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  1. Rosina Tucker helped #railroadworkers organize the first Black-led labor union in America,

    Maria Moreno fought for #farmworkers in the fields of California,

    Ah Quon McElrath who united the #laborers of the vast sugarcane plantations,

    Ben Fletcher, a #dockworker who organized a strong, interracial union that ran the ports of #Philadelphia,

    Judy Heumann, #educationworker who became the mother of the #DisabilityRights Movement.

    #LaborMovement #organize #solidarity #workingclasshistory

  2. Rosina Tucker helped #railroadworkers organize the first Black-led labor union in America,

    Maria Moreno fought for #farmworkers in the fields of California,

    Ah Quon McElrath who united the #laborers of the vast sugarcane plantations,

    Ben Fletcher, a #dockworker who organized a strong, interracial union that ran the ports of #Philadelphia,

    Judy Heumann, #educationworker who became the mother of the #DisabilityRights Movement.

    #LaborMovement #organize #solidarity #workingclasshistory

  3. Rosina Tucker helped #railroadworkers organize the first Black-led labor union in America,

    Maria Moreno fought for #farmworkers in the fields of California,

    Ah Quon McElrath who united the #laborers of the vast sugarcane plantations,

    Ben Fletcher, a #dockworker who organized a strong, interracial union that ran the ports of #Philadelphia,

    Judy Heumann, #educationworker who became the mother of the #DisabilityRights Movement.

    #LaborMovement #organize #solidarity #workingclasshistory

  4. Rosina Tucker helped #railroadworkers organize the first Black-led labor union in America,

    Maria Moreno fought for #farmworkers in the fields of California,

    Ah Quon McElrath who united the #laborers of the vast sugarcane plantations,

    Ben Fletcher, a #dockworker who organized a strong, interracial union that ran the ports of #Philadelphia,

    Judy Heumann, #educationworker who became the mother of the #DisabilityRights Movement.

    #LaborMovement #organize #solidarity #workingclasshistory

  5. Rosina Tucker helped #railroadworkers organize the first Black-led labor union in America,

    Maria Moreno fought for #farmworkers in the fields of California,

    Ah Quon McElrath who united the #laborers of the vast sugarcane plantations,

    Ben Fletcher, a #dockworker who organized a strong, interracial union that ran the ports of #Philadelphia,

    Judy Heumann, #educationworker who became the mother of the #DisabilityRights Movement.

    #LaborMovement #organize #solidarity #workingclasshistory

  6. John Oliver takes on trains.

    Key points: safety (of workers and the public) is fourth in the list of priorities (meaning, it's not one), while "customer satisfaction" is the first one--where customers are the corporations shipping fuel and toxic chemicals through cities, especially poor (and mostly Black) neighborhoods. See the meaning of "wrong side of the tracks"

    And yet, #RailRoadWorkers aren't allowed to strike.

    Because "the economy" and "public good".

    youtu.be/AJ2keSJzYyY?si=RqrxvR

  7. John Oliver takes on trains.

    Key points: safety (of workers and the public) is fourth in the list of priorities (meaning, it's not one), while "customer satisfaction" is the first one--where customers are the corporations shipping fuel and toxic chemicals through cities, especially poor (and mostly Black) neighborhoods. See the meaning of "wrong side of the tracks"

    And yet, #RailRoadWorkers aren't allowed to strike.

    Because "the economy" and "public good".

    youtu.be/AJ2keSJzYyY?si=RqrxvR

  8. John Oliver takes on trains.

    Key points: safety (of workers and the public) is fourth in the list of priorities (meaning, it's not one), while "customer satisfaction" is the first one--where customers are the corporations shipping fuel and toxic chemicals through cities, especially poor (and mostly Black) neighborhoods. See the meaning of "wrong side of the tracks"

    And yet, #RailRoadWorkers aren't allowed to strike.

    Because "the economy" and "public good".

    youtu.be/AJ2keSJzYyY?si=RqrxvR

  9. John Oliver takes on trains.

    Key points: safety (of workers and the public) is fourth in the list of priorities (meaning, it's not one), while "customer satisfaction" is the first one--where customers are the corporations shipping fuel and toxic chemicals through cities, especially poor (and mostly Black) neighborhoods. See the meaning of "wrong side of the tracks"

    And yet, #RailRoadWorkers aren't allowed to strike.

