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NEW: Top AIPAC donors are bankrolling some of the most ferocious union-busting + anti-worker operations across the US.
The labor movement + the Palestinian solidarity movement have common cause against billionaires who want to destroy them both 🧵
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I'm seeing a lot here about General Motors CEO Mary Barra after her disastrous CNN interview.
Barra raked in $29 million last year as GM CEO.
But I want to lift up a few more things about Barra, and how she represents the billionaire class more than people might even realize 🧵
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So when UAW auto workers say they’re taking on the billionaire class, it's true in multiple ways. And Barra's ties just scratch the surface of the ways that the Big Three execs and directors are interlocked with the wider corporate elite ⤵️
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The Barra-Iger nexus shows that striking auto workers and striking writers and actors are up against the same power bloc.
Iger/Disney has been an arch-nemesis of actors and writers 👇
(Meanwhile, Barra helped award Iger $130 million from Disney between 2019 and 2022)
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If that’s not enough, Barra was also a board director of weapons’ giant General Dynamics from 2011 to 2017. So she’s part of the military-industrial complex, too.
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In addition to being GM’s CEO, Barra also chairs the Business Roundtable.
The Business Roundtable is the lobbying group of top corporate CEOs.
Its board includes CEOs from Walmart, Apple, Ely Lilly, Kaiser Permanente and more.
And GM’s Barra *CHAIRS* the Business Roundtable.
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Barra has also been a board director of Disney since 2017.
She is *very* close with Disney CEO Bob Iger. She sits on the board committee that oversees Iger’s enormous CEO pay.
She wrote a fawning tribute for Iger at Time magazine earlier this year.
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Huge turnout at University at Buffalo today for Palestine.
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Beautiful night for a strike in Buffalo.
@SBWorkersUnited
on strike demanding the reinstatement of fired union leader Sam Amato.
Workers walked out after Sam was fired. The store is shut down.
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Wow - there are raises, and then there are John Deere CEO raises 🤯
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Found some pics of Stellantis billionaire chairman John Elkann having fun on a big yacht.
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NEW: Auto workers at Stellantis are up against a yacht-sailing billionaire chairman whose family is also the company’s top shareholder.
John Elkann is the most powerful person at Stellantis, and the labor of auto workers helps pay for his luxurious life.
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Auto workers and striking writers and actors quite literally have common enemies.
GM CEO Mary Barra is on Disney’s board and is *very* close with Disney CEO Bob Iger. She sits on the committee that sets Iger's huge CEO pay ⤵️
This + more for
@truthout
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Ya think?
“It’s my belief that the efforts of unionization in America are in many ways a manifestation of a much bigger problem,” Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz said.
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Can't wait to grab a cup of *OFFICIAL* union coffee at Starbucks on Elmwood later today!
Go
@SBWorkersUnited
! ☕️💪
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The so-called "Job Creators Network" that's trying to kill student debt relief is a corporate front group bankrolled by billionaire Trump backers and union-busting corporations - and, of course, partnered with the Kochs.
Must-see video ⤵️
Who's trying to kill your student debt relief?
You might have heard that a random, ordinary woman brought the Supreme Court lawsuit to halt debt cancellation.
But the truth is that a shady network of conservative billionaires is behind the whole thing.
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Pics from
@SBWorkersUnited
strike today at the Delaware & Sheridan store in Buffalo.
Starbucks fired a union leader yesterday who had worked for the company for 13 years. Fellow workers walked out.
Lots of honks from drivers passing by.
Support here:
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Fun fact: the CEOs of the top 5 U.S. defense corporations -- Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, Boeing, General Dynamics -- raked in a whopping $318 million in total compensation from 2020 to 2022. That's around 1/3 of a billion dollars.
NEW: Politicians and corporate execs want to convince us that war creates jobs and a better economy for all.
In reality defense spending is another way to transfer wealth from the working class to the elites.
And this one is getting people killed.
