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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Aug 8

    Political and social revolutions that attempt to transform our society never end. They continue every day, every week and every month in the fight to create a nation of social and economic justice.

    568 replies 2,147 retweets 9,349 likes
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  2. Dec 29

    No real change in American history—not the labor, civil rights, women’s, gay rights, environmental, nor any other movement for social justice—has ever succeeded without grassroots activism, without millions of people engaged in the struggle for justice.

    295 replies 1,480 retweets 6,089 likes
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  3. Retweeted
    Dec 17

    “The time is now for all working people, low-income people, senior citizens, young people, and all people of independent mind and spirit to organize, fight back and win for themselves what rightfully belongs to them.” — , 1974

    51 replies 290 retweets 1,021 likes
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  4. Dec 29

    The American people want comprehensive immigration reform and a criminal justice system that is based on justice, not racism or mass incarceration.

    412 replies 1,319 retweets 6,374 likes
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  5. Dec 28

    It is an international embarrassment that we have more people locked up in jail than any other country on earth. That has got to end. We must become the country in the world which invests in jobs and education, not in more jails and incarceration.

    584 replies 1,621 retweets 5,523 likes
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  6. Dec 27

    New research shows the movement to raise minimum wages directly led to a collective $68 billion raise for 22 million low-wage workers in cities and states across the country. We must raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour.

    214 replies 720 retweets 2,348 likes
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  7. Retweeted
    Dec 27

    Thanks to the Fight for $15, the minimum wage for 60,000 fast-food workers in New York City will rise to $15 on Jan. 1. That's a godsend to McDonald's worker Rosa Rivera, who was making $7.25 an hour when the began six years ago.

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  8. Dec 27

    No one should have to work 120 hours a week or 5 jobs to be able to get the health care they need. We need a health care system that puts people before profits. We need a Medicare for all, single-payer system.

    371 replies 1,253 retweets 4,718 likes
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  9. Retweeted
    Dec 26

    What made ⁦⁩ so valuable—and effective—in 2018 was the senator’s determination not just to resist Trump but to promote an alternative politics that challenges corporate power.

    100 replies 398 retweets 1,435 likes
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  10. Retweeted
    Dec 20

    "It is no coincidence that all of the workers who were recently fired openly support the union." U.S. Senator is standing up to .

    26 replies 196 retweets 525 likes
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  11. Dec 26

    In 1980, CEOs made 30 times more than the average worker. Last year, the CEO-to-worker compensation ratio was 312-to-1. Together, we must finally create an America that works for all of us, not just those on top.

    646 replies 3,701 retweets 12,915 likes
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  12. Dec 26

    We must rebuild the American labor movement and make it easier, not harder, for workers to join unions. We must recommit ourselves to bringing all working people together in the fight for a just and humane world.

    423 replies 1,655 retweets 7,259 likes
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  13. Dec 19

    A job should lift workers out of poverty, not keep them in it. The current federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour is a starvation wage and must be raised to $15 an hour.

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  14. Dec 19

    Health care is a right and not a privilege. It's time for a Medicare for all, single-payer system.

    511 replies 1,428 retweets 4,846 likes
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  15. Dec 18

    Sears is giving its executives $25 million in bonuses after the company closed over 100 stores and laid off thousands of employees. We must create an economy that works for all of us, not just those on top.

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  16. Dec 18

    The average worker who would benefit from a $15 an hour minimum wage is more than 35 years old. The majority of low-wage workers are women – over 20 million of whom would get a raise by increasing the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour.

    244 replies 971 retweets 4,017 likes
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  17. Dec 18

    The federal minimum wage has not been raised since 2009. Increasing the minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 an hour would directly benefit 41 million workers, including over half of African-American workers and close to 60 percent of Latino workers.

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  18. Dec 17

    Enough is enough. It’s time to substantially reduce student debt and make public colleges, universities, and vocational schools tuition free in the United States.

    340 replies 864 retweets 2,989 likes
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  19. Dec 17

    Clean water protections are essential to safeguarding our nation’s public health and our economic prosperity. One in three people – 117 million Americans – depend on drinking water from sources protected by the Clean Water Rule.

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  20. Retweeted
    Dec 11

    President Trump always talks about lowering the price of prescription drugs, but so far has not taken any real action to reign in Big Pharma greed. and I are going to change that.

    25 replies 175 retweets 681 likes
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  21. Dec 17

    President Trump and his friends in the fossil fuel industry, in the name of short-term profits, are destroying the planet that we will be leaving our children and grandchildren.

    268 replies 995 retweets 3,054 likes
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