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At our general meeting today, we decided to present and learn about some phenomenal women who have been integral to our country's rich and radical labor tradition - Please feel free to read, learn, and share. bit.ly/3we50ph
(HOMETOWN HERO) VELMA HOPKINS - organized a walk out at RJ Reynolds tobacco that led to a demonstration of over 10k workers at the door of RJ Reynolds headquarters. This led to the formation of the historic Local 22. This was an integrated union, LED BY BLACK WOMEN, in the 1940s 
"I know my limitations, and I surround myself with people who I can designate to be sure it’s carried out. If you can’t do that, you’re not an organizer." #VELMAHOPKINS
To all the people, designated White by colonizing nations, who are becoming disillusion by your evangelical or Christian faith: When you walk away from Jesus you are not #woke. You are operating out of the white supremacy you say you abhor. 1/ #LiberatingEvangelicalism
When you walk away from Jesus and Christian faith to be “woke” you are walking away from a faith that sprang from brown, indigenous, colonized people. You’re walking away from faith born on the underside of empire in the context of oppressed peoples. 2/ #LiberatingEvangelicalism
You’re walking away from the faith of enslaved people who found such profound liberation in Jesus that they broke laws to gather together and worship in #trees! 3/
