Thread by @monaeltahawy

It is #LaborDay in US & Canada.

Recognize the workers who have kept countries open at great risk to themselves - grocery stores , hospitals, sanitation, transportation, delivery, many others. What does the economy do for them?

🎥 @rerutled Match 2020

When regimes & billionaires say “Reopen America” “Reopen xx” etc, always ask:
- whose labour is ignored?
- whose work is appreciated?
- why “essential” workers are so un/der/valued?

Always say fuck the capitalist patriarchy
🎥 @rerutled #LaborDay

To those who are clamouring to “go back to normal” and to “reopen” for the sake of an economy that harms those who are most un/der/valued, I say:

Fuck normal.

(Made in May 2020)
🎥 @rerutled #LaborDay #HonorEssentialWorkers

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Ask for work. If they don't give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread.
--Emma Goldman.

I wrote this in December 2020 and it applies today too on #LaborDay

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