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Jonathan Rosenblum

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Author of “We’re Coming For You And Your Rotten System: How Socialists Beat Amazon and Upended Big-City Politics.” Available now at orbooks.com/catalog/we-re-coming-fo…

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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 14h
Revealed: Amazon's diabolical AI-driven union-busting. The AI billionaires must be really scared of workers organizing! My article in @truthout.org truthout.org/articles/ama...
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Amazon Is Deploying AI to Spy on Its Workers and Bust Unions Before They Form
Internal company documents obtained by a Canadian labor board show how Amazon is tracking workers’ every move.
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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Excellent review in @journalspectre.bsky.social by @johncke.bsky.social of my book, "We're Coming For You and Your Rotten System." A thoughtful critique, as he points out both the strengths and limits of our historic socialist political work in Seattle. spectrejournal.com/to-build-soc...
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“…to build socialist democracies worldwide” – Spectre Journal
In this review of Rosenblum;'s We're Comning for You and Your Rotten System, John Clarke points to the successes of Sawant's tenure in Seattle, while critically appraising the movement's success at bu...
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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
spectrejournal.com/to-build-soc... @johncke.bsky.social reviews @jonathan4212.bsky.social 's "We're Coming for You and Your Rotten System" ( @orbooks.bsky.social ), reflecting on the wins, losses, and lessons from Kshama Sawant's tenure as a Seattle Council Member.
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“…to build socialist democracies worldwide” – Spectre Journal
In this review of Rosenblum;'s We're Comning for You and Your Rotten System, John Clarke points to the successes of Sawant's tenure in Seattle, while critically appraising the movement's success at bu...
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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Amazon workers fighting back! www.instagram.com/reel/DWy7BB8...
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On the Line on Instagram: "Amazon warehouse workers unionizing with @amazoncause are calling out the company's abuses and union busting – including racist divide and conquer tactics. Despite depending...
819 likes, 29 comments - laborontheline on April 6, 2026: "Amazon warehouse workers unionizing with @amazoncause are calling out the company's abuses and union busting – including racist divide and co...
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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Must read from Ben Fong from @cwd-asu.bsky.social on why labor must go all in to organize Amazon. @jacobinmag.bsky.social jacobin.com/2026/03/orga...
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The Labor Movement Must Go All In on Organizing Amazon
The CIO unionized General Motors in 1937 and saved the labor movement. Today's unions need to do the same to Amazon if there is any hope of stopping the slow death of American labor.
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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Is Mamdani the answer for the Left? My article this week in Platypus Review: platypus1917.org/2026/02/01/o...
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The Platypus Affiliated Society – On Mamdani
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Alex Garland @alexgarland.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Vigil for #AlexPretti at #Seattle VA Hospital. Song by Mike Frazer.
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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
‘We have to dispel the notion that Amazon is invincible’ - my article in @truthout.org on the Spanish workers’ strike win: truthout.org/articles/str...
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Striking Spanish Workers Just Showed That Amazon Is Not Invincible
The workers used creative, disruptive tactics to win. Their victory holds lessons for the global labor movement.
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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Not a killing. That was an assassination.
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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Again. America.
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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Solidarity with Amazon workers in Spain - on strike for better pay, safety, respect. Fighting for all of us! #MakeAmazonPay
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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Free speech.... unless you are a healthcare worker speaking out against Israeli genocide. @mariannedhe.bsky.social in @truthout.org truthout.org/articles/the...
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Health Care Workers Spoke Out for Their Peers in Gaza. Then Came Backlash.
Medical institutions are silencing their staff and impeding efforts to build solidarity with medical workers in Gaza.
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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Yo, Dems: Releasing the Epstein files won’t lower my rent, make transit free, give my coworkers a living wage or healthcare, or stop racist police killings. Dems want to score political points, not address the material needs of working people. Time for a new party. @workersstrikeback.bsky.social
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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Uh, no, we don’t believe you. Pissed at Dems (again)? Go to @workersstrikeback.bsky.social and let’s build a real fight for free healthcare, rent control, tax the rich, and end to funding genocide.
