NCAA is sounding the alarm on a charter aircraft shortage for March Madness teams because ICE is using up the planes π
NCAA is sounding the alarm on a charter aircraft shortage for March Madness teams because ICE is using up the planes π
55% percent of House Democrats voted for the most recent military budget
Trump is setting the world on fire, but Democrats gave him the matches
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ICE agents this morning apparently kidnapped a student after lying to get into a Columbia dorm
Want to get your college to break its contracts with the companies propping up ICE?
Join the Schools Drop ICE organizing training & campus meet-up tonight Tuesday Feb 24 at 8pm ET/5pm PT β RSVP at tinyurl.com/schoolorgani...
Like bowling, boycotting is best done together
I wrote this piece to share with your friends and family who think they're "doing their part" against ICE and Trump by not shopping at bad companies
www.laborpolitics.com/p/shopping-i...
Without an organized force outside the state capable of shifting the balance of class forces, even the best socialist or progressive politician will be hemmed in by capital
βA permanent political party must be formed to supply encouragement and active assistance to the current executive and his administration and to ensure that successive executives carry on the desired policiesβ βΒ Daniel Hoan, Milwaukee's Socialist Mayor
Daniel Hoan, Milwaukee's Socialist mayor from 1916 through 1940, underscored in his book "City Government" that if other cities wanted to emulate Milwaukeeβs success, electing βhonest and competent menβ was insufficient
Sewer socialism is not just about good governance and public servicesβit's about building (and leaning on) a powerful working-class political organizationπ§΅
Join me this Saturday for an online panel ICE OUT: The Minneapolis Model.
Iβll be speaking alongside Jacobin Editor @sunraysunray.bsky.social and author @ericblanc.bsky.social about lessons from the Minneapolis resistance to the fascist ICE occupation.
Register here: buff.ly/5IssMad
Good to see union density (slightly) increase in 2025, despite Trump!
This is tonight! See you then!
www.mobilize.us/aft/event/89...
See you tomorrow night!
www.mobilize.us/aft/event/89...
Not every day you see orgs as distinct as the American Federation of Teachers and the Young Democratic Socialists of America come together to push ICE and its enablers off our schools π
RSVP for this Sunday's mass call to find out how you can help push ICE's corporate collaborators off your campus
What does it *feel like* to build worker power?
Season two of Haymarket Originals is bringing you inside one of the most dynamic and inspiring organizing drives in the labor movement today. Heat The Ground Up is an oral history of Starbucks Workers United, voiced by the baristas who built it.
On May 1, 2006, millions of immigrants defeated a horrific Republican immigration bill by taking to the streets and walking out of work
To defeat ICE today we should learn from this "Day Without an Immigrant"
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It's pretty amazing (and ultimately lucky for us) how much they undercut the effectiveness of their already extremely racist policy through stuff like this and also by (needlessly, for their project) murdering white people. a bit more discipline would have made them harder to defeat
"The president has said that business officials are calling and complaining to him about longtime workers being thrown out of the country" - Wall Street Journal
Trump listens to billionaires, which is why we need to force billionaires to break with ICE
How has Minneapolis remained so non-violent in the face of Trump's horrific provocations?
JaNaΓ© Bates Imari explained to @thedigradio.bsky.social how MN's deep progressive orgs set a tone of non-violent discipline for the movement as a whole
Organizing a general strike requires three ingredients: momentum, organization, & militant, risk-tolerant leaders.
The proportions can vary, but until we have a sufficient combination of these factors, a general strike will remain a wish rather than a reality
www.laborpolitics.com/p/how-to-org...
General strikes are workersβ most powerful weapon. But it takes more than hashtags to make them real.
Hereβs how we can build a real general strike to stop ICE in the US
www.laborpolitics.com/p/how-to-org...
Anybody looking to defeat ICE needs to listen to the extremely good new @thedigradio.bsky.social episode on lessons from Minnesota's key organizers
thedigradio.com/podcast/minn...
How we beat ICEπ
Ready to fight ICE at work? We can help.
Here's @ericblanc.bsky.social on Brian Lehrer today with how.
Spoke on Brian Lehrer-WNYC this morning about how we can organize an actual general strike in the US to stop ICE and Trump
www.wnyc.org/story/a-hist...
Catch @ericblanc.bsky.social talk about the history of general strikes, and what makes them effective, and listeners call in if they are participating in today's general strike.
www.wnyc.org/story/a-hist...
Do you work in tech and oppose ICE?
Sign this open letter here to demand tech companies stop collaborating with ICE
iceout.tech
Over 1,000 tech workers have signed this open letter calling on their companies to break from ICEβincluding employees at Meta, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple, Nvidia, and OpenAI π
French unions are raising hell about Capgemini's contract with ICE, demanding it immediately sever ties
Need that type of union energy here