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NEW: Union busting comes from the top. As Starbucks workers in Buffalo are voting on a union in the face of ferocious company opposition, I wrote about Starbucks' board of directors and how it's stacked with anti-union executives - for
@inthesetimesmag
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Happening now: Student protest in solidarity with Palestine at Buffalo State University.
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"The biggest labor union in Washington state endorsed voting “uncommitted” in the state’s Democratic presidential primary next month, citing concerns about President Joe Biden’s political strength and his support for Israel’s war in Gaza."
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All this talk about apathetic Gen-Z but look whose getting arrested for the climate, salting and unionizing Starbucks, and standing up to the police in defense of Palestine.
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Fun fact: General Motors CEO Mary Barra sits on the Board of Trustees of Duke University.
Preach
@ShawnFainUAW
: "It is time to decide what kind of world we want to live in. And it is time to decide what we want to do to get it."
Nothing but
#Solidarity
for the
#UAWStrike
!
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The big corporate interests that will benefit from weakening child labor laws in Iowa and sending 14 year old kids into dangerous jobs essentially run the committee that wrote up the legislation and also contribute big to the politicians who are voting on it.
INVESTIGATION: Iowa’s extreme child labor bill began in the office of Gov. Kim Reynolds and was written by top corporate lobbyists led by the restaurant association, documents and interviews reveal.
The bill would allow kids young as 14 to work in meatpacking and construction.
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And they always claim they need to throw kids into dangerous jobs to protect "small businesses," but it's really mega-corporations and their powerful lobbying arms driving the push for child labor.
Great
@MorePerfectUS
video from a few months ago on this:
Wisconsin Republicans introduced a bill to eliminate work permits for 14+15 year-olds, months after a 16-year-old boy died working in a sawmill.
The cosponsors say the permits are “needless administrative barriers that slow down the hiring process.”
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Cornell has a *$10 BILLION* endowment! Pay the workers who keep your university running!
Solidarity from Buffalo! ✊
🧵Over 1,000 UAW members go on strike at Cornell University.
After months of negotiations, over 1,000 UAW members have walked out on strike at Cornell University. The university has failed to present a fair package and has not bargained in good faith, stalling and retaliating
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If autoworkers in Alabama win their union next week, it'll be a huge victory for the working class and a major blow to the entire corporate power structure in that state.
NEW: Alabama autoworkers are on the verge of a major union victory.
But there's one group that's funding a massive campaign to stop them.
We uncovered who's behind the union busting at Mercedes and why they're dead set on stopping Mercedes-Benz workers from winning a union.
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Some pics from today's
@SBWorkersUnited
action in Buffalo NY (Depew store) demanding that fired Starbucks worker and union leader Angel Krempa be reinstated. Solidarity!
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NEW: Nelson Peltz, the hedge fund billionaire who owns Wendy's, just hosted Trump's priciest re-election fundraiser at his $136.4 million estate.
Meanwhile, Wendy's still refuses to meet farmworker demands to join the
@FairFoodProgram
Up at
@truthout
⬇️
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Here's my pal
@joshua__frank
on how Michael Bloomberg - lover of fracking, investor in fossil fuels - has conned a lot of people into thinking he's some sort of climate visionary.
Up at
@NatCounterPunch
⬇️
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Important video. Private equity firms are ruthless. They try to rake in huge profits quickly by gobbling up companies and "cutting costs" -- aka, slashing wages and mass layoffs. Their CEOs are some of the richest people in the world. They are the enemy of the working class.
NEW: One private equity firm owns more chains than you can count: Subway, Dunkin’, Sonic, The Cheesecake Factory, Wingstop, Arby's, and more — Roark Capital.
They’re notorious wage thieves.
They've made billions exploiting 1.4 million workers and killing the $15 minimum wage.
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This is why the Business Council of Alabama is so desperate to stop autoworkers from unionizing. The BCA represents entrenched billionaire corporate power in Alabama. Autoworkers and the UAW are breaking their long-held and unchallenged dominance over the state.
BREAKING: Most of Alabama supports unionizing autoworkers.
Our new poll finds that 52% of Alabamians support unionizing autoworkers while just 21% are opposed.
