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David R. Yale

@davidryale.bsky.social
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Writes award-winning novels about working folks organizing 4 their rights, resisting fascists, winning strikes. Pro-union, anti-racist, pro-feminist, progressive, working class outlook. Website: DavidRYale.Com. Authors Guild. #1u #BookSky #WritingCommunity

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David R. Yale @davidryale.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
“We’re walking off the job, boss. Safety violations,” Jack said. “We can’t strike,” Elmer said. “Our contract says—” “Bag it and sell it as fertilizer. Refusing to work in unsafe conditions is not a strike.” “Sez who?” “Federal law!” From novel: books2read.com/u/m2JY5k #WritingCommunity #BookSky📚💙🛠️
“Getting Back Our Stolen Bootstraps” book cover with Peoples’ Union striking workers on a picket line carrying protest signs in a fiery dystopian setting. This is a novel about workers successfully resisting fascism.
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David R. Yale @davidryale.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
“I was hoping we could spend some time together." She took my hand. We walked in silence. I felt bad for her, so eager to see me, walking all the way to the park in the rain, just to find I was not really there. From novel, “No Free Soup for Millionaires” Buy now: books2read.com/u/4AL10K #Booksky📚💙
“No Free Soup for Millionaires” book cover with a blue-faced millionaire standing on a pile of money, trying to reach the workers' pot of free soup but the reach is too far and the millionaire has dropped his spoon. And the workers are resisting.
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David R. Yale @davidryale.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
“Worst thing possible?” “I’d have to win his heart, right?” “You could never do it!” I felt like she’d punched me in the gut. “Ma-ah! Don’t you believe in me? I damn well can!” “I just wanted to hear YOU say you could.” Buy online at: books2read.com/u/mlLBPM #BookSky📚💙 #WritingCommunity #Romance❤️‍🔥
A microphone with a blurred audience in the background symbolizes this romance novel about a working class teen girl who manages to build a singing career and win the love of her life with the help of 3 wise women. In the process she energizes her blue-collar community.
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David R. Yale @davidryale.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
5 of my characters are gandy dancers (railroad track maintainers). They're interesting, smart guys. When the railroad cuts their pay below minimum wage, their community helps them organize a strike. "Getting Back Our Stolen Bootstraps" books2read.com/u/m2JY5k #BookSky📚 #Resist!🐸 #1u🛠️
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David R. Yale @davidryale.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
“Police claimed it was an illegal gathering. But it broke no laws, violated no rules. A KTCA-TV reporter actually recorded the police assassinating our Parks superintendent who was leading it.” From my novel, “Getting Back Our Stolen Bootstraps” Buy now: books2read.com/u/m2JY5k #BookSky📚💙 Resist!🐸
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David R. Yale @davidryale.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
“My family name, Mancebo, means ‘servant.’ In 5th grade, I told my teacher I had to change it. She took me to see a judge. The court clerk filled out paperwork that changed my name to Nomancebo, just like I wanted!” From: “They Break the Laws We Must Obey” Buy at: books2read.com/u/3nqvjR #Booksky📚
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David R. Yale @davidryale.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
"Downtown, cops herded more than 200 of us into the county jail and jammed us into a holding cell so tightly, we could not sit or move. The cells next to us were empty. We stood there, handcuffed. Children were still crying." From my novel: davidryale.com/getting-back... #BookSky📚💙#Resist
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David R. Yale @davidryale.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
He took the papers out of the envelope, looked at them, shook his head. “What the hell does this have to do with me, little girl?” “You don’t know how to read, Senator? That’s so sad!” From my novel, “Getting Back Our Stolen Bootstraps” Buy now: books2read.com/u/m2JY5k #BookSky #WritingCommunity
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David R. Yale @davidryale.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
“We walk to Jill’s house, hand-in-hand, with Linda running circles around us like a pint-sized planet. Jill’s ma kisses Linda, Jill, then me. My mom never does that. Ever.” From my novel, “No Free Soup for Millionaires” Buy now: books2read.com/u/4AL10K #BookSky #WritingCommunity📚💙
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David R. Yale @davidryale.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Character descriptions from my award-winning novel, “Becoming JiJi:” “He blushed so hard you couldn’t see his freckles.” “She moved like a stiff, clumsy cast-iron lady, banging pots and pans, saying nothing.” “His gray eyes were like frozen steel.” Buy at: books2read.com/u/mlLBPM #BookSky📚 #Romance❤️‍🔥
