democrats and republicans just voted together to censure Rashida Tlaib, the only Palestinian American serving in the US federal government, for calling out the Israeli government’s genocide of Palestinians and Biden’s complicity. you can read her statement here.
they fear us. they know most Americans are calling for a ceasefire. they know the real power lies in the hands of the people. don’t stop talking about Palestine, boycotting, protesting. free Palestine.
ok full offense but if you going on strike might cause the death or worsening chronic illness and health of other people maybe you shouldnt do it jesus fuck
That’s the point. Modern pharmacy has 2 people doing a 4-5 person job. Pharmacists are being held to unsustainable quota’s, people are going to die because the Pharmacist wasn’t able to accurately look at your allergy list because there’s 5 cars in the drive thru and 5 flu/covid vaccines waiting in store.
People are going to die because the Pharmacist didn’t have time to check the accuracy of the prescription or if there’s any ill effects to mixing medications. It’s already happening, it’s happened several times now. They’re not asking for more money, they’re asking for more help.
California pharmacies are reportedly making almost 5 million medication errors a year […]
Nearly 91 percent of pharmacists in a recent survey conducted by the California Board of Pharmacy report that staffing was not high enough to provide adequate patient care.
Meanwhile, over 83 percent of pharmacists reported that they did not have sufficient time to provide appropriate consultations to patients to make sure they understand how to safely take their medications.
Medication errors can have serious repercussions for patients leading to severe illness, permanent disability, and death […]
Decisions about staffing and safety are usually made by the management of a chain store rather than the pharmacist who has undertaken years of education to safely provide sometimes dangerous medications.
Two different recent medical literature reviews found no clear evidence of increased patient mortality or morbidity (illness / negative health outcomes) due to medical staff strikes, in large part because medical strikes typically require the continuation of skeleton staffing to address emergencies. Medical ethics generally agree that labor strikes must be a tactic of last resort – and that they can be the most ethical of bad options, sacrificing short term suffering for long term public health and safety.
Everywhere I worked, I saw the real impacts of medical understaffing on patient care. Healthcare companies & institutions are often motivated too much by profit & not enough by the on-the-ground needs of patients and providers. They rely on that “I can’t let my patients down” ethic to pressure workers into persevering under unsustainable conditions. Caregivers who are routinely and systematically denied the resources they need (time per patient, equiptment, living wage within sane hours, etc) burn out. They fuck up. They get sick. My own disability was partly driven by chronic overwork.
I have seen too many patients suffer directly because their care providers, including me, were stretched too thin to do our jobs adequately. When you work hospice/hospital and make a mistake someone spends extra months working through complicated grief, or develops a much more serious condition because the early signs got overlooked, or has a painful or lonely death. I carry human-suffering weight of my mistakes. I always will. This isn’t abstract. As I write this, I’m thinking about specific people who my coworkers and I failed because we were running to look after twice as many patients as we could handle, and management refused to listen to us.
It’s impossible not to make mistakes when you’re constantly exhausted and stressed.
That’s what healthcare workers strike for: conditions that enable us to provide good patient care.
@alijla2021: I had the opportunity to communicate with some members of my family. The situation is unbelievable. Hungry dogs are eating the remains of bodies buried under the rubble in Gaza City. The smell of decay pervades the city. There will be catastrophic health consequences. Food and clean water are scarce. One of my nieces was taken to the hospital because of lack of food two days ago. People are beginning to experience starvation in its most literal sense. They spend 7 hours in line to receive a single piece of bread for each member of the family. When food is found, it’s exorbitantly expensive. If this continues before our very eyes, it will turn into a horrendous BLACK MOMENT IN HUMAN HISTORY.
Representative Rashida Tlaib, a Democrat from Michigan, is the only Palestinian-American member of Congress. She was “censured” by the House on November 7th for speaking out against Israel’s genocide of Palestine.
Here is a list of the 22 Democrats who voted to censure her:
Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.)
Rep. Jim Costa (D-Calif.)
Rep. Angie Craig (D-Minn.)
Rep. Don Davis (D-N.C.)
Rep. Lois Frankel (D-Fla.)
Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine)
Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.)
Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.)
Rep. Greg Landsman (D-Ohio)
Rep. Susie Lee (D-Nev.)
Rep. Kathy Manning (D-N.C.)
Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.)
Rep. Wiley Nickel (D-N.C.)
Rep. Chris Pappas (D-N.H.)
Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-Wash.)
Rep. Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.)
Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Ill.)
Rep. Kim Schrier (D-Wash.)
Rep. Darren Soto (D-Fla.)
Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.)
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.)
Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.)
There were also 4 Republicans who voted against her censure:
Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.)
John Duarte (R-Calif.)
Thomas Massie (R-Ky.)
Tom McClintock (R-Calif.)
If your Representative voted against the censure, please call to thank them! If your Representative voted for the censure, please call to say that you disagree, and that what they did does not represent what you want as their constituent.
@ gentiles: if you choose to take a stand and advocate for palestinians (as you should - if you’re able) you need to also research antisemitic dogwhistles & the history of antisemitism in the pro-palestinian movement; the movement is not inherently antisemitic, but there are antisemitic expressions of it because antisemitism is a hatred that permeates through every section of society.
when you neglect to ensure your activism isn’t just thinly-veiled antisemitism, you are not only harming jews but delegitimising an important cause. you have a duty to educate yourself for the sake of both jews and palestinians.
then again, i am aware that many gentiles simply don’t care - they know they’re being bigoted & they enjoy wearing a progressive mask to see how far their hatred can spread.
and to those people: you are cowards. stop hiding behind anti-zionism and own your bigotry. stop weaponising the suffering of palestinians.
Also, if you need further motivation, imagine how many more allies your cause would have if you didn’t ignore the antisemitism that exists, and often, thrives within this movement.
Many Jews support Palestinian liberation and want to support their cause. However, in the diaspora, this movement is rife with antisemitism. Jews will not help others at the expense of our own safety, especially when the movement is largely performative without having substantial effects on the actual issue.
There are more antisemites than Jews in the world so not being a bigot is the only motivation for purging antisemitism from the movement and unfortunately that’s not enough for a lot of people
