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Olivia Pace says they unionized child care workers right before #COVID19 lock down last year in Portland.
Union organizer talks about the intersection of labor and racial justice organizing
Targets that need protested in 2021 #MayDay2021 #PortlandProtests
Financiers of #KeystoneXL #TransMountain #DAPL #BayouBridge & #Line3 pipelines
Wellsfargo, Chase, Bank of America, Barclays
@MazaskaTalks #StopLine3 #NoTMX #NoDAPL #IndigenousSovereignty #HonorTheEarth 1/
Financiers of #KeystoneXL #TransMountain #DAPL #BayouBridge & #Line3 pipelines
Wellsfargo, Chase, Bank of America, Barclays
@MazaskaTalks #StopLine3 #NoTMX #NoDAPL #IndigenousSovereignty #HonorTheEarth 1/
-Amazon Web Services and Microsoft contract with ICE to provide cloud services, data processing and AI
-Aramark provides shitty food to prisons, including private prisons ran by ICE.
-Wayfair provides beds for detained migrants. #MayDay #AbolishICE 2/
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-Aramark provides shitty food to prisons, including private prisons ran by ICE.
-Wayfair provides beds for detained migrants. #MayDay #AbolishICE 2/
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@G4S helped detain, transport and deport migrants & involved in Israeli occupation of Palestine until recently. Still operate private prisons, and train Israeli police. Contract with City of Portland and @trimet. @AlliedUniversal is merging with G4S 3/ investigate.afsc.org/company/g4s
Too often the story of ambition has been written by and for middle and upper class white women and then presented to the rest of us as pre-packaged ambition for our consumption.
feministgiant.com/p/essay-my-amb… #MayDay
feministgiant.com/p/essay-my-amb… #MayDay
It was never my ambition to become a CEO, to have a corner office, or to become rich. What is ambition liberated from all of that?
What does ambition look like for a woman whose goal is not to become rich? What is ambition liberated from corporate success? #MayDay2021
What does ambition look like for a woman whose goal is not to become rich? What is ambition liberated from corporate success? #MayDay2021
What is ambition for a working class woman or a woman who is poor?
Who or what determines what women are supposed to be, want, and do? Primarily, patriarchy, which works in tandem w/other forms of oppression, esp for women of colour and women from marginalized groups.
Who or what determines what women are supposed to be, want, and do? Primarily, patriarchy, which works in tandem w/other forms of oppression, esp for women of colour and women from marginalized groups.
A good judgement to read on #MayDay is the 2020 SC judgment which quashed the Gujarat Govt order exempting Factories from paying overtime wages to workers. The Court emphatically said that " a workers’ right to life cannot be contingent on the mercy of employer
or the State"
or the State"
Notably, the judgment acknowledged that labour rights are "hard won" rights which cannot be diluted citing the excuse of pandemic.
State cannot permit exploitation of workers making their "hard won" rights illusory, SC said.
#MayDay2021
State cannot permit exploitation of workers making their "hard won" rights illusory, SC said.
#MayDay2021
During pandemic, State should be more protective of workers than diluting their rights citing difficulties of employer.
"...financial losses cannot be offset on the weary shoulders of
the laboring worker, who provides the backbone of the economy", the Court said.
#MayDay2021
"...financial losses cannot be offset on the weary shoulders of
the laboring worker, who provides the backbone of the economy", the Court said.
#MayDay2021
Sejarah May Day, Sebuah Utas
May Day punya sejarah panjang. Lahir dari berbagai rentetan perjuangan kelas pekerja setelah revolusi industri.
Para buruh dipaksa untuk bekerja hingga 16 jam sehari. Di beberapa tempat ada yang dipaksa bekerja hingga 19 jam sehari di pabrik-pabrik.
May Day punya sejarah panjang. Lahir dari berbagai rentetan perjuangan kelas pekerja setelah revolusi industri.
Para buruh dipaksa untuk bekerja hingga 16 jam sehari. Di beberapa tempat ada yang dipaksa bekerja hingga 19 jam sehari di pabrik-pabrik.
Tanggal 1 Mei 1886, sejumlah Serikat Pekerja di AS melakukan demonstrasi besar2an utk menuntut diberlakukannya 8 jam kerja setiap hari serta kenaikan upah yg layak.
Aksi ini terjadi serentak di seluruh negeri. Tak kurang dari 100.000 orang buruh mengikuti mogok massal tersebut.
Aksi ini terjadi serentak di seluruh negeri. Tak kurang dari 100.000 orang buruh mengikuti mogok massal tersebut.
Aksi ini berlangsung berhari-hari. Tanggal 4 Mei malam, di alun2 Haymarket di Chicago, sejumlah aktivis masih melakukan orasi bergantian.
Awalnya ada 3.000 orang di sana. Namun seiring hujan deras, pada pukul 22.00 hanya tinggal ratusan buruh yang bertahan.
#MayDay2021 #MayDay
Awalnya ada 3.000 orang di sana. Namun seiring hujan deras, pada pukul 22.00 hanya tinggal ratusan buruh yang bertahan.
#MayDay2021 #MayDay
