So I will be selling my Miranda and Jaelin novels and prints of my Hidden Figures piece at this event!
This is my 4th time participating. I’m going to be tabling with some awesome and talented artists and zine creators in a space created to provide a voice for poor and working class women, women of color and LGBTQ+ artists, performers and writers like myself. There will also be performances such as dancing, poetry, musical performances and more! Please show your support! Share this around if you know anyone who would be interested and if you live in the NYC area, please attend if you can. We’re going to be at the Knockdown Center in Queens from July 7-9, opening at 7pm on Friday and ending at 10pm on Sunday. Thanks! :)
We are taking donations in order to make this event possible. Please, if you can donate, feel free to check out this link please share with anyone who may be interested. Thanks!
Release of urgency, campaign “Verdad y Castigo por Juan Pablo Jiménez” (“We demand truth and justice for Juan Pablo Jiménez”):
Attorney and PDI’s (Chilean Policy of Investigation) version is imposed in court, Juan Pablo Jiménez is killed for the second time.
Thursday January 15, 2015, it has been imposed in the courts the thesis of the “stray bullet”, built by the PDI, the Prosecutor and the Ministry of Interior of Chile. In a simplified trial, and before a clear agreement between the prosecutor and defense counsel of the accused for the crime, the accused admitted to being the shooter that ended the life of Juan Pablo Jiménez, young Chilean sindycalist, despite pleading guilty systematically over the last two years. The minor was sentenced as author of unlawful killing, with no single test that can determine that the alleged bullet he fired into the air actually impacted Juan Pablo. That is something that neither the accused himself neither the judge nor the prosecutor can claim.
We note that because there was an agreement between the prosecutor and defendant, not an oral trial, not a single instance to perform tests was developed. In the case of Juan Pablo, it has not been rendered before the Court any evidence; defense, family and colleagues had no opportunity even to present the results of the analyzes before the judge, in which comprised new background and a complaint anonymous marking the full name of the author that may have shooted of Juan Pablo from within Azeta (the electricity outsourcing company he worked for).
As “Campaña Verdad y Castigo por Juan Pablo Jiménez”, we denounce this orchestrated trial by the Chilean State, whereby the assembly of Attorney, which alleges that a child of a poor population was guilty of killing Juan Pablo. We make a call to continue mobilizations to report that today justice has assassinated our colleague Juan Pablo Jiménez once again.
For purposes of mobilization call on an URGENT MEETING TO ALL COMRADES wishing to show solidarity.
Place: CEPCH (Valentín Letelier # 18, Metro Moneda, Santiago, Chile)
When: FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 2015, 19:00 HOURS.
Juan Pablo Jiménez was a Chilean syndicalist killed on February 21st, 2012, within the company he was working. He fought during ten years against outsourcing and other ways of laboral abuse. This happened last wednesday in Santiago’s downtown, in the capital of the country.
“But like… that’s like so much more money than I make. Stop complaining.”
No.
I won’t stop complaining.
Just because your poverty wages are worse than my poverty wages doesn’t mean that I don’t have the right to be mad about my poverty wages. In many parts of the country you can’t even afford an apartment at $20/hr. Including where I live.
Not to mention the cost of medication for my disabled ass. Every wage looks a hell of a lot different if you have to spend hundreds to thousands a month on your life saving medication.
Minimum wage should be $30/hr. Period.
-fae
Minimum wage should scale with the cost of living for an area actually. In places where the cost of living is astronomical, even $30 an hour wouldn’t cut it. In San Francisco, a true living wage would be closer to $70 an hour. It would be a major incentive to regulate prices on damn near everything, but housing especially, because companies definitely don’t want to shell out that much in wages.
[ID: a tweet from @1anjohn that says: $15 an hour is poverty and I think we need to say that loudly because right now companies use it as a badge of honor]
