Bia Lacombe @beatrizlacombe Twitter profile

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

2 years

Councilmember Kshama Sawant holding a press conference now to announce legislation to make Seattle a sanctuary for pregnant people & care providers, saying: "Let anyone threatened by draconian anti-abortion laws come to Seattle without fear of prosecution!” #RoeVWade @cmkshama

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Striking carpenters in a rolling picket just SHUT DOWN a major construction project in Seattle, got dozens of workers to walk off the job. As a socialist I'm proud to be standing in solidarity with the #WesternWACarpentersStrike !

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@beatrizlacombe

3 years

Workers are locking up and shutting down this site. Washington carpenters are making labor history today.

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@beatrizlacombe

2 years

Kshama Sawant: "My office is introducing legislation to prevent Seattle Police from arresting people, either patients or doctors, for outstanding warrants related to anti-abortion laws around the country."

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@beatrizlacombe

3 years

Rank-and-file carpenters are back this morning at 5am in downtown Seattle to shut down more job sites to do what their union bureaucrat leaders are refusing to. @cmkshama is here in unfailing solidarity. #WesternWACarpentersStrike

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@beatrizlacombe

8 months

We just won a resolution in Seattle from socialist @cmkshama calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and even though "progressive" Democrats watered it down, this historic victory belongs to the anti-war movement. The Democrats didn't want to pass anything but we FORCED them to!!

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

3 years

Union ironworker and member of @SocialistAlt Logan Swan saying "This is how you win a strike. You get organized. You fight. You shut down production."

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

3 years

Update from the *nine-figure* Microsoft construction site in Redmond, WA where rank-and-file union carpenters have shut down production, despite union leadership saying they couldn't. The rank-and-file are leading the way to a victorious strike & we must support them. @cmkshama

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

3 years

After an inspiring solidarity rally with striking carpenters we are marching DIRECTLY to the bosses — to the headquarters of the Associated General Contractors (AGC) @cmkshama #WesternWACarpentersStrike

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

2 years

"The remarkable success of Kshama Sawant and Socialist Alternative is living proof that this movement-rooted, mobilizing, fighting approach to leftist politics is neither impractical nor unrealistic. It is not political suicide but political strength."

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

3 years

The crane operator is climbing down, we are shutting down the 5th site today. #WesternWACarpentersStrike

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

3 years

The new Microsoft campus in Redmond will include one of the largest underground parking structures in the world w/ over 3 mil sq ft of parking. It's such an expensive project that Microsoft refuses to reveal how much it costs. 30 union carpenters have stopped those profits.

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@beatrizlacombe

3 years

Workers are walking off the job at the 6th site of the day.

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

3 years

The Office of Police Accountability saying they disagree that the police should be held accountable! In case we needed another example of how badly we need *elected* community oversight over the police. The OPA will do nothing for us. @cmkshama

Seattle Office of Police Accountability

@OPASeattle

3 years

OPA opposes @cmkshama 's call for Council to investigate the @SeattlePD officers who were in DC on Jan 6, as it would be contrary to city ordinance, the consent decree, and collective bargaining agreements. Read the full statement at .

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

2 years

Seattle Councilmembers & Mayor Bruce Harrell have no excuse not to support this urgently needed legislation. They must also support funding to make abortion in Seattle free for anyone fleeing states that have criminalized reproductive healthcare and for all Seattle residents.

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

3 years

More workers walking off the job in solidarity with striking Western Washington carpenters. The rank-and-file is about to shut down another "no-strike" construction site.

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

3 years

Union carpenter Rob Rooke telling the crowd that the majority of trades have agreed not to cross our picket line. All power to the carpenters, your fight is our fight. @cmkshama

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

3 years

Just look at the choice of photo for each campaign, man I wonder which one the @seattletimes supports with all the journalistic integrity that big business can buy

Julie Popper 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸

@JuliePopper

3 years

The choice of photos of @cmkshama by @seattletimes is racist. This has to stop.

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@beatrizlacombe

3 years

This is solidarity!

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

3 years

The workers who won't cross our line. It's a beautiful thing to see. Solidarity with #WesternWACarpentersStrike

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@beatrizlacombe

3 years

Two union carpenters telling us they got their whole crew to walk off and join the line. #WesternWACarpentersStrike

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

3 years

Carpenters agreeing to come back and shut down Microsoft again tomorrow morning. “This is our union. This is our strike.” #WesternWACarpentersStrike

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

3 years

Things are pretty quiet this morning at Jeff Bezos's billion-dollar Climate Pledge Arena! Carpenters are shutting it DOWN. This is one of the most profitable sites in the entire city.

