I worked there and got $12 an hour and now they are trying to hire people for as low as $9 an hour. This is the job that was so rough I had to make a video about how it would be official policy for my project to not have anyone work outside at over 100F unless absolutely necessary.
I was already barely making ends meet while working that dead end job that nearly killed me. If you could possibly pitch into my emergency gofundme it would go towards my rent, food, bills, medical checkup, and possibly if it reaches a high amount some to work on one of my projects.
🅱️ocialist 🅱️lternative is the North American section of the Committee For A Workers International, a socialist organization with ~10,000 active members on 6 continents. CWI comrades have been instrumental in the fight for affordable housing and a higher minimum wage here in the US, the abortion rights movement in Ireland, underground labor organizing in China and Nigeria, and the ongoing revolution in Sudan.
SAlt’s goal is to build a movement for social justice and workers’ rights in the United States independent from the two major parties and from corporate control.
From the website:
Socialist Alternative is the organization that
spearheaded the campaign to elect Kshama Sawant to Seattle City Council
in 2013, the first independent socialist elected in a major U.S. city in
decades. We then led the successful campaign to raise Seattle’s minimum
wage to the highest in the country, providing a massive boost to the
$15 Now campaign that is spreading around the country.
Kshama Sawant was successfully re-elected to the Seattle
City Council in 2015 as a Socialist Alternative member, without any
corporate cash, despite half a million dollars being spent on the
campaign to unseat her.
Socialist Alternative is a national organization fighting
in our workplaces, communities, and campuses against the exploitation
and injustices people face every day. We are community activists
fighting against budget cuts in public services; we are activists
campaigning for a $15 an hour minimum wage and fighting, democratic
unions; we are people of all colors speaking out against racism and
attacks on immigrants, students organizing against tuition hikes and
war, women and men fighting sexism and homophobia.
We believe the Republicans and Democrats are both parties
of big business, and we are campaigning to build an independent,
alternative party of workers and young people to fight for the interests
of the millions, not the millionaires.
WHAT WE STAND FOR
Fighting for the 99%
Raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, as a step toward a living wage for all.
Free, high quality public education for all from
pre-school through college. Full funding for schools to dramatically
lower student-teacher ratios. Stop the focus on high stakes testing and
the drive to privatize public education.
Free, high quality health care for all. Replace the
failed for-profit insurance companies with a publicly funded
single-payer system as a step towards fully socialized medicine.
No budget cuts to education and social services! Full
funding for all community needs. A major increase in taxes on the rich
and big business, not working people.
Create living-wage union jobs for all the unemployed
through public works programs to develop mass transit, renewable energy,
infrastructure, healthcare, education, and affordable housing.
For rent control combined with massive public investment in affordable housing.
A guaranteed decent pension for all. No cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid!
A minimum guaranteed weekly income of $600/week for the
unemployed, disabled, stay-at-home parents, the elderly, and others
unable to work.
Repeal all anti-union laws like Taft-Hartley. For
democratic unions run by the rank-and-file to fight for better pay,
working conditions, and social services. Full-time union officials
should be regularly elected and receive the average wage of those they
represent.
No more layoffs! Take bankrupt and failing companies into public ownership.
Break the power of Wall Street! For public ownership and democratic control of the major banks.
Shorten the workweek with no loss in pay and benefits; share out the work with the unemployed and create new jobs.
Environmental Sustainability
Fight climate change. Massive public investment in
renewable energy and energy-efficient technologies to rapidly replace
fossil fuels.
A major expansion of public transportation to provide low fare, high-speed, and accessible transit.
Democratic public ownership of the big energy companies,
retooling them for socially necessary green production. A “Just
Transition” for all workers in polluting industries with guaranteed
re-training and new living-wage jobs.
Equal Rights for All
Fight discrimination based on race, nationality, gender,
sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, disability, age, and all
other forms of prejudice. Equal pay for equal work.
Black Lives Matter! Build a mass movement against police
brutality and the institutional racism of the criminal justice system.
Invest in rehabilitation, job-training, and living-wage jobs, not
prisons! Abolish the death penalty.
Defend immigrant rights! Immediate, unconditional legalization and equal rights for all undocumented immigrants.
Fight sexual harassment, violence against women, and all forms of sexism.