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National Writers Union @nwu.org · 07/11/2025
After the hopescrolling, what comes next? One of our members has some ideas.
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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Mazel tov to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and the movement! Now, the hard part. I wrote in @thenation.com that today's social movement must go on the offensive, striking out independently to give us a fighting chance against big biz, Trump, & the political duopoly. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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For the Movement That Elected Zohran Mamdani, Now Comes the Hard Part
Holding political office is not the same as wielding political power—especially for the left. To win bold demands, social movements must go on the offensive.
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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
This in the @washingtonpost.com today, says it all about why the Democrats will not save us from Trump. Dem Party is seen as *more* out of touch than even Trump. Pathetic. Time for a new party, accountable to working people, not the billionaires.
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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Beating Trump is not a simple mobilizing numbers game; it's also about strategy and how that coalescing movement projects power. Ben Case in @convergencemag.com convergencemag.com/articles/mag...
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Magic Numbers Are No Shortcut to Strategy
We can no longer afford the convenient untruth that real-world resistance to tyranny can escalate solely through peaceable demonstrations.
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Octopus Books @octopusbooks.ca · 23/10/2025
The Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education welcomes @jonathan4212.bsky.social to Octopus Books for the launch of his new book, We’re Coming for You & Your Rotten System: How Socialists Beat Amazon & Upended Big-City Politics. Oct 27, 7pm. RSVP: www.tickettailor.com/events/panit...
Poster advertising the launch of We're Coming for You and Your Rotten System with author Jonathan Rosenblum at Octopus Books, 116 Third Ave, Ottawa, on October 27 at 7pm.
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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Cops admit using spies at ICE protests "is nothing new" Your daily reminder that the problem isn't just Trump and his fascist sycophants, but also the full apparatus of state power....in a Dem-run city. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
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Portland police defend use of informants at ICE protests: ‘This is nothing new’
The Oregonian/OregonLive first reported on the confidential tactic this week.
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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
I ❤️ Italy. First, the general strike, now this.
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COPE: The Coalition of Progressive Electors @copevancouver.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
This Sunday! Join a timely discussion on organizing and building labour and community power. Featuring: - Author and organizer @jonathan4212.bsky.social - COPE City Councillor @seanorr.bsky.social - CUPE Air Canada Workers VP Henly Larden RSVP to: www.copevancouver.ca/_book_launch
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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
My article in @labour-hub.bsky.social - Political activists on both sides of the Atlantic must chart a new path forward: Break free of the establishment parties, and build new movements, ones that fight for our interests and are accountable to working people. labourhub.org.uk/2025/10/07/s...
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Scaling up Seattle
Jonathan Rosenblum introduces his new book, published today. Anyone with a shred of humanity and a degree of political engagement must be wondering today, “What’s the way forward? How do we fight i…
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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Workers can build unions at Amazon, but to do so it will take a commitment by the global labor movement. My article co-written w/Tom Vickers in @jacobinmag.bsky.social jacobin.com/2025/10/amaz...
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Organizing Amazon Should Be a Priority for Labor Globally
Whether workers can organize Amazon will be pivotal for the fate of the labor movement worldwide. Initial victories in Coventry, England, and elsewhere show that when unions put serious resources into...
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COPE: The Coalition of Progressive Electors @copevancouver.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Labour Power Rising Join us Oct. 12th for a special event featuring: - City Cllr @seanorr.bsky.social - VP CUPE4094 Air Canada Workers, Henly Larden - Author/organizer @jonathan4212.bsky.social from Seattle RSVP: www.copevancouver.ca/_book_launch #vanpoli #canlab #Solidarity #organizing
Book cover: 'We're coming for you and your rotten system'
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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Great to discuss w @ruwithsonali.bsky.social how socialists took on Amazon and won social housing, breakthrough renters’ rights, and a min wage that now will top $21 in 3 months. @orbooks.bsky.social @kshamasawant.bsky.social risingupwithsonali.com/socialists-a...
