John Edward Benoit

Another American fighting to stay alive.

[Dr. Jill Stein🌻 @DrJillStein]

Israel first on steroids. Shame on both parties, taking marching orders from US President Netanyahu.

[John Edward Benoit @JohnBenoit88]

I challenge you to find a 20 minute video with more vital information than this one! https://t.co/8ZGTu66QoB

[Medea Benjamin @medeabenjamin]

Funny how @RepLuna called the police to arrest me (they didn’t once they saw the video) because she said I touched her arm. 10 minutes later @RepMariaSalazar grabbed my face. I’m not complaining because she didn’t do it maliciously, I’m just pointing out the lunacy of @RepLuna

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

The Lawfare Defense Fund, a nonprofit founded by Trump donors, has raised at least $36 million to provide legal assistance to the president's allies, including those who consider themselves unjust victims of the legal system. https://t.co/i7vFjflQ5L

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

Hasan Piker discusses being barred from entering the U.K., his participation in a recent humanitarian mission to Cuba, for which he is reportedly under investigation by the Trump administration, and his support for progressive and antiwar candidates in this year’s midterm elections.

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[Zephyr Teachout @ZephyrTeachout]

Assemblymember Torres has been nothing but a hero for consumers on surveillance pricing, and the bill is a good step forward.

But in the middle of the night, the business lobby complicated the discount language, clearly trying to make it harder to enforce, and, most importantly, the bill
is only enforceable if one of dozen already overloaded lawyers in the New York Attorney General's office brings a case. It makes it illegal for Doordash to charge you more because an algorithmic read of your data says you're depressed, but you can't bring a lawsuit if Doordash rips you off that way.

Governor Hochul should use chapter amendments to make sure that people who are harmed can sue. No one should have to take exploitative data-based pricing sitting down.

[Howie Hawkins @HowieHawkins]

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[Zephyr Teachout @ZephyrTeachout]

Uber and Instacart and the gig industry is going all out to stop the One Fair Price Act in NY, after both repeatedly denying that they use the surveillance prices.

Don't listen to me, listen to @GraceGedye at Consumer Reports:

"Large corporations are aggressively fighting this bill because they want to be able to profile consumers and charge them different amounts, a tactic that makes prices less transparent and leads to consumers with the fewest options or those in the most desperate situations paying much more. These companies are profiting by collecting vast amounts of data about individual shoppers — how often we search for or hover over particular items, whether we live near competitor stores, inferences about our likes and dislikes, our dietary needs, our income, our family size, and more.”

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[Green Party of California @cagreens1]

Do we all agree that we'd like to survive #Capitalism??
Let's get to work then!
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[Green Party of California @cagreens1]

We thank all our Green & left unity slate candidates who run for office to serve, defend & build the communities and the world we need and deserve.
We Greens put people, planet and peace over profit because that's the only way we can survive capitalism.
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[Howie Hawkins @HowieHawkins]

The key to building the Green Party is growing the party bottom-up, starting in our local chapters.

Check out our Local Organizing Resources and get starting in your community!

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[Kshama Sawant @cmkshama]

Jacobin magazine, the principal mouthpiece of the leadership of the Democratic Socialists of America, today released a hit piece on Amazon labor leader Chris Smalls, @Shut_downAmazon.

It could be legit if Jacobin had had an honest critique of Smalls to clarify what class struggle unionist leaders should be doing. But the article is not that at all.

It’s a hatchet job against a leading labor activist who has refused to toe the line of the DSA and the business unionist labor leaders who give cover to the so-called progressive Democrats and to the Democratic Party as a whole, despite shocking betrayals by them against working people.

The crux of the real reason why Jacobin went after Smalls is contained in this sentence: “[Smalls] blames the two-party system for the state of the American labor movement…”

Smalls is spot on about this and the need to break from the Democratic and Republican parties. We need a new party of the working class.

The DSA leadership, on the other hand, sees giving cover to the Democratic Party as job number one. The Democratic Party is the party under whom the genocide in Gaza began and which engineered the breaking of the railroad workers’ strike — both under President Joe Biden. ALL Democrats in the House, including DSA star AOC voted to break the strike. The Democratic Party is one of the two most powerful capitalist parties in the world, and in no way represents working people or the oppressed.

