Kentucky Unions Stand Up to Halt Deportation of Two Hundred Workers
Kentucky Unions Stand Up to Halt Deportation of Two Hundred Workers
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Kentucky Unions Stand Up to Halt Deportation of Two Hundred Workers
Two hundred union workers, out of 5,700 who assemble dishwashers, refrigerators, washers, and dryers for GE Appliances-Haier at Appliance Park in Louisville, Kentucky, received notice this month that the Trump administration is revoking their work authorizations.
The immigrant workers from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, and Venezuela have received a mixed reaction to their imminent deportation—hostility from some co-workers and an outpouring of support from their union and the local labor movement. They’re part of the Communications Workers’ industrial division, IUE-CWA Local 83761.
Back in 2014 in Ukraine, the thing that caused what had been some pretty normal student protest issues to explode like a bomb and become an active revolution by the people against the government, was that the government really cracked down on the protests. They had students, their children, getting sent to the hospital with broken bones or skull fractures, and they said absolutely the fuck not. Now you are hurting our children. It turned 100% of the country against the government in a really active and personal way.
I fear that in America there is no community like that to be turned against any oppressive government or action. People have been watching random citizens getting snatched off the street and disappeared, children getting sent off to concentration camps, and it’s more or less “oh well that is happened to someone else. It’s a shame.”
Turns out decades of "stop resisting or you will get shot and it will be your fault" has some real nasty side effects...
What?
I can't even tell what you're saying here or how it relates. Are you saying that militarized police in the US have intimidated people to the point that they're unwilling to rise up against an oppressive government?
Do you know what the biggest and most popular protest movement in modern US history was?
Thanks for sharing that, I wasn't aware of that event in Ukraine. I should read up on it more
I think we still have hope. I think we just have to wait for another spark. Another unfortunate moment that will spur people to action.
Similar to the George Floyd protests. One action that people can't look away from and will cause the pressure to burst. I believe we'll see it at some point. It's gona suck but I think positive change will come
I've also been wondering why we haven't seen people act out more. But I wonder if it's just because it hasn't hit close enough to home yet. Maybe everything has been too surreal for people to digest? Or maybe people are afraid to act and don't feel like they'll have someone watching their back? I'm really not sure.
Watch “Winter on Fire”. It’s so good that the Russians had to make their own confusingly-named film “Ukraine on Fire” to try to make it more difficult for people to find the first thing.