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David R. Yale @davidryale.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Another way to show how close my MCs are: “Karen squeezed my hand twice, which meant ‘No way.’ I squeezed her hand once to say, ‘I agree.’” From my novel, “No Free Soup for Millionaires” Buy now: books2read.com/u/4AL10K #BookSky📚💙 #WritingCommunity
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David R. Yale @davidryale.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
He took off my socks. Is he going to…? Wowzers! He’s rubbing them…holding them. Will he…for real…? He kissed my feet, sucked my toes. I howled like a she-wolf, calling out his name. From my award-winning novel: books2read.com/u/mlLBPM #WritingCommunity📚💙 #BookSky #Romance❤️‍🔥
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David R. Yale @davidryale.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
“I have an idea. What if we got a white kid to be a buddy with each black kid. We could choose kids into the same stuff, hoping they’d become friends. Then they’d look out for each other, for real.” From my award-winning novel, “Becoming JiJi.” Buy online at: books2read.com/u/mlLBPM #BookSky 📚💙
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David R. Yale @davidryale.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
They tried to show us as alien enemies: German-Americans, Native Americans, African-Americans, Japanese-Americans, Italian-Americans, anyone “different.” Scared and shamed us into giving up our languages, foods, values, culture, unions. From my novel, books2read.com/u/4AL10K #1u🛠️ #BookSky📚💙
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David R. Yale @davidryale.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I need to protect her, but from what? She’s as strong as me. Better fighter. A lot smarter. But her feelings! I have to protect her hopes, ambitions! Because there are men in this world who will try to squash her just because she’s a woman. From my novel: books2read.com/u/m2JY5k #WritingCommunity📚💙
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David R. Yale @davidryale.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
“Fat Cats created Minnesota Commission for Public Safety in 1917 to persecute socialists and unions. Hired gun-carrying officers. Broke into private homes, made arrests without warrants! That’s like giving the finger to the Constitution.” Buy now: books2read.com/u/m2JY5k/ #BookSky📚💙 #Resist🐸🐸🐸 #1u🛠️
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David R. Yale @davidryale.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
“That’s what bosses always do! Organize for a 10 hour day, they scream, ‘You’re socialists!’ Ask for 5 cents an hour raise, they holler, ‘You’re socialists!’ Been going on for 100 years.” From my novel, “No Free Soup for Millionaires” buy at: books2read.com/u/4AL10K #1u🛠️ #BookSky📚💙 #WritingCommunity
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David R. Yale @davidryale.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
“Joe gave us a voice. He listened. Took us seriously. First it was small things. We wanted a weight-lifting club. He showed us how to organize one. Then bigger things. We wanted jobs. He helped us find them.” From my award-winning novel: books2read.com/u/mlLBPM #WritingCommunity #BookSky📚💙
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David R. Yale @davidryale.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
“I got put into foster home. Was a mess. Crying. Screaming. Breaking things. Hitting foster parents. They met my fury with love. Foster mom held me. Rocked me. Talked and sang to me. Asked why I was hurting so.” From my award-winning novel: books2read.com/u/mlLBPM. #WritingCommunity📚💙 #BookSky
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David R. Yale @davidryale.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
It’s impossible to have a relationship with an angry, combative person who is so self-absorbed they can’t actually see you. You’ll just be a puppet in their battle with themselves. From davidryale.com/no-free-soup... #WritingCommunity📚💙 #BookSky #MentalHealth
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David R. Yale @davidryale.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
I wanted to stop time, keep Joe right there. Several times I was alone with him. I could have said, “I love you. Will you marry me?” But plain old Jill stood there, in my face, in my way, arms crossed, feet planted firmly on the ground. Buy online at: books2read.com/u/mlLBPM #BookSky📚💙 #Romance❤️‍🔥
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David R. Yale @davidryale.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
“If it’s ever uncomfortable…if anything is ever uncomfortable, tell me. Mmm-hmm and uh-uh are the two most important words during sex.” From award-winning novel: books2read.com/u/mlLBPM #WritingCommunity #BookSky📚💙 #Romance❤️‍🔥
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David R. Yale @davidryale.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Q: What do you find disappointing about intellectuals? A: For me, it's that many of them are classists with no understanding of working class culture, history, unions, and achievements. They view low-wage workers as “low-information,” and “unskilled.” They are neither! #1u🛠️ #WritingCommunity📚💙
Workers packaging blouses. Even though they work long hours, they probably can't afford to rent their own apartments.
