U.S. Labor Against Racism and War
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Looking for resources to fight apartheid in your union?
The U.S. Solidarity Against Apartheid toolkit includes a sample labor resolution template, mythbusters, explainer videos on the crisis, and more!
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The next generation of unionists are anti-racist, internationalist and here for a
#HotLaborSummer
.
Let’s get it.
#1U
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First Month in Office
❌ $2,000 stimulus checks
❌ $15 minimum wage
❌ safe return to schools
❌ Medicare for All
❌ Green New Deal
✅ Bomb Syria
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✊ Not one drop of blood
✊🏿 from working people
✊🏼 to defend the wealth
✊🏾 of the global bosses.
#NowarwithIran
#USoutofIraq
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Our enemy is not in China or Russia. Our enemy is right here at home.
And they're responsible for the 150,000 COVID deaths of poor and working people.
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Nothing says the enemy is at home like U.S. military being turned on civilians protesting police terror. The billionaire class has no allegiance to any country, only to profits.
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George Floyd mural on the Apartheid Wall in occupied Palestine. Solidarity with those in the international working class committed to the fight against racism and militarization.
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George Floyd mural in Syria, a country that understands U.S. militarization all too well.
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U.S. Military Budget
2015: $584B
2016: $606B
2017: $633B
2018: $694B
2019: $715B
2020: $737B
2021: $740B
2022: $750B
Federal Minimum Wage
2015: $7.25
2016: $7.25
2017: $7.25
2018: $7.25
2019: $7.25
2020: $7.25
2021: $7.25
2022: $7.25
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If you hate looting, wait till you hear about our government's foreign policy and the history of slavery.
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Boss made a dollar
I made a dime
That was a poem
From a simpler time.
Now boss makes a thousand
And gives us a cent
While he's got employees
Who can't pay the rent.
So when boss makes a million
And the workers make jack
That's when we strike
And take our lives back.
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Sanctions 👏🏿 kill 👏🏿 workers
Sanctions 👏 kill 👏 workers
Sanctions 👏🏽 kill 👏🏽 workers
Sanctions 👏🏻 kill 👏🏻 workers
Sanctions 👏🏾 kill 👏🏾 workers
#Iran
released an official coronavirus app for Iranians, but Google pulled it from its app store
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⏰ The time is now. U.S. labor has a role to play.
Union members from all corners of the country will be uniting online this Thurs to coordinate resources, strategy, and action in response to the devastating situation in Palestine.
⬇️ Register now! ⬇️
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📍 Union strong at the National March for Palestine in DC!
UAW, Newsguild, CWA, IATSE, NWU, and UFT members marched alongside 300,000 people to demand a ceasefire and an end to taxpayer-funded genocide in Gaza.
#1U
🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸
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The vote is finally over. Our fight is just beginning.
✅ Repeal so-called "Right to Work"
✅ Medicare for All
✅ Green New Deal
✅ Demilitarize the Police
✅ Cut the Military Budget
✅ Tuition Free College
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Dont disrespect
#BlackLivesMatter
by comparing it to the Hong Kong protests.
BLM Protests
✅ Anti-racist
✅ Anti-Trump
✅ Spontaneous uprising
✅ Freedom fighters
Hong Kong Protests
❎ Pro-Trump
❎ Racist & imperialist interests
❎ Pro-British / US colonialism
❎ N.E.D. funded
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OVER 7,000 UNION MEMBERS HAVE SENT A LETTER TO TOP UNION LEADERSHIP IN LESS THAN 2 HOURS.
Palestine needs labor's hand in solidarity, and that demands union leadership publicly on the right side of history.
⬇️ Send your letter now! ⬇️
#1U
#GazaGenocide
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GENERAL STRIKE! 🗣️🇰🇷
Solidarity with our partners at the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), representing 1.1 million workers across South Korea.
The U.S. gov't has a long and violent history in Korea and our union solidarity is of utmost importance.
#1U
#Striketober
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#BlackAugust
means Bill Clinton keep legendary civil rights leader Kwame Ture's name out you mouth.
While Clinton doubled the prison population, criminalized the poor and bombed workers around the world, Ture never stopped fighting for the Black liberation struggle.
#1U
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Make no mistake: Reproductive health care is a workers’ issue and overturning
#RoeVsWade
is a racist attack on our sisters.
In our unions and in our communities, now is the time to erupt the streets, coordinate strategy and fight back.
⬇️ REGISTER NOW ♀️
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60% of Democrats voted against a minor cut to the Pentagon budget and reinvestment in good jobs, healthcare, education and housing.
