Landed in Birmingham this morning, already been to one solidarity event for Mercedes workers about to vote for their Union next week. 💪🏽
These folks are ready to end the Alabama Discount starting May 13-17 and vote UAW YES! ✅
I was honored to emcee today's event for the workers organizing with UAW at Mercedes in Birmingham! I am looking forward to taking the same energy to tomorrow's event in Tuscaloosa! #OrganizeTheSouth
🚨 Mark your calendars for the 16th! Login and show some solidarity with a community that has been let down by the government and the company responsible for the derailment. Let's show East Palestine that we recognize their struggle and offer them love and aid this holiday.
ANNOUNCEMENT: Saturday, Dec 16, Jules & I will host a 12-hr @WorkingPod livestream fundraiser for the families of East Palestine. After the @nscorp train derailment, this community has been devastated & abandoned—many don't know how they'll make Christmas happen. Let's help them
#CampHill was already classified as a food desert. There is no grocery store and no laundromat. The closest Dollar General is 1/2 a mile away across a major highway. Over 1/2, the cars in town were totaled in the storm, and many only had liability coverage.
A decertification petition was filed to get rid of the @MineWorkers union at Warrior Met.
@GrimKim first reported on this for us at TVLR(dot)FM.
@ALReporter republished the piece here:
https://t.co/R1dLLYQd8Q
After almost two years on strike, @MineWorkers at Warrior Met Coal are still trying to negotiate a new contract. The coal bosses did everything they could to break the strike; now, they’re hoping to break the union itself with a decertification election. https://t.co/U23baJzKxO
For @inthesetimesmag, I wrote about the women who nourished the longest strike in Alabama’s history. There is power in mutual aid, in sacrifice, in love, in resilience. There is power in a pantry. https://t.co/wYYFT2ZRJI
The @LaborReporters have stood with the @MineWorkers throughout the #WarriorMetStrike. They were the only Alabama media providing regular coverage of the strike. If you can please help them to be able to continue to cover working class issues in the South! https://t.co/urVprPw869
Parisians gathering in huge numbers at the Place de la Republique as the work day comes to an end.
Expect police brutality directed at ordinary working people rising up to protest Macron's hugely unpopular pension reforms.
People are singing nice songs.
One of our union brothers that’s been on strike, passed in an accident after the meeting on Wed. My heart is breaking especially 4 his family. If you feel led to help with laying him to rest, I’m sure the family would appreciate it. Prayers are good too.
https://t.co/RwOmUdzSWI
Words can't do justice to the anger working folks in Alabama should have towards our elected leaders at the state and federal level, Republican and Democrat.
But our brother Hamilton Nolan does pretty damn good here:
I am currently feeling so many emotions that I don't have the words to discuss this. Imagine finding this out from screenshots sent to you from a scab page.