This whole railroad workers episode further clarifies that the "essential worker" discourse we've been bombarded with for almost 3 yrs is about disciplining workers to labor in perilous conditions, and not about respecting and protecting the people who do vital work.
The fact that the cops tackled the man who stopped the Colorado Springs shooter, handcuffed him, and locked him in a cruiser feels way too much like them tackling parents in Uvalde. In both cases it wasn’t enough to be useless, they had to punish those who tried to actually help.
The most extraordinary advocates at Texas Jail Project (@TxJailProject) are fighting right now in Houston against armed cops & jail guards to beg the County Commission not to reward them for the violence & death they're causing inside & out of jail.
I need you to read & share this.
A story about a mother *this week.* forced into a cage in Houston, TX. 8 months pregnant. When her water broke guards discarded her on the street. Thankfully advocates were there to get her help. Gave birth that night. “Pro-life.”
Testimony:
As climate change gets worse and hurricanes get more severe, the U.S. government handed Puerto Rico’s entire electric grid to LUMA, a private company that fails almost daily. Now a hurricane is hitting, and this happens.
Seeing this farmer ask this committee to drink water from a fracking zone near his farm is the latest example of how capitalism is taking clean water from us. It’s killing us.
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