“This time there’ll be way more cops though!”
Well, last week there were cops too. **All 3 women were arrested while the attackers were not.**
https://t.co/FdoUYpVfIC
Keeping the inauguration outdoors in DC despite the ongoing threat is having a huge effect on the hundreds of thousands of people who, yes, actually LIVE in this largely Black city, and I feel like that’s not getting enough attention.
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“This time there’ll be way more cops though!”
Well, last week there were cops too. **All 3 women were arrested while the attackers were not.**
https://t.co/FdoUYpVfIC
And DC streets are now absolutely crawling with them. There are over 20,000 troops here.
It’s traumatic.
[Source: @carstensenpol https://t.co/c3PQ2nTGpF]
-drive unhoused people to safer areas
-distribute PPE
-demand that @airbnb + hotels #DontHostHate
-prep and supply medics
-and so, so much more
🗣More people live in DC than in Vermont!
There’s been no meaningful calculation for their well-being in the decision to move ahead with Inauguration here.
So DC’s people are organizing to protect THEMSELVES. As usual.
Time for the rest of the country to step up for them.
Hard to explain how insulting it is to be the most directly impacted and not even have a vote in Congress.
We MUST deliver #DCStatehood.
👉 Follow @DC_Vote and @EleanorNorton.
👉Tell your Reps + Senators to finally grant statehood to DC *now.*
202-224-3121, or text RESIST to 50409 (@resistbot)
👉 Amplify the hashtag #DCStatehood.
@DMVBlackLives
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Parents in cities, please pay attention to the reopening details from the Whitehouse.
Biden says "small classes". What we need to understand is how they plant to accomplish this.
Through "childcare programs in schools". We see this all over states w/ closed schools.
We need to grasp that the AFT, NEA, & local unions are systematically working to decouple education from childcare.
Their vision is your child sitting on a device all day, watched by a childcare worker, being "taught" from a Teacher working from
This isn't a paranoid conspiracy theory - it is already happening in the majority of districts across the US where schools are closed.
"Learning Hubs" open, supervised by childcare workers, sometimes in the same "unsafe" school
There is NO OTHER WAY to get "small classes" without Hybrid + wraparound childcare. Your child will spend 2-3 days per WEEK supervised by low wage workers and sitting on a laptop.
Here's
Fairfax,
Biden says "small classes". What we need to understand is how they plant to accomplish this.
Through "childcare programs in schools". We see this all over states w/ closed schools.
Today, our first working day, @JoeBiden signed an Executive Order on safely reopening childcare programs in schools - @DrBiden pic.twitter.com/J4vZk5ZAaS
— AFT (@AFTunion) January 21, 2021
We need to grasp that the AFT, NEA, & local unions are systematically working to decouple education from childcare.
Their vision is your child sitting on a device all day, watched by a childcare worker, being "taught" from a Teacher working from
This isn't a paranoid conspiracy theory - it is already happening in the majority of districts across the US where schools are closed.
"Learning Hubs" open, supervised by childcare workers, sometimes in the same "unsafe" school
There is NO OTHER WAY to get "small classes" without Hybrid + wraparound childcare. Your child will spend 2-3 days per WEEK supervised by low wage workers and sitting on a laptop.
Here's
Fairfax,
