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soladarity https://www.dailykos.com/news/soladarity News Community Action Copyright 2005 - Steal what you want Sun, 26 Jan 2020 05:46:02 +0000 Sun, 26 Jan 2020 05:46:02 +0000 Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) The Great Walkoff ( chatter in the air) https://www.dailykos.com/story/2019/1/23/1828927/-The-Great-Walkoff-chatter-in-the-air What would happen if the government does not open by midnight tomorrow, at one minute past minute, everything came to a halt in soladarity? What if 45 could not get a Big Mac, a KFC chicken wing or fast food shake? What would happen if everybody just turned off their work computers, their assembly line, closed their drive throughs, shut down all retail, and walked away with a sign in the window saying, “ Closed until the government opens for longer than two weeks”. What would happen? I predict with people being grounded...and only first responders and pharmacy and hospitals being open, the money machine would pitch a fit to open the government. Not to mention, no fuel demands as cars would come to a halt pretty soon and no traveling. Just imagine, if everyone in America, and not everyone would but enough to hit hard to actually get something done. Just imagine. A general strike across America and a strike that stays down until all 800K workers are back at work and getting paid. A strike to stop the bullying from an out of control president throwing temper tantrums. No planes, no trains, no subways, nada. What would happen? Many of those workers are veterans and they stood on foreign shores for this? People are choosing between chemo and food. People are facing homelessness. This is a non functioning government. We are about to get involved with Venezuela and what was with Pence telling a country to overthrow their government? I thought he like Trump was America First. Just more BS from this administration except today Trump said we would use military force if necessary to out the leader of Venezuela. They can’t even run their own business in a country, much less another’s. I don’t know enough about Venezuela to talk the points of government but I do know this country should practice what they preach because we have some human rights abuses going on right here in this country that starts and ends with this administration. Hundreds of thousands of people not getting paid and doing without? This is winter time. Where is the soladarity? When one person is not getting paid, then we are all slaves if this is truly America? All over a stupid wall that won’t work. <blockquote> is hard to understate the utter disdain and contempt being shown by President Donald Trump toward the 800,000 federal workers whose lives he has upended with the government shutdown. That 400,000 of them have to continue to work without pay, because they are deemed essential, reduces them to a form of serfdom which really amounts to a massive abuse of human rights. <a href="https://www.salon.com/2019/01/13/the-case-for-a-national-general-strike-protesting-trumps-heartless-shutdown/" target="_blank">www.salon.com/…</a> In our debased state as debt slaves, with tens of millions of us struggling week to week to make ends meet, its hard to see any vestige of the courage possessed by our Revolutionary War ancestors who put everything at risk to fight off the tyranny of a distant monarch who at the time ruled a global empire. </blockquote> <a href="https://www.afacwa.org/fierce_urgency_of_now" target="_blank">www.afacwa.org/…</a> <blockquote> January 20, 2019 — AFA International President Sara Nelson accepted the 2019 AFL-CIO MLK Drum Major for Justice Award, with a call to conference activists from across the Labor Movement to talk with their union leadership about conducting a General Strike to end the Government Shutdown. </blockquote> <div style="text-align:center"> <div style="text-align:center !important"></div> </div> rss@dailykos.com (Vetwife) PrivateSector soladarity Strike Union walkoff _1828927 Wed, 23 Jan 2019 22:09:29 +0000 Time to thank the men who stand with Dr. Ford and other abused women . https://www.dailykos.com/story/2018/9/22/1797935/-Time-to-thank-the-men-who-stand-with-Dr-Ford-and-other-abused-women So many times, people get broadstroked and that is wrong. When terrible things happen to certain folks, whether it be gender related, race related or anything else that we feel folks cannot identify with, does not mean many don’t stand behind the right side of history and life in general. It doesn’t mean they are not angry at how victims are treated. It is time to thank men who are standing up and feeling empathy for those of us who have been sexually assaulted. You don’t have to be sexually assaulted to feel for those who have been, although men have been taken advantage of as well in these type of abuses. Gender related traumas sometimes get polarizing and that is not right. There are many good men and right here on this site and living around us and all across the nation appalled at how Dr. Ford and Anita Hill and millions of women have been and are treated when abused. I can say personally and speaking for myself, but maybe others as well, that when a woman has been traumaized in this manner, it is a flash point in many areas of her life. I am sure it is the same for men. Old hurting, feelings and anxiety boil to the top when we see this kind of thing play out in real life, especially in the year 2018. It reminds me of the feelings some veterans get when an unexpected fire cracker goes off, or helicopters flying too low...and imagine that happening every single day every which way you look. It would put many in the hospital. PTSD is very real and just when you think it is under control, the anger and feelings pop up just like it was happening all over again..whatever the trauma. PTSD does not have an expiration date. Dr. Ford has phycology degrees and she knew coming forward would thrust many into a bad situation and it took bravery to come forward knowing that not only was she taking risks for her family and self but many who have suffered abuse. She really had to believe she had to do what was best for America despite the pain. THIS WAS BRAVE. She wanted to empower others to speak up against such life changing behaviors and not reward the alleged rapist with the highest court in the land. Many women do not have a clue what a helpless, hopeless feeling sex abuse victims feel from time to time, or lack to feel or to trust, just like most men do not know BUT they are here. They are standing with the victims and it is time to say, “ Thank You”. Thank you for seeing our tears, our anger, our fear, our vulnerability and our hurt. Thank you. This is so much bigger than a political party. It is control and bullying and those old hurts boiling over again. This is about right and wrong. This is about innocence and credible allegations and life changing events. Not all wars are on the battlefield, some are of the heart and mind and very soul of a nation. Thank you Gentlemen who stand for right. Thank you ladies who never experienced sexual assault who stand with victims. Please, let us be thankful, there are still some real courageous gentlemen anxious to see change and restore civility and hormonal responsibility. rss@dailykos.com (Vetwife) Abuse BrettKavanaugh Men Recommended soladarity ThankYou Victims _1797935 Sun, 23 Sep 2018 01:59:53 +0000