Joseph Geevarghese
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Executive Director of @OurRevolution . Organizing to win Peace, Health Care, Climate Action, Living Wages and Strong Unions and more.
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To defeat Trump, Harris needs to double down on a strong, economic working-class agenda that will earn trust and votes in the battleground states and beyond.
We surveyed more than 34,000 likely progressive voters, and confidence levels of Democrats defeating Trump have more than doubled since Biden bowed out, BUT 1 in 3 remain unsure that VP Harris will prevail.
Our survey results show 73% believe a strong, working-class economic
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We cannot allow corporations to normalize child labor. We must fight this travesty with every fiber of our being.
A viral TikTok shows a 13-year-old kid working at Chick-fil-A as a customer asks “Is that even allowed?”
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"You don't HAVE to work a minimum wage job."
Well, somebody does. Should that person be living in poverty?
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Plantation owners would’ve agreed.
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You want to see real extremism? Here it is. A fully legal 20,000% markup on a diabetes medication.
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The government didn’t freeze the minimum wage at $7.25 simply to keep a select group of workers in poverty. They did it to suppress every worker’s wages, including yours.
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More of this.
BREAKING: we just called Joe Manchin a sick fuck. We humiliated him in front of a herd of Harvard elites. He squared up. We held firm. Barbaric murderer, hideous fiend, he torches humanity and laughs.
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We don't need philanthropy. We need billionaires to pay their damn taxes.
Of the 400 richest Americans, 127 have given away less than 1% of their wealth to charity.
Billionaire philanthropy is a sham.
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What could go wrong with a billionaire industrialist purchasing a major media company?
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The United States will never stand as an example of democracy to the rest of the world if corporations can bribe our lawmakers to deny people healthcare, housing, or clean water.
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CEOs making 8 figures every year are paying consultants 6 figures to tell you that YOUR wages are why inflation is so bad right now.
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While we're on the topic, one of the richest oligarchs in the history of humanity currently owns both Amazon and the Washington Post.
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It hit 100º in LA yesterday.
Four climate scientists chained themselves to a Chase Bank to protest its financing of fossil fuel corporations.
Swarms of LAPD officers in military-grade riot gear converged on their location.
These are the true economics of the climate crisis.
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A quarter million Americans are currently on strike. We're witnessing a seismic shift in labor power in this country. THIS is why companies fight to crush unions before they begin. Because when labor organizes, the bosses lose control. And when that happens, it happens fast.
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Socialism didn't close down factories and send them overseas. Socialism didn't cause the 2008 Financial Crisis. Socialism isn't what's keeping you living paycheck to paycheck.
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The tax prep industry is the perfect illustration of how money in politics ruins everything. An army of well-paid lobbyists have kept this industry thriving as Americans are made to pay for a service that comes free in most wealthy nations.
NEW: Filing your taxes could be free starting this year.
The IRS is trying out a direct-file program where you could pay zero dollars to file this year. And soon it might make TurboTax obsolete.
But tax prep companies are spending millions to block them.
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Howard Schultz says the Starbucks union effort is attempting to disrupt “who we are and what we do.”
Well, who they are is a multibillion dollar company, and what they do is pay their workers barely enough to survive. It’s damn time to disrupt that.
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The people have spoken: pro-union coffee tastes better than union-buster coffee.
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You're either with the workers or you're with the bosses. If a politician tells you it's more complicated than that, it means they're with the bosses.
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Pretty rich of the CEOs who got 21% richer last year to complain that "no one wants to work", when the workers who actually *do* the work saw their real wages fall by a percent.
What corporate America says: “No one wants to work anymore.”
The truth: No one wants to be exploited anymore.
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A wise person once said "The stock market is just a chart of rich people's feelings."
How about we start measuring success by the quality of life of our citizens, for a change.
Just a thought: what if we stopped measuring the economy by the state of the stock market and started measuring it based on how many people are housed and clothed and fed?
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Amazing how quickly the all-powerful filibuster becomes a non-factor the moment it’s time to screw over a working class labor movement.
Expectation in the Senate is there will be enough votes to overcome a filibuster and pass legislation to avert a potential railway strike, per several Senate sources. Timing is unclear but House expected to act first later this week. Any one senator can slow down a vote.
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The right never calls it "redistributing the wealth" when it's *your* wealth being funneled upward and distributed among insurance corporations and their investors. They save that term for policies that would help you win back some of the wealth that's been stolen from you.
