We can’t be silent. Until Elon Musk is OUT, the Social Welfare Action Alliance has disengaged from this platform. Please connect with us through our website, Facebook, or Instagram. Our Lin.ktree lists all these sites: https://t.co/QTiOQRCBBh
Pushing Back When Under Assault & (Still) Keeping Your Day Job ! #RadChats Tue Apr 2 at 8PM ET - https://t.co/NsWj4oQLwD <How we are pushing back against restrictive, regressive, and oppressive laws? How do we engage in collective care, supporting one another? Register today!
One example of "the power of radical imagination in building transformative solidarity is the movement for disability justice. . .[Success in challenging] the status quo required a multitude of people playing a wide range of roles." Diversify to grow meaningful organization. 3/3
By the 1990s activism shifted "to a shallow, professional and often philanthropically funded model of “advocacy”, one that elevates self-appointed leaders and elite experts to speak on behalf of constituencies to whom they are not directly accountable." #RadicalSocialWork 2/3
Organising is a kind of alchemy: it turns alienation into connection, despair into dedication, and oppression into strength https://t.co/RK3dvL6iT3 #DoNotAgonize#Organize 1/3
Our co-director @BuserMary explains the horrors of solitary confinement and the role of mental health care professionals.
#endsolitaryconfinement
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#IWD Photos from around the world https://t.co/LUus2DHXdr Let's hope that "The Future Is Female." Women couldn't do worse than the current dominant gender. Probably!
Corporate profits accounted for more than half — 53% — of inflation from April to September last year, according to excellent research from @Groundwork.
It's not inflation, we're just getting ripped off. We need to crack down on corporate greed. #SOTU2024
Part of what brought us out of that difficulty of the early pandemic days was the expansion of human needs programs like the Child Tax Credit — which cut child poverty nearly in half(!).
We still need these programs. Bring back the expanded #ChildTaxCredit. #SOTU2024
#RadicalSocialWork Manifesto (link-bio)
"calls for anti-capitalist/
anti-racist/anti-oppressive practice that supports
collective action/ collective care/ and economic human rights.[It] implores us to do what we say we do –
to be liberatory/emancipatory/building a new world"