Today at 2:30 PM at 5 sandpiper lane, Tonia Ettinger and other candidates running on the WFP line in pittsford will be hosting a drive-up event to collect signatures for petitioning! If you're a registered WFP voter, come on by if you got time!

Out today at an event to collect WFP petition signatures for two of our candidates on the W side, Marvin Stepherson and Tonia Ettinger!

www.wxxinews.org/local-news/2... Now there's not one but two lawsuits out of suburban Greece (home to a powerful republican political machine) alleging town government officials planted GPS trackers on residents' cars in response to critics. Politics in metro Rochester are off the rails

Yeah, because THAT is where the threat to "functioning democracy" comes from; not the actual Nazis who are running the federal government but the people being mean to the Nazis online. Bunch of pros they got over there at @washingtonpost.com pure talent

Something to look forward to is when the inevitable backlash against Trumpism begins and people like Kathy Hochul (who has been doing her best Neville Chamberlain inlression since the day after the election) try to retroactively portray themselves as having been Resistance Heroes

We can confirm that it has been cold as hell here in Rochester and that the decision made by @seiu1199nw.bsky.social to postpone their picketing a few days was the right call. Hopefully URMHC will stop pushing its workers around and come to the table for real before this turns into a lengthy strike

The point being, of course, that there is literally nobody in America willing to take a job as Trump's attorney general who is worthy of being Attorney General (or even really just an Attorney)

This is the kind of thing we were referring to in a recent post, about Trump alienating the entire country in a record amount of time. But who knows, maybe we're wrong; and letting some insufferable, gazillionaire tech bro run riot through the entire federal government will be super popular

www.wxxinews.org/show/connect... Prisons in New York and the rest of the United States are frequently violent, corrupt and bereft of any transparency or accountability to see that the rights of the inmates are not just theoretical. It's long past time for change

www.whec.com/local/roches... Congrats to our good friends at the @seiu.org 1199 for a successful event honoring a titan of democracy and activism

It's almost nauseating watching the party in DC right now. But the good news is that Trump and his party are so cartoonishly evil that the more they take, the angrier America will become; and once groups like the WFP @workingfamilies.org organize & channel that anger, project 2025 is totally screwed

It must be nice to be so totally bereft of anything resembling a soul or a conscience that you're comfortable taking advantage of a horrific natural disaster to price gouge a bunch of newly homeless fire victims, in a city where housing costs are already out of control

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The only thing more annoying than watching so many rich and influential people crawling on their hands and knees to DC to lick Trump's boots is listening to mainstream journalists talk about this revolting display of cowardice and greed like it's some evidence of statesmanship on Trump's part

On the 28th of January the Free Art Collective (one of a superabundance of artistic and cultural groups large and small throughout metro Rochester) is hosting a free dinner for the community! If you're hungry, you're welcome to attend; you can contact www.instagram.com/freeart.coll... for questions!

they hate us and see these fires as an opportunity to oppress us and steal money from us and take it for themselves. evil people and they run our government now.

youtu.be/PeeOPR8bxac?... Everybody do the bus stop! And by that we mean that It's a great time to get on board with @nywfp.bsky.social 's fight for greater investment in public transportation (though you are free to do the dance as well)

I currently serve as aide to East District council member Mary Lupien, it’s a huge geographic space to cover part time. (Both CM & their 1 allocated aide are part time) More smaller districts would mean more time to build stronger connections to community but more importantly-

We are proud to have many of the key activists and leaders who fought so hard for this victory as chapter members. Without the efforts of CWTU activists like Lisle Coleman, Oscar Brewer, Ryan Acuff, our friends on city council would have been outvoted and the full Good Cause would not have passed

Back from a brief holiday hiatus to deliver to you the BREAKING NEWS that a short time ago, Mayor Evans signed the Good Cause eviction protections into law. Tenants in Rochester now have, for the first time ever, basic protections against unwarranted eviction and extortionate rent increases!!!

www.mobilize.us/ny-wfp/event... It's the social event of the holiday season! (No but for real, we've had a lot of people sign up already despite having a short window to notify folks and promote this thing) event is open to the public, starts at 6 click the link to RSVP!

All we want for Christmas this year is for Amazon to stop screwing around and keep to the agreements they made with @sbworkersunited.org (after all it's not like Brian Niccol or any of their other execs are willing to don aprons and start pulling shifts to keep the stores running themselves)

www.whec.com/top-news/emp... Very proud of all the local Amazon workers who braved a snowstorm to join others like them picketing downstate today because the company thinks it can just stall forever instead of negotiating in good faith with the @teamsters.bsky.social to reach a contract

www.rochesterfirst.com/rochester/so... This holiday season, it's important that we take some time to think about those who are less fortunate, people like this landlord complaining about the passage of Good Cause. Nobody understands their pain

We've got another event to invite people to (not our event persay, but one being held by chapter member and loyal friend of the party @kellycheatle.bsky.social ) Kelly is a great host and there are bound to be a lot of cool people present, so get your tickets now! secure.actblue.com/donate/pasta...