Remember that the next time they ask our unions for money.
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.
@AFLCIO
is on the wrong side of history on this.
Guarding Israeli apartheid when American workers—along with the entire world—rose up in massive protest is wrong.
As unionists, it's our duty to protect our democratic process and make our unions better.
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We stand with Palestinian trade unions, and other unionists around the world who refuse to handle Israeli cargo, and call on labor bodies to divest from Israel Bonds and cut any ties with the Histadrut, Israel’s racist labor federation.
🧵THREAD: unite against labor Zionism
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Who knew Trump cared so much about Muslims?
Biggest CIA war propaganda about China is the Uyghur "concentration camps". Our gov't has suffocated Muslim workers at home and abroad and has its sights on re-colonizing Hong Kong.
📺 Watch the full program 🔽
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Our brilliant union sister brings the wisdom and truth about China. Chinese and Asian workers are not our enemies.
"As everyday, working class people we have a duty to oppose war because it's against our interests."
📺 Watch the full program now 🔽🔽
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🇨🇺 This summer, our union youth delegates visited Cuba.
What they learned may surprise you. You won't hear about this in the U.S. mainstream corporate media.
#1U
#UnblockCuba
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What's going on in Hong Kong and why must labor care? Why are half of our military bases surrounding China?
U.S. corporate power is failing to meet the needs of workers at home and wants us to point fingers at workers abroad to deflect blame. We refuse. ⏯ TUNE IN TUESDAY.
#1U
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Congratulations to the Peruvian people.
President-elect Pedro Castillo is a teacher, union leader and son of illiterate peasants.
The global bosses will fight him on all fronts. The people must remain organized and ready to offer our hand in solidarity.
¡Viva Peru Libre 🇵🇪!
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The Bolivian Indigenous and working class are reclaiming their land and resources from a violent U.S. backed coup government.
Long live the sovereignty of the Bolivian people—free of Western interventions. We're witnessing and celebrating a rare victory against U.S. imperialism.
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@LizShuler
&
@STRedmond
, your silence is undermining the safety of American workers.
We ask for your courage — stand on the right side of history. Please call on President Biden and Congress to push for a ceasefire & promptly facilitate the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza.
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73% of US citizens support lifting the blockade on Cuba.
@JoeBiden
, it’s time to listen to your fellow Americans.
Cuba remains a beacon of hope for workers everywhere and has accomplished some of the highest literacy rates and health conditions in the world.
#HandsOffCuba
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The Pentagon is:
✅ the largest consumer of fossil fuel in the world,
✅ the largest consumer of oil in the world,
✅ a top greenhouse gas emitter,
✅ destroying workers, resources and the planet.
Any talk of
#ClimateStrike
must include ending militarism & wars.
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"You always told me ‘It takes time.’ It’s taken my father’s time, my mother’s time, my uncle’s time, my brothers’ and my sisters’ time. How much time do you want for your progress?”
—James Baldwin
#July4th
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Breonna Taylor was shot sleeping in her home.
George Floyd was minding his business and was slowly choked to death.
Elijah McClain was placed in a chokehold and given ketamine for wearing a ski mask.
Meanwhile white supremacists take over a government building with ease:
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The US military is one of the largest polluters in the history of the world.
BREAKING: House Democrats are set to give 850,000 acres of Nevada wildlife refuge to the U.S. Air Force for a proposed military bombing range.
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#NBAstrike
reminds us of the 1967 Cleveland Summit where Black athletes came together in solidarity with Muhammad Ali's anti-war activism.
Muhammad Ali sacrificed his entire boxing career and went to prison to protest the Vietnam War.
#BlackAugust
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“My anti-war work is part of my union work. Poverty is the biggest recruiter for the military.”
📢📢
@unitehere
brother Josh connects the fight against poverty, racism and war as one worker struggle. War profiteers eat half our taxdollars to destruct workers abroad.
@unitehere23
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The US elite want to lead us into yet another reckless war.
The aggression on Iran will only profit handsomely for US billionaires and the Pentagon.
Workers everywhere will pay the consequences.
Get involved. Fight back.
#HandsOffIran
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The U.S. elite made $485 billion off of working people just during COVID-19 but they've been looting from black workers from around the world for centuries.
🚨 Our Full Statement:
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"As working class people we have a duty to oppose war because it's against our interests."
Union sister
@sheilaxofficial
makes it crystal clear: To
#StopAsianHate
, we must stand with Asian people everywhere and oppose the U.S. manufactured demonization campaign against China.
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⏰ THURSDAY: Union siblings, we're convening again!
