The Robin Hood Tax is a tiny tax of 0.5% on Wall Street financial transactions that would generate $300 Billion annually to fund human needs!
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“Our movement is #MedicareForAll — not watered-down, we are not accepting anything less.
This is our moment.
This is our time.
We are rising.”
Martese Chism, RN, tells @ABC News that guaranteed health care for all is a civil rights issue. #thisweek abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/vide… – at Chicago, IL
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Get ready for the people’s #MedicareForAll movement like you’ve never seen it before!
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Los Angeles is turning out in force for our students and educators. Rain can't stop us. Billionaires can't stop us. Union busters can't stop us. We'll be fighting for as long as it takes! #FightFor15 #LAUSDStrike #UTLAStrong
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Gary Cohen, former CEO Goldman Sachs addressing new members of Congress today: "You guys are way over your head, you don't know how the game is played."
No Gary, YOU don't know what's coming - a revolutionary Congress that puts people over profits.
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Our “bipartisan” Congressional orientation is cohosted by a corporate lobbyist group. Other members have quietly expressed to me their concern that this wasn’t told to us in advance.
Lobbyists are here. Goldman Sachs is here. Where‘s labor? Activists?Frontline community leaders?
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Medicare for All: As Healthcare Costs Soar, Momentum Grows to Guarantee Healthcare for All Americans ow.ly/80cQ30mOFbe
“Workplace organizing helps level inequality in wages and working conditions, and women and workers of color would benefit the most from unionization.”
#WednesdayWisdom
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Corporations don’t need tax breaks.
👉🏼14,700 jobs are being cut by General Motors despite making billions in profit.
👉🏼Over the past decade, the company has received billions in tax breaks and subsidies from both Canada and the U.S.
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"The reality is, these idyllic images of Thanksgiving are increasingly out of touch with the lived reality of so many Americans, who are working harder than ever and struggling more than ever to afford life’s basic needs." @JosephNSanberg
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"If Walmart can afford $20 billion for stock buybacks it can afford to pay its workers a living wage," said @RoKhanna , who is introducing the bill in the House.
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TUESDAY, NOV 13th: Join Bernie Sanders, Our Revolution President Nina Turner, National Nurses United Executive Director Bonnie Castillo, and Rep. Pramila Jayapal for a post midterms national strategy call to win #MedicareForAll
Register for the call:
medicare4all.org/event/nov13…
Turns out voters want candidates that will fight Wall Street and income inequality👊🏾
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“In the Midwest, where workers have suffered from decades of deindustrialization, corporate outsourcing, the AFL-CIO says it has convinced thousands of union workers who backed Donald Trump in 2016 to turn out for progressive Democrats on Tuesday.”
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There are millions of retired people in this country living on inadequate social security income. Many require additional support from other federal programs like meals on wheels. Trump and his cronies want to kill our parents - we will stop him tomorrow. thehill.com/homenews/campaig…
OBSCENE INEQUALITY: "The top three wealthiest billionaires in the US – Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett – now have as much wealth as the bottom half of the US population combined."
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Austerity Kills: The rich should not be receiving tax subsidies while vital services are cut for the most vulnerable.
#ThursdayThoughts
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Another outrageous #HealthcareHorror story caused by insurance company greed. Another person who would have been spared the stress of we had #MedicareForAll
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Just out: 62% of jobs in the U.S. pay wages that are so low they can't support a middle-class lifestyle. Most of the jobs in America today don’t pay enough for families to take a vacation, save for retirement, or live in a moderately-priced home. Not great usatoday.com/story/money/201…
Water affordability is a national problem.
Federal policies that adequately fund PUBLIC WATER are critical in addressing the interrelated infrastructure and water affordability crisis.
Read @foodandwater op-ed about the water crisis.
nytimes.com/2018/10/29/opini…
How Wall Street is Poisoning the Planet: “Wall Street banks took the money the Fed had lent them and plowed it straight into the fossil fuel industry.”
#TaxWallStreet #OffFossilFuels
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