CitizenTex

A Social Movement for the New Gilded Age

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Hello! Welcome to CitizenTex – A social movement for the New Gilded Age.

CitizenTex is a non-profit organization fighting for economic justice and freedom of opportunity for all citizens. We are committed to revitalizing our democracy and increasing civic & electoral...

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the situation at all. They’re not wanted here, we haven’t asked them here. In fact, we want them to leave." https://t.co/NmWSD1VBPh

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Portland mayor: "People are being literally scooped off the street into unmarked vans, rental cars apparently. They’re being denied probable cause and due process. They don’t even know who’s pulling them into the vans... They are making the situation much more dangerous.

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I’m worried that one of our residents, or one of our local and state law enforcement officers, is going to get killed because of the tactics that they’re currently engaged in...
Their presence here is actually leading to more violence and more vandalism and it’s not helping...

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CitizenTex #3 — "This Is Not Good"

Election Wins, Gamblin' Man and This Is Not Good.

https://t.co/CtfZbiZs2C

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CitizenTex #2 — "Corporate Gangster's Paradise"

Pandemic Profits, Texas Early Voting and a Corporate Gangster's Paradise.

https://t.co/ClJ6fiTfFc

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The SCOTUS ruling this morning is a victory for civil rights and economic justice for our hard-working, tax-paying immigrant communities - including the 700K children & youth covered by #DACA. But it's only a temporary victory. This legal ruling was due more to sloppy work from..

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Trump and his @HouseGOP will continue to attack immigrants pursuit of the American Dream in the courts and congress. (graphic via @UNITEDWEDREAM )

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including seven other shops near Michigan’s Thumb area.” https://t.co/94EYdxsXDk #union #tacobell #activism #protests #workersrights #progressive #socialactivism

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“At a Taco Bell in Washington Township, Michigan, the action began when Jonathon Foster, a shift leader, approached the district manager about paid sick leave during the pandemic. She flat-out refused, despite pledges from Taco Bell’s CEO.

Foster then reached out to the...

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$3-an-hour hazard pay with back pay, paid sick leave for those experiencing COVID-19 symptoms, and thermometers to screen workers’ temperatures… They won their demands—not only for their own shop but also for more than 250 Taco Bell workers at SRS Management, a franchise...

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and other communities of color. As part of those reductions, the LAPD would see cuts of $100 million to $150 million, he said."

https://t.co/MBhE6wyJo6 #BlueLivesMatters #BLM #BLMprotest #JusticeForGiovanni #BlackOutTuesday #protest #GeorgeFloydMemorial

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Organized protest and civil disobedience have been one of the most effective tools for sweeping social justice and legislative change in America since it's founding. There is nothing more American.

We must keep the pressure up to reverse decades of militarization of local...

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police departments under the 1033 Program.

"Garcetti said his administration would look for $250 million in cuts from city departments, including the LAPD, and steer the funds to investing in jobs programs, health initiatives and other services supporting the black community...

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"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere... Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." - MLK Jr #BlackLivesMatter #bunkerbabytrump #GeorgeFloyd #GeorgeFloydProtests #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd

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“Cesar and Dr. King never met, but they corresponded during Cesar’s 1968 fast. Dr. King told Cesar, ‘Our separate struggles are really one...we are together with you in spirit and in determination that our dreams for a better tomorrow will be realized.’”@Chavez_Fndn #GeorgeFloyd

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people like things. Our Original Sin is one that has kept on giving.
Our only way forward is the only way that’s ever worked: serious, sustained, long-term organizing.
#GeorgeFloyd #RIPGeorgeFloyd #icantbreathe #BlackLivesMatter   #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd #MinneapolisPoliceMurder

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The legacy of America's Original Sin casts a long shadow over our society today.
The evils of slavery become the evils of Jim Crow become the evils of ever ingenious systems of oppression.
Though America long ago shed the evils of slavery, it never un-learned how to treat...