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I'm sorry for the copy-pasting, but I wanted to get this out.

Striking Alabama coal miners are calling out the hedge funds backing Warrior Met Coal, and whose support allows the company "to pay their executives millions of dollars a year, while the miners … are struggling to get by," says labor reporter [profile] grimkim.

From Democracy Now (link)


There are hundreds of union families in rural Alabama holding the line and trying to survive as the strike nears its 5th month.

If you can chip in, or pass the word, it'd be a big help.

You can donate to either the Strike Pantry or the Strike Aid Fund:

Strike Pantry: "We provide grocery bags, meals at rallys, baby items, and hygiene products weekly.We are also doing back to school bags for the children." Donation link

Strike Aid Fund: This fund "provides financial assistance to striking miners. Donations help keep us fighting the unfair labor practices at Warrior Met One Day Longer." Donation link
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Just a reminder that we now have a Friending Meme and a (locked) post where you can connect with others with live in the same area. We hope you find both of these posts useful!

Posts in the comm this week covered:

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Celebrating meeting the target of sending postcards to every Democratic household in the state of Alabama, in support of Doug Jones.
Update on the Alabama race
Link roundup from [personal profile] snickfic

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Reminder that we have a suggestion post if there’s a topic that you’d like to see discussed but would like to ask the mods to look into. This can be anything from general information, or a how-to-do-a-thing, or something you may want to discuss as a community. Folks are welcome to post directly to the comm as always, but if you’re not comfortable/don’t have spoons, we can help too.

As we don't always get the time to pull things out of the suggestions post into their own separate posts, it may be worth checking every week (or tracking the post) to see if there's any new information you're interested in.

Also if you need help with tags, PM [personal profile] redbird, who is our tag guru. Both [personal profile] tassosss and I are very grateful for the help.

So, what have you all been up to in the last week or are planning to get involved in next week?

Poll #19177 The Week
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 8


This week, I

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called my one senator
1 (14.3%)

called my other senator
1 (14.3%)

called my representative
2 (28.6%)

called my governor
0 (0.0%)

called my state reps
0 (0.0%)

sent a postcard/email/letter/fax
2 (28.6%)

attended a town hall
0 (0.0%)

donated money to a cause
5 (71.4%)

attended an in-person activist group
1 (14.3%)

participated in phone/online training
0 (0.0%)

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went to a protest
1 (16.7%)

signed up for alerts
1 (16.7%)

took care of myself
2 (33.3%)

not a US citizen but worked in solidarity in my own community
1 (16.7%)

did something else
2 (33.3%)

committed to action in the coming week
0 (0.0%)




Alabama

Dec. 5th, 2017 10:02 am
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So the RNC have thrown their financial weight behind Roy Moore again, because he might be a child abuser but at least he's not a Democrat:

New York Times: Roy Moore Gets Trump Endorsement and R.N.C. Funding for Senate Race

US people can donate to his opponent Doug Jones here.
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A poll conducted by the National Republican Senatorial Committee on Nov 12-13 among 500 registered Alabama voters has Republican Roy Moore trailing Democrat Doug Jones by 12 points, according Politico.

The Politico story also says the poll suggests the Republicans wouldn't do much better if they brought in an alternative candidate such as Sessions.

You can donate to Doug Jones via Act Blue.

His campaign site is at https://dougjonesforsenate.com/ (The Contribute link takes you to the Act Blue page.)
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Here are some of the facts.

You can read the whole story here.

Highlights follow behind cut tag.

TW sexual abuse )

Alabama? PROTEST. VOTE.

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