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This video is well worth watching and sharing. It touches on several issues that are very important to us:
Social safety programs
Wealth distribution
Monopoly power
Pentagon budget
Forever wars
Jobs guarantee
UBI
Worker protection
Money in politics
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@KeithMcCallin We are very strong supporters of #MedicareForAll. It is one of 18 primary issues we feel need to be addressed by Congress. Check them all out here:
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They're trying to make protesting virtually illegal.
Minnesota proposed legislation says anyone convicted of a crime related to a protest or march will be denied:
Food stamps, rent assistance, loans, student loans, mortgage assistance, grants, medical assistance, etc.
โInverted totalitarianismโฆ constantly projects power upwards. It is the antithesis of constitutional power. It is designed to create instability to keep a citizenry off balance & passiveโฆ To extinguish democracy, the state rewrites and distorts laws 1/6
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โthe continued funneling of power and wealth upwardโฆ criminal justice is as much a strategy of political neutralization as it is a channel of instinctive racism.โ 6/6
We must protect our Constitutional rights before we lose them completely.
@HRW offers 14 recommendations for police reform.
@TenDemands offers 10 recommendations for justice reform.
Either way, one thing is for sure: the US must address this crisis before more lives are ruined or lost.
#SystemicJusticeReforms now. 6/6
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โPolice violence... is inextricably linked to deep and persisting racial inequities and economic class divisions. For reform efforts to be meaningful and effective, they need to address those societal conditions. 1/6
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โAuthorities at all levels in the United States should adopt prompt and focused measures to understand and combat systemic racism in government, the economy, the health system, employment, housing and others, including, of course, the criminal legal system and policing. 5/6