I need someone to explain to me why it’s always “if you can’t pay rent, buy fewer lattes and avocado toasts” and not “if you can’t pay your employees a living wage, buy fewer yachts and real estate”.
Explain it to me like I’m in kindergarten.
Unfortunately apart of adulthood is realizing there is some curriculum you missed out on and taking the time to research yourself instead of chalking it up to just not knowing.
Breonna loved Christmas. She would be so excited preparing decorations and getting to spend time with her loved ones. She should still be here with them.
Her life mattered.
Never stop saying her name:
Breonna Taylor.
Reminder that this is the reason for criminalizing homelessness. Why pay people enough to live when you can price them out of living and then lock them up for slave labor instead?
"Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them."
— Assata Shakur
3 main reasons:
1) Too many in the 99% worship the 1% and want to be the 1%.
2) The 1% have 2 parties in power that serve their interests; the 99% have 0.
3) The 99% are intentionally divided with culture wars to prevent us from building class solidarity & overthrowing the 1%.
“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”
James Baldwin