Our Corporate Masters would like us to believe that we are rugged
individuals, and can go it alone. But they don't! Today we face
history's most formidable concentration of Oppression. Although the
Ruling Class has most all of the marbles, we still have most all of
the People. Alone, we are like those ducks at the Carnival, just
waiting to be shot down. Together we have the real power, if we can
just get past the phony Fairy Tales pounded into our heads for
generations. No! We are not Rugged Individuals. No! We do not pull
ourselves up by our own boot straps. No! There is no such thing as a
"self made man". Yes! We are Social Beings. Yes! Together we have
built a nation and taken care of our Drones, the Rich among us. Yes!
We can join together and make our nation...our world a place where all
people can live in peace. And Yes! We can do it all without the
Ruling Class.
***
Dear Carl,
We're not even 90 days into the new year and barely two months into
the Trump Administration...and it's already been a heck of a year in
the fight for
workers rights.
Here’s just some of
what your support has helped us accomplish
in just the first few months of this year:
list of 5 items
• We defended our minimum wage: we killed three bills in the State
Senate that would have rolled back the minimum wage for hundreds of
thousands of workers
across the state.
• We helped stop a fast food CEO from becoming Secretary of Labor:
anti-minimum wage fast food CEO Andy Puzder was forced to withdraw his
nomination under
intense pressure over his anti-worker track record.
• We made paid family leave a top priority from the State Capitol to
corporate headquarters and beyond.
• We rallied outside the office of Congressman Dan Newhouse in Yakima
— and made enough noise he even offered a public response on TV the
next day.
• We took action to support Amazon security officers fighting for
religious freedom, and we saw a long-awaited change of direction on
outsourcing by Alaska
Airlines.
list end
Even better: we did all that... and more... in just the first few
months of the year.
At this pace, can you imagine what the rest of the year could bring?