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Socialists are Coming For You and Your Rotten System
https://ia600208.us.archive.org/33/items/2025-09-30-RUWS/2025_09_30_Jonathan_Rosenblum.mp3
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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
.@publisherswkly.bsky.social calls my book a “perceptive and detailed insider account how socialists in 2010s Seattle won major legislative victories that galvanized similar movements across the country. . . . an inspiring story and a useful tool for activists.” Buy: orbooks.com/catalog/we-r...
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We’re Coming For You And Your Rotten System
From inside Kshama Sawant's historic tenure inside Seattle City Hall comes a blueprint for 21st-century socialists, a sharp counterpoint to the dead-end inside-the-party strategies favored by The Squa...
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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
German workers speaking out: “No transport for genocide!” de.labournet.tv/en/videos/dh...
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Speech DHL Leipzig | Labournet TV
Anti-militaristic speech in Leipzig
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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
The @nwu.org's Frances Madeson, reviewing my book, 'We're Coming for You and Your Rotten System' in @deceleration.news, calls it "a rousing how-to guide for fighting corporate greed." Check out her incisive review below, then go to ORBooks.com and buy the book! deceleration.news/review-were-...
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REVIEW: 'We're Coming for You and Your Rotten System' Is a Rousing How-To Guide for Fighting Corporate Greed – Deceleration
Jonathan Rosenblum's new movement history—and valuable primer in municipalist solutions—delivers insight and inspiration from successes in Seattle, where people have forced local government to put the...
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COPE: The Coalition of Progressive Electors @copevancouver.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
🗓️📕Mark your calendars! Book launch Oct. 12th: "We're Coming For You And Your Rotten System" featuring Seattle author @jonathan4212.bsky.social and local organizers Details and RSVP: www.copevancouver.ca/_book_launch
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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Tell Democrats: Get a spine! Sign here:
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Tell Democrats: Restore a humane government or shut it down
Federal employees are asking you to sign this petition, to be delivered to Democratic Congressional leadership. The petition urges them to stand up to stop funding ICE's kidnappings and to restore ess...
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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Yes! @gothamist.com
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Federal agents in NY retreat in SUV with slashed tires as protesters shout 'Gestapo'
The confrontation in Rochester came the same day the top federal prosecutor in Albany said New Yorkers can “expect to see” more immigration enforcement.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 19/09/2025
BREAKING: The Board of Immigration Appeals is trying to deport our client Mario Guevara, a journalist from El Salvador, despite his clear legal path to residency and an immigration judge's order to grant his release on bond.
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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
The Democratic Party is not going to save us from Trump and his fascist minions. We have to build independent movements accountable to working people. Like we did here: @orbooks.bsky.social orbooks.com/catalog/we-r...
orbooks.com
We’re Coming For You And Your Rotten System
From inside Kshama Sawant's historic tenure inside Seattle City Hall comes a blueprint for 21st-century socialists, a sharp counterpoint to the dead-end inside-the-party strategies favored by The Squa...
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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
yep, this is about 2 percent of Amazon's 2024 profits. Amazon workers need to organize to win what we fully deserve. @teamsters.bsky.social www.cnbc.com/2025/09/17/a...
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Amazon invests over $1 billion to raise employee pay, lower health-care costs
Amazon said it is investing more than $1 billion to raise pay and lower health-care costs for U.S. fulfillment and transportation employees.
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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
How do we fight and win in the political arena? My new book shows how and why the socialist movement led by Kshama Sawant won, where other progressive outsiders like Bernie and AOC have failed. Buy it now @orbooks.bsky.social orbooks.com/catalog/we-r...
