I’m with the writers here. The writers’ strike is an embodiment of what’s happening in industry after industry. The fact that people are standing up to unfettered greed, that unions are owning their power and being supported by the public the way they are today, is a very good thing. #ANewBeginning

“Williamson employed some powerful facts to buttress her argument, noting that 39% of Americans tell pollsters they will miss a meal in order to pay their rent.” metrotimes.com/news/marianne…

The mechanic does not even look at the map.

My God.

The “most qualified” car mechanic in the world doesn’t necessarily know what road you should be driving on.

Our political elite: ….don’t seriously advocate for children because children can’t vote and have no financial leverage. ….don’t seriously advocate for the poor because the poor are so weighed down they don’t vote in large numbers. …and think we’re such fools, or as callous as they, that we the people won’t notice or care. Vote your conscience. Prove them wrong.

We want to debate the president!

A moral crisis in America is not just poverty but the millions of near poor, those who live their lives with a gnawing realization that they’re just hanging on. We cut child poverty in half with the Child Tax Credit…but when it came time for the tax credit to expire six months later, our leaders didn’t bother to permanentize it. America’s poverty rate is the highest of any advanced democracy. It is the result of soulless economic policies that are eroding our society and riddling it with despair. It’s not enough to simply want to reduce poverty... We need to be more than “concerned.” Let’s be a generation of poverty abolitionists.

FDR

Streaming has bulldozed the traditional Hollywood writer’s system, allowing studios to get away with under-paying and under-employing writers… signing them to smaller contracts, for less time, no raises to account for inflation, no residual income, keeping writers at minimum deals for decades with no advancement… basically turning what could have been a sustainable career into a gig economy where writers are competing harder for less and less freelance scraps. All the while studios post record profits year over year. GO WRITERS!!

Huge support for striking writers…

“If America’s poor founded a country, that country would have a bigger population than Australia, or Venezuela. Almost one in nine Americans, - including one and eight children - live in poverty. There are more than 38 million people living in the United States who cannot afford basic necessities….” — Matthew Desmond, POVERTY, BY AMERiCA

Such a brave, soulful woman. “If we’re all just silent about it and go about our merry way, then nothing will ever change…”

It’s International Worker’s Day. Here’s my interview with Railroad Workers United co-founder Matt Weaver on the needs of labor today. youtube.com/watch?v=8mrQjHZv…

My full policies to support Empowered Labor: marianne2024.com/issues/empo…

International Worker's Day: a day to celebrate, commit, and imagine a more equitable world.

A generation that cares about the future habitability of the planet will not be lining up to vote for a president who has so let us down on the issue of the climate crisis.