Mercedes Alabama workers begin voting to unionize with the
@UAW
on May 13th.
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NEW: I just posted this lengthy survey of the different ways the fossil fuel industry is trying to use the COVID-19 crisis to snag direct & backdoor bailouts + other favors.
Also looked at what it all might mean for climate organizers.
At
@twittlesis
⬇️
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Wendy's owner & chairman Nelson Peltz is a multi-billionaire who owns a $130M+ Palm Beach FL waterfront estate but refuses to have Wendy's join the
@FairFoodProgram
so that farmworkers who supply the fastfood industry can have better wages & safer working conditions. Outrageous.
Farmworkers have been organizing to get Wendy’s to sign onto the Fair Food Program for a decade.
The four largest fast food chains, including Burger King and McDonald’s, have all signed onto the benchmark human rights program — but Wendy's refuses.
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"Despite President Biden’s pledge to aggressively cut the pollution from fossil fuels that is driving climate change, his administration has quietly taken actions this month that will guarantee the drilling and burning of oil and gas for decades to come."
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More than $100 million - "one of the largest hiring packages in US corporate history" - to be remote CEO from Newport Beach 🤔
So now remote work is all good and it isn’t urgent for everyone to come back to the office?
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"Listening" sessions 🤔
"...when Westlake arrived he found out he was the only worker in attendance, with six members of Starbucks management... "They started off by going around and saying that they wanted me to vote no for the union."
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NYU Trustee Larry Fink is the Chairman and CEO of BlackRock, a huge asset management firm that is among the very top shareholders of the biggest US weapons companies - Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, Boeing, General Dynamics - that are arming Israel's war on Gaza 🧵
BREAKING: NYU students with
@nyupscoalition
have launched a Gaza Solidarity Encampment.
Per media release, the encampment is *also* calling on their school to divest from Israel & to end its Tel Aviv satellite campus.
Security scrambled to stop the students, but failed.
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Beyond eloquent. This is more than a union drive. It's a moral and social movement whose day has come.
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Billionaire hedge fund manager & Puerto Rico debt vulture Seth Klarman gets confronted by protests at Harvard Business School. Klarman manages close to $2 billion for Harvard & also just so happens to be a huge donor to the university.
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NEW: From Amazon to Starbucks, the same corporations that rake in billions in tax breaks are also bankrolling police foundations across the US.
Link:
w
@munira_
for
@twittlesis
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I feel like for Buffalo leftists the India Walton campaign plus Starbucks union add up to the emotional equivalent of at least one Bills' Superbowl win, no?
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Re-upping my 🧵from earlier. Columbia trustee Jeh Johnson is on the board of
#1
weapons producer Lockheed Martin and he owns tons of Lockheed stock. Lockheed is supplying Israel's destruction of Gaza! This Columbia trustee is personally profiting from it! Go Columbia students! ✊
Columbia University trustee Jeh Johnson, a board director of Lockheed Martin, is quite literally personally profiting from the destruction of Gaza and looming catastrophic regional war 🧵
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The fossil fuel industry is worried about growing demands for bold climate action like the
#GreenNewDeal
.
So it's rallying behind a conservative, pro-industry lobbying effort for a carbon tax.
Shell, BP, Exxon, etc are funding it.
I wrote about it ⬇️
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Fun fact: former Alabama Senate Majority Leader, Clay Scofield, stepped down in 2023 and swung through the revolving door to become the executive VP of the Business of Council of Alabama, which is coordinating the Alabama corporate class's resistance to the union drive.
The Alabama Senate has passed a bill to punish companies that voluntarily recognize unions.
Any entity that does so will not be eligible for economic development incentives.
This cynical attack on workers comes as Alabama Mercedes workers approach a vote on joining the
@UAW
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Good time to remember that the union busters of the Business Council of Alabama - the group financing the statewide propaganda campaign against the UAW - are literally funding Ivey's political career.
As Alabama workers at Mercedes vote on joining the
@UAW
, Gov. Kay Ivey just signed a bill into law that punishes companies for voluntarily recognizing a union.
