Happy #LaborDay!
Today, and all days, it is essential to remember the importance of the worker.
We must never forget the struggle of laborers who came before us..
A THREAD:
Today we celebrate the life of Huey P. Newton, a Marxist anti-imperialist and co-founder of the Black Panther Party, who would’ve turned 80 years old today.
“The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.”
#BlackHistoryMonth
Climate solutions are right in front of us, but our 'leaders' are protecting the billionaires who want to keep murdering ecosystems, disrupting entire geopolitical regions, creating millions of refugees, and spending trillions in blood money all to protect our oil dependence.
Drilling sucks but it's not like there's some magical limitless energy sources we could tap into…
like some kind of giant ball of fire in the sky radiating heat energy.
or offshore jetstreams blowing constantly..
or like massive bodies of water flowing 24/7.. Shame..
Guys stop saying Biden hasn't done anything on climate!
He performatively blocked a single pipeline so he could protect the rest and is auctioning off 136,000 mi^2 of the GoM for offshore drilling. What more do you want?
Julian Assange is going to be extradited to the United States, and possibly sentenced to decades in prison, for the crime of publishing evidence of American war crimes in the Middle East. These are the actions of a police state.
Inflation has always been used to "enforce austerity and protect accumulated wealth at the working class’s expense.” We cannot and will not let them shift the blame onto us. https://t.co/MWFnVripnb
If your boss tells you not to discuss your wage with your coworkers:
DISCUSS YOUR WAGE WITH YOUR COWORKERS.
You have that right.
They just don’t want you to find out what they are hiding.
When they tell us social spending is driving inflation, remember the second most expensive item in the gutted infrastructure bill was a massive tax cut for the 1%.
BREAKING: The 1400 striking Kellogg’s workers have courageously voted to reject the contract offer from the breakfast giant.
They walked out 9 weeks ago after years of 16-hour shifts, forced overtime, and uneven pay.
They’ve won some gains, but there’s one big sticking point.
Any attempt to help fund the working class in this country will be slashed down to nothing… the military industrial complex, however, will never run out of money.
Lockheed Martin received more federal funding last year than the amount climate programs will get in Biden’s reconciliation bill: https://t.co/0aYOIHdph8