@claudiajonesschool.bsky.social
The Claudia Jones School is a popular education project based in Washington, DC struggling to educate our community with the tools to fight back against exploitation and oppression. claudiajonesschool.org
Tonight at 6:30PM (virtual) w/ @notechforapartheid.bsky.social and @claudiajonesschool.bsky.social
Surveillance has long been used to monitor, criminalize, and control our communities. Join us for a teach-in on how these systems operate and how we can protect ourselves.
Join: bit.ly/BLOCKISHOTDC
NEWS: the DC Council has proclaimed that the “D.C. Income and Franchise Tax Conformity and Revision Temporary Amendment Act of 2025” is now officially law (L26-89), effective through Sept. 25, 2026! Regardless of how the Senate votes today, the 30-day review period ended Feb. 11!
Our members are not only workers & consumers, they're long-term Target investors. Our urgent request to Target's new CEO Michael Fiddelke is that he call for ICE to leave Minnesota now, warning that the company’s silence jeopardizes its brand & our members’ investments. www.aft.org/news/aft-pre...
A lot of people gathered tonight outside the Department of Veterans Affairs in D.C. for a vigil memorializing Alex Pretti, who worked as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital.
This Wednesday, join the @fedworkersunited.bsky.social DMV Hub and local partners to mourn our federal worker and union sibling Alex Pretti outside the Dept of Veterans Affairs.
@mdcdsa.org @claudiajonesschool.bsky.social @50501dc.bsky.social @nationalnurses.bsky.social @commondefense.bsky.social
Target is based in Minneapolis and ICE is using their stores.
Hilton is lodging ICE officers, and cut ties with a local operator who kicked ICE out.
And Enterprise is renting the cars that ICE uses in their raids.
Tell their CEOs to stop their cooperation: FreeDCproject.org/ice-out
WATCH: Federal agents are being promised immunity to unleash chaos. They're surrounding our schools & threatening our places of worship.
We cannot stand by while families are separated & our neighborhoods are turned into battlegrounds.
Stand with us to stop the raids: go.aft.org/keepiceout
BREAKING: Minnesota and Twin Cities sue the federal government to stop ICE enforcement surge after the fatal shooting in Minneapolis.
NEWS: The D.C. Council just voted unanimously to decouple 13 provisions of the city's tax code from the federal code. It's a step to avoid some of the tax cuts (and loss of revenue) that would come from the GOP's tax bill passed earlier this year.
We visited more than 40 Senate offices today and it's working. We're hearing more and more Senators ready to VOTE NO on this bad funding bill attempting to sabotage DC's local budget. Now we need to see it all the way through.
Join us tomorrow (Thursday) at the Hart Atrium: bit.ly/dcs-budget
The new GOP spending bill cuts $200 million from DC Public Schools and a billion total from DC’s budget (which gets federal money because we are a colony not a state)
A crackdown on Palestinian solidarity was always part of the plan for Trump Term 2.
@premthakker.bsky.social reported on 'Project Esther' back in October zeteo.com/p/project-es...
📣 DC Join us again this Monday (3/10) bright and early to RALLY FOR WORKERS!
We'll rally outside the courthouse before the next hearing in NTEU v. Vought.
UPDATE—Mahmoud's attorney says they do NOT know where he is.
They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there.
They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.
Less than one year ago, thousands of TSA employees signed a seven-year union contract. On Friday the Trump announced that “it is ending collective bargaining for the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA)” They just tore up the contract. It’s appalling
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/strike-or-...
“Our union stands ready to support any actions initiated by our union siblings in the TSA, including a boycott on air travel and work stoppages of any kind.”
-- 50,000-member UFCW Local 3000. Hope to see more of this around the labor movement.
Happy International Women’s Day!
The precursor to International Women’s Day (National Woman’s Day) was organized by the Ukrainian-born labor activist, suffragist, and author of "The Diary of a Shirtwaist Striker," Theresa Serber Malkiel in New York City on February 28, 1909.
It's almost as if they don't know anything about DC.
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Our public schools are facing devastating cuts that will hurt millions of students—especially kids in poverty & kids with disabilities. This Tuesday, March 4, join us to demand full funding for our schools. #ProtectOurKids bsky.app/profile/aftu...
Not great financial news for D.C.: The CFO's quarterly revenue estimate shows that for FY26, which starts in October, D.C. is expected to take in $325 million less than it expected back in December. And that repeats in the following years. A big cause: federal layoffs.
Elon Musk and DOGE are firing or trying to fire tens of thousands of federal workers who keep the essential programs that working families rely on running every day.
We want to hear your story: How have you been impacted? act.aflcio.org/forms/share-...
Last week, we took action because America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist oligarchs who undermine our democracy.
Worker power has saved us before—let's do it again. #SaveOurServices.
Massive encroachment by Bezos into The Washington Post’s opinion section - makes clear dissenting views will not be published
I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know
Born #tdih 1868: William Edward Burghardt (W. E. B.) Du Bois, one of most important scholars of 20th century.
Sociologist, historian, Pan-Africanist, author, editor; co-founder of NAACP, leader of Niagara Movement, & editor of NAACP’s The Crisis Magazine. 🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/we...
Planned USPS changes could put people’s lives at risk by delaying medications, mail-in ballots, financial documents, and letters of great importance. thehill.com/homenews/hou...
BREAKING: Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier released from prison after nearly 50 years
Protest against Trump’s takeover of the Kennedy Center 💃🏽 • Feb 13 2025
Queer, trans, and disabled folks will be the ones who die first, throughout, and after.
They will also be the ones of the front lines fighting for our collective freedom.
Protecting them means protecting us all, I promise.
🚨🚨🚨STARTING AT NOON 🚨🚨🚨
70+ CFPB workers were fired last night in an email that didn’t even bother to mail merge [AppointmentDate] and [JobTitle].
Join us at 12p TODAY to rally for them! #saveCFPB
Trump said no drag shows at the Kennedy Center. DC says: this is our house, we’ll do it anyways.
Join us and @claudiajonesschool.bsky.social @harrietsdreams.bsky.social @dykemarch.bsky.social + more for a dance party TOMORROW at 6:30 PM. freedcproject.org/event-list/d...
We're suing Russy Vought to stop the #CFPBLockout and #DeleteDOGE!!!!!!!!!!!! 😇 🥰 🥳 😎 💅 See you in court boss 😘 🇺🇸 🗽 🏈