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Date:

June 1

Time:

2:45 pm — 5:00 pm 

Event Cat­e­go­ry:

2020-06 (JUNE), Dates, Invi­ta­tions (ARCHIVE), Octavius V. Cat­to Mon­u­ment, Venues

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Join a con­tin­gent of Philly Union mem­bers at the Jus­tice for George Floyd! Phys­i­cal­ly Dis­tanced Speak­out. www.facebook.com/events/283802805989245/

**Meet on lawn at NE cor­ner of 8th and Race @ 2:45 PM** Wear your union gear!

“An injury to one is an injury to all”. We are union mem­bers who sup­port calls for #Jus­tice­for­Ge­orge­Floyd. We are will­ing to talk to our co-work­ers about why the labor move­ment needs to take a stand against racist police vio­lence of our broth­ers, sis­ters, and sib­lings. Join us for a sol­i­dar­i­ty con­tin­gent start­ing at 2:45pm, and we’ll join up with the main protest at 3:00pm.

Orga­nized labor and unions have a crit­i­cal role in this strug­gle, and it’s crit­i­cal that we tie our posi­tion as work­ers to these protests. Unit­ed, we can use our pow­er as work­ers to grind the sta­tus quo to a halt in this fight for jus­tice. We unite with nurs­es and tran­sit work­ers build­ing a move­ment to chal­lenge sys­tems of racial oppres­sion. We stand in sol­i­dar­i­ty with union­ized bus dri­vers of the Amal­ga­mat­ed Tran­sit Union Local 1005 refus­ing to allow local police to use bus­es for mass arrests of protesters.

On top of police bru­tal­i­ty, the coro­n­avirus pan­dem­ic and record unem­ploy­ment rates are killing and affect­ing Black peo­ple at a high­er rate than any oth­er racial group. Police are giv­en more fund­ing while city work­ers are laid off and ser­vices are gut­ted. Cor­po­ra­tions like Com­cast get bil­lions in tax breaks while work­ing class stu­dents are expect­ed to com­plete “dis­tance learn­ing” with­out access to the internet. 

We sup­port the Black and work­ing peo­ple of Min­neapo­lis refus­ing to “just go home” and let the police, Dis­trict Attor­neys and elect­ed offi­cials get back to busi­ness as usu­al. Instead, we call for mass action and a sus­tained, work­er-led move­ment to bring jus­tice for George Floyd and mil­lions of workers.

Join the Union Mem­bers for #Jus­tice­for­Ge­orge­Floyd face­book group! www.facebook.com/groups/926629131143248/