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Paul Prescod

@paul_prescod

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Philly union man through and through!

Philadelphia, PA
Joined December 2020
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RT @flyingspghetti: "you're STILL talking about that creep!?"
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I'm excited to be talking next month with member of Danish parliament @pelledragsted about his new book "Nordic Socialism: The Path Toward a Democratic Economy." Mark your calendars for August 2nd!
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The best summary of the Trump and Israeli connection to Epstein by @Bmarchetich.
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RT @AaronRegunberg: Gonna go out on a limb and say the richest man in the world turning the AI for a major social media site into “MechaHit….
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Smarterchild never went Nazi.
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RT @tparsi: The man below is the founder of Al Qaeda in Syria. The US just took his organization off its terror list and lifted sanctions o….
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The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.
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"The minute black people had faith again in America and were no longer alienated, they forgot Garvey.” -Bayard Rustin.
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Bayard Rustin: “The Garvey movement was destroyed not because Garvey stole money. Maybe he did, maybe he didn’t. Who cares? What destroyed it was that the CIO was formed and the trade union movement began to take black people into it by the millions." 1/2.
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Though very different context, the current Philly municipal strike brings to mind the strike by Atlanta municipal workers in 1977. Maynard Jackson, Atlanta's first black mayor, crushed the strike of the mostly black workforce. I wrote about it here.
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"On one side, there remains the perennial trap of thinking the old dilemmas can be outmuscled by the good luck of youth; on the other, the trap of thinking the future is doomed to be nothing more than the past; between them, possibly, the space to invent." -Todd Gitlin.
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RT @labornotes: "Nine thousand blue-collar workers who make Philadelphia run went on strike July 1. After sacrificing through the pandemic….
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It’s hard to leave the house without experiencing the work that @afscme33 members do. The union’s slogan, “Philadelphia Works Because We Do,” is more than just rhetoric.
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RT @thejanaymichele: People who believe blue collar workers are below them are people who I never want to interact with.
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Let it pile up, it's @PhillyMayor's problem now.
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Come out today to support our city workers in @afscme33! People who do such essential work for our city should be able to live in it!
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RT @sunraysunray: Salute to Jacobin contributing editor @paul_prescod, who ran a great race in 2022.
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Getting the kids involved, love it!.
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"I want my dad to come home safe": Some future Teamsters helped their dad, Local 413 member Derek Redding, hand out Heat Safety Wallet Cards to his coworkers in Columbus. We fight to protect UPS Teamsters so they can get home safe to their families every day!
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RT @ZaidJilani: Free childcare, baby baskets, limited free buses, etc. are such small-ball and boring policies in most of the world, compar….
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RT @TeamsterRnF: ENFORCE YOUR RIGHTS--SAVE A LIFE!.NYC is expecting highs of 100 degrees today. UPS Teamsters at Local 804's Melville build….
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