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What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures.
Samuel Gompers, American labor leader and first President of the American Federation of Labor (AFL). (via cognitivedissonance)
PENNSYLVANIA, WE WANT MORE SCHOOLHOUSES AND LESS JAILS. PA, you slashed the education budget, but you keep the budget for incarceration!?!? *anger anger anger anger anger*
We don’t have to reinvent the wheel, we just have to look at what works! Preschool works! Good teachers work! Good schools work!
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But after the shooting, a source inside the police department told ABC News that a narcotics detective and not a homicide detective first approached Zimmerman. The detective pepppered Zimmerman with questions, the source said, rather than allow Zimmerman to tell his story. Questions can lead a witness, the source said.
Another officer corrected a witness after she told him that she heard the teen cry for help. The officer told the witness, a long-time teacher, it was Zimmerman who cried for help, said the witness. ABC News has spoken to the teacher and she confirmed that the officer corrected her when she said she heard the teenager shout for help.
Neighborhood Watch Shooting of Trayvon Martin: Probe Reveals ‘Questionable Police Conduct’ - ABC News (via robot-heart-politics)
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They talk about class warfare - the fact of the matter is there has been class warfare for the last thirty years. It’s a handful of billionaires taking on the entire middle-class and working-class in this country.
And the result is you now have in America that most unequal distribution of wealth and income of any major country on Earth, and the worst inequality in America since 1928. How could anybody defend the top 400 richest people in this country owning more wealth than the bottom half of America, 150 million people?
Bernie Sanders, telling you what the GOP would rather you not know. (via ernestsewell)
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We’ve known about labor abuses in some factories for four years, and they’re still going on. Why? Because the system works for us.
A former Apple executive speaking to the New York Times about working conditions at suppliers’ plants in China. (via officialssay)
Former Apple executive, who chooses to remain anonymous because of confidentiality agreements: This system does not work for anybody, including Apple. The short-term gains may be attractive, but you degrade and diminish all of humanity by your complicity in these abominable choices.
Undercover Nun is praying for your immortal soul.
(via undercovernun)
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Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
Ernest Hemingway (via philphys)