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We’re Coming For You And Your Rotten System
From inside Kshama Sawant's historic tenure inside Seattle City Hall comes a blueprint for 21st-century socialists, a sharp counterpoint to the dead-end inside-the-party strategies favored by The Squa...
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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Important tenant strike+victory here - solidarity with all renters facing off against corporate landlords! @debtcollective.bsky.social @lapublicpress.bsky.social lapublicpress.org/2025/08/la-t...
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These LA tenants saw some utility fees double. So they went on strike
The controversial billing system their landlord uses was banned in West Hollywood three years ago.
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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Catch me being interviewed by @nwu.org's @pochohetman.bsky.social on Downtown Radio-Tucson, 99.1 FM, about my new book, *We're Coming for You and Your Rotten System: How Socialists Beat Amazon and Upended Big-City Politics* @orbooks.bsky.social Podcast right here: open.spotify.com/episode/2K4H...
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Jonathan Rosenblum - NWU and author of We're Coming for You and Your Rotten System
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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Italian Amazon workers have shown what’s possible. Now the rest of the global labor movement must step up. My article, w/Laura Montanari, in @truthout.org today: truthout.org/articles/ita...
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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Join me, @kshamasawant.bsky.social, & other troublemakers on Tuesday, Sept. 9 at Elliott Bay Books as we launch my new book, "We're Coming for You and Your Rotten System: How Socialists Beat Amazon and Upended Big-City Politics." Reserve your seat here: www.eventbrite.com/e/jonathan-r...
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Jonathan Rosenblum w/ Kshama Sawant
A blueprint for 21st-century socialists, a counterpoint to the strategies favored by The Squad and other progressive activists.
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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Join my book launch party at ⁦‪@ElliottBayBooks‬⁩ Sept. 9! “We're Coming For You and Your Rotten System: How Socialists Beat Amazon and Upended Big-City Politics” www.elliottbaybook.com/events/47681
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Jonathan Rosenblum | Elliott Bay Book Company
Full-service, general bookstore operating since 1973. Frequent author events, cafe, over 150,000 titles
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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Important organizing step forward for Amazon workers! www.readthemaple.com/amazon-worke...
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Amazon Workers In B.C. Have Won Union Certification
In many ways, however, the fight has only begun: the union must now secure a contract.
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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Excited to be another published @thenwu.bsky.social author! www.jonathanrosenblum.org
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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
.@kshamasawant.bsky.social "Here is the book that the political establishment doesn't want you to read" orbooks.com/catalog/we-r...
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We’re Coming For You And Your Rotten System
From inside Kshama Sawant's historic tenure inside Seattle City Hall comes a blueprint for 21st-century socialists, a sharp counterpoint to the dead-end inside-the-party strategies favored by The Squa...
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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Buy it now: orbooks.com/catalog/we-r...
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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
"The More They Press Us to be Quiet, the Louder We Are" - solidarity with Polish factory workers on strike! www.transnational-strike.info/2025/07/09/t...
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The More They Press Us to be Quiet, the Louder We Are - Transnational Social Strike Platform
Interview with Workers’ Initiative on the strike at Jeremias factory in Gniezno We are publishing this interview Laura Montanari (TSS) made with Bartek Kurzyca from the Inicjatywa Pracownicza (Workers...
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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
If @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social wants to be Seattle's Mamdani, as some of her supporters claim, she should support $30/hour, free transit, and free Palestine. jonathanr4212.medium.com/if-katie-wil...
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If Katie Wilson wants to be like Zohran Mamdani, she should fight for $30/hour, free transit, free…
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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Huge sales for customers. Record profits for corporate execs. For workers? Sweat, grueling hours, exhaustion and injuries. Welcome to #AmazonPrime Days. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Amazon’s Prime Sweatshop Is Nothing to Celebrate
While chairman Jeff Bezos enjoys his honeymoon, Amazon workers are in line for record injuries and hospitalizations over the four-day summer sale.
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