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Waleed Shahid @_waleedshahid

Huge. My first political job was organizing fast food workers as part of the @fightfor15. Politicians in both parties and the media called us totally insane through 2016. But this is yet another example of progressives winning the war of ideas in the Democratic Party. — PolitiTweet.org

BREAKING: Six years after the first #FightFor15 strike, the U.S. House just passed the #RaiseTheWage Act to increas… https://t.co/g1TDhmVqvr

Posted July 18, 2019 Hibernated

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”Racism’s function in American politics has been in part to serve as a kind of scam. The Jim Crow South had the lowest living standards for white people of any American region alongside the even lower standards for African Americans.” -@mattyglesias https://t.co/w9JoanZG9a — PolitiTweet.org

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I was hired to help mobilize workers for a national strike. We would talk about their lives, their struggles, fairness and dignity. We talked about their unfulfilled dreams, their anger about the fact that their CEOs were millionaires and billionaires while they lived in poverty. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted July 18, 2019 Hibernated