January 20, 2023 by V Leigh

The price of groceries and rent will never go back down. In one year, they made cost of living go up so much that any raise anyone got at any time in the last 5 years is completely wiped out.

The price of groceries and rent will never go back down.

In one year, they made cost of living go up so much that any raise anyone got at any time in the last 5 years is completely wiped out.
— Hanukkah Solo (@BostonJerry) January 4, 2023

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40% of homeless people in the United States have either a part time or a full-time job.https://t.co/6sWW1A52vQ
— Say it loud (@thetimeisnowTB) January 2, 2023

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The CEO-to-worker pay ratio at Home Depot is 455:1.https://t.co/2ekpb3oYfs https://t.co/0QHDrm5DUh
— jordan (@JordanUhl) December 30, 2022

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Amazon has hired Trey Kovacs, a former Special Assistant at the US Department of Labor, as a union-busting consultant.

Kovacs has been holding captive audience meetings at ONT8 in Moreno Valley, California since April 2022. 🧵#UnionBusting #Amazon #Kovacs #LaborRights pic.twitter.com/3e0w1cv9pJ
— Seth Goldstein (@SethGoldstein13) December 26, 2022

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Starting tomorrow, insulin prescriptions will be co-pay capped at $35 a month for seniors.

While it’s a good step, this doesn’t impact younger people or seniors who still can’t afford $35/month.

These are crumbs. Insulin should be free—all healthcare should be free.
— Nina Turner (@ninaturner) December 31, 2022

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Last year Walgreens repeatedly sounded the alarm about shoplifting. But today, a Walgreens exec admitted that they might have “cried too much last year” about theft.

What he didn’t acknowledge is that Walgreens is losing money because of billions in fines, not robbery. 🧵
— More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) January 5, 2023

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June 7, 2022 by V Leigh

During 2021 average workers’ pay rose 4.4%, average consumer prices rose 8.5%, and average CEO pay (in 500 biggest corporations) rose 17%. #WeCanDoBetterThanCapitalism

During 2021 average workers’ pay rose 4.4%, average consumer prices rose 8.5%, and average CEO pay (in 500 biggest corporations) rose 17%. Even in pandemic, capitalism deepens inequality. Gross. #WeCanDoBetterThanCapitalism https://t.co/TNvvZbe8nJ
— Richard D. Wolff (@profwolff) June 1, 2022

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.@Amazon is trying to ban words like “restrooms,” “slave labor,” & “union” from employees’ chats to bust unions.

Their track record of inhumane treatment, worker surveillance & union busting must not be tolerated.@SenWarren & I have questions.https://t.co/T5w5FtDZfa
— Congresswoman Cori Bush (@RepCori) June 2, 2022

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Chris Smalls was fired from Amazon at the beginning of the pandemic, and now, he’s the president of the Amazon Labor Union (ALU), leading the charge for labor rights across company employees. #ESSENCE https://t.co/35xr7FWraL
— ESSENCE (@Essence) May 27, 2022

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The propaganda is to make politics believe this is just a gig work. Meaning drivers are not full-time, not part-time, drivers are “GiG Workers”? Name us one (1) Wall St listed company that is worth above 45 Billion on the back of less than PT workers ( <25 hrs). @USDOL @WHD_DOL pic.twitter.com/6KeofogS2I
— Uber Labor Union (@UberLaborUnion) June 1, 2022

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The National Education Association, largest US labor union representing about 3M members, criticized the proposal of arming teachers as a solution to mass shootings in schools.

“Bringing more guns into schools makes schools more dangerous,” they said.https://t.co/IHPDB5hWxJ
— Fiona Webster 🌎🌏🌍 #PrideMonth🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (@fiona_webster22) May 28, 2022

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And that this is him union busting. The way the media just let him say any GD thing with no challenge you’d think he was the police… wait… https://t.co/7KaLg82xRn
— Leslie Mac (@LeslieMac) June 3, 2022

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The labor movement created the middle class in America.

Strong unions mean a strong middle class.
— Sherrod Brown (@SenSherrodBrown) June 3, 2022

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Capitalism rests on a network of privately-owned infrastructure, with shipping at its heart – but now the industry is in chaos as the profiteering of rentier corporations sends the world system into meltdown, writes @graceblakeley.https://t.co/11KgIdNuxt
— Tribune (@tribunemagazine) May 31, 2022

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Capitalism. https://t.co/2RLU4PdL82
— Becky Jae (@cubismdream) June 5, 2022

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October 23, 2020 by V Leigh

The top 1% of Americans

BREAKING: The Seattle Human Services Department just announced that providing housing to Seattle’s 12,000 homeless would be “reckless and irresponsible”. Over 1 in 10 Seattle apartments are currently empty. We are in a pandemic and our air is at toxic levels due to wildfires. https://t.co/9OQnV1F6r6
— Dae (@daeshikjr) September 17, 2020

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The top 1% of Americans have taken $50 trillion from the bottom 90%—and that’s made the U.S. less secure https://t.co/o7Nm9JUOWI
— TIME (@TIME) September 14, 2020

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May 18, 2020 by V Leigh

“There’s a cruelty here that I don’t think I’ve seen”

Striking garbage workers in New Orleans, making $10.25 an hour, were fired en masse this week.

Now, they are being replaced by prison labor. https://t.co/Os5a52qOo5
— Mike Elk (@MikeElk) May 10, 2020

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Capitalism has brought about levels of income inequality that are unjust and unsustainable.

