worker, marxist, organizer, writer, comrade, teller of jokes on occasion, Repeal Taft-Hartley he/him
Sep 26, 2019 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
.@Ewarren’s daughter Amelia Warren Tyagi and Andy Slavitt co-founded a startup in 1999 called HealthAllies together after knowing each other at the McKinsey Group.
If you can’t afford care, there’s another option...a “discount card”.
They sold HealthAllies to UnitedHealthcare.
You remember Andy Slavitt don’t you? The ex-Goldman Sachs investment banker and McKinsey consultant. He worked on the ACA for the Obama administration. More recently he was pushing that United State of Care crap.
In the 1934 S.F. General Strike, Harry Bridges convinced strikers that full equality for Black longshoremen was necessary. He urged Blacks to join strikers on the picket, saying that when the strike was won, Blacks would work on every dock on the West Coast. He kept his promise.
This opened the door for the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) to become one of the most integrated, multiracial and multinational unions in the country.
Mar 16, 2018 • 18 tweets • 4 min read
THREAD: Hey Shareblue Liberals, Stop Scapegoating Bernie Sanders for the Democratic Party’s Pathetic Failure to Pass Gun Control.
#MarchForOurLives
I know, its trendy these days for liberal pundits & beltway insiders to spin tidy little narratives shifting blame for the systemic problems we face to the feet of a single person;