The death toll is climbing and the atrocities unfolding before our eyes in Gaza are only intensifying.
Stand with the oppressed.
Demand an end to the occupation.
⬇️ Register Now! ⬇️
#GazaGenocide
#1U
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Why is
@lizshuler
, the top U.S. labor leader openly inflaming fake propaganda to drive workers to war with China?
In the process, she's inflaming the rise of anti-Asian hate crimes.
At the
@APALAnational
convention, the Chinese rank-and-file squashed anti-China war resolutions.
Yesterday, the House has passed the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act
#HR1155
, which would bring more accountability, oversight, and enforcement to the import of goods made with forced labor from the Uyghur region. Now onto the Senate.
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James Baldwin reminds us Black labor built this country.
With 25% of the world's prisoners, exploiting Black labor is not a thing of the past.
"I picked the cotton, and I carried it to the market, and I built the railroads, under someone else’s whip. For nothing."
#BlackAugust
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Now more than ever, Palestine needs labor's hand in solidarity.
Our
@AFLCIO
must join
@CanadianLabour
– and the rest of the international labor community – by breaking its silence on Israeli apartheid.
🇵🇸🚨 TAKE ACTION FOR PALESTINE NOW:
#1U
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War ⛔ Propaganda ⛔ Alert
On this Venezuelan Independence Day, my thoughts are with Venezuelans who continue to work tirelessly for the cause of democracy. It’s time for free and fair elections so that the Venezuelan people can turn the page on the corrupt and repressive Maduro regime.
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Unarmed black men keep being shot at by police. Palestinian people are unrelentingly being bombed.
This is how the American elite treat communities of color at home and abroad.
#FreePalestine
#BlackLivesMatter
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We're building a labor movement with anti-racism and internationalism deeply rooted at its core.
So, what does racism and war have to do with the labor movement anyway? Watch union workers break it down.
📢➡️ Workers, join our ranks:
#1U
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Our enemies are not in China or Russia.
Our enemies are right here at home.
And they're responsible for the 298,000 COVID deaths of poor and working people.
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"We can build a country without billionaires, where we tackle the real wars—the wars on poverty, racism, & militarism. Those are the wars working people care about. The real enemy—the bosses—are right here at home."
@LaborOrganizer
at
@answercoalition
protest by the White House.
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Things we CAN afford:
🔹 Endless Iraq & Afgan wars
🔹 F-35 program
🔹 Military equipment for police
🔹 Mass incarceration
🔹 $738B military budget
Things we're told we CAN'T afford:
🔸 Healthcare
🔸 Canceling student debt
🔸 Public education
🔸 COVID relief
🔸 Affordable housing
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We are calling everyone in U.S. labor to join this urgent solidarity meeting with the Palestinian people.
From unions to worker centers to community groups — all workers of conscience who believe in a
#FreePalestine
are welcome.
🔗🇵🇸 RSVP FOR ZOOM LINK:
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Happy May Day! The world’s labor day!
Our sister Marlen Sanchez, with Nicaragua’s farmworkers union, extends warm greetings to U.S. workers. Listen to her powerful message.
Long live internationalist solidarity. Today and everyday, our struggles are one!
#MayDay2022
#1U
✊🌎
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A must watch.
@AbbyMartin
of
@EmpireFiles
covers the whole truth about the Afghanistan War, from the CIA construct of the 80's through today's senseless stalemate. Two decades, three administrations, tens of thousands of lives.
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Millions in union dues are invested in Israeli bonds, often with little to no transparency to members.
⬇️ Now is the time to ask our union's trustees ⬇️
"Is my pension in any way invested in apartheid Israel?"
#GazaUnderAttack
#1U
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Powerful community picket at the Port of Oakland blocking the ZIM Israeli apartheid shipping company from unloading.
SOLIDARITY!
#BlockTheBoat
No one is getting through this picket, and people continue to arrive every minute. Come join us!
#BlockTheBoat
#BDS
#EndIsraeliApartheid
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For the price of one F-35, our gov't can buy around 6,000 ventilators. Union leader Esmeralda organizes with healthcare workers every day.
A
#WorkersFirst
economy based on intl worker solidarity can keep us safe & contain
#COVID19
.
📢Read Our Statement:
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Next time your boss tells you to "work as a team"
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organize a union.
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Union workers! 📢 Join the fight against racism and war!
True security is winning collective bargaining agreements that advance our right to a dignified life. Educating our children, living free from racism, militarization and ecological devastation are what all workers deserve.