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David R. Yale @davidryale.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
“For months now, we’ve been looking for workers injured on the job who didn’t get proper compensation. We found 138 of them. Got them fair settlements. And didn’t end this strike until we had checks in our hands for them.” Read my novel free: dl.bookfunnel.com/oiot0p46u3 #1u🛠️ #Resist!🐸🐸🐸
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David R. Yale @davidryale.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
“Say, I don’t need to be called Mister anymore to feel you teens respect me. I know you do. Please call me Harry.” I stood up, strode to him, shook his hand. “Thanks, Harry! Thanks for being you.” He hugged me for a moment, which surprised the heck out of me. books2read.com/u/3nqvjR #BookSky💙📚
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David R. Yale @davidryale.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Great Last-Minute Gift!🎁 Uplifting Anti-Fascist Novel! Illegal harassment can’t stop blue collar workers’ strike. So bosses’ illegal militia attacks them. How will workers win their general strike? Award-Winning Free eBook. Give them this link: dl.bookfunnel.com/oiot0p46u3 #1u🛠️ #Resist🐸🐸🐸 #Booksky📚💙
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David R. Yale @davidryale.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
“It’s easier to control workers who blame themselves for problems. It was no accident teachers called you ignorant, dumb, dirty.” My fists clenched. “It was planned?” “You got it! That’s why it’s so important to challenge working class stereotypes.” Free eBook: dl.bookfunnel.com/oiot0p46u3 #1u🛠️🎁🐸
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David R. Yale @davidryale.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
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David R. Yale @davidryale.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
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David R. Yale @davidryale.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Free last minute Gift! Uplifting Anti-Fascist Novel! Illegal harassment didn’t stop blue collar workers’ fight for their rights. So autocrats attack with an illegal militia. How will workers win their general strike? Award-Winning Free eBook. Give them this link: dl.bookfunnel.com/oiot0p46u3 #1u🛠️
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David R. Yale @davidryale.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
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David R. Yale @davidryale.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
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David R. Yale @davidryale.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Great Stocking Stuffer! “Yale’s novel, ‘Getting Back Our Stolen Bootstraps,’ has everything—murder, class warfare, struggle for justice, romance, and one of the most sensuous love scenes you’ll ever read.” Award-Winning Free eBook. Give them this link: dl.bookfunnel.com/oiot0p46u3 #1u🛠️ #Booksky💙📚
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David R. Yale @davidryale.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
I woke up. Joe wasn’t next to me. I looked everywhere. No Joe. On the back porch. I found him sitting, head on his knees. “What’s going on, Joe?” “Nothing.” “You just sit in the cold in your pajamas?” “Sometimes.” From my award-winning novel: books2read.com/u/mlLBPM. #BookSky📚💙 #Romance❤️‍🔥
A microphone with a blurred audience in the background symbolizes this romance novel about a working class teen girl who manages to build a singing career and win the love of her life with the help of 3 wise women. In the process she energizes her blue-collar community.
