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<div>Chris Hughes, beloved bartender, colleague, and friend, was unjustly let go from Attaboy after 8 dedicated years of service to the bar, and its many patrons.
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<div>Loyal, hardworking, brilliant, and endlessly kind, Chris has built an incredible reputation of being “the best of us”. Whether you have been a guest at the bar, or a longtime friend of his, Chris’ moral character has remained steadfast and true.
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<div>As a single father of two beautiful children, August (12) &amp; Rose (8), Chris’ main priority is to support his family and recover from the financial losses he has faced in the past few months.
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<div>Chris was an outspoken union leader, and because of that has faced great adversity with losing his employment after what was considered to be a historic election win for Attaboy Local 134, and for the bar community.
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<div>Whether your views support unionization or not, please help us support our friend as he navigates recuperating financial losses for him and his family. Any donation amount helps, and what more, spreading the word to our community!
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Support Chris Hughes & his little ones!

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<strong>Update: We Have a Tentative Agreement!</strong><br /><br />Read more about the tentative agreement <a href="https://www.studentworkersofcolumbia.com/updates/we-have-a-tentative-agreement" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">here</a>.<br /><br />SWC members are still thousands of dollars in debt from the strike and need immediate support to pay late fees, rent, and bills. We're still asking for donations <a href="https://opencollective.com/withheld-stipends" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">here</a>.<br /><br />----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br /><strong>Please donate to support Columbia Student Workers on strike!</strong><br /><br />After two years of bargaining, the University still refuses to agree to a fair contract for student workers. We're starting this hardship fund to support Columbia academic workers in this struggle, and welcome all donations from students or supporters who are able to give in these difficult times.<br /><br />Columbia has committed several unfair labor practices, including implementing a wage freeze - discontinuing their 3% annual raises in explicit retaliation for rejecting the Tentative Agreement - and unilaterally modifying stipend disbursement schedules. Columbia forced their student-workers into additional financial insecurity to war off the strike. Graduate student workers at Columbia are paid $5,500 to $18,000 <strong>below an annual living wage in NYC</strong>. Yet Columbia raised enough money in the past 5 Giving Days alone, a 5-day work week, to fund the entire cost of our union's proposal to provide workers with a living wage and adequate healthcare for the next three years.<br /><br /><strong>Why donate?</strong> Put simply - Columbia student workers need your help to make it through a strike. The University docked many workers' wages when we went on strike last spring. Other workers got their stipends docked too. We learned recently that the University unilaterally changed the stipend pay schedule for hundreds of workers, which will result in an <strong>$8k shortfall at the beginning of the fall semester</strong> - a clear attempt by the University to break a strike before it began. <br /><br />It is in the University’s power to end the strike by agreeing to essential contract provisions:<br /><br />    -   Compensation that provides a living wage to all;  <br />    -   Healthcare improvements that create a sustainable work environment for all, not just those with a safety net for extraneous healthcare costs;<br />    -   Real recourse for cases of harassment and discrimination, including power-based harassment, through the grievance procedure and neutral, third-party arbitration;<br />    -   Full recognition of the NLRB-certified bargaining unit, including undergrads and hourlies;<br />    -   NYPD off campus: no law enforcement in campus buildings without a signed warrant and no NYPD contracts for event security.<br />    -   Childcare subsidies and long-term parental leave to ensure our university is accessible to all.<br /><br />In the meantime, <strong>we need to build a fund strong enough to support student workers in their struggle for a fair contract</strong> from one of the most ruthless employers in higher ed, Columbia University.

