NDT for president, please.
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McDonald’s worker arrested after telling company president she can’t afford shoes.
“A woman who has been employed by the McDonald’s Corporation for over 10 years says she was arrested last week after she confronted the company president at a meeting and told him she couldn’t afford to buy shoes or food for her children.
Nancy Salgado, 26, told The Real News that she felt like she had to speak out during McDonald’s USA President Jeff Stratton’s speech at the Union League Club of Chicago on Friday for the sake of her children.
“It’s really hard for me to feed my two kids and struggle day to day,” she shouted as Stratton was speaking. “Do you think this is fair, that I have to be making $8.25 when I’ve worked for McDonald’s for ten years?”
“I’ve been there for forty years,” Stratton replied from the podium.
“The thing is that I need a raise. But you’re not helping your employees. How is this possible?” Salgado asked.
At that point, someone approached Salgado and informed her that she was going to be arrested.
She later recalled the encounter to The Real News’ Jessica Desvarieux.
“The strength was very powerful, like, just remembering the face of my kids, like I say, you know, just simple things like I can’t provide a pair of shoes like everybody else does, sometimes every month, or anything like that,” she said. “And he needs to know we are what all the employees at McDonald’s are going through. We’re struggling day to day to provide our needs in our houses, things for our kids. And it’s just–it gets harder and harder with just the poverty wage they have us living in.”
“They just told me, you know, well, you’re being under arrest because you just interrupted, you trespassed the property. You’re just going to go to jail,” Salgado added. “And what I remember just telling them, ‘well, like, so, because I have to speak out my mind and I had to tell the president the poverty wage I’m living in, that’s just against the law?’ You know, just be able to speak up your mind and say, you know what, I can’t survive with $8.25? It’s just — it’s ridiculous that I’m going to get arrested. You know.”
Salgado, who is still working at McDonald’s, said she had her hours cut following the arrest and feared further retaliation.
“The CEOs make millions and billions a year and why can’t they provide enough for their employees?” she wondered.”
I think that this is beyond awful for many reasons. People can’t afford to live off of the wages that they are given currently, and can’t even speak out against it. I know tumblr is great for spreading important news like this, so please help me get the word out to support this woman.
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vaporwavevocap asked: You're pretty clearly a bigot.
“Christian Conservative Capitalist Republican”
lol ok
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White people get so angry at the phrase, “You cannot be racist towards white people.”
I will never understand why.
Why are you so angry that you are being treated as actual human beings? You are not reduced to caricatures, but portrayed as characters. You are treated fairly, judged not by your skin tone, but by the ways that you carry yourselves, by your actions.
Why do you want to experience racism so badly? It is not fun to be mocked, dehumanized, attacked, killed, incarcerated simply for daring to exist. It is not fun to know nothing of your history or family because it was torn apart, whether through distance or death. It is not fun to hear, at every turn, comments reminding you of your lesser status as humans.
Do you really want to turn on the tv, open a magazine, watch a movie, play a video game, and not see yourself? Or, even better, to only see yourself as a criminal, as a drunk, a mocking stereotype, or as someone to be killed off? Or would you rather see fleshed out, well-written characters with lives and personalities and feelings? I know which I’d rather pick.
If I were a white person, the phrase, “You cannot be racist towards white people,” would be the best thing I could ever hear.
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"Comparing butches to men is lesbophobic. We are women. We are not oppressors, we are not privileged, being gender non-conforming actually puts us in a more vulnerable position."
Shamelessly Unladylike. Repeat: STOP comparing butches to males. Butches are women— female! Not “male impersonators”, and STOP comparing lesbianism to male heterosexuality and the shit you see in porn. Butches are women—females!— who defy gender/feminine stereotypes and expectations by dressing and acting however they want. And yet their womanhood and femaleness remain intact. If you’re stupid enough to believe that fashion and mannerisms either make or break someone’s bio/physio sex then you’re probably too stupid to play in a ball-pit by yourself, so go find yourself an adult to mind your simple ass. (via vulvanity)
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Celebrate LGBT Media with Jasika Nicole & More!
You may know her as Intern Dana from the podcast, Welcome to Night Vale, Astrid on Fringe, or Kim from Scandal, but Jasika Nicole is also an illustrator, comic book maker, furniture builder, seamstress, needleworker and tumblrer. And you can see and meet her on August 17!
Join Jasika and other LGBT actors, activists, and creators at The Box Scene Project’s Spotlight on Diversity!
Learn more & get tickets at SpotlightOnDiversity.TheBoxSceneProject.org
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i would laugh at the fragility of the male ego
but then i remember that women are assaulted and killed for threatening it
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Robin Thicke is unapologetic about how rapey ‘Blurred Lines’ is, meanwhile the dude who parodied it issues a public apology for one word.
And that is just one reason why I love Weird Al.
!! that’s such a relief. i mean the entire message of word crimes is still fucked up but hey at least that’s something.
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Do you ever just feel overcome by utter astonishment & disbelief that people even demand proof that porn is harmful in the first place? Like here are thousands upon thousands of videos showing 25 men penetrating one woman in her…
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Isn’t amazing how people don’t give a shit about misogyny until they can accuse muslims of it in order to justify their islamaphobia?
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