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Can we please settle this debate already? There is no labor shortage. There is a living wage shortage, a hazard pay shortage, a child care shortage, a paid sick leave shortage, and a health care shortage.
Please RT.
When the president of the largest progressive social justice foundation in the world quotes you, but doesn’t give a Black formelry incarcerated man credit for his intellectual property.
Fail: @FordFoundation. 👎🏾
Why do “progressive people” think their job is to just complain about every-fuckin-thing? When did hope and progress become unimportant to movement building? Besides, Black ppl know how fucked up things are already, we don’t need an oppression roll call. We need hope & strategy.
@JSG_54@akhan1437 Which is what @akhan1437 and so many other formerly-incarcerated leaders (including myself) are working to change. When we have a punitive justice system, no part of it can ever be truly rehabilitative or redemptive. We have healed *in spite of* prison, not because of it. #JLUSA
Imagine believing that a woman with a full-time job prior to giving birth would qualify for government assistance during FMLA? Or that WIC, Housing and Food Stamps are employer-provided programs?
@Rex_Calliber@AOC@TimRyan You mean FMLA? They're given 12 weeks under the law.
Wages you say? Short term disability, wic, food stamps, and housing cover all of that, something most jobs offer or you could plan ahead and carry a personal plan.
@AOC@TimRyan In a country WITHOUT parental leave WHAT company is gonna hire a young woman instead of a man if pregnancies are FORCED to term. They might not want to admit it but it’s common sense. Investment in staff that might HAVE TO leave at any time will be seen as less viable. INEQUALITY
Most of my non-profit clients are fighting over money and afraid to talk about it with philanthropy because there’s no safe space to discuss how the non profit industrial complex exacerbates systemic inequities and perpetuates lateral violence.
Just puttin’ it out there.
@glennEmartin Tonight, my mind goes to the Black teenaged boy that my family saw get shot execution style by the police a few years ago at a “family-friendly” fireworks display. They filled him with lead and he had the nerve to live, so they sent him to prison, paralyzed.