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

3 years

"Get up, get down, Seattle is a union town."

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

3 years

MORE WORKERS WALKING OFF THE JOB. These striking union carpenters are shutting down a THIRD unsanctioned job site this morning in defiance of union leadership that refuses to help them win this strike. #solidarity

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

11 months

We have to ask why even a lot of progressive media isn't covering the historic union drive at KCVG! That's why we need a show like On Strike. Working people deserve media that is tied directly to worker struggles and ready to draw out the most crucial lessons.

On Strike!

@OnStrikeShow

11 months

The most important union drive in the country is happening outside the small town of Florence, KY…at the biggest Amazon air hub in the world. Corporate media won’t report on it. But we're on the ground, helping to build this fight. Watch now:

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@beatrizlacombe

3 years

Another rank-and-file carpenter contingent just shut down a third site nearby. Journeyman union carpenter Monty Woods telling us what happened:

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

3 years

Update from another job site at Columbia & Terry, two 30-story buildings, where carpenters and supporters are convincing workers to walk out. #shuteverythingdown #WesternWACarpentersStrike

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@beatrizlacombe

3 years

"This is for our union, for ALL unions! We have to be able to fight, they're trying to stop us from fighting. We're here to show them how to fight and win a strike," says union carpenter Jason Bartos #WesternWACarpentersStrike

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

3 years

We're still here at Climate Pledge Arena, making sure it stays shut down. #WesternWACarpentersStrike

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

3 years

We're calling on all working people: stand in solidarity with union carpenters at the rally on Saturday at 11am at Goose Beach @UAW4121 @book_workers @RFPU_NW @cmkshama

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@beatrizlacombe

3 years

"We live in one of the richest cities in the world and what do we get? Scraps." says union carpenter Jason Bartos on the bullhorn.

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@beatrizlacombe

3 years

This was actually the fourth site we've shut down this morning! Moving on to the fifth. @cmkshama has been here since 7am walking the line. Several rank-and-file carpenters pointed out that she's the only elected official actually fighting for them.

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

3 years

We're not here to argue about procedural details. As your constituents, you owe us an answer: Do you oppose preemption, reducing, or phasing out of Seattle's Amazon Tax? Will you stand with working people, or with the billionaires? @cmkshama

Noel Frame

@NoelFrame

3 years

An amendment to preempt a local payroll tax literally would not fit into the title of the bill, which is an excise tax on capital gains. What @cmkshama was suggesting is literally not possible on this piece of legislation. Therefore, she was not speaking to the bill. #waleg

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@beatrizlacombe

3 years

The job site is shutting down. Rank-and-file carpenters and laborers have walked off the job saying "It doesn't feel right to work during this strike. It just doesn't feel right." Inspiring solidarity. Many of them have joined the rolling picket protest!

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

3 years

Rank-and-file carpenters ARE the union. They want a leadership that fights for them and their demands. Instead, union leadership is trying to cut off their strike at the knees by only sanctioning certain sites and threatening their members.

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@beatrizlacombe

1 year

You just voted against rent control. How does that make you a pro-labor politician? @MLKLabor and all of these unions should immediately stop supporting your re-election campaign after this enormous betrayal of renters and workers.

Andrew J. Lewis

@LewisforSeattle

1 year

Getting out the vote with ⁦ @MLKLabor ⁩ ! Thank you so much for your support! ⁦ @LIUNA ⁩ ⁦ @SEIU1199NW ⁩ ⁦ @seiu775 ⁩ ⁦ @UFCW_3000 ⁩

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@beatrizlacombe

3 years

At the Microsoft site now, talking to the union carpenters who have fought to shut down this multi-billion dollar site on their own. Where is the NW Carpenters Union leadership and why aren’t they trying to actually win this strike? @cmkshama #WesternWACarpentersStrike

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

10 months

These nurses have voted down multiple offers & have voted THREE different times to continue their strike despite a court injunction. They're employing militant tactics, like protesting outside the homes of hospital executives. Full episode!

