SB 556 created an opportunity for frontline communities to raise their voices against neighborhood drillers.
@portantino took this opportunity away when he allowed SB 556 to be killed #MakePollutersPay#SetbacksSaveLives
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Californians perturbed by Anthony Portantino's decision to kill #SB556, a bold bill that would have imposed public health liability on oil companies: great time to endorse @LauraFriedmanCA who's an actual climate hawk. Portantino and Friedman are both running in #CA30.
A bill is waiting for @CAGovernor's signature that could create setbacks between oil wells and communities!
"We are tired of our community being disregarded. This is such a sweet moment. It’s transformational for all of us.” Ashely Hernandez of @CBECal
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Reminder that if you make minimum wage and work full-time, you qualify for food stamps.
Who pays for food stamps? You do.
Stop asking if the price of goods will go up if the minimum wage grows, and start asking why you're subsidizing businesses to pay poverty wages.
Why does the free market stop being free when it all of a sudden hurts the rich and well connected? It’s time we built an economy focused on the needs of working people and worried less about the profits of greedy hedge fund CEOs on Wall Street.
Gotta admit it’s really something to see Wall Streeters with a long history of treating our economy as a casino complain about a message board of posters also treating the market as a casino
Something I’m willing to wager is that if we had less millionaires in Congress, $2,000 checks would’ve already been out the door. We need more working class people that share our lived experience to run for office.
“Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all of God's children.�� — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.