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July 20, 2020  /  View this email in your browser
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Today we strike for Black Lives 

 
In this moment of national reckoning, working people across the nation and allies in the interconnected fights for justice are standing together to Strike for Black Lives. Led by the SEIU, the Movement for Black Lives and dozens of other labor rights and racial justice organizations, thousands of fastfood, ride-share, nursing home and airport workers in cities across the US will walk off the job today for a full-day strike to call attention to systemic racism in the economy and acknowledge that racial justice is impossible without economic justice. 

We join in solidarity with the release of a new digital short exposing how corporations wield outsized influence over our society, inhibiting workers, particularly from Black communities and other communities of color, from accessing the resources and opportunities they need to thrive. This unbalanced corporate power is unethical, unfair, and a threat to racial justice everywhere. #FundCommunitiesNotCorporations
 

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We know that not all of us can walk off the job today, but we can still show support by taking the 8:46 Pledge: Take a knee, stand in silence, or leave your work for 8 minutes and 46 seconds at noon today in honor of George Floyd and all those taken too soon by unnecessary police violence. Learn more about the #StrikeForBlackLives.
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