An intergenerational campaign demanding proper pay and protection of all essential workers. Join the fight for our families! #CoronaStrike#PeopleOverProfit
Today, we are proud to launch #YourWorkersMyFamily, a campaign to share the stories of essential workers, and their families, most impacted by this pandemic. We demand proper pay and protection of all essential workers. Share your story, and join us in our fight for our families.
Many people have asked why farm workers are joining with the @Mvmnt4BlkLives and other worker and racial justice allies tomorrow. My thoughts on this are complex yet so simple:
As a movement, we’ve learned that righteous protest relies on genuine solidarity.
Never forget that the local authorities who voted to paint “Black Lives Matter” on city streets could’ve just voted to reform their police departments.
Imagine if we could articulate and deconstruct what we want and ways to get there as much as we critique and deconstruct the capitalist system?
We’re not talking about pretty words.
We’re talking about concrete structures and institutions, with different models of organization.
Every core intersection in downtown #Bloomington is barricaded right now. Since the cops can't - as the agents of a racist system - protect demonstrators, it's only reasonable to protect ourselves, and to block the flows of the economy while we're at it.
Our Tax Amazon movement has made history!
Seattle City Council just voted to pass an Amazon Tax on the largest corporations to fund affordable housing & jobs, to begin to end racist gentrification.
This is entirely because of the thousands of working people, unions, socialists!
My comrade’s roommate works at Walmart on Wyoming&Academy in ABQ. They revealed that they’re forcing COVID+ workers to keep working and are threating to fire them if they say anything on social media & they’re refusing to take any safety measures for other employees and shoppers.
Rent Strike 2020 Official 4th of July Party Checklist:
✅ Abolish the Police
✅ Black and Indigenous Liberation
✅ Return Lakota Treaty land (and all Indigenous lands)
✅ Cancel Rent
✅ Abolish ICE
✅ Socialism
All progress toward a cooperative & equitable society will be illusionary until patriarchy is dismantled & its remnants, buried.
White supremacy, capitalism, & patriarchy are intrinsically linked. There is no taking one down without the others.
Notice which one is ignored..
My first foster home was so problematic. The second foster home was very violent. My mom's home was safe. Her issue was that she was poor and suffered from capitalism. She needed resources, not removal
At one point, 1 out of 3 Black men in this country was being incarcerated.
We know something is deeply, fundamentally wrong in this country’s justice system.
On the bright side, #youthleaders are our future.
Thank you @aaronnarraph for shining a light on PUBLICLY AVAILABLE data in anticipation of @NYCCouncil's budget announcement to inform folks out there about what's really at stake when we demand police defunding.
@corona_strike
This 19 year old advocate posted publically available numbers of the NYC City Council to ask the public to demand they vote against an outrageous budget that will only perpetuate racist overpolicing. They demanded he take his tweet down.
HELL YES!
US #workingfamilies have had enough.
We don't fight *only* for worker safety and fair pay during #covid19. We fight for affordable housing and healthcare, safer streets sans militarized police, community funding, and overall dignity for all workers.
@corona_strike
Between January 20 and June 20, Big Pharma raised the price of hundreds of drugs.
Over 90% of those drugs were related to the fight against COVID-19.
Price gouging is dangerous at normal times. During this pandemic, it’s deadly.
ATTENTION!!!
@NYCSpeakerCoJo wants more time (6pmET) to deliberate on whether or not @NYCCouncil will disingenuously divert billions into school policing. These are NOT cuts to the #NYPD and are NOT in the best interest of #NYC working families.
@corona_strike@OccupyWallStNYC