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We live in a country with 300 types of cereal controlled by three corporations as 35 million residents live in hunger.
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Bernie's right - the 4-day work week has been a resounding success everywhere it's been tried. In a system that tries to exploit workers constantly, we need to fight for policies like that that give workers a break.
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The reason fascists don't want progressives to win elections has nothing to do with "Grooming" or "Critical Race Theory" or whatever other irrational nonsense and everything to do with legislation like this. ⬇️
BREAKING: Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon introduces legislation to BAN hedge fund ownership of residential housing!
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Exploited workers fighting against the economic domination of the rich. How will democracy survive?
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“Medical Debt” is simply not a phrase you should hear in a functioning society.
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You know who never tells you "government spending doesn't work?" Weapons contractors.
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This is exactly why corporations and corporate-owned politicians fight tooth and nail to stop you and your coworkers from organizing. When the rich lose control of the working class, they lose it fast.
Workers in the US are getting record-breaking wage hikes this year thanks to strategic strikes and unions, per Bloomberg.
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Inflation is a policy choice.
Letting corporate price gouging continue unabated is a policy choice.
Refusing to tackle corporate greed is a policy choice.
Yesterday, Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell testified before the Senate Banking Committee and said the Fed is likely to raise interest rates higher than previously expected.
This is a BIG mistake.
It completely puts the burden of inflation on lower-wage workers and the poor.
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The rich have brainwashed us into thinking the people who bring us our food, clothing, and medicine are "entitled" for wanting sick leave while corporations deserve never-ending bailouts.
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Attention Democrats: Don't call it "ceasefire" if what you mean is "reload."
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Conservatives and their corporate backers will roll back and undo every protection the labor movement has won, including child labor laws. We can't give in a single inch.
Corporations are now using the “labor shortage” as an excuse to bring back child labor.
It’s part of a horrifying trend: Since 2015, child labor violations have risen nearly 300%.
Are corporate profits really more important than the safety of children?
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For Ohio’s 11th, the choice tomorrow is simple. A progressive fighter in
@ninaturner
, unbought and unbossed by Wall Street lobbyists, or the same old corporate "centrism" which has succeeded only in further impoverishing the working class.
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Why are Democrats more committed to protecting an abstract Senatorial procedure than the rights of the working class people they claim to represent?
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If you ever feel guilty about taking an extra long shower, just remember that Nestle stole 58 MILLION gallons of water from the people of California.
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Right wing think tanks have poured millions into propaganda to convince you that raising the minimum wage is bad for workers.
The only pay that shouldn't be raised is CEO compensation.
NEW STUDY: Large minimum wage increases ($15 or more) led to substantial growth in worker pay, less wage inequality, and NO reduction in jobs, according to the first causal analysis of recent wage increases in 47 U.S. counties.
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The air over Ohio is poison right now, largely because Labor did not have a friend in DC - listen to the workers who have been ringing the alarm about unsafe conditions but were silenced.
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Here's a radical idea: No 86-year-old should be forced to work themselves to death for a multibillion-dollar corporation.
86-year-old Verna Mae Jackson was identified as the employee killed in an accident at the FedEx World Hub in Memphis after a work injury
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We don’t want to hear how much you support “healthcare access.” We want to see it.
President Biden proposing an $813 BILLION war budget while
#MedicareForAll
remains off the table in Year 3 of a pandemic is as clear a statement of party values as anything.
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HEARTWARMING: Full-time employee trades 27 years of his life for a poverty wage while his boss makes billions and his government does nothing!
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There is no capital without labor. American workers are beginning to realize this again, and their corporate bosses are scrambling. Let them.
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Russian oligarchs have robbed the Russian people, holding more than 99.8% of all wealth.
US oligarchs nearly DOUBLED their wealth so far during the pandemic. Less than 800 hold $5 trillion collectively, and HALF of every $ of income goes to the top 1%.
Oligarchy is everywhere.
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We pay Elon Musk’s government subsidies, he keeps the profits. There’s your “free market capitalism” in a nutshell.
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Brandon Johnson's win teaches us a simple lesson: When a candidate actually comes from and, most importantly, listens to the working class, they can defeat even the most moneyed opponents.
NEW: Brandon Johnson won a historic, underdog victory in Chicago yesterday.
His campaign inspired people across the city and captured the strength of a growing progressive movement. What’s next?
“The voices of working people will no longer be ignored.”
