Occupy Wall Street with a General Strike

Born Sep 17, 2011. Standing w/global #OccupyWallSt. #GeneralStrike #FreeThemAll #blacklivesmatter

[Occupy Wall Street with a General Strike @OccupyWallStNYC]

If you have watched corporations build enormous surveillance systems and data centers while federal agencies acquire ever more sophisticated tools to track people, this is your struggle.

#abolishICE

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[Fight for a Union @FightForAUnion]

If inequality hadn't exploded after 1979, middle-income households would be making $30,000 MORE per year.

That's a second income. A paid-off car. A college fund. Instead, we're turning hobbies into side hustles just to keep up.

The money didn't disappear. It went to the top.

[UNICORN RIOT @UR_Ninja]

Israel Bombs Newly Built Water Desalination Plant in Gaza

For nearly two months, Palestinians in Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighborhood had access to water at any time — a welcome sense of stability in the depths of a genocidal war. On Aug. 24, that stability was disrupted by an Israeli airstrike that destroyed the newly built water desalination plant and damaged apartment buildings and tents.

Standing next to rubble and forcibly displaced from the airstrikes, Louay Al-Namnam told Unicorn Riot that at least 14 Palestinian families were now looking for “somewhere to live.”

“We were sitting safely inside the complex,” he said, “when suddenly someone approached us and told us to leave because the area was about to be bombed. A water desalination plant was struck first, and then the complex itself was hit.”

The water plant had provided free desalinated water to families and over a dozen shelters and collectives. The bombing worsens Gaza City’s drinking-water crisis which impacts 92% of the population.

According to Al Jazeera, the owner of the desalination plant estimated his losses to be at least $500,000 with the machines half of that amount. The plant which was totally destroyed was carefully assembled with hard to obtain equipment and materials.

More at our website - link in bio.

[In These Times @inthesetimesmag]

It’s no shock that the Right and Big Tech are targeting the same three institutions—if Democrats don’t take action to defend them, we can kiss our democracy goodbye. via @hamiltonnolan https://t.co/kisu5xmLUW

[DSA @DemSocialists]

For far too long, the US empire has committed gross atrocities against the people of Puerto Rico. Today, we call for change to that pattern and demand the investigation into the murder of Filiberto Ojeda Rios. https://t.co/QtbrgXQpQf

[Climate Defiance @ClimateDefiance]

Hidden in plain sign, the City of New York is leasing public lands at the Brooklyn Navy Yard to a defense contractor supplying weapons tech to ICE and the IDF.

[National Nurses United @NationalNurses]

Thank you @RonWyden for cosponsoring #MedicareForAll!

Senator Wyden has been instrumental in the health care reform fight because he knows our system is broken and in crisis. Thank him for standing with us in the fight for guaranteed health care for all! https://t.co/nILoU4fsWS

[DecolonizeThisPlace @decolonize_this]

seriously f these people

make the bubble 🫧 pop 📌

[Jacobin @jacobin]

With his down-to-earth focus on cost-of-living issues, Milan mayoral candidate Lorenzo Pacini is seeking to reconnect with Italian traditions of city-hall socialism. https://t.co/2ZelvXy2lX

[Mahmoud Khalil | محمود خليل @mahmoudkhalel]

The Trump administration, Columbia Trustees, & the pro-Israel establishment tried to silence me and make an example of me to chill pro-Palestine speech in this country. They failed.

I'm glad my book is out now to expose what they did, and what they're still doing to others.

A review of No Land to Stand On:
https://t.co/Ae3Imnyqkr

[Gianluca Costantini @channeldraw]

On August 31, Salman al-Khatib was documenting the demolition of Palestinian homes between #Birzeit and Atara. According to his testimony, he was sprayed, pushed, kicked and struck with a stick.
@Sallman_kh @CPJMENA

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[Jacobin @jacobin]

At a Walmart distribution center in Mississauga, Ontario, workers have made history by winning the first-ever union contract with the logistics giant in North America.

