Canada did $2,000/monthly. The US is the richest nation on earth and a 2nd stimulus check is getting blocked bc GOP want corporate bailouts & austerity in “exchange” for it.
Maybe if everyone in the US incorporated as an LLC, Mitch McConnell would actually do something for them.
In 1944, FDR proposed a Second Bill of Rights that states every American has the right to:
-A job
-Medical care
-A decent home
-A good education
-An adequate wage
-Economic protection during sickness, accident, old age, or unemployment
It's time to revive it.
52 years ago today.
I’m sharing this thread of photos, not to cause sadness, but to remind us of a cause as critical today as then.
The racism, poverty & militarism that my father was working to eradicate still persist.
As a result, families are mourning at this very moment...
O Allah, You have granted us so much more than many many others in this world.
O Allah, provide them relief and enable us to give You thanks for the abundance You have provided us.
Your Mercy, Your Mercy, O Lord.
“They burn their Qurans. They shut down their mosques. They ban their schools. They kill their holy men... The women are forced to marry Chinese men.” - Mesut Ozil https://t.co/SbMDEaE0Ts
Indian security forces brutally assault peaceful and unarmed Muslim protesters against India's citizenship amendment bill at Islamia University in New Delhi.
Key laws that regulated how US media operated, have been gutted. We're left with the current mess of large corporate media conglomerates, that undermine our democracy. https://t.co/I0VCSUITkA
The Guardian has been repeatedly fed dirt by the anti-Assange/Correa elements of Ecuadorian intelligence services, but they got the karma they deserve from that: that's what led to their enduring & humiliatingly false story about Manafort visiting Assange 3 times in the Embassy:
Reminder: 136 days ago, the House voted to raise the minimum wage to $15.
That bill would’ve increased pay for up to 27 million working people. The Senate GOP has yet to bring it to a vote.
The Republican Party keeps going out of its way to keep Americans in poverty.
My heart 😭
Today these Muslim barbers from uppercutz barber shop in Dearborn, MI spent Thanksgiving cutting hair & feeding the homeless at a homeless shelter
This is their 4th annual year of giving back on Thanksgiving
This is HUMANITY.
HEROES.
We need more of this ❤