Union Grocery Workers & Nurses Take on the Bosses

We’re covering two important struggles on different sides of the country.Grocery workers in Seattle, unionized with UFCW Local 3000, are taking on their “pro...

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On Strike!

@OnStrikeShow

10 months

Nurses in NJ #onstrike for more than 2 months, while facing attacks from the bosses & courts, are building a militant campaign from the bottom up to win better conditions for nurses & patients. Hear from Carol Tanzi, a rank-&-file leader of the strike:

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@beatrizlacombe

3 years

Worker who just walked off the job signing the community letter in solidarity with the carpenters from @cmkshama 's council office. SIGN NOW online:

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@beatrizlacombe

3 years

"Thank you for rolling it up!" This site is done. Ironworker leaving the site said "AGC give them what they want!"

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@beatrizlacombe

3 years

Journeyman carpenter Monty Woods is using a megaphone to say "you cannot defeat such a well-financed enemy as the AGC without total solidarity. Solidarity is what will win this strike."

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@beatrizlacombe

3 years

@cmkshama is here standing in solidarity in word and deed with striking union carpenters fighting for a strike that will win—and journeyman carpenters like Monty Woods say winning this strike means shutting down every job site. They're right.

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

3 years

At the next site now, chanting "down your tools, join the line." In front of the @seattletimes , in case they want to cover this newsworthy struggle of working people uniting against the bosses and the shameful misleadership of union executives.

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

3 years

Chris McClain, President of Washington Building Trades & Business Manager of Ironworkers Local 86, refusing to talk to union carpenters. McClain: "Are you an ironworker?" Art: "No, I'm a carpenter." McClain: "Then no." This man is a union leader? Shameful. @cmkshama

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@beatrizlacombe

3 years

Striking union carpenters are here to shut down the pet project of the richest man in the world because they can't afford to live in the city they build for Jeff Bezos and the billionaires.

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

3 years

Climate Pledge Arena workers are walking off the job in support of striking union carpenters.

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

3 years

Yesterday alongside striking carpenters we shut down 7 job sites—wealthy contractors and the richest people in Seattle lost millions of $. The response from NW Carpenters union leadership? Punishing the courageous rank-and-file by cancelling ALL of today's sanctioned pickets.

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

3 years

At the first site when they saw us 30 carpenters instantly walked off the job & are meeting us at the Climate Pledge Arena ($1 billion project). Carpenters are making labor history right now, the kinds of actions we haven't seen in decades. #WesternWACarpentersStrike

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

3 years

Moving on now to the next site. If you're in Seattle this Saturday there will be a Carpenters Solidarity Rally at 11am at Goose Beach. We need as many people as possible to come out and show the carpenters that we have their backs. Their fight is the fight of all working people.

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

1 year

@wrkrsstrikeback @railroadworkers President of Norfolk Southern made $3.7 million in 2021 while refusing to staff enough rail workers on each train to run them safely and cutting back on safety measures. For-profit rail companies won't ever prioritize worker or community safety—we need democratic public ownership

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@beatrizlacombe

11 months

Great article! "Unfortunately, this “new” strike strategy from Fain is not new at all. It represents a return to the conservative tactics of recent decades–the tactics of union leaders who are afraid to hit the companies where it hurts: their profits."

Socialist Alternative

@SocialistAlt

11 months

SOLIDARITY with UAW workers on strike! Expand and escalate the strike to win!

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@beatrizlacombe

3 years

50 people, carpenters and workers here in solidarity, here at the Climate Pledge Arena picketing the main entrance. Things are quiet right now, workers haven't started to arrive yet. We're here to stop them before they start working.

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@beatrizlacombe

3 years

This is their shameful statement . Working people deserve union leadership that will fight for their demands and a strike that will win. Why aren't NW Carpenters leaders putting forward a strategy to win? Cancelling pickets is not going to do that.