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Reminder: Businesses are not people and shouldn't have voting power.
The Delaware House will vote today on a bill that would allow hundreds of LLCs to vote in local elections in the small town of Seaford.
In the town of 8,500, hundreds of businesses voting could be the deciding factor in every election.
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A working class woman has defeated a union busting lawyer in
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The working class is responding to corporate-backed “centrism” in a major way. Other Dems should take notice. Great work
@SummerForPA
!
Congratulations to
@SummerForPA
! Organized people beat organized money tonight!
#Organizetowin
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The billionaire class cannot exist without the ruthless exploitation of poor and working-class labor across the nation and world.
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There is nothing "moderate" about a for-profit healthcare machine that bankrupts and kills working class people across this country.
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Universities like Northeastern have brutally & unconstitutionally cracked down on campus protests because their business model is invested in the war machine students are rallying against.
Photo shared of Boston cops in riot gear outside Northeastern University as of ~30 minutes ago.
The state knows only one way of responding to peaceful protest.
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The United States has just 4% of the world's population, but 25% of the world's prisoners.
And guess what? As long as we maintain a criminal "justice" machine in which prison corporations profit off jailing poor folks, it will only get worse.
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The cure for homelessness is putting people in homes. The cure for hunger is feeding them. The cure for poverty is giving them money. These obvious statements enrage the capitalist class, who'd like us to think our only options are to work more for less or sleep outside and die.
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Remember this when they try to tell you we abolished slavery in America.
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Remember: One man’s struggle is another man’s student loan asset-backed security. Cancelling student debt is not a victimless crime!
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You don’t hear it enough in the corporate media (or in the halls of a corporate-owned Congress), so here it is: Gas prices, healthcare costs, and global warming are ALL the result of politicians placing the capitalistic greed of the few over the material needs of the many.
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It's not called a "democracy" when multinational corporations can buy our elections and stonewall lifesaving policies supported by the majority of people. That's called oligarchy: government by and for the rich.
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Joe Biden vowed to be the 'most pro-union' ever. It is imperative he keep this pledge by nominating a pro-union Justice. J. Michelle Childs is anything but.
Workers do not need another anti-labor Justice actively opposing the very protections
@POTUS
promised to uphold & expand.
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We will never have freedom in this country so long as democracy excludes the poor and the rule of law excludes the rich.
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His mask is finally truly off. Musk is throwing his lot in with the GOP because they will look after the billionaires' interests above all, not to mention the fact that he's a union buster in his bones.
Today Elon Musk will launch Ron DeSantis's presidential campaign on Twitter.
His swing to the GOP isn't new. Just last year he said "the Democratic Party is overly controlled by the unions...”
Musk is a known union-buster who pushes anti-worker policies at Tesla and Twitter.
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If you steal $100, they call you a felon.
If you steal $100 million from your workers, they put you on the cover of Forbes.
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The working class will never make advancements in this country if we continue voting for corporate politicians who support us in the abstract but crush us in the material.
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Even as votes are still being counted, one thing is for certain - progressives are the big winners in the midterms.
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The political question of our time:
Which side are you on? Billionaires or the working class?
If a politician tells you it’s more complicated, they’ve already answered the question.
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A "radical leftist" is somebody who thinks the government should offer workers the basic services of a civilized society.
A "moderate" is somebody who believes in a system that pays CEOs 254x more than their workers when those workers are generating profits at an all-time high.
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Right on schedule, another imaginary rule for why our corporate duopoly can't help the working class.
With 51 Senate votes, Democrats can continue to rebalance the lower courts. But an arcane tradition blocks them from confirming judges in states with GOP Senators. It's called blue slips, and
@MilesMogulescu
reports that Dems have no plans to change them:
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For-profit healthcare *already* socializes costs. Your premiums and deductibles go into a pool to be distributed throughout the network. The only difference is that CEOs and shareholders skim huge profits off the top to keep for themselves. Single-payer cuts them out of the deal.
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The same wealthy elite who complain that “no one wants to work” will lay people off at the first sign of trouble.
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Also imagine the progress that could be made if our representatives had to live on the minimum wage.
Welcome to a new segment we call, “did this anti-union Senator ever have a minimum wage job?”
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Fetterman won the largest share of independent voters out of any Democratic candidate by leaning into an unapologetically progressive economic populist message. It's time the rest of the Party take a page from this playbook.
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"Billionaires create jobs!" No, they don't. Jobs existed before billionaires.