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David R. Yale @davidryale.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
“We were told we had to become ‘real’ Americans. Because our unions were wrong. Our Socialism? Wrong! Our mother language? Wrong! Our ideas? Wrong! WE were wrong. 'Shut up and work! We don’t pay you to think.’” From my novel, “No Free Soup for Millionaires” books2read.com/u/4AL10K #BookSky📚💙
“No Free Soup for Millionaires” book cover with a blue-faced millionaire standing on a pile of money, trying to reach the workers' pot of free soup but the reach is too far and the millionaire has dropped his spoon. And the workers are resisting.
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David R. Yale @davidryale.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Workers in my antifascist novel start worker-owned businesses to #resist 🐸the bosses' tyranny. Download the eBook free at Book Funnel: dl.bookfunnel.com/oiot0p46u3
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David R. Yale @davidryale.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Therapist to MC: “You want a lover who can’t talk about feelings? Can’t talk about your ideas & hopes? So you'll have the same type life you had at home where nobody talked about things they cared about?” From new novel, They Break the Laws We Must Obey Buy: books2read.com/u/3nqvjR #BookSky📚💙
“They Break the Laws We Must Obey” novel cover with huge black military jack boot about to crush lady liberty holding the scales of justice. It’s a novel about workers successfully resisting fascism.
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David R. Yale @davidryale.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
He stroked my face gently, looked into my eyes. “I want the way we make love to help you feel like the proud, smart, powerful woman you are.” “Joey, sex can make you feel that way?” He patted my hand. “A lot to consider, huh?” From award-winning novel: books2read.com/u/mlLBPM #BookSky📚💙 #Romance❤️‍🔥
A microphone with a blurred audience in the background symbolizes this romance novel about a working class teen girl who manages to build a singing career and win the love of her life with the help of 3 wise women. In the process she energizes her blue-collar community.
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David R. Yale @davidryale.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
“Doesn’t matter you wrote a smash-hit screenplay that got 2 Oscars. Doesn’t matter you’re wearing an expensive suit. You’re Black. Hotels don’t have a record of your pre-paid reservation. Bullies pick fights. You defend yourself. YOU get arrested.” From my novel Buy at: books2read.com/u/3nqvjR #BLM
“They Break the Laws We Must Obey” novel cover with huge black military jack boot about to crush lady liberty holding the scales of justice. It’s a novel about workers successfully resisting fascism.
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David R. Yale @davidryale.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Hands on my cheeks, she looked at me, her eyes glowing. Kissed me gently on the forehead. “I can feel things inside you waiting to appear, Paulie, ‘n’ that’s just one of many reasons why I care about you.” From my novel, “No Free Soup for Millionaires” Buy now: books2read.com/u/4AL10K #BookSky📚💙
“No Free Soup for Millionaires” book cover with a blue-faced millionaire standing on a pile of money, trying to reach the workers' pot of free soup but the reach is too far and the millionaire has dropped his spoon. And the workers are resisting.
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David R. Yale @davidryale.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
“Imagine living behind the eyes of Karen Ahlberg, stepping into her soul, feeling, thinking, seeing things as she does? It is hard to do, but I am trying. Why is this so important to me?” From my novel, “No Free Soup for Millionaires” Buy now: books2read.com/u/4AL10K #BookSky📚💙 #WritingCommunity
“No Free Soup for Millionaires” book cover with a blue-faced millionaire standing on a pile of money, trying to reach the workers' pot of free soup but the reach is too far and the millionaire has dropped his spoon. And the workers are resisting.
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David R. Yale @davidryale.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
I worked in a soda pop bottling plant. Had to grab used bottles between fingers of each hand, put them in washer to be reused. Conveyor bringing bottles to me didn't work, so I carried heavy crates running. Stood all day. Low wage. Non-union. Exhausting. 1 reason I write about factory workers. #1u🛠️
“Getting Back Our Stolen Bootstraps” book cover with Peoples’ Union striking workers on a picket line carrying protest signs in a fiery dystopian setting. This is a novel about workers successfully resisting fascism.
