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9 Feb, 4 tweets, 1 min read
In the fight for $15 ...
Let's not forget it was a woman from Harlan County, Kentucky, Florence Patton Reece, who wrote the song "Which Side Are You On?" in the 1930s. When we push for a living wage, we stand on their shoulders.
Come all of you good workers
Good news to you I'll tell
Of how that good old union
Has come in here to dwell

Chorus
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?
My daddy was a miner
And I'm a miner's son
And I'll stick with the union
Till every battle's won

They say in Harlan County
There are no neutrals there
You'll either be a union man
Or a thug for J.H. Blair

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America is already 57 years overdue, and, for Black Americans, it took us 400 years to get from $0 to $7.25/hr. We can’t wait anymore.
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In the 1960s, “radical” was a slur against movements for justice. Extreme voices like Billy James Hargis were the “Trump radicals” then & conservatives didn’t reject him.

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