"Billionaires earned their money!" No, they didn't. They relied on exploited labor at every level of the supply chain, including slavery in many cases.
"I'll be a billionaire one day!" No, you won't.
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An America where no child goes hungry is possible. By organizing, progressives can make that America a reality.
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro has signed a bill that includes funding for breakfast at all Pennsylvania public schools.
1.7 million kids in Pennsylvania will now be guaranteed breakfast at school.
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Howard Zinn: "There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people."
#CeasefireNow
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Bernie is right. Democrats ought to heed his advice here, and soon.
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Government can work extremely well for the working class, and it has before. It’s only through decades of targeted underfunding, privatization schemes, and deregulation that right-wingers can claim our government “doesn’t work.” And they rely on the working class believing it.
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Every incident where a person dies from a heatwave should be treated as a murder and Big Oil and other corporate polluters should be charged.
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Let this serve as a reminder that, without strong unions, your bosses can do whatever they want to you. And they will.
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When will it reach you and your fellow billionaires.
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Newsflash: You contribute more to society than any billionaire. It's time to tax the rich and make them pay their fair share.
NEW: Every time Taylor Swift, Kim Kardashian, or Elon Musk take a trip on their private jet, you’re subsidizing it.
Private jets make up one in six flights. But they contribute just 2% of the taxes to fund airports—while we pay 70%.
It’s time to end that billionaire tax break.
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The U.S. government protects one man’s right to profit more than it protects a million others from the consequences of his profiteering.
Whatever your thoughts on the ethics of this imbalance, history shows us that no society can sustain it for long.
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Let this be a reminder that the GOP was a criminal syndicate of corrupt, mass murdering profiteers long before Trump came on the scene.
Former President George W. Bush: “The decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq. I mean of Ukraine.”
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There isn't a labor shortage. There's a greed surplus.
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Never let them distract you from the fact that they robbed you of your ability to afford your rent, work an honest 40 hour week, or seek routine medical care. The United States is no longer a civilized country, and the billionaire class is singularly to blame.
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Student loan forgiveness would provide an instant financial stimulus to millions of hardworking Americans.
A $700+ billion war budget enriches Raytheon executives, exports violence across the world, and helps very few of us here at home.
One of these passed without debate.
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Capitalists rely on stupid fictions like this to keep the working class from realizing they’re robbing us blind while bribing the government to stand aside and let them.
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A great, heartwarming step forward! Let's organize to make this a reality all across this nation.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has signed a law guaranteeing free breakfast and lunch for all students in the state, regardless of how much money their parents make. Tens of thousands of food-insecure kids will benefit.
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This SCOTUS has attacked abortion rights, the EPA, and are now going after student debt relief. It's time to admit SCOTUS is completely out of step with the will of the people.
We MUST expand the Court and end lifetime appointments.
While the Supreme Court hears a case trying to kill student debt today, Bernie Sanders joins the rally outside to say that we should make public colleges free, and that you shouldn't "have to face financial ruin because you want a damn education!"
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It's almost as if runaway capitalism and corporate greed are problems that don't care about borders and exist globally.
Note: Inflation is a global phenomenon. Most major developed nations are suffering rates similar to those in the US. Most major drivers for inflation are global in nature. Reporting on US inflation like it was isolated or unique to us is misleading and not constructive.
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Anyone else notice how corporate Democrats are always powerless to do anything until it's time to organize against the working class left?
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I’ve had enough. Anyone who wants donations from the grassroots better be working with and fighting for the grassroots.
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Amazon should be taken to task for this blatant retaliatory union busting move.
Amazon has fired Jennifer Bates, a warehouse worker and spokesperson for the union campaign in Bessemer, Alabama.
Jennifer was one of the boldest union organizers at the warehouse, testifying before Congress and giving interviews to national media during two union drives.
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The best proof that unions work is the millions of dollars corporations are willing to spend on union busting.
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Reminder: If the
@UAW
wins a four-day workweek, your chances of a four-day workweek become drastically higher. A rising tide lifts all boats.
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It is an unspeakable travesty ANYONE in Congress would oppose
#MedicareForAll
two years into a pandemic that has killed nearly a million Americans.
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While the rightwing fear-mongers about "socialism" all day and night, capitalists quietly outsource jobs, jack up rent, bust unions, monopolize industry, exploit their bottomless war contracts, and lobby to cripple our hard-won public programs. Socialism is nowhere to be found.
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