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Feb 21 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Going live with organizing Starbucks workers in Buffalo, NY, at 11am ET!

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Live now: facebook.com/sbworkersunite…
Organizing for the right to have a union and fight for economic justice goes hand-in-hand with the fight for the right to vote. The two should never be separated.
31 million people work every day and make less than a living wage—in the richest nation in the history of the world. That’s immoral.
Non-unionized work keeps people poor and low-wealth.
Today the movement to organize Starbucks workers has reached its 100th store. This movement is Black, white, brown, Asian, native. Eventually the workers win. They are raising a star of justice that everyone will see.
Join us in Washington, D.C., on June 18 for the Mass Poor People’s & Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly & #MoralMarch on Washington & #ToThePolls! #PoorPeoplesCampaign

Learn more & RSVP online now to let us know you are coming: poorpeoplescampaign.org/june18

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.@POTUS Biden, please be honest. The reality is the economy is not well, especially when it comes to poor and low-wealth people. But it’s not your fault. Layout what you are doing to undo what Trump did and to meet this moment. Talk about what you did in the rescue plan, but ...
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The letter came from a diverse group of faith leaders and advocates—diverse by faith, age, race, and geographic area. Also, the meeting we desire is with NFL players and others impacted in the room.
Just like Black money is not a monolith, leadership is not a monolith, and faith leaders are not a monolith. There simply isn’t just one or two Black leaders who represent all Black people.

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Until McConnell, Graham, etc. admit they’re the ones who created Trump, the Republican Party is Trump, not the other way around. And until the RNC stops pushing the Reagan-type public policies that are full of racism and classism, they will simply trade one Trump for another.
It may be a candidate that isn’t as vile and fraudulent as Trump, but they will still use a racist Republican mainstay—which was first dubbed by them—“positive polarization,” for the purpose of winning politically.
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