    Because "the economy" and "public good".

    youtu.be/AJ2keSJzYyY?si=RqrxvR

  10. RWU Announces Defense Campaign For Fired Rail Worker

    Railroad Workers United (RWU) is initiating a public defense campaign for the unjustly dismissed locomotive engineer, Michael “Paul” Lindsey II.

    popularresistance.org/rwu-anno
    #USnews #RWU #union #labor #WorkersRights #Railroad #RailroadWorkers

  11. RWU Announces Defense Campaign For Fired Rail Worker

    Railroad Workers United (RWU) is initiating a public defense campaign for the unjustly dismissed locomotive engineer, Michael “Paul” Lindsey II.

    popularresistance.org/rwu-anno
    #USnews #RWU #union #labor #WorkersRights #Railroad #RailroadWorkers

  12. RWU Announces Defense Campaign For Fired Rail Worker

    Railroad Workers United (RWU) is initiating a public defense campaign for the unjustly dismissed locomotive engineer, Michael “Paul” Lindsey II.

    popularresistance.org/rwu-anno
    #USnews #RWU #union #labor #WorkersRights #Railroad #RailroadWorkers

  13. RWU Announces Defense Campaign For Fired Rail Worker

    Railroad Workers United (RWU) is initiating a public defense campaign for the unjustly dismissed locomotive engineer, Michael “Paul” Lindsey II.

    popularresistance.org/rwu-anno

  14. RWU Announces Defense Campaign For Fired Rail Worker

    Railroad Workers United (RWU) is initiating a public defense campaign for the unjustly dismissed locomotive engineer, Michael “Paul” Lindsey II.

    popularresistance.org/rwu-anno
    #USnews #RWU #union #labor #WorkersRights #Railroad #RailroadWorkers

  15. #Democrats let #RoeVWade be overturned. They left us to die in the ongoing #SARSCoV2 #COVID19 #Pandemic They let #AffirmativeAction & #StudentLoanCacellation be overturned. They left #EastPalestineOhio to die of poisoning after stopping #RailroadWorkers from striking. They arm & fund literal #Nazis in #Ukraine while gearing up for war with #China. They're petulantly retaining a senile rapist, child molester, & war criminal for #2024 but expect to win against #Trump or #DeSantis.

  16. #Democrats let #RoeVWade be overturned. They left us to die in the ongoing #SARSCoV2 #COVID19 #Pandemic They let #AffirmativeAction & #StudentLoanCacellation be overturned. They left #EastPalestineOhio to die of poisoning after stopping #RailroadWorkers from striking. They arm & fund literal #Nazis in #Ukraine while gearing up for war with #China. They're petulantly retaining a senile rapist, child molester, & war criminal for #2024 but expect to win against #Trump or #DeSantis.

  17. CW: Trains blocking children's path to school (literally)

    Given that Biden made it illegal for the #RailroadWorkers to strike, it's rich that Buttigieg is now "shocked" that #NorfolkSouthern gives exactly zero shits about the risk to children's lives.

    Remember: one of the concerns of railroad workers was the length of the trains. See: constant derailments.

    This could have been addressed, the government didn't want that to happen.

    propublica.org/article/trains-

  18. CW: Trains blocking children's path to school (literally)

    Given that Biden made it illegal for the #RailroadWorkers to strike, it's rich that Buttigieg is now "shocked" that #NorfolkSouthern gives exactly zero shits about the risk to children's lives.

    Remember: one of the concerns of railroad workers was the length of the trains. See: constant derailments.

    This could have been addressed, the government didn't want that to happen.

    propublica.org/article/trains-

  19. CW: Trains blocking children's path to school (literally)

    Given that Biden made it illegal for the #RailroadWorkers to strike, it's rich that Buttigieg is now "shocked" that #NorfolkSouthern gives exactly zero shits about the risk to children's lives.

    Remember: one of the concerns of railroad workers was the length of the trains. See: constant derailments.

    This could have been addressed, the government didn't want that to happen.

    propublica.org/article/trains-

  20. CW: Trains blocking children's path to school (literally)

    Given that Biden made it illegal for the #RailroadWorkers to strike, it's rich that Buttigieg is now "shocked" that #NorfolkSouthern gives exactly zero shits about the risk to children's lives.

    Remember: one of the concerns of railroad workers was the length of the trains. See: constant derailments.

