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win!

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November 18, 2023 — Kapatid Southern Tagalog released a statement on the second death anniversary of Antonio “Tatay Antonio” Molina:

Today, we remember Antonio Molina, farmer and peasant organizer, on his 2nd Death Anniversary.

Antonio Molina, fondly called as Tatay Antonio, hailed from the countryside of General Nakar in Quezon Province, which is 8 to 10 hours away by land from the National Capital Region.

Raised in a poor family of coconut farmers, Tatay Antonio was radicalized at a young age and chose to serve and organize fellow farmers that government services were unable to reach. He started organizing in his hometown, before organizing in the whole of Quezon province, until he became a member of Katipunan ng mga Samahang Magbubukid sa Timog Katagalugan (KASAMA TK), a regional federation of peasant organizations from the regions of CALABARZON and MIMAROPA.

Despite his old age and ailing sickness, Tatay Antonio remained firm and resolute in organizing farmers and indigenous peoples in the island province of Palawan, the largest province in the Philippines, where land and environmental issues remain rampant.

He was 65 when he was illegally arrested along with 6 other rights defenders in Puerto Princesa City back in 2019.

In his arrest, Tatay Antonio was served an alias warrant of a certain "Domingo Ritas" and was accused as a revolutionary combatant under the New People's Army, state agents overlooking the fact that the elderly was diagnosed a Stage 4 Abdominal Wall Sarcoma, a type of cancer, and was already bedridden. Their team was supposed to assist Tatay Antonio to the hospital for his chemotherapy when they were stopped at 2 checkpoints.

On November 2021, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Tatay Antonio suffered a cardiac arrest in the middle of the night. He passed away at 66, inside the jail away from his family. The court denied his and his legal counsels' plea for Motion on Bail for Recognizance. Due to the these circumstances, as well as the far distance of his place of detention, his family was only able to visit Tatay Antonio once. None of his family expected that the next time they will be laying eyes on Tatay Antonio and holding his hand, he has already passed due to his dire health situation inside his detention.

It has been four (4) years since Palawan 7's illegal arrest, far from their families and colleagues.

The Philippine government's insistence on accusing rights defenders as rebels to halt their activities in communities and organizations is nothing but a desperate tactic to paralyze them and put them behind bars--in an attempt to weaken the people's movement.

Still, we remain hopeful that Palawan 7's trumped up charges will be dismissed, and the justice for Tatay Antonio be served.

#JusticeForAntonioMolina #FreePalawan7

(Photographed: Tatay Antonio on the right with his son Cris on the left.)

Power to the People.

[alittletoosmarttobestraight]

Places won’t want you to join a union because unions are strong. A unions strength is strong. Support unions and support strikers. Don’t fall for the BS

[beekeep]

The employees are being given 14 months to find another job within King Arthur, get more training or get more education to fill a new role at the company or elsewhere. The company has been employee-owned since 2004 and has 370 employee-owners, Underwood said.

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I’m so happy for them

[Image Description: Castiel from Supernatural is saying I love you, underneath is an image of Dean Winchester with the caption: “After four months of striking the WGA has a reached a tentative agreement & finalizing the contract. If all goes well writers will get to return to work with better pay and protections. They did it. Go unions”]

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vice news

ironically i am working right now so i can’t do a full post on this like i would really prefer to do… but these are the most cartoonishly evil people that you could possibly imagine, even in a society as flawed as the one we’ve built for ourselves. these are bedrock groups devoted to protecting the american worker and consumer. massive huge giant waving red flags 🚩

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VOTE BLUE!

EDIT: This post is gaining traction, so I think it's important to show you this:

ELON IS INTERFERING WITH THE ELECTION. PLEASE CHECK YOUR VOTER'S REGISTRATION IN PERSON AND TELL PEOPLE ABOUT THIS.

EDIT 2:

IT HAS GOTTEN WORSE.

Please go check your voter's registration and tell everyone you know to do the same! I've heard some states are purging voter's regitration, so please go check!

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BOOSTING APRIL 2024 Active boycott notice!!!

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[sentientsky]

just a friendly reminder that, just because slavery was formally "abolished" in the so-called united states* in 1865, enslavement itself is still ongoing in the form of incarceration, which disproportionately affects Black and Indigenous people

(*i say "so-called" because the US is a settler-colonial construction founded on greed, extraction, and white supremacy) recommended readings/resources:

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

"How the 13th Amendment Kept Slavery Alive: Perspectives From the Prison Where Slavery Never Ended" by Daniele Selby

"So You're Thinking About Becoming an Abolitionist" by Mariame Kaba

"The Case for Prison Abolition: Ruth Wilson Gilmore on COVID-19, Racial Capitalism & Decarceration" from Democracy Now! [VIDEO]

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We respect all types of work boots in this house. Like to charge, reblog to cast

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I fucking hate this "capitalism is when you make money, the more money you make, the more capitalism it is" mindset people have gotten. No, an artist selling their own work is not them engaging in capitalism, it's literally a worker owning their own means of production.

Remember capitalism is someone profiting off of someone else's labor though owning capital. It is not simply the act of profiting at all.