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Victory for public employees covered by social security as well as a public pension

martyhitt — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 19:08:09 +0000

In a bill just approved by Congress, retired teachers and other public employees who have had their social security benefit cut by as much as 50% as a result of receiving a public retirement benefit will receive, if President Biden signs it, their full social security benefit back to January 2024.

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Key state vote totals for 2020 and 2024

martyhitt — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 01:04:12 +0000

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Historically Fighting Deportations

martyhitt — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 01:02:34 +0000

The history of working-class organizing in the United States is full of examples of immigrant resistance to mass deportation, sweeps, and other tactics. Time and again, immigrant worker activity has changed the course of society. It has produced unions of workers ranging from copper miners to janitors. It turned the politics of Los Angeles head. And it is this tradition of worker resistance that is the real target of immigration enforcement waves, both current and threatened by the incoming administration.

Organizers of the past fought deportation threats just as we do today, and their experiences offer valuable insights for our present situation. Not only did they show tremendous perseverance in the face of direct threats to migrants, but these organizers also envisioned a future of greater equality, working-class rights, and social solidarity – and proposed ways to get there. Increased immigration repression has a way of making the bones of the system easier to see and the reasons for changing it abundantly clear. These organizations and coalitions defending immigrant workers, their families, and their communities have often been building blocks for movements for deeper social change.

The rich tradition of worker organizing against immigrant repression is a story of courageous struggle and a reservoir of strategic thinking that can help immigrant workers and communities confront the promised MAGA wave of repression. It involves far too many organizations and fights to list here

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