    This could have been addressed, the government didn't want that to happen.

    propublica.org/article/trains-

  21. #Railroadworkers and #union reps from the US, UK, and France discuss the #classstruggle in their respective countries and how these struggles are connected internationally in this special episode of the ‘Working People’ podcast.
    open.spotify.com/episode/5fKbR
    therealnews.com/rail-workers-o

  22. #Railroadworkers and #union reps from the US, UK, and France discuss the #classstruggle in their respective countries and how these struggles are connected internationally in this special episode of the ‘Working People’ podcast.
    open.spotify.com/episode/5fKbR
    therealnews.com/rail-workers-o

  23. When I think about the rail derailment in OH, I can't help but think of the ways that this disaster is the perfect storm of crumbling infrastructure, an unsafe industry stuck in the early 20th century, terrible environmental policy, awful labor practices, and class warfare.

    Both Dems & GOP are on the hook for their policy decisions leading to this.

    Who's going to tell that truth?

    #USPol
    #RailroadWorkers
    #Railway
    #Environment
    #NorfolkSouthern #safety

  24. When I think about the rail derailment in OH, I can't help but think of the ways that this disaster is the perfect storm of crumbling infrastructure, an unsafe industry stuck in the early 20th century, terrible environmental policy, awful labor practices, and class warfare.

    Both Dems & GOP are on the hook for their policy decisions leading to this.

    Who's going to tell that truth?

    #USPol
    #RailroadWorkers
    #Railway
    #Environment
    #NorfolkSouthern #safety

  25. When I think about the rail derailment in OH, I can't help but think of the ways that this disaster is the perfect storm of crumbling infrastructure, an unsafe industry stuck in the early 20th century, terrible environmental policy, awful labor practices, and class warfare.

    Both Dems & GOP are on the hook for their policy decisions leading to this.

    Who's going to tell that truth?

    #USPol
    #RailroadWorkers
    #Railway
    #Environment
    #NorfolkSouthern #safety

  26. When I think about the rail derailment in OH, I can't help but think of the ways that this disaster is the perfect storm of crumbling infrastructure, an unsafe industry stuck in the early 20th century, terrible environmental policy, awful labor practices, and class warfare.

    Both Dems & GOP are on the hook for their policy decisions leading to this.

    Who's going to tell that truth?

    #USPol
    #RailroadWorkers
    #Railway
    #Environment
    #NorfolkSouthern #safety

  27. When I think about the rail derailment in OH, I can't help but think of the ways that this disaster is the perfect storm of crumbling infrastructure, an unsafe industry stuck in the early 20th century, terrible environmental policy, awful labor practices, and class warfare.

    Both Dems & GOP are on the hook for their policy decisions leading to this.

    Who's going to tell that truth?

    #USPol
    #RailroadWorkers
    #Railway
    #Environment
    #NorfolkSouthern #safety

  28. CW: Ohio, U.S. politics, railroad strike, acid rain, poisoned public

    I recommend reading this piece by More Perfect Union.

    These companies spend money lobbying for fewer regulations--and they get their way and fatter pockets. Meanwhile, we keep seeing more derailments--there were two on Monday alone!--more environmental destruction, and more suffering.

    #RailroadWorkers #RailroadStrike #Ohio

    perfectunion.us/ohio-railroad-

  29. CW: Ohio, U.S. politics, railroad strike, acid rain, poisoned public

    I recommend reading this piece by More Perfect Union.

    These companies spend money lobbying for fewer regulations--and they get their way and fatter pockets. Meanwhile, we keep seeing more derailments--there were two on Monday alone!--more environmental destruction, and more suffering.

    #RailroadWorkers #RailroadStrike #Ohio

    perfectunion.us/ohio-railroad-

  30. CW: Ohio, U.S. politics, railroad strike, acid rain, poisoned public

    I recommend reading this piece by More Perfect Union.

    These companies spend money lobbying for fewer regulations--and they get their way and fatter pockets. Meanwhile, we keep seeing more derailments--there were two on Monday alone!--more environmental destruction, and more suffering.

    #RailroadWorkers #RailroadStrike #Ohio

    perfectunion.us/ohio-railroad-

  31. CW: Ohio, U.S. politics, railroad strike, acid rain, poisoned public

    I recommend reading this piece by More Perfect Union.

    These companies spend money lobbying for fewer regulations--and they get their way and fatter pockets. Meanwhile, we keep seeing more derailments--there were two on Monday alone!--more environmental destruction, and more suffering.

    #RailroadWorkers #RailroadStrike #Ohio

    perfectunion.us/ohio-railroad-

  32. #RailroadWorkers

    RWU received a remarkable outpouring of support and solidarity in 2022 as the railroad workers' struggle for a fair contract caught national attention. Now we hope to get a huge camapign jump started and up-and-running!

