Lisa from the Wobblies (IWW) - Affordable Housing Rally

[mowgli2071]

She's cute. Bread and indeed roses.

[LancerPI]

The question is, why should the propertyless spend their entire lives lining the pockets, and belly blubber of the propertied?

[Nederlandac]

Join the IWW.

[hollywoodartchick]

Things have gotten ridiculous with rents. The housing bubble has increased cost without any change to the value or size of the units. Owners have benefitted simply from being near publically funded projects like subways. And they have gotten nasty when someone under rent control can't afford to move. There is so much inhumanity in it.

[psugeog11]

omg profit. the horrors.

[mommyopal]

That was great Lisa!

(I have those same pants! haha)

[Febrile1]

Well said - straight truth - keep on keeping on!

[jharkn]

awesome :)

[NortonYorksterdam]

"As the Industrial Workers of the World Say, Direct Action Gets the Goods"

What a bullshit line from a bunch of bullshit artists. Their idea of "direct action" is to try to get some gay on the SF city council. Their idea of "working class organization" is to bully non-whites into renting rooms in their houses cheaper to white "artists". Their idea of "organization" is showing up mostly at the same time to "protest".

There has never been a more worthless class of people than the IWW.

[ZOGGYDOGGY]

Face it NortonYorksterdam...you're a jerk for among other things, calling women "girls. Your assertions about her father's class position are just meant as more lame attempts at character assassination. Besides the obvious misogeny of your remark, there's a lack of critique of the IWW's postion on landlords--a useless class, indeed.

[NortonYorksterdam]

ZOGGYDOGGY, it's true, I'm lame, and so are all the White, upper-middle-class liberal arts college kids pretending to "advocate" for the much browner working class until they get to grad school. We've seen it for 40 years now.

And by the way - no - this girl did NOT build ONE damn house in San Francisco, and I doubt she ever even fixed a leaky sink. Go the fuck back to OC where you belong.

[mickblack47]

LOL, I doubt she did build a house in San Francisco, as the rally she's speaking at in in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada!

Where in Alberta is "OC"? Oil Country? Edmonton is smack in the middle of it!

[NortonYorksterdam]

mickblack, and she didn't build a damn thing in Edmonton either. OC is the TV show for pretty white girls full of wanna-be political bullshit, which is where the entire FBI-run fake ass IWW belongs.

Nobody is fooled - certainly no non-white people - you are a joke. Deal with it - go back to grad school liberal.

[makemehaysunshine]

Norton! What a cute comment. I'll bet your right-wing dad is cute too. Wage-slave drivers of the world unite! You've got the wealth and power now. Keep it for yourselves and make money from keeping the wealth YOUR wage-slaves produce.

[NortonYorksterdam]

hi makemehaysunshine, my joke wasn't that good. I'm suggesting that this girl's dad is the Capitalist elite. She's White, well-educated, and good-looking. She even has enough wealth to "advocate" on the behalf of people worse off than her.

I'm sure she'll at some point take a job "coordinating" a charity funded by the Gates Foundation. It's a career path!

[mixedblessing]

So an attractive, Caucasian, well-spoken young woman has to be the daughter of the Capitalist elite? That is quite an assumption.

[NortonYorksterdam]

what a cute activist! Talking about Big Business an all. I bet she learned that in the New School? How passionately she reads that speech! I wonder if she knows any homeless people?

The Ruling Capitalist Elite - like my Dad!

[ryleeee]

i know lisa very well and i can advocate for the passion in her voice. also: she doesn't just know homeless people, she is close friends with many.

[majorMcpharter]

Let us all help to speed the day when this earth is held in common for the benefit of all humanity.Workers of all lands unite and abolish the wages system.

[shw1917]

Excellent!