Their fight has meant pay raises for the company’s workers across Canada. https://t.co/LxXKRXWzLs

[Party for Socialism and Liberation @pslnational]

TONIGHT IN NYC: Cuban FM Bruno Rodríguez Parilla is welcomed by hundreds of activists, progressive leaders, and people of conscience who are standing against the U.S. blockade.

Let Cuba live! Cuba is not the enemy! 🇨🇺

[ANSWER Coalition @answercoalition]

“The people of the U.S. have much more in common with the people of Cuba than we do with the genocidal war hawks and corporate executives in the White House. Cuba is not a threat!”

The people of the United States stand with Cuba against the silent genocide being carried out by our criminal government. Watch the full remarks here: https://t.co/aPmSVt4JS2

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

Climate activist Bill McKibben says much of the world's electricity needs are still going unmet, even as rich countries expand their energy footprints to power AI data centers.

https://t.co/IyRXkxAYrA

[The People's Forum @PeoplesForumNYC]

“We know this blockade [on Cuba] is wrong and violates international law, it is unequivocal. We know its purpose is collective punishment."

NYC Council Member Alexa Aviles @CMAlexaAviles speaks at “Voices for Peace: Cuba Is Not A Threat”.

Follow live: https://t.co/cbLiOJqFvc

[NYC CLC, AFL-CIO @CentralLaborNYC]

Today in NYC #LaborHistory: Int’l Ladies' Garment Workers Union begins strike against Triangle Shirtwaist Co. This would eventually become the "Uprising of the 20,000," resulting in 339 of 352 struck firms—but not Triangle—signing agreements with the union. - September 27, 1909

[Workers Strike Back @wrkrsstrikeback]

Grocery workers in Washington state have been taking a stand against Israel's genocide in Gaza and state-sanctioned settler violence in the occupied West Bank by wearing union watermelon pins to work. The watermelon is a symbol of solidarity with the Palestinian struggle, since it was first used in 1967 after the Israeli state took control of Gaza and the West Bank and prohibited the Palestinian flag from being displayed in public for more than two decades.

Recently, workers at the Seattle-area grocery stores of the PCC Community Markets have been sent home early from their shifts for wearing pins with the watermelon symbol, and also pins with the Palestinian flag. The PCC bosses have claimed the pins were “too political” to have at work. The UFCW 3000, which is Washington state’s largest union and represents grocery workers, including those at PCC, created union pins with the watermelon symbol in response to this retaliation by PCC management. Since then, numerous workers across multiple stores have worn these union pins to stand not only with the Palestinian people, but also with their fellow union members facing attacks from the bosses.

Under national labor law, workers have a right to wear their union’s pins on the job. Despite this, the bosses went even further by egregiously firing a worker at Seattle’s Greenlake Village PCC for continuing to wear the pin, continuing to say the pins were "too political". The bosses don't hesitate to violate labor law when it is in their interests to do so, and they are shielded by the Democratic & Republican parties, both of which serve the bosses. The only way for us as workers to defend our rights and to win major improvements in our lives is to get organized and take collective action to fight the bosses and their political servants.

Come out TOMORROW, Sunday September 27th at 12pm PT, at Columbia City PCC in Seattle, to rally and picket with grocery workers and union members to defend our rights to fight in solidarity with the Palestinian people!

RSVP here: https://t.co/ivJYJhNcAX

#seattle #palestine #solidarity

[Prison Policy Initiative @PrisonPolicy]

Midterms are around the corner, and the way local law enforcement collaborates with ICE is on the ballot.

New guide by @boltsmag outlines the races across the U.S. that could reshape Trump's deportation agenda👇

https://t.co/n2Svn4NkNX

[Truthout @truthout]

As activists rally around federal legislation to dismantle ICE, Amnesty International joins the call for abolition.
https://t.co/obBMkhP6FC

[The People's Forum @PeoplesForumNYC]

“Let me be clear: our solidarity with the nation and the people of Cuba is unconditional!“

Rosemari Mealy, former Black Panther Party member, also condemned threats from the Trump admin against those that fight for justice.

Watch live: https://t.co/cbLiOJqFvc