www.mobilize.us/ny-wfp/event... Hey gang; come on down this Sat evening to get a drink and hang out with the Rochester chapter of the NY Working Families Party! The event is public/open to anyone who wants to learn more about us, meet our newly elected leaders etc. just click on the link and RSVP

Thrilled to announce that Rochester City Council just passed the strongest version of Good Cause Eviction Protections! Congrats to our @nywfp.bsky.social -backed allies on council, activists from citywide tenants union and other organizations and so many others worked tirelessly to make this happen

Y’all…we now have a union store INSIDE Starbucks Headquarters in Seattle! Partners at the SoDo Reserve store voted UNION YES - just HOURS after we announced that 98% of SBWU baristas authorized to strike if necessary. Our union is strong - and ready for whatever it takes 🔥

The retail industry can be unpleasant, something our party understands (in fact one of the two people who chair our chapter works retail) and it's especially hard this time of year. So listen to the @rwdsu.bsky.social and show these folks the kindness and respect they deserve ‼️

We leave it to readers to imagine all the things you could do for Rochester with an additional $10,000,000-$15,000,000 a year to spend, instead of using it to pay police a fortune JUST in overtime (with individual officers collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars a year)

Don’t let anyone convince you that a world where every single person has what we need to live well and to thrive isn’t possible.

70mph...SEVENTY MILES PER HOUR driving down PARK??!! If you're not from Rochester, Park Avenue is a narrow, packed 2-lane commercial street featuring high concentrations of restaurants, constant pedestrian traffic, etc (plus frequent small turns and kinks) it's a miracle this cop didn't kill someone

It will take all of about 3 months for these ghouls to alienate the entire country (pretty much anyone who is not a right wing psycho, which is ultimately a fairly small minority of the populace) the problem is that Republicans have no intention of allowing another free and fair national election

Of course Musk tried to seize total control of the worlds most widely used AI program for himself; he's a creepy, power-hungry little asshole who probably goes ballistic and starts breaking furniture whenever anyone tries to tell him "No". This is what happens when people are allowed to be this rich

The holiday season, joyous as it may be, is also the hardest time of year for retail workers (particularly at stores like B&N which depend so heavily on our hypercommercialized holiday gift culture for sales) so folks if there was ever a time to support their fight for fair pay and a voice, it's now

Anyone who's given this much of their life to the service of others certainly deserves (at bare minimum!) the ability to retire and to live out that retirement in reasonable comfort and security. All working people deserve that.

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I remember growing up, my grandparent’s home would be filled with folks on Sunday afternoons til late, drinking coffee, sharing and connecting with one another. Hosting a little event at the studio next Wednesday evening, would love for you to join in on the conversation. Kellycheatle.com to RSVP

Good for them. Organizing in retail is notoriously difficult, strikes doubly so (because of the aggressiveness with which retail companies go about hiring temps, among other suppression tactics) striking in that setting takes a lot of courage

www.bbc.com While there's still a great deal of uncertainty about everything going on in syria right now (including the intentions of the lead islamist rebel group responsible for what's transpired) but the fall of one of the worst regimes on earth is still joyous news www.bbc.com/news/live/cj...

www.whec.com/local/city-o... Congratulations to Mr. Pointer-Gamory on his settlement; not that money could ever truly compensate for being maimed in an unprovoked police assault on a crowd of nonviolent protesters (a crowd that also contained multiple chapter members, including one of our co-chairs)

Hope you’re all taking the lyrics of “Solidarity Forever” and really holding space with that. And feeling power in that.

It's street-art Sunday here at Roc WFP, mainly just because the chapter member manning the BlueSky today happened to be getting gas where this mural is located (which happens all the time because Rochester has a superabundance of street art) and also everyone loves dogs

Even in the best of circumstances home care workers have one of the hardest jobs there is, and manageable caseloads are essential. Support Rochester's home care workers and @1199seiu.org as they fight for a fair contract! 13wham.com/news/local/r...

There are going to be many, many horrible people and hacks out there who for the rest of time are going to cite this pick as proof that Trump isn't THAT bad on worker rights. Those people will be lying; he is that bad, and his labor secretary will either be just as bad or totally powerless.

Greetings world; so this Tue. 11-36-24 at 5pm our allies at Citywide Tenants Union are rallying at at city hall to demand the immediate passage of Good Cause Eviction protections! Of course some of our people will be there as well (housing is important to the @nywfp.bsky.social ) join us if you can!

After facing the choice of poverty wages or striking, AFSCME Florida school food service workers pressured their employer to return to the bargaining table. In a new contract, they secured pay raises and stronger workplace protections. ✊

Because we're a metropolitan chapter of the @nywfp.bsky.social our people work mostly in local+state politics. However the name Eritrea is not unfamiliar to us. Rochester is one of a small number of US cities with a sizeable community of Eritrean refugees who fled Afwerki's totalitarian regime

Kathy Hochul explains what gives her the courage to time and again make the wrong decisions, for the wrong reasons nystateofpolitics.com/state-of-pol...