Defend a woman’s right to choose whether and when to
have children. For a publicly funded, single-payer health care system
with free reproductive services, including all forms of birth control
and safe, accessible abortions. Comprehensive sex education. At least 12
weeks of paid family leave for all. For universal, high quality,
affordable and publicly run child care.
Fight discrimination and violence against the LGBTQ community, and all forms of homophobia and transphobia.
Money for Jobs and Education, Not War
End the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq. Bring all the troops home now!
Slash the military budget. No drones. Shut down Guantanamo.
Repeal the Patriot Act, NDAA, and all other attacks on democratic rights.
Break with the Two Parties of Big Business
For a mass workers party drawing together workers, young
people and activists from environmental, civil rights, and women’s
campaigns, to provide a fighting, political alternative to the corporate
parties.
Unions and other social movement organizations should
stop funding and supporting the Democratic and Republican Parties and
instead organize independent left-wing, anti-corporate candidates and
coalitions as a first step toward building a workers’ party.
Socialism and Internationalism
Capitalism produces poverty, inequality, environmental
destruction, and war. We need an international struggle against this
failed system. No to corporate “free trade” agreements, which mean job
losses and a race to the bottom for workers and the environment.
Solidarity with the struggles of workers and oppressed peoples internationally: An injury to one is an injury to all.
Take into public ownership the top 500 corporations and
banks that dominate the U.S. economy. Run them under the democratic
management of elected representatives of the workers and the broader
public. Compensation to be paid on the basis of proven need to small
investors, not millionaires.
A democratic socialist plan for the economy based on the
interests of the overwhelming majority of people and the environment.
For a socialist United States and a socialist world.
“But conrad,” you say, “how am I get involved with this very good and nice organization??” Well, that’s easy!
SAlt has active branches in Florida, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington DC, Washington state, California, Oregon, Massachusetts, Arkansas, Texas, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, AND accepts at-large / nomad members.
You need only follow this link and fill out the form and somebody will get back to you real quick.
August 15 2019 - An ICE prison guard rams a blockade of Jewish antifascist protesters in Central Falls, Rhode Island, after which his colleagues come over to pepper spray them. An eyewitness account:
Tonight I planned to be arrested protesting at the Wyatt Detention Facility in Central Falls, RI. I wore comfortable layers. I made sure to not drink too much water. I left my phone and keys with a volunteer in a baggie with my name on it. The only things in my pockets were $40 and a photo ID. Four hours later, I watched the ambulances gather up the seriously injured.The action was organized by Never Again is Now. We marched from Jenks Park, singing, chanting, praying. We gathered outside of the facility, about 40 of us who had planned to get arrested, and large crowd of other protesters. We delivered a letter with demands, and when, as expected, the demands were not met, we lined up outside the two entrances to the Wyatt, one to block pedestrian access and the other to block vans. However, because they knew we were coming, they had rescheduled all prisoner transfers so there were no vans coming in or out.
So we decided to relocate to the adjacent parking lot, to block guards from leaving when their shift was over. There was a large entrance and a smaller entrance off to the side. At first I was with the big group at the front entrance. Then a car started heading towards the side entrance, so some of us broke off to block that exit. The person in that car was a woman, and she left her engine on the whole time during what followed.At the main entrance, at about 9:30pm, a guard in a black pickup truck roared down the street, and rammed directly into the line of protestors on that side. Two people were injured. Then, WITHIN SECONDS, a horde of guards came streaming out of the prison and pepper-sprayed the protesters, including the injured. Let me be clear: there is no way that they could have gotten there that fast unless there was some communication ahead of time from the guy in the truck about his plan.
Many people were seriously injured by the amount and manner in which the pepper spray was used. Prison guards absolutely do not have the authority to use their pepper-spray, a weapon that is part of their job, against civilians outside a prison. And none of the protesters was on prison grounds; we were across the street in a parking lot, which was adjacent to a soccer and baseball field. Earlier in the evening, there had been kids playing there. On our side, we were sitting across the entrance to the parking lot, facing outwards. The woman was still behind us with her lights and engine on. We heard screams but could not see the other group. At that moment, the woman in the car behind us revved her engine several times, to intimidate us into moving. We stood up and faced her. We did not move, and we wanted her to look us in the eye if she was going to run us over. She did not move.This was a premeditated attack. There were both local and state cops in the area - they were there all night keeping an eye on things, but they would do loops, they were not always right in front. The guard watched and waited for a moment when none of the 3 cars that were patrolling were within line of sight to carry out his attack. But he did coordinate with his fellow guards inside so that they were ready in an instant to pour out of the facility and across the street with their pepper spray.
