Ben Smith

Dad. Building solidarity across movements to win a thriving, just future, creating heaps of union jobs.
Senior Partnerships Advisor @Greenpeaceusa Tweets=mine.

[Ben Smith @whereisbenjo]

Good morning 🌄 from our floating picket line! ✊

I'm Ben from @greenpeaceusa 👋. We're out here with oil workers from United Steelworkers (USW) Local 5 expanding their picket line from land to sea at @Chevron refinery in Richmond where they are on strike.

Why? #solidarity #1u

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Update: I offered the amendment. Not to refuse acceptance of the Qatari jet; just to prohibit Trump from taking it with him when he leaves office - after the taxpayers spend $1 billion to retrofit it.

Failed 14-15. Every single Republican voted to allow Trump to take the jet.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Texas data centers are projected to use 49 billion gallons of water this year, as the state faces a prolonged drought.

[AFL-CIO ✊ @AFLCIO]

Recklessly firing the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner because you don’t like the new jobs numbers won’t do a thing to change the clear and simple fact: President Trump’s policy choices are costing hardworking Americans their jobs.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

ICE detained a veteran and U.S. citizen for three days.

They didn’t let him contact his family or a lawyer. They didn’t let him change or shower. They didn’t give him a reason for his detention.

Under this regime, no one is safe. https://t.co/lNCUtYJYZ9

[Rocío @SEIU_Saenz]

Racial profiling is illegal-- period. The fact that a judge has to remind the Trump administration this shows just how deep their discrimination runs. But we're fighting back, in the courts and peacefully in the streets.
https://t.co/DbcUCRSsX2

[Jan Rosenow @janrosenow]

Solar and batteries are a game-changer:

New @ember_energy analysis in @CarbonBrief shows that in major sunny cities, such as Las Vegas or Mexico City, solar + batteries can now get more than 90% of the way to continuous generation, at costs below those of coal or nuclear power.

[Chris Hayes @chrislhayes]

"Who were these people? Had I been a good enough person if today was my final day? I was relieved to have finished filing my taxes, but I couldn’t shake the thought of a book I needed to return to the library."

https://t.co/5Yt2MUvzfi

[April Verrett @SEIUPres]

The person working the register at your local grocery store should… indeed… be able to afford housing, healthcare, food, and more with their income.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Nationwide the average electric bill could rise by as much as $280 by 2035, thanks to the Republican's big bill.

[SEIU @SEIU]

California farmers are finally saying the quiet part out loud: immigrant workers are the backbone of our food system. No, Medicaid recipients and machines can’t replace them—and they shouldn’t have to. Respect the labor. Protect the workers.

[Jimmy Williams @Jimmy_iupat]

It was an honor to speak to my Brothers and Sisters @LIUNA about the need for cross union solidarity in the face of extremism

No two unions have been more active in standing up for immigrant workers, organizing and taking the fight head on than @GoIUPAT and @LIUNA

Solidarity!

[. @GregTSargent]

Awful: Stephen Miller is urging red states to build their own versions of "Alligator Alcatraz." And buried in the budget bill is funding that states can try to tap for exactly that.

This could become a route to MAGA glory for young GOPers. 1/

(new piece)
https://t.co/oOH97r9grg

[APEN @APEN4EJ]

What hasn’t made headlines (yet): @CAGovernor and #CAleg have an urgent mandate to create a comprehensive transition plan for refinery closures, invest in fenceline communities and workers, and ensure no one is left behind. Will @CAGovernor and #CALeg meet that call to action?

[APEN @APEN4EJ]

We must follow the leadership of EJ groups in the Valley directly impacted by dirty drilling, and the many groups that have spent over a decade facing down threats of unchecked drilling expansion – groups like @CRPE_EJ, @CCEJN and @CenValAir

[APEN @APEN4EJ]

What’s happening: In the last year, two refineries in CA have announced plans to close – and Big Oil is taking the opportunity to shakedown taxpayers and maximize profits on their way out, making Californians foot the bill for their pollution ❌❌ https://t.co/6Rtccuyj1f

[APEN @APEN4EJ]

Yesterday, @Politico ran an article about this week’s @CalEnergy meeting claiming that climate and environmental justice groups are lining up behind a plan that would “pump the brakes” on the transition away from fossil fuels. It’s time to set the story straight ⬇️⬇️

[Jimmy Williams @Jimmy_iupat]

How many construction sites have you worked on?

[Greenpeace International @Greenpeace]

📣 Hands off our speech! 🤚

On July 2nd over 50 organisations in 17 countries participated in a European Day of Action against SLAPPs (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation), defending the right to speak out in the public good.

⚖️ We are saying #HandsOffOurSpeech #TimeToResist and calling on governments to urgently bring the EU’s anti-SLAPP directive into national law. Because billion-dollar corporations should never be able to sue people into silence.

✊#StopSLAPPs #TimeToResist

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

NEW: the Trump admin has moved to terminate TPS for Honduras and Nicaragua, covering over 50,000 people

Both of these designations date back to 1999, meaning Trump wants to strip legal status from people who have had a background check every 18 months for the last 26 years.

[Sergio Olmos @MrOlmos]

Masked men leaping out of unmarked vehicles. Latino men taken from their places of work or while waiting for the bus. Street vendors tackled to the ground and forcefully held down.

We collected videos of just over 100 incidents of raids in L.A.

W/ Evident, @bellingcatofficial