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$600 is criminal after nearly a year into a crippling economic crisis. People are struggling to survive while we see billions gifted to the Pentagon and CEOs.
Congress is debating whether to give us the equivalent of management’s pizza party.
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Sisters, brothers and workers of all genders 🕊️🛠️
Whether led by the Trump or Biden admin, we must oppose the imperialist, divide-and-conquer of the working class at every turn.
We start by learning from
@qiaocollective
about the state dept's anti-Chinese racist fearmongering.
Pompeo says Trump looking at whether to restrict Chinese students from the US
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🇵🇸 Saturday’s National March for Palestine is going to be historic.
📍 The U.S. labor meet-up point will be 2PM at the General Pulaski statue, located near the northeast corner of Freedom Plaza at 13th and E.
#1U
#GazaGenocide
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Our deepest solidarity with Asian women workers unprotected from violence in their workplaces. Massage parlor workers face abuse regularly.
Egregious acts of racialized gendered violence never happen in a vacuum. Fighting it will take all of us raising our voices in solidarity.
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“My anti-war work is part of my union work. Every good union is anti-fascist, anti-racist but also it's anti-war. War affects our members."
📢 Must watch video of our
@unitehere
brother brilliantly connecting the fight against fascism, racism and war as one worker struggle.
#1U
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Our Cuban union sister wanted us to pass on this message to her U.S. siblings. Listen now! ⬇️
"Here your Cuban siblings await for you with open arms. We are one."
Biden's anti-labor sanctions and blockades hit poor and working people the hardest.
#CubaMayDay2022
#1U
#1Mayo
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Vanessa Guillen was a working-class Latina.
Police and Pentagon are institutions of racism, patriarchy and violent terror, prying on our most vulnerable sisters at home and abroad.
No more working-class life taken for the military industrial complex. Justice for Vanessa now.
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Is your union pension invested in Israel’s apartheid and war crimes?
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Indigenous peoples are at the forefront of our struggle, leading massive protests to cancel austerity measures and withdraw from a $4.2 billion loan package from the IMF in Ecuador. Wow!
Happy
#IndigenousPeoplesDay
.
All power to the workers.
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U.S. unionists are traveling with over 100 other young people from North America to build solidarity with Cubans living under U.S. sanctions.
Our solidarity will pave the path for a better future.
Build The Future,
Break the Blockade!
Solidarity Forever!
#1U
#CubaMayDay2022
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HAPPENING NOW: Chicago labor unions joining anti-racist community orgs to demand community control over the Chicago Police Department.
We know an injury to one is an injury to all. The attack against Black and Brown communities is an attack on all poor and working people.
#1U
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All solidarity and power with the people of Kenosha, Wisconsin and those around the country fighting against police terror.
It's past time to pick a side,
@AFLCIO
.
#JacobBlake
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Solidarity with the Canadian postal carriers (
@cupw
) refusing to deliver the
@EpochTimes
, a fascist, pro-Trump outlet that spreads racist lies about the Chinese people.
"That Epoch Times, I'm not delivering it. It goes against everything I believe in."
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Working people around the world have a duty to stand together and tell our leaders we're united against war.
This is the greatest action of solidarity we can take.
🧵 (1/4)
#1U
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Together with trade union leaders from across the globe. Solidarity with workers everywhere in the world, may we come to know and exercise our power!
The humility, kindness and generosity of the Syrian workers inspire our shared struggle for a just world.
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The
@AlphabetWorkers
is standing up against:
✅ race and gender discriminations in the workplace
✅ lack of workplace democracy
✅ technology being used by Dept of Defense
✅ ties to Lockheed-Martin and ICE
The union is organizing for the interests of our entire working class!
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Hard to overstate the significance of the historic victory in Colombia’s elections.
Under Duque's right-wing, U.S.-backed gov't, Colombia was one of the most dangerous countries in the world to be a unionist.
🇨🇴 ¡¡Viva Colombia!! 🇨🇴
⬇️ photos from past labor delegations ⬇️
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blue collar white collar
🤝
strike power uplifts
the working class
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Nearly a dozen Alabama coal miners were arrested during the
#WarriorMetCoal
strike this week.
All of labor must stand with our brothers and sisters at the
#UMWA
fighting for dignity and a better future.
SOLIDARITY!
#MinersSavedWarriorMet
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Nicaragua is the safest, most democratic and most stable country in Central America—which is why it's outrageous the Biden admin. is escalating illegal U.S. sanctions.
Let's kick off 2022 right by doing some good together.
