Los Angeles: Stop Kroger’s Greed! Protest Rally
Saturday, April 3 - 12 noon
Ralphs Supermarket, 330 Slauson Ave., Los Angeles
Join Us demanding: Hazard Pay for Ralphs Workers in South Central, Not Layoffs!
This is a safe rally with masks and social distancing
For media: Rally begins at Noon, Press Conference at 1 pm
Contact:
Pastor William D Smart, SCLC - (213) 268-3082,
John Parker, Harriet Tubman Center - (323) 899-2003
April 3rd is the anniversary of the last speech given by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. where he again galvanized the struggle for justice by saying it must include the struggle for a living wage and respect for workers.
Yet, Kroger Corporation announced store closures as retaliation for being forced by the city to add an extra $5 for hero/hazard pay to their workers.
Kroger Corporation made a fortune in 2020, their sales rose to $132 billion and profits rose 56% - the equivalent of two Fortune 500 companies - during the pandemic! And, the CEO makes 21 million.
Thousands of front line workers have been infected and hundreds have died, and - like the existence of food deserts - Black and Brown communities have been disproportionately effected. Still, their co-workers kept working, making sure that we could feed our families. They are heroes and deserve to be paid hazard pay, not lose their jobs and have a vital resource for the community taken away.
- Creating Food Deserts is a Crime!
- We Need Union Jobs & Hazard Pay!
We cannot think any true thought unless we want the true. Thinking is itself an aspect of practice.
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| — | Theodor W. Adorno, Lectures on Negative Dialectics (via philosophybits) |
Guardians of the Underworld
Gate guardian deities from the realm of the Underworld, detail of the 3rd guided shrine of Tutankhamun, decorated with scenes from the ‘Book of the Dead’ to aid the king’s journey after death.
From the Tomb of Tutankhamun (KV62), Valley of the Kings, West Thebes. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 60667