    We are contracting with WorkFriends, a pro-union media strategy firm run by filmmaker & strategist Peter Lyngso to run a video campaign to elevate our call for Public Ownership of the Railroads.

    gofundme.com/f/railroad-worker

  33. #RailroadWorkers

    RWU received a remarkable outpouring of support and solidarity in 2022 as the railroad workers' struggle for a fair contract caught national attention. Now we hope to get a huge camapign jump started and up-and-running!

    We are contracting with WorkFriends, a pro-union media strategy firm run by filmmaker & strategist Peter Lyngso to run a video campaign to elevate our call for Public Ownership of the Railroads.

    gofundme.com/f/railroad-worker

  34. #RailroadWorkers

    RWU received a remarkable outpouring of support and solidarity in 2022 as the railroad workers' struggle for a fair contract caught national attention. Now we hope to get a huge camapign jump started and up-and-running!

    We are contracting with WorkFriends, a pro-union media strategy firm run by filmmaker & strategist Peter Lyngso to run a video campaign to elevate our call for Public Ownership of the Railroads.

    gofundme.com/f/railroad-worker

  35. #RailroadWorkers

    RWU received a remarkable outpouring of support and solidarity in 2022 as the railroad workers' struggle for a fair contract caught national attention. Now we hope to get a huge camapign jump started and up-and-running!

    We are contracting with WorkFriends, a pro-union media strategy firm run by filmmaker & strategist Peter Lyngso to run a video campaign to elevate our call for Public Ownership of the Railroads.

    gofundme.com/f/railroad-worker

  36. CW: Ohio, U.S. politics, railroad strike, capitalism, poisoned public

    There's an update to the QZ piece, and, will you look at this: this has happened before, the EPA has covered for the railroad companies before, and the residents/the public have paid with their health/lives for the big honchos' profits.

    #EnvironmentalDisaster #Ohio #RailroadWorkers

    qz.com/norfolk-southern-is-giv

  37. CW: Ohio, U.S. politics, railroad strike, capitalism, poisoned public

    There's an update to the QZ piece, and, will you look at this: this has happened before, the EPA has covered for the railroad companies before, and the residents/the public have paid with their health/lives for the big honchos' profits.

    #EnvironmentalDisaster #Ohio #RailroadWorkers

    qz.com/norfolk-southern-is-giv

  38. CW: Ohio, U.S. politics, railroad strike, capitalism, poisoned public

    There's an update to the QZ piece, and, will you look at this: this has happened before, the EPA has covered for the railroad companies before, and the residents/the public have paid with their health/lives for the big honchos' profits.

    #EnvironmentalDisaster #Ohio #RailroadWorkers

    qz.com/norfolk-southern-is-giv

  39. CW: Ohio, U.S. politics, railroad strike, capitalism, poisoned public

    There's an update to the QZ piece, and, will you look at this: this has happened before, the EPA has covered for the railroad companies before, and the residents/the public have paid with their health/lives for the big honchos' profits.

    #EnvironmentalDisaster #Ohio #RailroadWorkers

    qz.com/norfolk-southern-is-giv

  40. CW: Ohio, U.S. politics, railroad strike, capitalism, poisoned public

    There's an update to the QZ piece, and, will you look at this: this has happened before, the EPA has covered for the railroad companies before, and the residents/the public have paid with their health/lives for the big honchos' profits.

    #EnvironmentalDisaster #Ohio #RailroadWorkers

    qz.com/norfolk-southern-is-giv

  41. CW: Ohio, U.S. politics, railroad strike, capitalism, poisoned public

    The braking system in the railroads that carry so-called 'bomb trains' (like the one that derailed in #Ohio this week), date to the U.S. Civil War. That's one hundred and sixty years ago.

    Look who gets the money and who dies over it:

    #USPolitics #RailroadWorkers #EnvironmentalDisaster

    democracynow.org/2023/2/9/head

  42. CW: Ohio, U.S. politics, railroad strike, capitalism, poisoned public

    The braking system in the railroads that carry so-called 'bomb trains' (like the one that derailed in #Ohio this week), date to the U.S. Civil War. That's one hundred and sixty years ago.

    Look who gets the money and who dies over it:

    #USPolitics #RailroadWorkers #EnvironmentalDisaster

    democracynow.org/2023/2/9/head

  43. CW: Ohio, U.S. politics, railroad strike, capitalism, poisoned public

    The braking system in the railroads that carry so-called 'bomb trains' (like the one that derailed in #Ohio this week), date to the U.S. Civil War. That's one hundred and sixty years ago.

