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- cross-posted to:
- workreform@lemmy.world
Harris’s VP pick emphasizes his labor background at LA event and says Trump and Vance ‘waged war on workers’
Tim Walz held his first solo campaign event since being selected as Kamala Harris’s vice-presidential nominee on Tuesday, rallying union members in Los Angeles and denouncing Donald Trump’s record on labor rights.
The Minnesota governor’s appearance, at an event hosted by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, was the first in a five-state fundraising campaign as Walz ramps up support for the still-young Democratic ticket.
Speaking to thousands of union members in a darkened auditorium, Walz said he and Harris will support workers by bringing collective bargaining and other protections to “every state in the union”. The 1.4-million-member union has endorsed Harris.
“We know exactly who built this country,” Walz said. “People in this room built the middle class.”
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Slaves. It was slaves.
Also Chinese immigrants, some as young as 12.
The history of Chinese immigration into the American west is fascinating:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hells_Canyon_Massacre
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weaverville_Joss_House_State_Historic_Park
According to a contemporaneous news article, the gold dust was given to Canfield for safekeeping, but he double-crossed the rest of the gang and fled the county.
Imagine a time where you could steal all that and flee the county.
I knew about these things from reading lucky Luke. A lot of stuff people don’t know about the colonization of the US where present in lucky Luke.
And they built it on rock n roll, right?
Only the city. The countryside was built on bluegrass, and the suburbs were built on muzak.
This man is speaking my language and I like it.
The more I see of this guy the more I think we’re meeting a future US president.
Yes! Could we skip the current candidate in favor of him? If we can do it once…
(~80% joking)
Knee deep in the hoopla.
(Before you downvote, it’s a song reference and I’m pro-Walz, not some dig at the workers who built our countries).
We built this city on Rocky Road
Macaroni plays the mamba
We built this kitty
We built this kitty a scratching post
Slaves? I like the guy but this country wasn’t built by union labourers, it was built by violent forced labour.
The country when it was founded? Yeah maybe, slave labor was really important for the southern economy, but by the time that most of the country was actually being built, it was being built by union members.
