'A new report found that 99% of pro-Palestine protests at US colleges have been peaceful, despite remarks from Biden characterizing such demonstrations as violent.'

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This May Day, the trade union movement is the strongest it has been in decades. From auto workers in the South & Midwest, to baristas at Starbucks, to nurses at large hospitals, workers are sick of corporate greed & winning union elections & record contracts. The tide is turning.

Some of us have been out of school for a while and may have forgotten our American history.

Protesting injustice and expressing our opinions is part of our American tradition and what makes this, in fact, a free country. That’s what the Constitution is all about.

After days of Biden repeatedly condemning campus protests as antisemitic, pro-Israel demonstrators have now violently attacked an encampment at UCLA, calling for a 'Second Nakba!'

Biden was warned his increasingly hostile rhetoric would fuel this kind of violence.

Happy International Workers' Day.

The cause of labor is the hope of the world.

Coming soon, to a workplace near you. May 1, 2028.
UAW.org/May1
#StandUp #MayDay #Solidarity

The UAW will never support the mass arrest or intimidation of those exercising their right to protest, strike, or speak out against injustice.

Happy International Workers Day, May 1. Remember that it grew from the fight for the 8 hour day here in the United States. This May Day remember by keeping up the fight at work, in the streets, and on campus.

There is still a world to win.

DSA stands with the students at encampments being raided at City University of New York and Columbia. No one should be arrested, pepper sprayed, or beaten for protesting to end a genocide. We call on school administrators and elected officials to demand that the NYPD stand down.

In 2 weeks, Mercedes workers in Alabama will be voting to join the UAW. Today, I'm calling on Mercedes to end the union busting, stop sending anti-union texts to workers, and ensure that all workers will be able to vote to join a union free from fear, intimidation, and coercion.

Biden’s team uses harsher language towards 19-year-old students than they do towards far-right Israeli ministers who all but advocate for the collective punishment of Palestinians in Gaza, a war which has killed over 35,000 civilians.

Netanyahu vowed to invade Rafah “with or without” a temporary ceasefire deal, where over 1.5 million Palestinians are displaced.

The Biden admin called this deal “extraordinarily generous.”

A 40 day ceasefire is just a pause in this genocide. We need a permanent ceasefire now.

Union activists are trying to plant the seeds for large-scale strikes on May Day 2028, by aligning contracts to end simultaneously.

The idea came from Shawn Fain. Now we're seeing local labor councils urging unions to shift their contract expirations. huffpost.com/entry/organize…

Dread it. Run from it.

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