When the local cops came back, it was pretty clear that they were PISSED at the guards - I do want to say that in fairness. I do not believe that the local cops were part of the conspiracy. Honestly, this is going to bring such a stream of crap to Central Falls in the coming weeks, and this makes their life very difficult. National attention. But at the same time, they did not immediately arrest the driver. All they would say is that there would be an investigation.
When it became clear how seriously injured some folks were, the rest of the protest was cancelled, including our group on the far side of the parking lot. So I came home with the $40 still in my pocket.I joined this action because I’ve reached a point where I look at everything I’ve done so far and there’s no risk, no personal cost. If I look at this moment in history, and all I can say is that I posted some stuff and waved some signs, but was unwilling to take any risk or do anything that might cost me, I simply cannot live with that. ICE is perpetrating crimes against humanity. I will not be a person who looked the other way, who hoped it would go away.
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EDIT [the next morning when I can speak more clearly]: For clarity, I don’t think the Central Falls police were involved in the planning of the attack, but they were very involved in covering it up by not arresting the guard immediately and in the way they responded to witnesses. Earlier in the night, they blatantly lied to us about who the woman was in the car behind us in an effort to get us to leave. All cops are complicit.
Also, by now I’m sure everyone reading this has seen the video and the other news coverage and they made it more clear: he was outside the parking lot, ramming inwards. It’s not like he was inside and frustrated with us blocking him.
Please, if you talk about this story, make sure to ask the question: if they treated us with this level of violence, a group of civilian protesters with cops not that far away and everyone having a cellphone camera, what do you think they are doing to those detained in the facility who have no way to get the word out about their treatment?
One of the items that Never Again is Now was protesting about this facility was the lack of transparency and proof that detainees rights are being met. After last night, it’s not enough for the Wyatt to just cancel the ICE contract. The whole facility needs to be shut down. Tell your RI senators and reps: No for-profit prisons in RI!
It’s actually assault with a deadly weapon, which is a felony, his intent was obvious, and he continued forward knowing there were people directly in front of his truck.
Ok dude its not they going to kill them like the Nazis calm down geez
If we do nothing now, we’re going to find out in a hundred years that they did. And then it will be a hundred years too fucking late.
Shut the fuck up and don’t look away.
A few months ago people were like “relax the immigrant detention centers aren’t going to become concentration camps.” People doing nothing and making excuses for their inaction and trying to convince others to do the same is exactly how death camps happen.
also people have actually died in there, due to ICE’s abuse and neglect. and those numbers are just gonna keep rising because bootlickers like tumblr user cutebearfrank say stupid shit like “it’s not so bad jeez” and look the other way so like DOUBLY SHUT THE FUCK UP
The Nazis didn’t start building the gas chambers in 1933, they started using them eight years after gaining power. When the Nazis got into power, Hitler never said that he was going to commit genocide or try to murder all the Jews in Europe. The Nazis never said that they were going to build gas chambers. What they said was that the Jews were the cause of Germany’s decline, the lose of it’s empire, the failing economy, etc and they were going to stop that. They left it to to interpretation to how they would meet that end. Just like building a wall or banning Muslims, all the Nazis gave were the same vague statements that were easy to grasp and helped root the idea in people’s minds.
By the way, the photo of Himmler up there was taken in 1942, nine years after the Nazis assumed power. The one of Pence is taken three years after Trump did.
This relief illustrates Horemheb’s military encampment: above, two soldiers watch horses teamed to war chariots as an officer hurries off; below, another officer escorts two water bearers, a messenger on horseback is arriving or departing, and a group of soldiers is carrying a heavy load on their shoulders, a beam or perhaps Horemheb’s rolled-up tent.
The entire scene, which is far removed from the typical rigidity of the models of classical Egyptian art because of its dynamism and the naturalistic rendering of many details, demonstrates that the artistic precepts that had emerged during the reign of Akhenaten survived under his successor Tutankhamun.
New Kingdom, late 18th Dynasty, reign of Tutankhamun, ca. 1332-1323 BC. Limestone, from the Memphite tomb of Horemheb at Saqqara. Now in the Archaeological Civic Museum of Bologna. EG 1889
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