United Auto Workers' Leader Shawn Fain:
"The UAW will never support the mass arrest or intimidation of those exercising their right to protest, strike, or speak out against injustice.
Our union has been calling for a ceasefire for six months. This war is wrong, and this response against students and academic workers, many of them UAW members, is wrong.
We call on the powers that be to release the students and employees who have been arrested, and if you can’t take the outcry, stop supporting this war."
@Fr33m4rketHaileyGreen2wks2W
In 2020 we saw mass hysteria of well educated people seeing racism in everything — chess, drinking milk, the ok hand sign, punctuality. This year in 2024 it’s the exact same if not worse with people fabricating antisemitism en masse in order to shut down criticism of Israel.
@MurkyCaviarRepublican2wks2W
When people chant, “from the river to the sea”, what is it, if not antisemitism?
@PieSarahWorking Family2wks2W
That they want a one state solution and the right of return for millions of displaced people…
@DearLeftLaneLibertarian2wks2W
It was a clever if dirty rhetorical trick. They now go it’s the JEWISH STATE OF ISRAEL. That’s what gets brought up whenever you ask why a country with a lower inflation rate than the U.S. should get free money.
@DeterminedMandat3Green2wks2W
Rescind your Biden endorsement
@T4riffBoaDemocrat2wks2W
U think Biden is bad? Reelect trump and kiss the constitution good bye
Prove it, take back your endorsement of Biden who’s giving the green light to all these things you claim to oppose
Righteous, brother Shawn Fain. You have brought solidarity back to the US labor movement and are fighting to win.
Worth reconsidering your blank check endorsement of GenocideJoe who has guaranteed not only impunity for apartheid israel, but claimed the students are 'hateful'
I'm beginning to think that the American public is finally putting their foot down and saying "ENOUGH!"
@DotterelSidSocialist2wks2W
If the UAW had workers willing to protect the protestors by encircling them our politicians wouldn't have such an easy time misrepresenting the protests.
no disrespect intended, you're great
Please be sure to differentiate between peaceful protestors and those physically attacking Jewish students and smashing university buildings. If you support helping Palestinians, running cover for bad actors amongst the protestors (and yes there are a decent number) will not help
@ISIDEWITH2wks2W
How important is it for organizations like unions to support the fight against what they see as injustice, even if it's not directly related to labor?
@9M2DWZL2wks2W
it is important to have the right to support whoever.
@ISIDEWITH2wks2W
How does the idea of a union defending the right to protest, regardless of the cause, resonate with you?
@9M2DWZL2wks2W
I like the right to protest, it just gets stupid sometimes.
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