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David R. Yale @davidryale.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Judge Woodruff shook his head. “They acted illegally? Enforced non-existent regulations? Defied Judge Havemeyer’s injunction? Covered badge numbers? Didn’t write summonses? I can’t believe this.” From my novel, “Getting Back Our Stolen Bootstraps” Buy now: books2read.com/u/m2JY5k #BookSky📚💙 #Resist🐸
“Getting Back Our Stolen Bootstraps” book cover with Peoples’ Union striking workers on a picket line carrying protest signs in a fiery dystopian setting. This is a novel about workers successfully resisting fascism.
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David R. Yale @davidryale.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
There is no word for opposite of bullying! To help strengthen the anti-bullying culture in my novel-in-progress, the age 9 kids make one up: To swun is the opposite of bullying! When they see a friend's upset, they conspire to to non-stop nice things for them. That's swunning!
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David R. Yale @davidryale.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
“In 1900, Minneapolis workers won 142 strikes. But 3 years later, Fat Cats ran the unions right out of the flour mills. We. Can’t. Let. That. Happen. Again! No, Bosses! You ain’t doing it! Not this time!” From my award-winning novel, davidryale.com/getting-back... #1u🛠️ #Resist!🐸🐸🐸 #BookSky📚💙
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David R. Yale @davidryale.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
“Us nine-year-olds voted to picket with you,” Kurt shouted from the side of the room. “We have loud voices, and all 38 of us know how to chant strike slogans!” “Us girls too!” Tess roared. From my novel about a general strike buy online: books2read.com/u/m2JY5k #WritingCommunity📚💙 #1u🛠️ #Resist!🐸🐸🐸
“Getting Back Our Stolen Bootstraps” book cover with Peoples’ Union striking workers on a picket line carrying protest signs in a fiery dystopian setting. This is a novel about workers successfully resisting fascism. #Resist! #1u
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David R. Yale @davidryale.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
“I'd never thought of our neighborhood as violent or dangerous, but the number of women and girls who told me they’d been groped, hit, beaten up, raped, stalked, or threatened was overwhelming. Usually their attackers were people they knew.” Buy online at: books2read.com/u/mlLBPM #WritingCommunity📚💙
A microphone with a blurred audience in the background symbolizes this romance novel about a working class teen girl who manages to build a singing career and win the love of her life with the help of 3 wise women. In the process she energizes her blue-collar community.
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David R. Yale @davidryale.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
“Joe gave us a voice. He listened. Took us seriously. What we said mattered. First it was small things. We wanted a weight-lifting club. He showed us how to organize one. Then bigger things. We wanted jobs. He helped us find them.” From my novel: books2read.com/u/mlLBPM #WritingCommunity #BookSky📚💙
A microphone with a blurred audience in the background symbolizes this romance novel about a working class teen girl who manages to build a singing career and win the love of her life with the help of 3 wise women. In the process she energizes her blue-collar community.
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David R. Yale @davidryale.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
How to describe inner conflict: The mix of fury and fear on Harley Blecher’s face was like two tornadoes colliding. From my novel, “No Free Soup for Millionaires”. books2read.com/u/4AL10K #BookSky #WritingCommunity📚💙
“No Free Soup for Millionaires” book cover with a blue-faced millionaire standing on a pile of money, trying to reach the workers' pot of free soup but the reach is too far and the millionaire has dropped his spoon. And the workers are resisting.
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David R. Yale @davidryale.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
5 of my characters are gandy dancers (railroad track maintainers). They're interesting, smart guys. When the railroad cuts their pay below minimum wage, their community helps them organize a strike. "Getting Back Our Stolen Bootstraps" books2read.com/u/m2JY5k #BookSky📚💙 #Resist!🐸🐸 Please re-post!
“Getting Back Our Stolen Bootstraps” book cover with Peoples’ Union striking workers on a picket line carrying protest signs in a fiery dystopian setting. This is a novel about workers successfully resisting fascism.
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