I'm gonna need the national media to stop doing 'people don't want to work' stories and do more 'company got PPP money, gave it to shareholders, to officers as bonuses and still cut workers' jobs' stories.
The fight for Black lives and the fight for Palestinian liberation are interconnected.
We oppose our money going to fund militarized policing, occupation, and systems of violent oppression and trauma.
We are anti-war. We are anti-occupation. And we are anti-apartheid. Period.
@CivicsUnplugged Does CU do any contract work or partnerships to support the development of youth leadership programs? My org (@strathmore) has funding to launch a Youth Arts & Power program next school year and would love to discuss if you are open to working together.
Some very clear examples from a young person in Chicago on what community investment looks like:
- paid summer jobs for young people
- safe spaces in neighborhoods outside of school hours
- on the ground outreach workers to meet kids where they are at
https://t.co/JsjVfSZjW6
We really need to retire the label “at-risk” which is coded language for Black and Brown youth in poverty. They aren’t “at-risk” and are really full of potential that can be used to transform the world. Instead, we have to label the systems that they operate in as risks.
It’s pretty remarkable that some still do not understand that Trump’s mission was to destroy the U.S., not improve it. He was the Kremlin’s weapon of mass destruction and did an incredible amount of damage, including more than 500K preventable American deaths.
President Biden’s $2 trillion #AmericanJobsPlan is the most ambitious climate and clean energy plan undertaken by any US administration. The plan is fully commensurate with the scale of the economic and climate challenges we face. 1/
Kroger:
*Profit hit $2.9B, up 70%
*$1.2B went to stock buybacks and dividends
*Pays CEO $21.1M, 789x more than median employee
*No worker hazard pay
*Closed Seattle & Long Beach stores when cities mandated $4/hour grocery worker raise
*Had police guard thrown-out food in Portland
To this day, his listeners assume we failed. One of the top auto-complete Google searches for our company is "out of business."
I've had 5 years to tell our story and prove him wrong, but most people who are crushed with misinformation don't have that luxury. (5/6)