One of the, big important ideas: the Guarantee. @miabirdsong @solanarice @jesslivmo @taraghuveer @streuhaft are visionary thinkers behind 4 campaigns built on guarantees: housing, jobs, family care + income. Now at @Netroots_Nation #NN20 #Guarantees4Life app.socio.events/NjE1Nw/Agenda/…
Visionary founder of @LiberationIn is moderating, reminding us the stakes: if we do nothing, Black and LatinX wealth be $0 by 2050 without big changes to the way capitalism works. #NN20 #Guarantees4Life 
#HomesGuarantee “we live in the richest country in the history of the world, we can and should guarantee housing” says @taraghuveer #NN20 #guarantees4life
@streuhaft from @policylink makes the case for a public option for jobs--living wage, non-poverty jobs with full benefits, full time hours, and full worker rights that address community needs #nn20 #guarantees4life
@JessLivMo makes the case for a care guarantee: a collective problem society solves together. Caregivers need higher wages, and families need to afford it, which requires the public investment of universal family care. #NN20 #guarantees4life
Last, @miabirdsong makes the case for guaranteeing an income, a floor that no one can fall beneath. Cash makes space for people to make choices. #Nn2020 #guarantees4life
@miabirdsong points to the pilots in Stockton and Jackson, and the "breathing room" that participants talk about when receiving an income floor. #NN20 #Guarantees4Life
And, @miabirdsong asks, why do we really need to pilot these things? It's economic rights. We *know* people are better off when they have housing, income. We can use pilots as movement strategy to push the idea forward. #nn20 #guarantees4life
"When people are able to take care of their own needs, they’re able to take care of each other" says @miabirdsong on the idea of the communitarian ideas behind #Guarantees4Life
"Human rights are not things you have to demonstrate that you deserve to have, they’re just rights." @miabirdsong at #NN20
A first: @JoeBiden + @KamalaHarris have an unprecedented care plan says @JessLivMo. It's a huge step forward in public investment in a care economy, but not quite a guarantee. npr.org/2020/07/21/893…
The lack of a collective response to the care crisis (both wages and affordability) forces people to make impossible choices says @JessLivMo #NN20 #Guarantees4Life
"The radical has become practical" says @SolanaRice of @LiberationIn of the COVID moment. #Nn2020 #Guarantees4Life
"Covid forcing people to make life and death choices. The dilemma for essential care workers having to choose between providing care or staying safe" says @JessLivMo from @domesticworkers
"How we implement is as important as how we imagine" says @taraghuveer #NN20
Damn, @taraghuveer can break down America's racist housing policies across generations in just a few sentences. I can't type that fast! If you don't follow her on #housingtwitter - do it now. #NN2020
Quoting bell hooks: let's have an ethic of love, instead of an ethic of domination around housing says @taraghuveer #NN20
#Guarantees4Life will be expensive, reminds @JessLivMo, and we shouldn't shove that under the rug. But, we have the money, and in the long run, will actually be cheaper. #Nn2020
We can build an entire bakery full of pies, and stop worrying about who gets slices says @miabirdsong 🥧🥧🥧 if we build the political will for policies like a wealth tax. #Nn2020
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