Three men in America own more wealth than the bottom HALF of the country. This is disturbing. Unfettered capitalism is not the path forward.#RIPCapitalism

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— McAuley 🍽 (@McauleyHolmes) May 13, 2020

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On top of years of income inequality, women have also been most heavily affected by this economic crisis. We have a responsibility to provide aid to displaced workers and ensure equal pay for women as they re-enter the workforce. https://t.co/iDQciwYF78
— Reverend Raphael Warnock (@ReverendWarnock) May 11, 2020

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Before the early 1980s, there weren’t millions of people experiencing homelessness in the United States. The modern crisis can be traced to drastic Reagan-era cuts to affordable housing in the middle of an economic recession. https://t.co/W3nLJSaPiE
— The Appeal (@theappeal) April 25, 2020

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“There’s a cruelty here that I don’t think I’ve seen…” As I have said before, homelessness and housing insecurity are directly connected to income inequality. Time to fix that. #waleg @markoliias America’s Cities Could House Everyone if They Chose To https://t.co/3jO1TlQL7c
— Patty Kuderer (@senpattykuderer) May 17, 2020

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January 14, 2020 by V Leigh

We need to raise the minimum wage and tie it to inflation.

ICYMI: @AyannaPressley @IlhanMN talk Black economic opportunity in Boston https://t.co/1p6yrL2sFw

— rolandsmartin (@rolandsmartin) January 12, 2020

"If the federal minimum wage in 1968 had kept up with inflation and productivity, it would now be $22 an hour. Instead, it’s $7.25," write @NickKristof and @WuDunn https://t.co/fh9SlEvp7r

— New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion) January 10, 2020

Raising the minimum wage by $1 or more appears to reduce the suicide rate, especially in times when unemployment is high and it's hard to find a job, a new study finds.https://t.co/gJOB8k0miN

— NPR (@NPR) January 9, 2020

The federal minimum wage is still $7.25/hr. https://t.co/ZLw6SdPhUy

— West Virginia IWW (@WestVirginiaIWW) January 11, 2020

We need to raise the minimum wage and tie it to inflation.

And we need to make sure we leave no tipped workers behind.https://t.co/MQYI1z4t23

— Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez (@cristinafortx) January 11, 2020

June 20, 2014 by Glenn (Freedom of Movement) Robinson

This Law Was Based on a Racist Stereotype. Now It Punishes Thousands of Families for Being Poor.

Last April, Melissa Ortiz, a low-income mother of four, gave testimony to a committee of the California Assembly detailing her life on the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids program, or CalWORKs, the state’s welfare program. “When we first had the twins, the only person in my family getting…

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March 20, 2014 by Glenn (Freedom of Movement) Robinson

The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide

“For every dollar owned by the average white family in the United States, the average family of color has less than a dime. Why do people of color have so little wealth? The Color of Wealth lays bare a dirty secret: for centuries, people of color have been barred by laws and by discrimination from participating in government wealth-building programs that benefit white Americans.”

http://czechinthekitchen.com/category/sides/ Community Village‘s insight:

Book recommended by Joanna Shoffner Scott and Paula Dressel of Race Matters Institute

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February 22, 2014 by Glenn (Freedom of Movement) Robinson

Kent Wong: A More Inclusive Labor Movement

“Kent Wong Director of the UCLA Labor Center and VP of the California Federation of Teachers spoke with GRITtv about the AFL-CIO broadening it’s inclusivity.”

order generic Lyrica online Community Village‘s insight:

Mr. Wong explains that his mentor, Cesar Chavez was able to organized undocumented workers to take on some of the most powerful interests in the U.S. – and win.

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February 22, 2014 by Glenn (Freedom of Movement) Robinson

Scot Nakagawa: Economic Rights are Civil Rights

“GRITtv: The demand for jobs was the great unmet demand of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. While many have made that point, few have talked plainly about why the demand for federal investment in training and jobs for the unemployed dropped out of the picture of civil rights. Scot Nakagawa is not afraid to talk about it. Nakagawa is co-founder of Changelab, a social movement think tank, and the author of the regularly provocative Race Files.”

Community Village‘s insight:

We invest in incarceration instead of education.

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February 20, 2014 by Oppression Monitor

The Destruction of Black Wall Street

“Greenwood, Oklahoma, a suburb of Tulsa, was the type of community that African Americans are still, today, attempting to reclaim and rebuild. It was modern, majestic, sophisticated and unapologetically…”

Linda Christenson writes the following:

“The term “race riot” does not adequately describe the events of May 31—June 1, 1921 in Greenwood… In fact, the term itself implies that both blacks and whites might be equally to blame for the lawlessness and violence. The historical record documents a sustained and murderous assault on black lives and property. This assault was met by a brave but unsuccessful armed defense of their community by some black World War I veterans and others.

During the night and day of the riot, deputized whites killed more than 300 African Americans. They looted and burned to the ground 40 square blocks of 1,265 African American homes, including hospitals, schools, and churches, and destroyed 150 businesses. White deputies and members of the National Guard arrested and detained 6,000 black Tulsans who were released only upon being vouched for by a white employer or other white citizen. Nine thousand African Americans were left homeless and lived in tents well into the winter of 1921.
Read more at EBONY http://www.ebony.com/black-history/the-destruction-of-black-wall-street-405#ixzz2ttGF3GVa
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