The law is effective immediately.
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Exciting to see
@SBWorkersUnited
going after the board members who govern the company.
I looked at the Starbucks board for
@inthesetimesmag
in Nov 2021:
A few changes on the board since I wrote the piece, but the title holds up.
"
@SBWorkersUnited
is deploying a butter sculpture, brass band, billboard and movie posters to put pressure on the coffee chain’s board to accept the union."
It's time for
@Starbucks
to negotiate with the union.
@Nike
CEO Andrew Campion— just do it.
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Ruthless private equity vultures seeking to extract maximum profits from workers and portfolio companies in control of your medical care.
What could go wrong? 🤔
NEW: Private equity is swallowing up America's emergency rooms.
1 in 4 ERs are now staffed by private equity-based firms.
The waits are longer, the bills are higher, and ER doctors are being replaced by lower-paid contractors.
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The anti-union firm attacking
@SBWorkersUnited
is secretive about its funders, but we do know some of its billionaire + corporate backers:
-Industry orgs w/ Starbucks ties
-Far-right Mercer family
-Kochs
+more ⤵️
For
@truthout
:
(w/
@twittlesis
map)
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"The Buffalo Starbucks workers have so far garnered national media attention and significant public support" from labor leaders like
@FlyingWithSara
+ others.
My story for
@truthout
on the
@SBWorkersUnited
union drive in Buffalo ⬇️
Happy Labor Day! ☕️
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Thread showing police attacking the Gaza solidarity encampment at University at Buffalo tonight.
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"Once workers get a foothold into one workplace, once they get organized, that spreads very quickly..."
Labor reporter
@alexnpress
commenting on the significance of the
@SBWorkersUnited
union drive in Buffalo this morning on
@democracynow
:
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Columbia University trustee Jeh Johnson, a board director of Lockheed Martin, is quite literally personally profiting from the destruction of Gaza and looming catastrophic regional war 🧵
BREAKING ‼️
As of 4 AM this morning, Columbia University students have occupied the center of campus, launching our Gaza Solidarity Encampment.
We demand divestment and an end to Columbia’s complicity in genocide.
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"Invest in our kids, invest in our classes, invest in our communities, invest in our colleagues, invest in our calling!"
Solidarity w/
@MFT59
teachers & educators! ✊
NEW: Minneapolis Public Schools educators tell us they’re forced to work 2-3 jobs to make ends meet, and some of their coworkers are homeless.
@MFT59
teachers & educators are striking to demand at least $35K/year.
It’s their first strike in nearly 50 years.
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Description of the police attack on peaceful student protesters at the University at Buffalo last Wednesday, published by UB law professor Anthony O'Rourke in the Buffalo News.
Full op-ed:
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Out here today in Tonawanda NY, outside Buffalo, in solidarity with
@SBWorkersUnited
!
We're talking to customers about why we support Starbucks workers and their union drive, and asking them to join us in opposing the company's illegal union-busting.
#StarbucksSolidarity
☕️✊
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Hey all! I spoke with some of the Starbucks workers from
@SBWorkersUnited
trying to unionize the coffee mega-chain here in Buffalo and wrote about it for
@truthout
.
Happy Labor Day! ☕️
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NEW: Buffalo Starbucks workers walked out on strike after their coworker was fired on Aug 5.
A TikTok video of the walkout has been viewed over 25 million times 🤯
They've remained on strike.
I spoke to them & wrote this for
@truthout
.
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The CIO was savvy at using FDR's quotes and gestures as organizing tools.
Recruitment poster from 1930s.
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Workers at Elmwood Taco & Subs in Buffalo recently voted to unionize.
ETS workers say they've faced retaliation from ownership + have filed ULP charges w/ NLRB.
So this'll shock some: the spouse of ETS’s co-owner is an Erie County Legislator + Democrat, Michael Kooshoian 🧵
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The wave of worker-led organizing in Buffalo is speading as workers at Elmwood Taco & Subs vote on a union tomorrow.
ETS workers want better working conditions + protection against retaliating managers. And they're fighting for each other.