🌟⬇️ SOLIDARITY LINK ⬇️🌟
#1U
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To all our affiliates who swiftly answered the call to stand in solidarity against the blockade of Cuba, thank you!
🇨🇺 Let Cuba Live! Over 400 politicians, intellectuals, clergy, artists, activists & ex-heads of state call Biden to immediately lift Trump's 243 sanctions on Cuba.
Full page ad in the NYT tomorrow
@answercoalition
@codepink
Visit to sign the petition.
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Our government is weaponizing
#COVID19
against Cuba, Iran, Venezuela and Nicaragua.
The current pandemic is exposing not only our govt’s utter failures to protect its own citizens, but also its lack of human decency in dealing with other nations.
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Massage parlor workers are our sisters and they deserve real workplace safety.
We're joining
@answercoalition
,
@USAS
,
@codepink
,
@qiaocollective
and many others in a nation-wide mobilization this Saturday.
📢➡️ Find an action near you:
#StopAAPIHate
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The true Christmas spirit is that of generosity and a life of service to one another.
Every donation we receive from now until Jan 4th will go toward bringing medical supplies to the union halls and hospitals in Nicaragua.
🌟⬇️ SOLIDARITY LINK ⬇️🌟
#1U
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NOW is the time to redouble support for Palestine & show our solidarity against Israeli apartheid. We must stay outraged & organized!
🚨🇵🇸 RSVP FOR ZOOM LINK:
Unions to worker centers — all workers of conscience on the side of
#FreePalestine
are welcome.
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To
#StopAsianHate
, oppose the US manufactured demonization campaign against China.
This yellow peril racist wardrive is the root cause of spikes in anti-Asian violence. The US security state& media are complicit in creating a dangerous climate to everyone in the Asian community.
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👩🏽🔧 Sanctions
👨🌾 kill
👷🏿♂️ working
👩🏻🍳 people
👩🏾🏫 worldwide.
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🚀 Headed by two powerhouse unionists, our Organizing & Mobilization Committee has launched!
Join us this Sunday at 3pm ET / 12pm PT for a special program on building internationalist, class struggle unions. Don't miss this one.
⬇️ REGISTER NOW ⬇️
#1U
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@TWULocal100
@LaborOrganizer
@Josmar_Trujillo
@ClaytonGuse
@CentralLaborNYC
@TwuSamuelsen
@TTDAFLCIO
We know which side we're on. Solidarity forever!
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|￣￣￣￣￣￣ ￣|
| $$ FOR |
| GOOD JOBS |
| AND A UNION |
| NOT WAR |
| ON IRAN |
| ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿|
(\__/) ||
(•ㅅ•) ||
/ づ
#1U
#NoSanctions
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War is a union issue.
Workers did not choose to engage in wars that have destroyed working people both here & abroad.
What terrifies the global bosses? Multi-racial, international labor solidarity.
👊🏾Get your union involved:
#NoWarWithIran
#USoutofIraq
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"If you don't talk to them, someone else will."
Cartoon by Daniel Mendez Moore
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Now is the time to put forward peace resolutions in your union & labor council!
Unionists can use our resolution language to support a peaceful end to the conflict, and not profits for weapons manufacturers.
🔗⤵️U.S. LABOR RESOLUTION
FOR PEACE IN UKRAINE
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Black and Chinese worker racism is on the rise. This is how Trump will continue to embolden his base.
Labor must rise above racist propaganda and tighten its hand in solidarity. The same forces attacking U.S. workers have long been following the same playbook overseas.
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Union farmworkers like our Nicaraguan brother Edgardo want the U.S. government to respect basic international law & the right for workers to organize everywhere.
Listen to his message to North American workers now on our Instagram!
➡️📺🔗
#1U
#solidarity
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We have arrived in Colombia!
U.S. unionists and members of
@laborfightsback
are here for our solidarity delegation in support of the people’s aspirations for peace and justice.
We’ll bring you on-the-ground stories from Colombia’s leading unions & social movement orgs.
#1U
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Some of our crew at the
@labornotes
conference.
Are you in Chicago? Be sure to stop by our table and say what’s up!
#LaborNotes
#1U
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Meghan Markle union organizers
🤝
HR serves to protect
the boss from liability
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The Pentagon spends $2,000,000,000 daily and Trump just pardoned 4 Blackwater criminals who butchered innocent Iraqi civilians and kids.
But $2,000 direct cash relief in a pandemic is what's controversial?
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BREAKING: Following an uprising for democracy from Bolivian unions and Native groups, self-appointed coup President Jeanine Añez withdraws as candidate from the October general election following abysmal approval ratings.
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