    Look who gets the money and who dies over it:

    #USPolitics #RailroadWorkers #EnvironmentalDisaster

    democracynow.org/2023/2/9/head

  44. CW: Ohio, U.S. politics, railroad strike, capitalism, poisoned public

    The braking system in the railroads that carry so-called 'bomb trains' (like the one that derailed in #Ohio this week), date to the U.S. Civil War. That's one hundred and sixty years ago.

    Look who gets the money and who dies over it:

    #USPolitics #RailroadWorkers #EnvironmentalDisaster

    democracynow.org/2023/2/9/head

  45. CW: Ohio, U.S. politics, railroad strike, capitalism, poisoned public

    The braking system in the railroads that carry so-called 'bomb trains' (like the one that derailed in #Ohio this week), date to the U.S. Civil War. That's one hundred and sixty years ago.

    Look who gets the money and who dies over it:

    #USPolitics #RailroadWorkers #EnvironmentalDisaster

    democracynow.org/2023/2/9/head

  46. CW: Ohio, U.S. politics, railroad strike, capitalism, poisoned public

    From twitter:
    "There are videos of folks in East Palestine who lost all of their livestock (chickens) and dead fish in the rivers they say is safe to drink. A reporter was assaulted by police, but you know it's safe. 55 billion dollar train company casually causing death and destruction."

    This is an environmental disaster that will affect millions in short order.

    #Ohio #NorfolkSouthern #RailroadWorkers

    twitter.com/VioletRiotGames/st

  47. CW: Ohio, U.S. politics, railroad strike, capitalism, poisoned public

    From twitter:
    "There are videos of folks in East Palestine who lost all of their livestock (chickens) and dead fish in the rivers they say is safe to drink. A reporter was assaulted by police, but you know it's safe. 55 billion dollar train company casually causing death and destruction."

    This is an environmental disaster that will affect millions in short order.

    #Ohio #NorfolkSouthern #RailroadWorkers

    twitter.com/VioletRiotGames/st

  48. CW: Ohio, U.S. politics, railroad strike, capitalism, poisoned public

    From twitter:
    "There are videos of folks in East Palestine who lost all of their livestock (chickens) and dead fish in the rivers they say is safe to drink. A reporter was assaulted by police, but you know it's safe. 55 billion dollar train company casually causing death and destruction."

    This is an environmental disaster that will affect millions in short order.

    #Ohio #NorfolkSouthern #RailroadWorkers

    twitter.com/VioletRiotGames/st

  49. CW: Ohio, U.S. politics, railroad strike, capitalism, poisoned public

    From twitter:
    "There are videos of folks in East Palestine who lost all of their livestock (chickens) and dead fish in the rivers they say is safe to drink. A reporter was assaulted by police, but you know it's safe. 55 billion dollar train company casually causing death and destruction."

    This is an environmental disaster that will affect millions in short order.

    #Ohio #NorfolkSouthern #RailroadWorkers

    twitter.com/VioletRiotGames/st

  50. CW: Ohio, U.S. politics, railroad strike, capitalism, poisoned public

    From twitter:
    "There are videos of folks in East Palestine who lost all of their livestock (chickens) and dead fish in the rivers they say is safe to drink. A reporter was assaulted by police, but you know it's safe. 55 billion dollar train company casually causing death and destruction."

    This is an environmental disaster that will affect millions in short order.

    #Ohio #NorfolkSouthern #RailroadWorkers

    twitter.com/VioletRiotGames/st

  51. CW: Ohio, U.S. politics, railroad strike, capitalism, poisoned public

    People were forced to leave their pets and other animals in the town--where they're now dying en masse.

    #Ohio #RailroadWorkers #RailroadStrike #NorfolkSouthern

    Reported here:
    qz.com/norfolk-southern-is-giv

    from twitter:
    "five dollars per person for poisoning the air, water, and land of this town. all pets dead, the poisoned water now flowing into the ohio river on its way to the mississippi. five dollars"
    twitter.com/drewtoothpaste/sta

  52. CW: Ohio, U.S. politics, railroad strike, capitalism, poisoned public

    People were forced to leave their pets and other animals in the town--where they're now dying en masse.

    #Ohio #RailroadWorkers #RailroadStrike #NorfolkSouthern

    Reported here:
    qz.com/norfolk-southern-is-giv

    from twitter:
    "five dollars per person for poisoning the air, water, and land of this town. all pets dead, the poisoned water now flowing into the ohio river on its way to the mississippi. five dollars"
    twitter.com/drewtoothpaste/sta