For
@truthout
:
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UPDATE: Buffalo News reports today that Tim Kennedy has "received $12,196 for the special election from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, along with another $5,000 for the June 25 primary."
Link:
Many of the big donors behind AIPAC are also bankrolling the U.S. far right and AIPAC itself donates to many rightwing politicians.
As someone in his district, I *really* hope
@SenKennedy
@kennedyforny26
rejects AIPAC support + money. You can't be progressive and also pro-AIPAC.
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Just months after being unseated by
@AOC
, Joe Crowley is joining Trent Lott & John Boehner at a major corporate lobbying firm that reps the fossil fuel industry, private prisons & anti-estate tax lobby.
Story:
@QueensDSA
@UptownBronxDSA
@DemSocialists
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Worth noting that Starbucks' board chair Mellody Hobson also sits on JPMorgan's board. So the same person governing over the ferocious anti-union attacks on
@SBWorkersUnited
is also governing over an obscene $52.6M payout to Wall Street's top bank CEO.
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Hey all - I co-wrote something for the WaPo
@madebyhistory
series on some of the interlocking forces that offer some historical context for
@Indiawaltonbflo
's extraordinary mayoral run.
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1/ Let's be clear: Wendy's top owner & chairman, Nelson Peltz, is a close friend of Trump's, a big donor & recently hosted Trump's priciest-ever reelection fundraiser at his $136M estate.
⬇️ ⬇️
#WendysIsOverParty
@arb
@Orealgala
We never have and will never contribute to a presidential campaign. For the record our CEO has always kept that same energy too. Facts.
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On the eve of the historic
@SBWorkersUnited
vote count, re-posting these eloquent words from
@jazbrisack
:
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Remember Kay Ivey's post last week ranting about how the UAW was "corrupt" and "shifty"?
Turns out she cited a "media" outlet *OWNED* by a consultant working for the anti-UAW Business Council of Alabama.
So yes, I wrote an article about a tweet:
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Stunning development around the proposed Weymouth fracked gas compressor station.
This wouldn't have happened w/o the amazing investigative journalism of
@itai_vardi
& the tremendous organizing of
@MothersOutFront
@FRRACS_MA
& others.
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“If we can unionize Amazon…, then workers anywhere can unionize their workplaces. That means you.”
Great piece by
@Lfelizleon
, filled with gems like this ⬇️
Link:
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So, just found this.
#MichaelBloomberg
on public school students, from 2001:
“They don’t know how to present themselves.... They have personal-hygiene problems. These are the things that drive employers crazy.”
Looks like it's on video ⬇️
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The hard-right billionaires bankrolling some of the fiercest anti-union groups across the US are among the very top political donors to AIPAC.
My piece on how the labor + Palestinian solidarity movements have common foes, reposted at
@jacobin
.
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FBI COINTELPRO surveillance and attempted disruption of Buffalo communists in 1959. Found hundreds of docs like this from 1950s-1960s.
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During the 1968 student uprising at Columbia University, participants put together an amazing 34-page pamphlet, "Who Rules Columbia?," that mapped out CU's governance ties to war profiteers, real estate developers & more. Time to update it. Original here:
Columbia University trustee Jeh Johnson, a board director of Lockheed Martin, is quite literally personally profiting from the destruction of Gaza and looming catastrophic regional war 🧵
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So,
@AOC
defeats Joe Crowley in part by painting him as too loyal to corporate power. Now, less than 2 months out of office, he's joining a major corporate lobbying firm that reps fossil fuels, private prison, etc. I wrote about it for
@twittlesis
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After 15 years of trickle-down Byronomics - aka, throw money at wealthy developers + business elites, hope things somehow get better - Buffalo remains one of the very poorest cities in the US.
From
@ipostnews
⬇️
Link:
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The Alabama corporate class is waging an all-out fight against autoworkers seeking to unionize with the
@UAW
.
