencing behavior disturbances. #NYSAlzAdvocacy #ENDALZ @NYSALZ https://t.co/rhvGyKf9qS

[Barbara 🍎📚✏️ @4BHAF]

URGENT action needed! Tell Congress to REJECT massive cuts to critical education programs that directly affect our most vulnerable students! https://t.co/A85R0WEWzw

[Jonathan @Jd2718x]

Former #UnitedFederationofTeachers Chapter Leaders, Arthur @TeacherArthurG and me, recorded a convo about #MichaelMulgrew removing Queens Boro Rep @AmyArundell

Mulgrew was wrong, Amy serves Chapter Leaders and members well, and needs to be reinstated.

https://t.co/eP0Y5QCo3D

[teacherarthurg.bsky.social @TeacherArthurG]

Watch @Jd2718x and I discuss @UFT Unity's most recent shitstorm, the reassignment of one of their very few super-competent reps, Amy Arundell. State of the Union podcast, Episode 1. https://t.co/O2V73Axutl

[Marianne Pizzitola @FDNYchic]

.@AARP @AARPNY @DBunis love the article in the Oct bulletin. I will make ONE correction, #medicare advantage is not increasingly being chosen by new enrollees, they are being auto enrolled into them by employers evading responsibility & greedy insurance companies like @Aetna

[Barbara 🍎📚✏️ @4BHAF]

I just wrote a @NPEaction letter: . Write one here: https://t.co/WRSEHRqNr1

[Dora Leland 😷🍎 @DoraLeland]

Social justice work is union work!! @NYSUTStreasurer discussing all of the opportunities @nysut members can participate in to advance social justice.

[Melinda Person 🍎✌🌈 @MelindaJPerson]

🗳️ November 7th, VOTE YES on PROP 1. It will ensure that finally, New York state's smaller cities receive the same opportunities as most other districts. 🍎 Learn more at https://t.co/kY7h2XKxmC @nysut

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

Robert De Niro’s full statement on Trump. Please read and let me know your thoughts:

I’ve spent a lot of time studying bad men.  I’ve examined their characteristics, their mannerisms, the utter banality of their cruelty. Yet there’s something different about Donald Trump. When I look at him, I don’t see a bad man. Truly.

I see an evil one.

Over the years, I’ve met gangsters here and there. This guy tries to be one, but he can’t quite pull it off. There’s such a thing as “honor among thieves.” Yes, even criminals usually have a sense of right and wrong.  Whether they do the right thing or not is a different story — but — they have a moral code, however warped.

Donald Trump does not. He’s a wannabe tough guy with no morals or ethics. No sense of right or wrong. No regard for anyone but himself — not the people he was supposed to lead and protect, not the people he does business with, not the people who follow him, blindly and loyally, not even the people who consider themselves his “friends.” He has contempt for all of them.

We New Yorkers got to know him over the years that he poisoned the atmosphere and littered our city with monuments to his ego.  We knew first hand that this was someone who should never be considered for leadership.  We tried to warn the world in 2016.

The repercussions of his turbulent presidency divided America and rattled New York City beyond imagination.  Remember how we were jolted by crisis in early 2020, as a virus swept the world. We lived with Donald Trump’s bombastic behavior every day on the national stage, and we suffered as we saw our neighbors piling up in body bags.
The man who was supposed to protect this country put it in peril, because of his recklessness and impulsiveness. It was like an abusive father ruling the family by fear and violent behavior.  That was the consequence of New York’s warning getting ignored. Next time, we know it will be worse.

Make no mistake: the twice-impeached, 4-time indicted Donald Trump is still a fool. But we can’t let our fellow Americans write him off like one. Evil thrives in the shadow of dismissive mockery, which is why we must take the danger of Donald Trump very seriously.
So today we issue another warning. From this place where Abraham Lincoln spoke — right here in the beating heart of New York — to the rest of America:
This is our last chance.

Democracy won’t survive the return of a wannabe dictator.

And it won’t overcome evil if we are divided.

So what do we do about it?  I know I’m preaching to the choir here.  What we’re doing today is valuable, but we have to take today into tomorrow – take it outside these walls.   We have to reach out to the half of our country who have ignored the hazards of Trump and, for whatever reason, support elevating him back into the White House.  They’re not stupid, and we must not condemn them for making a stupid choice.  Our future doesn’t just depend on us. It depends on them.

Let’s reach out to Trump’s followers with respect.  Let’s not talk about “democracy.”  “Democracy” may be our holy grail, but to others it is just a word, a concept, and in their embrace of Trump, they’ve already turned their backs on it.  Let’s talk about right and wrong.  Let’s talk about humanity.  Let’s talk about kindness.  Security for our world.  Safety for our families.  Decency.  Let’s welcome them back.  We won’t get them all, but we can get enough to end the nightmare of Trump, and fulfill the mission of this “Stop Trump Summit.”

[Jaime Ciffone @JCiffone]

Day began in Manhattan where @GovKathyHochul, @TishJames, and state lawmakers announced new legislation for online safety for children, saw #ufttc staff and ended with dinner with fellow educators. @StacyLi96104334 @c_delongchamp @nysut @UFT

[Marianne Pizzitola @FDNYchic]

Patrick @NYCPBA we have fought hard protecting NYPD Medicare Retirees! @nycretirees are thankful for this major victory and know there is more fight ahead. No greedy mayor should take away an earned and vested benefit from a retiree! ❤️

[Barbara 🍎📚✏️ @4BHAF]

Americans are still recovering from the ripple effects of the pandemic. This is NOT the time to cut funding. Write to your paper & tell lawmakers to stop spending cuts! @AFTUnion https://t.co/tGbGMBZ0uq

[Melinda Person 🍎✌🌈 @MelindaJPerson]

In Boston today with members of our #NYSUTfamily. Educators and unions are standing together with the @NAACP to make sure the arc of history bends toward justice @NYSNAACP @NYSUTStreasurer @kblackalford #AnthonyHarmon @nysut @AFTunion @rweingarten @UFT @NEAToday @BeckyPringle

[Melinda Person 🍎✌🌈 @MelindaJPerson]

Thank you @KeithMc34748142, @SchoharieTAPrez and @SachemCTA’s Phil Barbera for representing @NYSUT in this year’s @NYSAFLCIO /Cornell Union Leadership Institute. @WorkerInstitute @cornellilr #Ithacaisgorges 💪🏽✊

[Cordie🍎 @chateacher27]

In case you needed another reminder!

[NYSUT @nysut]

Watch this space tomorrow night (6:35 p.m. to be exact!) for a short discussion on the #SAGAFTRAstrike with @SAGAFTRANY member, Mason Cufari!

[Educators of NYC @educatorsofnyc]

@FDNYchic @UFT @UFTUnity @medicarerights @LBUFT @nysut @JanellaTHinds Dumbfounding. And @UFT just gave 10k to @medicarerights & this series most definitely makes the case that MAP has serious flaws and problems.

How do they reconcile their support and participation in one breath and then force retirees into inferior care?

https://t.co/Rb21ZxThN0