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

2 years

Join us TONIGHT at 5pm at the Federal Building in downtown Seattle to protest the Supreme Court's assault on working-class women & queer people:

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@beatrizlacombe

3 years

We're at the AGC headquarters and these are our demands. Solidarity with striking carpenters and all working people, forever. @cmkshama

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

3 years

An injury to one is an injury to all! #WesternWACarpentersStrike

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

3 years

Not to mention the deeply disingenuous framing of the headline, where we are supposed to believe that nearly $1m from small donations from baristas, grocery workers, and tech workers is the same as nearly $1m from CEOs, billionaires, and corporate PACs. #KeepKshama

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@beatrizlacombe

3 years

Carpenters saying "rolling pickets like what we did yesterday is what our union should have been doing this whole time." #WesternWACarpentersStrike

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@beatrizlacombe

2 years

The People's Budget & @cmkshama fought for this desperately-needed funding for NAAM, taken from SPD's huge advertising budget. Sawant: "If the police cannot attract recruits with a million dollars in the budget, your problem is not that you don’t have enough money to advertise."

Ryan Packer

@typewriteralley

2 years

Just watched the city council vote 6-3 against providing $500,000 to the Northwest African American Museum for renovations that would allow the museum to reopen, from the fund for SPD advertising, which would still have $1 million per year in it.

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@beatrizlacombe

3 years

Carpenters talking to workers arriving at the job appealing to them as fellow members of the working class to stand with us and not cross our picket line. "Our union council won't let us strike and that's ridiculous. We're out here protesting that."

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

3 years

At the next site now, more carpenters are walking off the job and joining the line. Jason says "Can you afford to live in this city? I sure can't!"

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@beatrizlacombe

11 months

Tune in September 14 for the premiere of On Strike! We'll discuss how Amazon workers are taking on the corporate giant, fighting for $30/hour at Amazon's biggest air hub, KCVG. Subscribe now:

On Strike!

News & analysis to beat the bosses. On Strike is the video broadcast of Workers Strike Back, hosted by Kshama Sawant. We cover issues from the perspective of workers’ needs, not billionaire greed. We...

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On Strike!

@OnStrikeShow

11 months

Sneak peek of the 1st episode of On Strike! @cmkshama and @beatrizlacombe discuss the fight for $30/hr & a union at Amazon’s biggest air hub, KCVG in Kentucky. Tune in next THURSDAY for frontline footage & strategies to win. SUBSCRIBE & tune in Sept 14:

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

1 year

Send your emails now! Renters are skipping meals to pay rent while landlords make 30% profit, and Council Democrats say they're being "reasonable" by watering down renter protections. They will always side with the landlord lobby unless we force them to stand with us!

Kshama Sawant

@cmkshama

1 year

Seattle renters: If you haven't emailed City Council yet, please send an email now! Urge them to reverse their regressive amendment and vote YES to cap late rent fees at $10/month, not $50:

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

8 months

Obviously, flowing from this, I would say we need a NEW PARTY that fights against war and imperialism! We will keep fighting for an end to US military funding for Israel's war machine!

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@beatrizlacombe

2 years

"Her fighting approach includes the critical understanding that elected office is not a friendly arena where progressives can privately convince corporate politicians to do the right thing, but a battlefield of raw power..."

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

10 months

Easily the best and clearest statement from any elected representative, actually pointing a way forward. Sign on here:

End the War on Gaza! SIGN ON to the statement from socialist Councilmember Kshama Sawant

END THE WAR ON GAZA END US MILITARY FUNDING FOR ISRAEL’S WAR MACHINE SOLIDARITY AGAINST WAR AND TERROR END THE OCCUPATION AND BLOCKADE BUILD A POWERFUL, INTERNATIONAL, ANTI-WAR, ANTI-IMPERIALIST...

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Kshama Sawant

@cmkshama

10 months

SIGN ON NOW to our statement condemning the Israeli state's war on Gaza:

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

1 year

Renters & @cmkshama are fighting to cap late rent fees at $10/month. City Council Democrats gifted the landlord lobby with a $50 cap instead. That $40 difference matters for struggling renters who are literally going hungry, not for rich landlords.

39% of Americans say they’ve skipped meals to make housing payments: report

And 61% cite their financial situation as a stress point in their lives.

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

3 years

Back tomorrow w/ updates from the Microsoft site & Carpenters Solidarity Rally @ 11am. JOIN US AT THE RALLY to show the carpenters we have their backs. They're fighting for the entire working class in the heart of billionaire territory and they need us.

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@beatrizlacombe

3 years

Live thread covering today's courageous actions by striking union carpenters in Seattle. They're here to shut everything down. #WesternWACarpentersStrike

Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

3 years

Rank-and-file carpenters are back this morning at 5am in downtown Seattle to shut down more job sites to do what their union bureaucrat leaders are refusing to. @cmkshama is here in unfailing solidarity. #WesternWACarpentersStrike

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@beatrizlacombe

3 years

This should be enough to embarrass any legitimate leftist from running as a Democrat ever again.

