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Unionized Temple Hospital healthcare workers held a vigil and speak-out last night for Alex Pretti and all other victims of Ice violence. There was grief and anger in the frigid air… and resolve to fight back.

Alex Pretti and Renee Good are not the first, and I fear won’t be the last. The history of civil rights and class struggle are written in the blood of our ancestors. There is a storm coming and we need to get ready for the fight.

I remain an optimist. The American working class has a deep history of struggle. It will take hard work. It will be complicated. There will be many painful learning experiences. The results are not guaranteed. But I am confident that we will find our feet and rise to the challenges facing us.

Organize your block

Organize your workplace

Organize your school

Go Birds – Fuck Ice

Solidarity.

Philly hit the streets last night in solidarity with the January 23 Minneapolis strike to kick Ice out.

When we fight eachother for crumbs off the table it only makes the bosses stronger. We need to stop the deportations now! Full legal status for all!

We need a job for everyone who wants to work with union wages and working conditions. We need safe and reliable public transit. We need fully funded schools and city services. We need improved Medicare for all free at point of service, not massive cuts to Medicaid and medieval work requirements.

We don’t need masked and strapped thugs snatching our friends, neighbors and coworkers off the street. If we let them get away with it, this occupying army will be snatching us off picket lines next.

It’s time to get organized before Ice comes to Philly in force. Join an existing neighborhood response group or organize one on your block. Get trained up and know your rights. Support local orgs already doing this work:

NoIcePhilly

Juntos

New Sanctuary

Both Dems and Republicans have failed us. Both parties take the bosses money and keep us arguing with each other. It’s long past time to build a new working class party to fight for what need now instead of what the boss tells us is ‘reasonable’.

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