gsowhoa.bsky.social
Revolutionary organization dedicated to mutual aid and advocacy. Building solidarity among the unsheltered and working class. https://linktr.ee/whoagso
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Temps are dropping lower this month and we’ll continue giving out coats, blankets, hand warmers, and more every week. Help us do it by supporting on Patreon! patreon.com/user?u=40192...
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Even if you can’t donate, sharing the link helps!
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It's hard to ask for more help when times are rough for so many of us right now. This economic situation creates hardship and so much unnecessary suffering. We hope that if enough folks come together, we can avoid sending comrades further into debt.
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We use the vehicle for organizing every week. It's the main car we use to transport supplies for mutual aid, pick up donations, and get water and other supplies in bulk. The vehicle is used to take comrades to work and kids to school, so we need to get back on the road as quickly as possible.
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All of the prohibitions have a disproportionate impact on poor people, especially folks who are houseless. This is harassment. The threat of citation, expulsion, and arrest for having a tent in the park or feeding people is the criminalization of houselessness and mutual aid.
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Help us continue to support our community through the summer and all seasons! By subscribing on Patreon for as little as a dollar a month, you help keep the work going.
https://www.patreon.com/user?u=40192828
Thank you to everyone who supports!
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“Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat.” It is the program for emancipating workers from wage servitude and the oppression of poverty. It is the only path forward if we want to live truly free, indeed if we want to live on this planet at all.
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This is what Communists do, and even though we expect backlash and criticism for identifying as such, that is because our society is extremely anti-communist due to decades of capitalist propaganda.
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This is why we work to build solidarity through our mutual aid and actions, why we participate in advocacy, why we criticize our class enemies, why we engage in political education.
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We’re not going to get that control through the infrastructure put in place by our class enemies. It’s going to take a revolution. We have to change the material base of the political economy if we want to bring forth a truly democratic world.
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As Communists, we believe that the proletariat should control production and thus the mechanisms of power. Workers should collectively own the means of production, because we produce everything.
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These crises are occurring because the capitalists control the workings of our society through private ownership of the means of production. The reason we can’t vote to change it is because capitalists control the mechanisms of power.
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It’s important that folks know we are Communists. Because the world’s most pressing problems—climate change, police brutality, homelessness, imperialist war, and more—are the result of capitalism.
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A 10-day strike would cost the US economy more than $7 billion and be the costliest work stoppage in at least a century. This is the value of workers’ labor power. Folks should be ready to support UPS workers if and when they walk on August 1.
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When UPS workers last went on strike in 1997, the labor stoppage led to major inconveniences and “largely crippled” the company. It lasted 15 days before UPS conceded to the union’s demands. In today’s economy, package delivery is even more important—more than it has ever been.
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Despite the fact that profit has soared at UPS, from net income of $6.3 billion in 2018 to $11.3 billion last year, UPS is still refusing to meet workers’ demands.
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FedEx and the US Postal Service won’t be able to make up for the damage the strike poses for the company and the US economy. UPS is too big—delivering 17 million packages a day domestically—for all its packages to be shipped by competitors.
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The union is demanding benefits for the lowest-paid workers and improvements to working conditions like getting AC in their trucks. In the summer heat, the cargo holds of UPS trucks—where workers spend most of their time sorting and selecting packages—can reach up to 150°F.
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If and when UPS workers strike, it will be the largest single-employer strike in US history. And it could happen in two weeks—starting August 1. UPS workers across the country are already practicing picket lines in preparation.