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Author of #FightingTimes, Revolutionary Labor Militant, International Human Rights lawyer, Retired legal counsel for victims of police assasination & brutality

Joined April 2020
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Telling it like it is!
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Teamsters headquarters in DC.
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Deafening protest in cannon rotunda.
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Right on to the 400+ SBWU locals. You've held together till you forced Starbucks to the bargaining table. You defeated a union busting corporation that uncorrectoy thought they could beat you. How wrong they were!
Workers are BACK at the bargaining table again this week, setting the foundation for over 460 Starbucks stores' union contracts!! 🔥 Take a peek into what the process is like with Alex, a barista from New York 👇
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I will never forget comrade Chomsky. Not knowing him at all personally, I sent him an early draft of my book #FightingTimes:Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War (PM press) and asked him if he might consider checking it out and writing a blurb for the jacket. To my utter amazement Noam emailed back a few days later and had, in fact, written an excellent blurb. Comrade Noam - you are a great warrior who has inspired a billion of us to struggle for justice. Continue your journey in peace. Much thanks, #JonathanMelrod
I have been with Noam Chomsky in São Paulo (Brazil). I held his hand & we locked eyes. I told him that more than a billion people around the world love him dearly & wish him well. I also told him that the Dialectic is smiling for him. Hugs, Vijay. (this is his dog, Gus).
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Great march on the boss and demands that really hit at the day to day treatment you workers face on the job. You are an example for the developing rank and file movement for collective action and unionization! Victory to Amazon Teamsters.
We are Amazon drivers at DIL7 in Illinois and we marched on management this week to demand that Amazon recognize our union ‼️ We are fighting for the safe jobs, fair pay, and dignity that we deserve ✊ #MakeAmazonDeliver
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What Is EWOC? Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee. Details in this episode directory.libsyn.com/episode… @NateWendt @organizeworkers
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Building Palestine Solidarity in an Arms Factory | Labor Notes labornotes.org/2024/06/build…
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BREAKING: In a terribly awkward moment, Donald Trump attempts to kiss a younger women who for good reason rejects him. Retweet so everyone sees this predator get denied.
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Let’s get ready 🔥
The UAW has called on the rest of the labor movement to align contracts to May Day 2028. We have more power if we work together and strike together. Join the May 1 Stand Up Movement: uaw.org/may1 #StandUpUAW
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It’s officially been 1 week since going public! Thank you to everyone who has stood in solidarity with our campaign. Together, we are the future of Compass Coffee! #realgoodunion #compasscoffeedc
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Multiple Compass Coffee, Bluestone Lane, and OCF Coffee stores are unionizing. Six Bluestone Lane and OCF Coffee stores in Philadelphia unionized, while seven Compass Coffee locations in Washington, D.C. filed for a union vote ow.ly/N2L6105vFNQ
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Very important and education interview with Coni Ledesma an exiled leader of the Philippines struggle for national liberation and the expulsion of US troops who threaten a world war with China.
Episode 382: TRIBUNAL II An interview with Coni Ledesma: former nun, member of Christians for National Liberation, and peace negotiator for the National Democratic Front living in exile in the Netherlands. patreon.com/posts/105025601
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a single spark can light a prairie fire, may this be the spark
BREAKING NEWS: Protesters have just set fire to the Israeli embassy in Mexico City.
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Langston Hughes, “Kids Who Die” (1938)
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BREAKING : Happening now in Bologna, Italy. Protesters are occupying train stations, demanding justice for Palestine and condemning Israel’s genocide in Gaza. 🇵🇸🔥
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There are videos coming out of Rafah today of beheaded babies. Actual beheaded babies that you can see for yourselves - not the beheaded babies that the Israeli authorities invented to justify their genocidal assault, or the ones that Biden falsely claimed to have seen pix of.
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Get ready for an important Working Class Song Of The Week! This song is a special tribute to Malcom X🙌🏿🙌🏾🙌🏽 In celebration of his birthday and amazing work as a leader for the Black Liberation Movement 🎉👏🏾 Listen to the full song: youtube.com/watch?v=MCWlGH-M… Learn more at: jonathanmelrod.com #WorkingClassSongofTheWeek #JonMelrod #fightingtimes #fightingtimesbook #BlackLiberation #Blm #BlackLivesMatter #BlackExcellence #BlackLeader #MalcomX #BlackHistory #EndRacism #Activism #Activist #Democracy #Equality #AntiCapitalism #justice #solidarity #solidarityforever #80smusic #music #newbeats #retro
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Courageous, bold and 100% necessary. You are speaking for all unions and union members who understand that our fight is both at home in our places of work and to stop the government's genocidal policies in Gaza.
On Monday, May 20th, UC Santa Cruz is Standing Up
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