Business unionist labor leaders are those who have made peace with the capitalist system and are driven by protecting their careers, which means placating the bosses, not organizing the rank and file against the bosses to win substantive working-class victories. Refusing to fight the bosses also means aligning with the parties of the bosses, like the Democratic Party.

The overwhelming majority of the labor leadership today is business unionist, with some crucial exceptions like Smalls. We need a reckoning in the labor movement.

Brother Smalls has put his life on the line for the antiwar movement in solidarity with the Palestinia people against the Israeli state’s genocide bankrolled by both the Democratic and Republican parties. Smalls went on a Gaza aid flotilla carrying food, baby formula, diapers and medicine in the context of catastrophic levels of mass starvation in Gaza. The flotilla was attacked by the Israeli military, who physically assaulted Smalls, and kicked and choked him.

In contrast, AOC has voted for the Iron Dome which is part of the Israeli state’s genocidal apparatus.

For having the temerity to expose AOC and other self-described “progressive” politicians, Smalls is called “narcissistic” by Jacobin, a term the magazine’s editors were apparently forced to retract after they got huge amounts of flak on all social media.

Personal attacks and character assassination like in this case are often used by the political establishment’s spokespeople as proxy for their real objections — in this case, the threat they feel from Smalls openly calling out the Democratic Party’s actual role.

The only way of rebuilding a militant labor movement is to pose a concrete threat to both the Democratic and Republican parties, which in turn requires a challenge to the business unionist labor leadership. That is the basis on which I won the nation’s highest minimum wage and the Amazon Tax during the decade I was the sole socialist on the Seattle City Council.

I am now running as an independent revolutionary socialist against genocidal Democrat Adam Smith. I am calling for an end to all military aid to Israel and an end to all weapons and tech for genocide and imperialist war. https://t.co/sh3zyhgTI7

[John Edward Benoit @JohnBenoit88]

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[Kshama Sawant @cmkshama]

For over two years, Democratic Congressmember Adam Smith has voted to send tens of billions of dollars for the Israeli state's genocide in Gaza.

In December, Adam Smith championed a bill to give Trump $906 billion for wars.

Last week, Adam Smith proudly introduced a bill for over a trillion NEW dollars for war. The bill would also fuse the U.S. and Israeli militaries and shockingly escalate AI, cyber, and biotech weaponry for Israel.

Adam Smith's biggest funder has been Zionist lobby group AIPAC.

He is the #1 Democrat recipient in the House of Palantir donations and weapons industry money as a whole.

That same Adam Smith says that "the solution is to come up with a national security strategy that doesn't require you to have a 1.6 trillion dollar defense budget."

This guy deserves formal recognition as Orwellian "war is peace" genocidal politician of the year.

But the corporate media does not even comment on his bald-faced lies. None of the so-called progressive Democrats call him out.

Just goes to show how rotten the capitalist system is, as are its agents, the Democratic and Republican parties.

I'm running as an independent revolutionary antiwar socialist. Join my campaign to win this election and throw warmonger Adam Smith out of office.

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[John Edward Benoit @JohnBenoit88]

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[Kshama Sawant @cmkshama]

The lies that come out of this guy's mouth are breathtaking.

"We need more diplomacy," says Adam Smith, right after he proudly announced a bill for a trillion NEW dollars for war & to fuse U.S. & Israeli militaries.

I'm fighting to stop Adam Smith’s insane warmongering agenda.

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

New Jersey Attorney General Files Lawsuit Against Private Prison Company GEO Group https://t.co/3S7G4vXZ3c

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

Former Border Patrol Chief Bovino Attends Anti-Immigrant Summit in Portugal https://t.co/bQeQxr2NEM

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

DOJ Kills $1.8B Anti-Weaponization Fund, But Trump’s IRS Settlement Remains https://t.co/0W85aGS21w

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

Pentagon Hires Jan. 6 Insurrectionist for Counterterrorism Role https://t.co/E5eSNLqPXm