✡️ A socialist from NYC

@TheNYSocialist

3 years

Actual video of Senator Sinema voting no to the minimum wage amendment:

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

1 year

Lewis has a chance to change his vote on August 1st. Rank-and-file union members should organize around revoking their union endorsements for Lewis's campaign if he doesn't vote for rent control. How dare he get union members' time and hard-earned money otherwise?

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@beatrizlacombe

2 years

In 2015, Obama passed an executive order mandating 7 days paid sick leave for all federal contractors... EXCEPT railroad workers. Today's disgusting betrayal is a proud tradition of the Democratic Party. You cannot reform this. The working class needs a party of our own.

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@beatrizlacombe

8 months

Even the "progressive" Democrats went on record voting AGAINST calling for an end to the occupation of Palestine and against calling for an end to US military aid. Shameful

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

3 years

so proud to be part of @SocialistAlt , this rocks

BAmazonUnion

@BAmazonUnion

3 years

Shout-outs to Seattle, Toronto (Canada!), NYC, Chicago, Boston, Pittsburgh, Minnesota, Arkansas, Tucson, Colorado, Atlanta, Florida, Idaho, Michigan, and too many places to fit in one tweet...many events were organized by @SocialistAlt ! That's what #solidarity looks like.

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

8 months

Inspiring & informative article by two @AmazonUnionKCVG workers about the strategy and tactics behind their fight to unionize Amazon against all odds!!

Amazon Goes into Union-Busting Overdrive to Fight Campaign at KCVG

Our union campaign at Amazon’s “superhub” air cargo center, KCVG in Northern Kentucky, is taking off. And not surprisingly that’s prompting the company to go into union-busting overdrive. In the last

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@beatrizlacombe

8 months

Really good interview

Pittsburgh Socialist Alternative

@pghSA

8 months

Read the latest Jacobin interview featuring an Israeli unionist and member of Socialist Struggle Movement, our sister section of International Socialist Alternative in Israel-Palestine standing against the war and occupation.

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@beatrizlacombe

2 years

This is what it looks like to fight back—something the Democrats & their NGO affiliates have completely failed to do. Defending for our rights & winning back the rights we've lost means getting organized independently & fighting for socialist feminism. #RoeVWade

Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

2 years

Councilmember Kshama Sawant holding a press conference now to announce legislation to make Seattle a sanctuary for pregnant people & care providers, saying: "Let anyone threatened by draconian anti-abortion laws come to Seattle without fear of prosecution!” #RoeVWade @cmkshama

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@beatrizlacombe

1 year

So this is free PR for Sherrod Brown, a senator who voted to crush the rail strike? (his vote is obv not mentioned in the video!) These politicians are not on our side, please get real

More Perfect Union

@MorePerfectUS

1 year

An unlikely coalition in Congress is taking on rail companies’ greed. Workers are sounding the alarm, warning that railroads are cutting corners on safety. @SenSherrodBrown and JD Vance are leading an effort to protect communities like East Palestine.

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@beatrizlacombe

1 year

@cmkshama : "The route to working-class power doesn’t go through the Democratic Party or its primary, which belong to the bosses... A real left challenge would need to be prepared to do what Bernie wouldn’t—build a new party for working people and take the fight all the way."

The Nation

@thenation

1 year

Progressive Dems, left-leaning independents, and battleground state activists debate whether Biden should run for re-election, featuring @pchowder , @mayboeve , @billfletcherjr , @aijenpoo , @RBReich , @cmkshama , @normansolomon , @ninaturner , and more:

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

2 years

Starbucks workers have everything to gain and Howard Schultz has everything to lose. There is nothing in between under capitalism. It's a zero-sum game, and workers have the power to take it all. Schultz knows it, and so should we.

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@beatrizlacombe

2 years

@ryangrim Ryan is trying to obscure that workers' power comes from their ability to strike and stop the boss's profits. 55% of rail workers knew that and voted to strike. Any strategy that included crushing that democratic decision, even if some workers endorsed it, was wrong.