Hardship Fund for Columbia Student Workers

WITHOUT ADDITIONAL SECOND WAVE FUNDING THE NAVAJO &amp; HOPI FAMILIES COVID-19 RELIEF FUND MUST STOP PROVIDING FOOD BOXES TO FAMILIES IN A MATTER OF WEEKS <br /><br />As of today (November 23, 2020), there are 15,039 positive cases of COVID-19 and 631 total confirmed deaths on the Navajo Reservation. This marks a spike of over 2,200 cases in 12 days on Navajo.  Numbers are also on the rise on the Hopi Reservation, and both tribal governments have placed their communities in lockdown again. Our relief effort is the primary relief effort providing assistance on both reservations.  We have already deployed roughly $6 million in direct relief in both communities, which has us nearing depletion of existing GoFundMe donations.  We need a second wave of donations to help us meet the second wave--tsunami, really--of COVID that is inundating our communities.  <br /><br />To date, the Relief Fund has raised over $6 million, and has spent almost all of that on bringing vital resources to Navajo and Hopi communities to help shield them from COVID. The team and a legion of hundreds of Navajo and Hopi volunteers all over the two nations has provided food and water to over 46,000 households (each roughly averaging 4 persons per household, and amounting to over 186,000 people served—which is more than the combined population of the Navajo and Hopi Reservations) in 335 distributions in over 530 Navajo communities and Hopi Villages. <br /><br />The Relief Fund currently seeks to raise enough funding to carry Navajo and Hopi families through this second wave, through the cold and flu season, and to the end of the COVID pandemic in these communities. We estimate needing $6.5 million in order to meet that goal, so we have now adjusted our GoFundMe campaign goal to $13 million total. <br /><br />By donating, you will help the most heavily impacted community in the USA.  For $100, you will help a family of four by providing them with 2 weeks’ worth of food and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).  For as little as $10, you can help feed a family of 4 for an entire day.  Donate today to the Navajo &amp; Hopi Families COVID-19 Relief Fund. <br /><br />The Navajo Nation and Hopi Reservation are extreme food deserts with only 14 grocery stores on the two reservations to serve some 180,000 people who live in a territory larger than West Virginia, or larger than the combined area of Vermont, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts.  These communities have high numbers of elderly, diabetic, asthmatic, and cancer-afflicted (i.e., high risk) individuals.  One-third of the people living on these two reservations do not have running water, and another third don't have electricity.  These communities could be devastated by COVID-19.  <br /><br />Our relief effort prioritizes those at highest risk of complications if they contract COVID, and the most vulnerable:  the elderly, immunocompromised, mobility impaired, and families with children but inadequate income (roughly half of the people living on the two reservations are unemployed; 45.5 percent of Navajo families with children live in poverty, and 14.9 percent live in extreme poverty).  <br /><br />We provide our beneficiaries with food, water, PPE, health supplies, cleaning supplies and other essential items (like toiletries) they need to weather this pandemic.  The need is so great.  Please give if you can.  <br /><br />Each week since April 12 we have consistently brought $150,000 to $200,000 worth of food, water, PPE, and cleaning supplies to 15 to 20 Navajo and Hopi communities (each Kinship Care Package we hand out consists of 2 weeks’ worth of these materials). We have deployed over $4,060,196 in direct purchases of food and over $565,500 in PPE in Navajo and Hopi communities. We are currently in the process of deploying another $800,000 in PPE Kit supplies and 17 tons of coal for an elders heating program and will continue distributing the PPE Kits through the end of February.<br /><br />We sanitize all items before we distribute them, and we have a rigorous health and safety training for all of our staff and volunteers.  We are mostly all volunteers with 33 team leaders that each lead a team of 5-8 volunteers in the Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona portions of the Navajo Nation and on Hopi (located in Arizona).   Our 6 staff members are compensated through use of grant funding.  We do not use any of our individual donations through GoFundMe or made through our fiscal sponsor to compensate staff.  <br /><br />We bring our direct relief items by truck to Navajo and Hopi where our teams sanitize them and assemble Kinship Care Packages (include 2 weeks of food, water, PPE, health items, and cleaning supplies) or PPE Kits (include a container of 75-count Clorox wipes, 50-count 3-ply masks, and 8 oz. of gel hand sanitizer).  We distribute our food through contactless drive-thru or home deliveries.  We also provide immediate assistance to COVID-positive families in isolation or COVID-exposed families in quarantine by providing food and Isolation Kits (the Isolation Kits are extensive and include things like vitamins, tissue paper, cough drops, sleeping bags, etc.).<br /><br />We are also helping to stop the spread of COVID-19 on these reservations by engaging some 300 volunteers to sew masks for medical workers and first responders on Navajo and Hopi. We use donated funds to help purchase the fabric for these masks.  Through the masterful coordination of our Super Volunteer and now Logistics Coordinator, Theresa Hatathlie-Delmar, we have facilitated the transfer of some 73,441 masks, surgical gowns, bunny suits, and bootie covers to Navajo and Hopi community members and first responders.  <br /><br />We also receive and distribute in-kind donations.  For example, 48,000 cans of water from Jason Momoa and Mananalu, and 8 tons of canned water from Can’d Aid.  Through the Airbridge program held in collaboration with Air Serv International (in their first domestic relief operation) we were able to fly over 48,000 pounds of PPE and other relief items to remote Navajo and Hopi communities in July and August.<br /><br />We also use your donations to run a public education campaign urging folks to stay home, socially distance, and take precautions to prevent the spread of COVID-19.  These materials are on posters displayed in places of business all over the Navajo Nation and regularly run in 1-page ads in the Navajo Times.  Our Hopi material is under development and is poised for circulation in early December.<br /><br />We are a grassroots indigenous women-led group; we are not a government.  Given the amazing support for this effort, and the need to combat future pandemics and climate change threats to our communities, we formed a nonprofit under Utah state law (Yee Ha'olnii Doo d/b/a Navajo &amp; Hopi Families COVID-19 Relief Fund) and are in the process of applying for 501(c)(3) status.  Yee Ha'onii Doo expends our funds and operates under the supervision of a 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor (Nonprofit Legal Services of Utah d/b/a Nonprofit Fiscal Services).  All funds raised prior to September 25th were deposited with Rural Utah Project (our original fiscal sponsor).  The funds from this campaign will be used to make direct purchases, or reimbursement of purchases by volunteers, of bulk food and medical items, and other purchases made on behalf of our beneficiaries, such as water, food from supermarkets, PPE, and other items necessary to keep our beneficiaries socially distanced, and our public education campaign.  <strong>This campaign is not associated with the Navajo Nation government (or the official Navajo Nation government’s fundraising campaign on GoFundMe) or the Hopi Tribe.  Instead, this fundraiser is an initiative of Yee Ha'oolniidoo, a grassroots, indigenous-led, nonprofit organization.   As of two weeks ago, the Navajo Nation had not expended any of its private donations raised through GoFundMe.<br /></strong>

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<div> The truth sets us free, they say. But for whistleblowers, the truth can often imprison us. 
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<div>Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU) and rank-and-file activists have been fighting contract givebacks and business unionism for decades.
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<div>Now, we are on the verge of winning new leadership and a new direction in North America's most powerful union.<br /><br /><strong>Will you donate today and stand behind rank-and-file activists to build power for working people?</strong>
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<div>More than 1.3 million Teamsters are voting right now to elect new International Union leaders. The O'Brien-Zuckerman Teamsters United Slate is favored to win when the ballots are counted starting November 15.
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<div>Rank-and-file Teamsters are on a campaign blitz to end the Hoffa era and make history. Our real work starts when the ballot count ends.
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<div>Teamster members just raised $92,845 at the annual TDU Convention to train and mobilize activists and build the rank-and-file power we'll need to win from UPS to Amazon and to transform the the Teamsters from the bottom up.
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<div><em>Funds from non-Teamsters are not used in union election campaigns—they support education and legal defense programs to protect workers' rights.</em>
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