It is hard to believe that labor is now in a fight for the right to strike. The people who will fight labor over the right to strike are the local law enforcement, and they will be trained at the new “Cop City” that is built in Atlanta, Georgia, that the labor busting people want built.
Chief among them is the Home Depot Foundation that is helping to fund the Atlanta Police Foundation’s Cop City; but a private entity fiercely opposes the plan to build the $90 million training center in the South River in the Weelaunee Forest.
Cop City will have a shooting range, driving course, a mock city to train law enforcement from across the country. Part of the training center will involve urban warfare, which could be used against people excising their right to protest and labor strikes, which could be reminiscent of the Matewan Massacre.
One of the leaders against Cop City is Vincent Quiles, who had worked at Home Depot and tried to unionize the workers before being fired. Home Depot used a vicious union busting campaign to beat the unionizing attempt. Quiles researched Home Depot’s tax returns and discovered it was supporting Cop City and after researching what the project was, began a protest campaign against the project. He has a case before the National Labor Relations Board regarding his firing.
Unions should get behind the fight against Cop City, which could very well be used against union labors. Remember cops are the first line of defense for business owners. Law enforcement was not created to protect and serve everyone or to stop crime by the Have Nots and working class, they were created to protect and serve the wealthy and capitalism ignoring the ancient Turkish proverb says, “A hungry man is an angry man.”
Police were established by the wealthy to impose order on the working class. They were especially needed during the turmoils that seemed to occur when workers became fed up: 1867, 1877, 1886, and 1894, and cops violently attacked the workers who only wanted better working conditions, better pay, better hours—same thing people are wanting today.
It’s time to pick a side. You want to have and keep unions with good wages and pensions, then it’s time to pick a side. You want to keep Social Security for yourself and family, it is time to pick a side. You want to get or keep Medicare and Obama’s Affordable Care Act, then it’s time to pick a side. It is us against the billionaires. The very rich got that way off the backs of workers, and now want to strip everything away from those workers. It’s time to pick a side. The very rich can buy countries, then make the people get on their hands and knees and grovel and beg for scrapes that usually go into the dumpster. It’s time to pick a side. Is this what we want for our family and our future? It’s time to pick a side. Get ready to fight for you and your families’ lives. There is no middle ground with these greedy people for they want it all—all the money—all the power—all the land so where does this leave us when they have all the commons, like water, land and airways? It’s time to pick...
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