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Becca's avatar

I don't understand why deportation equates to imprisonment when there is no due process.

My taxes pay for $6M to imprison these people in a cruel foreign jail. This is no different than rounding up Jews, Communists, disabled people, Gypsies etc. in Hitler's Nazi Germany.

Why do We the People still pay taxes to this lawless, cruel, dictatorship?

TAX REVOLT! GENERAL STRIKE until these people are returned from El Salvador!

Come on People grow a spine and sacrifice for your principles and humanity and law/order democratic republic We once considered our home.

At least walk-out of work, schools as the children did after a mass shooting in another school last year!

Let's make a plan!

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Leigh Horne's avatar

First of all, I am heartened to see how you, Michael, a person who has dedicated his entire life to union organizing and the betterment it can bring to the lives of working people are speaking to the current threats to our livelihood, our standard of living and our rights under the Constitution. I was educated and later returned to work as a health professional for a number of years in West Virginia. So I more or less grew up gnawing on incidents like Matewan, in which ordinary citizens went on strike demanding not special privileges, but a bare minimum of the means to establish home, feed and educate their families. And were mowed down by hired goons for their trouble, hired by people whose values seem closely related to those of our current president. Union organizers, in my considered opinion, have a major role to play in our resisitance to Trump et al. Long may you live.

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Max E's avatar

And why I unsubscribed from NYT 4 years ago as they promoted and encouraged Trump in it's paper and online articles. Trump didn't even have to threaten NYT because he knew that they were already giving him their approval, unlike WaPo. NYT now is more like New York Post.

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Morgan Pottle Urquhart's avatar

Thank you both for sharing your thoughts with us. Sharing something I made after I listened yesterday: https://media4.giphy.com/media/oXhvRpCB8POIddHick/giphy.gif

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