I’m thrilled about this. Absolutely infuriating that grad students were selling their plasma in order to make ends meet!
It’s clear what to do in these situations: Form for a union. Stick with it. Persevere.
Congratulations, guys!
BREAKING: Grad workers vote to ratify U-M offer, ending longest strike in GEO history
This guarantees a 20-80% raise for incoming grad workers and a living wage for most PhDs, with wins across a host of issues, from trans & parental care to abolition and harassment protections.
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We need a mass mobilization from a dirty economy to a clean economy. #Marianne2024 #ClimateCrisis
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Half of our incarcerated population are nonviolent drug offenders. It needs to stop. Drugs should be legalized and regulated.
The war on drugs has been a war on people. When I am President this is going to change.
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We need to end the Drug War and change the paradigm from criminality to recovery. For a fraction of what we spend on the drug war, we could create a recovery-based health model and actually take on the problem.
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Today we spend over $100 billion a year fighting the War on Drugs – we’ve spent $1T since its inception - and the problem has only gotten worse, not better.🧵
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We need to put humanitarian values before short term profits #marianne2024 #2024election
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A candidate who says he’s a “free market capitalism guy” and that the answer to the climate crisis is “the discipline of the free market” is NOT the one who’s “breaking the game.”
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On the Right and on the Left, people are figuring it out…
.@UAW Pres Shawn Fain rallying workers at @ford Kentucky Truck Plant union hall. Fired up about income equality and the gap in pay and lifestyle between white collar and blue collar workers. “Damnit we deserve better,” he tells crowd.
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Join me Saturday, August 26th in Fort Mill and Rock Hill, SC.
More info at Events.Marianne2024.com
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FDR said we would not have to worry about a fascist takeover as long as democracy delivered on its promises. #Marianne2024
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Looking forward to being in Austin, Texas next Thursday, August 31.
More info at Events.Marianne2024.com
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Covid was a screaming emergency; once it was declared officially over, people were told to go back to their normal lives.
But for millions of people life was *already* an emergency and continues to be.
The emergency of poverty, the emergency of hunger, the emergency of homelessness, the emergency of chronic depression and despair…
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If there’s no Constitutional right to a stable climate, that means we’re basically scrapping the Declaration of Independence.
None of this “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness stuff” anymore, kids. We just told you that to pull you in. levernews.com/biden-doj-amer…
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“… there’s no primary on our side when there’s a primary.”
And no one is supposed to question that, or run against it.
Meanwhile, Biden has taken out a $25M ad buy focusing on Bidenomics.
The DNC strategy is not to tell you what Biden is going to do for you over the next 4 years, but to brag about what he’s already done… whether it actually affected your life or not.
Weak sell. news.yahoo.com/biden-campaig…
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This is absurd.
President Biden has given more oil drilling permits than even Trump did, plus he has approved the Willow project. Together they nullify all the benefits of green investments in the Inflation Reduction Act.
marianne2024.com/issues/clim…
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Excellent.
And this only happened because of a credible strike threat. Strong labor organizing gets the goods.
💥TEAMSTERS RATIFY HISTORIC UPS CONTRACT
Today, #Teamsters voted by an overwhelming 86.3 percent to ratify the most historic collective bargaining agreement in the history of @UPS: teamster.org/2023/08/teamste…
#HotLaborSummer #1u ✊✊✊
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