The Business Council of Alabama is a key player behind this. I dug into the billionaire power, huge CEO pay, campaign donations, revolving doors + more behind the BCA 🧵
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NEW: 🏈 NFL ownership is a link in the wider chain of billionaire class rule aimed at accumulating ever more wealth at the expense of workers.
Plus: hear from
@SBWorkersUnited
on the Broncos union-busting co-owner who chairs SBUX board.
For
@truthout
⤵️
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The first Starbucks store opened in 1971, so this year is the company's 50th anniversary.
One Buffalo Starbucks worker I spoke to, who is part of the
@SBWorkersUnited
organizing committee, had these moving words to say about this ⬇️
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Dems can't claim to be progressive and anti-Trump and also take loads of money from and remain uncritical of AIPAC. We're in a real moment of flux right now.
As the United Democracy Project threatens to spend $100M in Democratic primaries this cycle, let's pull back the curtain on AIPAC.
What you'll find is a web of Trump megadonors, GOP billionaires, insurrectionists, & anti-abortion extremists.
Time for Democrats to
#RejectAIPAC
.
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We mapped out some of the U.S. banks, hedge funds & other corporations that are sponsoring a May 14 NYC gala to honor Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil's far-right president.
Link:
#CancelBolsonaro
@AmazonWatch
@RAN
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Wow.
"An Energy Transfer LP shareholder claims in a derivative suit filed Saturday that CEO Kelcy Warren and other leading executives coerced or may have bribed Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf's administration to approve a $3 billion natural gas pipeline."
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Surprise, surprise.
Right-wing student org Turning Point USA is funded by private prison profiteer GEO Group.
And after TPUSA snagged the GEO cash, its top leaders took to social media praising GEO & ICE.
@alexkotch
&
@Sludge
always dig up the dirt ⬇️
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These are some of the union workers taking on the gender pay gap at Disney World.
“Our entire costume department is just seen as ‘lesser’ than..."
If successful, hundreds of women workers could see a 30-40% pay increase.
For
#InternationalWomensDay
:
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This new report is absolute 🔥
"How Tech Corporations Bring the War on Terror to Our Neighborhoods" -->
From
@ACREcampaigns
/
@twittlesis
/
@mediajustice
/
@ImmDefense
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Today is primary day in New York. I wrote about the growing statewide
@leaveitblankny
campaign and how it's organizing voters to submit blank ballots in the Democratic prez primary to send a message to Biden demanding a ceasefire in Gaza. For
@truthout
.
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Great survey of "some of the major environmental rollbacks and pro-polluter actions" the Trump admin is ramming through during the COVID-19 crisis.
Nice work by
@theodorejay
&
@EvlondoCooper
at
@mmfa
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BREAKING: Amy Klobuchar returns $5600 in Enbridge-tied donations after
@twittlesis
revealed the campaign contributions - all which comes as
#Line3
pipeline fight enters 2020 race.
@Sludge
@itai_vardi
@alexkotch
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Twenty years after the war crime that was the US invasion of Iraq, its key architects are still profiting from lucrative corporate board seats, huge consulting and speaker fees, and cozy university appointments.
I wrote about it for
@truthout
⤵️
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Big Oil is still bankrolling the purchase of tasers, surveillance tech, weaponry, etc for police departments across the US.
⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️
ICYMI in 2020 for some reason --
#FossilFuels
&
#police
are intimately intertwined in US.
Revealed: oil giants help fund powerful police groups in top US cities
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NEW: Can Liberty Mutual board director Joseph Hooley be trusted to help lead the insurance giant towards climate responsibility after he just took another board position - with ExxonMobil?
@RAN
@350
@OilChangeUS
@AmazonWatch
@MothersOutFront
@Greenpeace
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Mary Dillon, the Starbucks board director who runs the committee that sets the pay for Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson and other company executives, also leads a virulently anti-labor retail industry group that spends millions fighting unions.
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Happy one-year anniversary to the first unionized Starbucks in the US, on Elmwood Ave in Buffalo NY.
Very moving to read these words from
@jazbrisack
today, published last fall, when the past year's history had not yet been blazed by thousands of heroic
@SBWorkersUnited
workers.
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