$25/hour minimum wage.
$2000/month recurring checks.
Unions for all workers.
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WHAT IS COP CITY? Atlanta police are trying to tear down forest land to take 350 ACRES of land to build a mock city of Atlanta on top of a former slave plantation and prison farm. The police want this mock city to test out urban warfare. Last week they killed a protestor
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I’m learning more about the shooting and know there aren’t clear motives to understand yet, I hope it’s not a hate crime.
Either way, we NEED gun control
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My heart is with Monterey Park. This never ending hate nightmare in America touched them this Lunar New Year and now ten people are dead. I wait alongside our communities from coast to coast for more information and to find out the reason for this horror and tragedy…
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It’s unbelievably heartbreaking that the first thing I wake up to on Lunar New Year is to hear there’s been a mass shooting and ten people are dead. #StopAsianHate
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If Lunar New Year becomes a federal holiday, everyone should get a red packet from the government 😋
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Today: A really important opportunity in the basic income movement and ground ourselves in the work thats happening!
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Want to help build the movement for basic income?
Don't miss our Quarterly State of the Movement TODAY at 2 PT/5 ET! Joined by special guests from @StormingCaesars, we'll discuss the future of the movement and how you can plug into the work.
Register: actionnetwork.org/forms/income-m
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At the Guaranteed Income Now conference, Dr. @BerniceKing sat down with @MichaelDTubbs – and offered words of wisdom for a burgeoning movement to create an economy that works for everyone. Read more and listen to the full speech this #MLK Day! economicsecurityproject.org/news/watch-dr-
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“The evils of Capitalism are as real as the evils of Militarism and the evils of Racism.”
-Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1967)
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STOP BEING SO QUICK TO ACCEPT RIGHT WING COPAGANDA AS TRUTH. Stop saying it doesn’t matter whether Keenan Anderson had cocaine in his system and instead ask how tf are they asserting he had cocaine in his system when there hasn’t even been an autopsy yet!! THEY ARE LYING.
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🧵 It has been made clear that Black lives hold little value in America. What happened to Keenan Anderson is reprehensible.
The King Center is praying for his family. We call for a full investigation of this matter and for the officers who killed Keenan to be held accountable… twitter.com/QasimRashid/st
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Today we want to spotlight the hard work and activism of Sondra Phillips-Gilbert, Ruby Duncan’s daughter.
works for the Department of Human Services in Washington, D.C. and is also an elected official, representing her community in Ward 6. ⬇️
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ONE WEEK LEFT to submit your proposal to the 2023 BIG Conference!
Individual presentations, panel discussions, workshops, activities, art installations, & more are welcome.
See more details and submit your proposal here: bit.ly/big2023proposa
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Keenan Anderson is the third man of color to die after an encounter with the LAPD in 2023 — as in, the last 13 days twitter.com/VICENews/statu
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If you want a #basicincome pilot for Washington State there are 2 things you can do in there next couple days to help HB1045 along!
TOMORROW! Submit a PRO statement (no testimony) to the Human Services, Youth and Education Committee by 12:30pm for tomorrow's committee meeting.
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When you think of #BasicIncome who, in society, springs to mind for you? An interactive tweet. Proceed. ☺️
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The 21st Annual is now accepting presentation proposals! Proposals should explore one of the key areas of focus: building intersectional coalitions, shifting culture & narratives, & nurturing a diverse policy landscape.
Submit here by 1/20: bit.ly/big2023proposa
🚨 New Year, new mayor — welcome ! We’re excited to work with you to advance #guaranteedincome as a tool that recognizes the inherent dignity of all folks.
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Absolutely agree. When wealthier families can afford to choose to spend more time with their kids and prioritize their family needs, no one says, "yeah but shouldn't you be working more?". We feel happy for them.
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In a world with an unconditional basic income, we could have a four hour work week.
I think when the foundation of our economy isn't based on fear to survive the pressures to exploit will recede, and we will work for pleasure, for want, for passion.
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We have worked to always survive our entire lives, but here in a world with unimaginable wealth. Can our society evolve past this scarcity and bring us into a real future?
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"Governments will be under pressure to help those left behind, whether through #BasicIncome schemes, massive fiscal transfers, or vastly expanded public services."—
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This is a powerful story about charity and its intentions, but the reality of those intentions when we don't truly trust the people we are serving.
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“We could have done more for them, and saved a lot of trouble, if we had just handed them the money & let them shop for themselves.”
A true story & a great conversation starter about basic income, read the new piece from IM community member @diane_pagen 
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Voting rights are the foundation for all other rights. Pass it on.
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Universal basic income will be amazing for small businesses and aspiring entrepreneurs because people spending their UBI will fuel existing jobs and create new ones. Small town economies especially will be rejuvenated as Main Streets everywhere come back to life. twitter.com/GiveDirectly/s
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We need Universal Basic Income for a lot of reasons, and maybe saving the arts isn’t one that wins campaign votes or whatever, but my god it’s so important. Art needs time. Art needs some very basic foundation of situational safety. We’re losing so much by living this way. twitter.com/SnarlsDeGaulle
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Im glad to see enchanced UI mentioned! it provided financial security and an amount of financial gains that many lower income households never had in their life. I would love to see if it was a sustained source of support like a basic income.
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Since 2000, inequality has increased only very gradually, and today's data shows that any increase in inequality over the past 22 years was completely wiped out by pandemic programs like stimulus checks, enhanced UI, and changes to the child tax credit. #inequality
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The National Association of Business Economics (NABE) has a new resource page for those pursuing a career in economics. There is also now an internship component of our Econjobs platform with listings for next summer. Let people know!
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Poverty is a policy choice — one that we can disrupt with a guaranteed income. We’re excited to have Mayor @awalkergriffin join our work to do just that!
Thank you for staring down big business and fighting for the #ChildTaxCredit. We’ll be there holding the line with you in 2023 as well. No corporate tax breaks without the CTC!
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THIS! This is precisely why criminal convictions/incarceration only guarantee that we reproduce the same problems we claim to condemn—we saddle the poorest amongst us with rap-sheets that prevent them from employment, housing + everything they need to survive or escape poverty
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You know who would be a super interesting Twitter CEO for a couple of years?
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Trump Trading Cards sounds like an idea Herschel Walker would come up with halfway through a werwolf rant.
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No one had "Official Trump Trading Cards" on their bingo card. NO. ONE.
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