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@beatrizlacombe

1 year

@DeBoerWhistle @cmkshama @taraghuveer @KCTenants It's not on our ballots—the Seattle City Council will be voting on rent control on Tue Aug 1st at 2pm! You can help by sending an email to City Council Democrats demanding they vote YES and especially by showing up to help us pack City Hall on Tuesday:

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

3 years

15 ironworkers just went home, they won't cross our picket line. #solidarity

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

2 years

"Kshama has been subjected to death threats and a barrage of xenophobic, misogynistic, and racist messages over the years. This is the price of being a socialist fighter in capitalist society, but it is also potentially dangerous if left unchallenged." Sign this letter!

B Phinney 💚 Stein 2024

@phin_sea

2 years

Community sign on letter: SPD & Mayor Harrell: Investigate attacks against Councilmember @CMKshama Sawant & end racist, right-wing policing!

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

4 years

@Kshama_SC @briebriejoy @virgiltexas @BadFaithPod this interview was phenomenal, I'm so stoked to see @briebriejoy and @cmkshama together discussing what it takes to win victories for working people 🌟

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

2 years

Councilmembers (all Democrats) followed this vote by refusing to expand the Amazon Tax to make the richest companies pay a *tiny* amount more. Instead, they chose to cut social programs and put the burden of this crisis on working people and marginalized communities. Shameful

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

2 years

This is exactly right. We cannot believe for a one moment that Howard Schultz will recognize the union unless he is absolutely forced to do so by the strength of Starbucks workers' organizing. Winning requires being absolutely clear about what we're up against.

Kshama Sawant

@cmkshama

2 years

The only reason Howard Schultz, with his vicious union-busting record, is back is to carry out an even more ruthless campaign to try & defeat the Starbucks union drive! We need to escalate the unionizing movement & discuss a fighting approach in response!

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

3 years

This this this. The recall is just one more method of voter suppression against the tens of thousands of people in Seattle who have re-elected Kshama three (3) times. This is a test case for the right wing to add to their arsenal of attacks against the left.

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

3 years

Eric how do you propose we avert climate disaster, from within the Democratic Party? I ask bc if I recall, you think we don't need a new party (one that isn't owned by the billionaires and corporations that have brought us on the brink of climate collapse)?

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

2 years

Let's go Colorado!!! So proud of my home state

Starbucks Workers United

@SBWorkersUnited

2 years

Colorado workers just won their union, becoming the first unionized Starbucks store in the state!!!!

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

2 years

This is incredible. Solidarity!!

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

1 year

Excellent article from @hannahkrieg

The Stranger 🗞

@TheStranger

1 year

“Progressive” council member Andrew Lewis sided with landlords in watering down a bill to cap late fees at $10 for renters, but there's still time for him to change his mind.

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

4 years

@Kshama_SC @_royalexis @ResistenciaNW @DemSocialists @RRentDuwamish Working people deserve an elected official like Kshama who actually fights alongside us for the things we need. We'll never stop fighting to keep her in office

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

3 years

@aparnapkin just said "I made a powerpoint because I find I speak best through curated rectangles" during the @Kshama_SC comedy fundraiser tonight and my soul is on fire. DONATE AT

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

3 years

This is a huge deal. It's a *global pandemic* which means that no one is safe from COVID until all of us are. Bill Gates & Big Pharma are holding life-saving vaccines hostage for profit and Biden must be pressured to end this immediately.

Kshama Sawant

@cmkshama

3 years

We won our City Council resolution demanding Biden End Vaccine Apartheid! Join us at a Protest Rally! Tell Biden & Billionaires: End COVID-19 Vaccine Apartheid! All Countries must get vaccine. Fri 4/30 @ 5:30PM Bill & Melinda Gates Fdn 500 5th Ave N.

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

3 years

today we are once again reminded why pitchforks exist

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

3 years

@LewisforSeattle @NoelFrame @36th If @NoelFrame is such a dedicated progressive it should be no problem for her to openly oppose preemption, reducing, or phasing out Seattle's Amazon Tax (see: progressive revenue). Instead, she's retweeting support for @cmkshama to be recalled by big business & the right wing.

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

4 years

ah turns out poor people and the oppressed can have "love" and "kindness" as long as that doesn't mean a living wage, healthcare, or a place to live

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Bia Lacombe

@beatrizlacombe

3 years

@KJMWrites would love to start some drama by saying absolutely not to political cartoons

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