Abolish the 12s, from DC to Palestine

Island dweller in New York, New Yorker in DC. Star Trek aficionado. Organizer of tenants in the DC area. The housing market is dumb.

[Abolish the 12s, from DC to Palestine @laborisforever]

One of the worst things for Labor in the US— other than horrendous anti-worker laws— is a widespread ignorance of what unions are and how they work. Elected officials have zero clue, students don’t learn about them, many workers don’t know what they are or how to organize them.

[Abolish the 12s, from DC to Palestine @laborisforever]

@ArmsteadVan Holy shit who is that

[Abolish the 12s, from DC to Palestine @laborisforever]

Rent in DC is 48% higher than the national average.

Avg. monthly rent for 1 bd: $2,300
Avg. monthly rent for 2 bd: $3,100
Avg. monthly rent for 3+ bd: $3,900

And we pay the highest tax rate at 10.75%. And for all we’re taxed, we have no voting rights and operate as a colony.

[Abolish the 12s, from DC to Palestine @laborisforever]

Meanwhile CORE found that the very bill that the landlords want is not only based on lies, but would not even attack the issue of fraud even if they wanted it to. Brilliant.

[Abolish the 12s, from DC to Palestine @laborisforever]

Did you know that the DC Council has a Council Office of Racial Equity that does an impact assessment for bills under review? Well for Bill 26-0046, CORE concluded that the ERAP documentation requirements “will likely harm outcomes for Black, Latine, & POC residents.

[Abolish the 12s, from DC to Palestine @laborisforever]

How? “It will likely create significant barriers for residents of color who need to utilize ERAP while being unlikely to prevent fraud, as intended.”

So the landlord lobby pushed a theory (proven untrue by data) that tenants were committing fraud when applying for emergency $$.

[Israel Genocide Tracker @trackingisrael]

Israeli occupation soldiers laughed and celebrated as they shelled and destroyed a mosque in southern Lebanon today.

[AG Brian Schwalb @DCAttorneyGen]

NEW: We sued slumlord Sam Razjooyan for horrific housing code violations, illegal construction, and defrauding DC's Rapid Rehousing program.

No DC resident should have to endure the appalling and dangerous conditions that tenants face at these properties in Ward 8 and Ward 7.

[ParaPower Mapping @KlonnyPin_Gosch]

“Israel’s finest living artist”

[Abolish the 12s, from DC to Palestine @laborisforever]

Zionist making a divestment graphic on fake union account to….union bust?

Cannot make this shit up.

[Kalina Newman @KalinaNewman]

I have never seen anything like this.

This is a fake account and suspected to be Compass Coffee management. The real Compass Coffee union’s @ is @CompassCoffeeU. The union has taken NO public stance on divestment from Israel.

[Kalina Newman @KalinaNewman]

I have never seen anything like this.

This is a fake account and suspected to be Compass Coffee management. The real Compass Coffee union’s @ is @CompassCoffeeU. The union has taken NO public stance on divestment from Israel.

[Abolish the 12s, from DC to Palestine @laborisforever]

So this account was created by Compass Coffee MANAGEMENT to pretend to be the workers. Imagine being this much of a clown. Instead of just sitting down to talk to the people who make your brand possible, you install yourself as cafe manager and create fake social media accounts.

[Compass Coffee Workers-Official @CompassWorkers]

Compass Coffee Workers is not associated with @ CompassCoffeeU. As a union, we are waiting till after we’ve won our election to poll our members to accurately represent our workers. Please block and report

[Abolish the 12s, from DC to Palestine @laborisforever]

@CompassWorkers 🤡

[Abolish the 12s, from DC to Palestine @laborisforever]

@afalkhatib How do you engage a Zionist in creating a solution if they do not believe Palestine has existed or exists now? I’m not sure how one would ask a racist to engage in desegregation—it is a policy that is enforced, not asked for by those who morally disagree with it.

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@lawyergonerogue No one liking this post has any analytical skills—so sad. I also assume no one here has ever had a job where they travelled to another location for training or had a trainer from 😱out of town😱 come to train them. Where someone is from means nothing, esp in INTERNATIONAL issues.

[Abolish the 12s, from DC to Palestine @laborisforever]

@LLcoolJamzzz @lawyergonerogue Only an ignorant person with no self-respect would think that someone from out of town could convince an entire movement of people. And you, have you only views and values that are influenced by people in your town? Are you supporting Israel, they are from out of town too! 😱

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

tossing out the first amendment so that students can’t criticize a foreign country

[steven monacelli @stevanzetti]

Twitter used to be the place to go for breaking news about things like the Baltimore bridge disaster. Under Elon Musk, it has become the place to go for brand new unhinged conspiracy theories about how diversity made a bridge collapse.