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Los Angeles is turning out in force for our students and educators. Rain can't stop us. Billionaires can't stop us. Union busters can't stop us. We'll be fighting for as long as it takes! #FightFor15 #LAUSDStrike #UTLAStrong
Gary Cohen, former CEO Goldman Sachs addressing new members of Congress today: "You guys are way over your head, you don't know how the game is played." No Gary, YOU don't know what's coming - a revolutionary Congress that puts people over profits. https://t.co/ZLML2qzAW6
Our “bipartisan” Congressional orientation is cohosted by a corporate lobbyist group. Other members have quietly expressed to me their concern that this wasn’t told to us in advance. Lobbyists are here. Goldman Sachs is here. Where‘s labor? Activists?Frontline community leaders?
Vet @will_c_fischer explains PRIVATIZATION: “It's a fancy way of saying we’re taking tax dollars out of the VA & putting it into the pockets of millionaires & billionaires" It's up to us to defend the VA, USPS & more from being sold off to the highest bidder. #ThursdayThoughts
Medicare for All: As Healthcare Costs Soar, Momentum Grows to Guarantee Healthcare for All Americans https://t.co/4KpxmRKHf7
✅ FACT: Americans spend the most per person on health care, twice as much as other wealthy nations. ✅ FACT: The US ranks 64th in the world in life-expectancy. 🤔 How can both be true? We have a for-profit health care system. 🤔 The solution? Nurses say: #MedicareForAll!
“Workplace organizing helps level inequality in wages and working conditions, and women and workers of color would benefit the most from unionization.” #WednesdayWisdom https://t.co/KpXW8mwxYd
Corporations don’t need tax breaks. 👉🏼14,700 jobs are being cut by General Motors despite making billions in profit. 👉🏼Over the past decade, the company has received billions in tax breaks and subsidies from both Canada and the U.S. https://t.co/91yrcs2kFA
🤑 @Ascensionorg profit: $1.6 BILLION 🤑 CEO salary: $17.6 MILLION 🙏 Ascension’s MISSION: "Rooted in the loving ministry of Jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons w/ special attention to those who are poor & vulnerable." #SaveProvidence #UnionStrong #1u
"The reality is, these idyllic images of Thanksgiving are increasingly out of touch with the lived reality of so many Americans, who are working harder than ever and struggling more than ever to afford life’s basic needs." @JosephNSanberg https://t.co/4Wf4lVORs1
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This is an old, old trick... Back in the 1980's, then President Reagan's budget director David Stockman coined the phrase "strategic deficit" to describe the usefulness of creating long-term budgetary shortfalls to legitimize cutting programs that the 1% wanted to do away with. ... See more
It's time to tax Wall Street and build an economy that works for the 99% and for the planet!
Following the mass teacher uprisings earlier this year, hotel workers across the country are striking the wealthiest hotel chain on the planet, Marriott, demanding fair wages and dignity on the job. Stand with them in #Solidarity this Saturday at actions in Detroit, Chicago, San Francisco, Hawaii... ... See more
Climate change not only creates disproportionate crisis in the lives of working class communities, it can be devastating for an already weak democracy where many suffer from voter suppression.
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