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Women’s Rights and Reproductive Health

 

      

“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”

― Audre lorde

 

 

- Women not having rights over their own bodies.
- Forcing children to give birth.

- Forcing rape victims to co-parent with their rapist.

- Forcing rape victims to have their rapists child.

- We rank 43rd in womens rights. 
- Women not being able to get their tubes tied without their husband’s permission.
- Denying women quality-of-life procedures because their future husband might want to
   use their organ someday.
- Charging women for having visitors after giving birth.
- Mothers being forced to go back to work sooner than you can legally separate a puppy
   from its mother.

-We rank 55th in maternal mortality.

- Rape kits being years behind on testing. 

- Forcing mothers to go back to work just 2 weeks after giving birth. 
- Maternity and paternity leave not being a right in “the greatest country on earth.”
- Formula companies lobbying to keep maternal leave from being a right so mothers
   can’t nurse their children.
- Women going to jail for a failed pregnancy, which is out of their control.
- Stopping women from crossing state lines to access rights to their own bodies.
- Charging mothers full price for giving birth, even if they deliver in the hallway without
   medical assistance.
- Asking women in labor what insurance they have.
- Feminine hygiene products being labeled as luxury items.

- Healthcare decisions being made by old men, who have no experience being a woman.
- Charging women to keep their placenta when it came from, and was made by her own
   body.
- Decisions about what women can and cannot do with their bodies being made
   exclusively by old men.
- Charging women to hold their babies after giving birth.

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Healthcare and Insurance

 

 

“Their billions came from our blood, sweat, and tears. Justice demands that they pay their debt in full.”- Luigi Mangione

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- Paying insurance to cover medical expenses, but the insurance doesn’t actually pay for
   anything.

- We rank 10th in healthcare.

- Allowing corporations to profit off the misery, suffering, and death of americans.

- Insurance companies receiving subsidies taken from the peoples tax dollars, then turning               around an making a patent on the medicine our tax dollars paid for. Then price gouging us on       the medication. 

- Having a child can cost well over $40,000, but in the rest of the developed world its free, or             close to free.

- Hospitals sending a family a bill after a stillbirth. 

- Insurance companies deciding how long a surgery should take (despite not being surgeons)               leading to surgeons rushing and leading to poorer outcomes for patients.
- Having to meet a deductible for insurance to cover medical expenses, even though
   that’s why we pay for insurance.

- We rank 49th in life expectancy.

- Insurance being legally allowed to deny a medication that is required for someone to live. 

- Having to start Go Fund Me requests to be able to afford life saving medication/ surgery. 
- Insurance companies telling doctors what treatments they will or won’t cover, despite
   not being medical professionals.
- Receiving a medical bill after your spouse passes away.
- Receiving hospital bills in your child’s name.
- Being charged $100 for Tylenol in the hospital.
- Doctors’ offices asking for tips when paying your bill.
- Dental health not being covered under health insurance without an extra fee.
- People buying insulin on the black market because they can’t afford it legally.
- EpiPens costing $8 to make but being sold for $800.
- Cancer treatment being a for-profit industry.
- Price gouging cancer patients’ medicine by 20,000%, while the same drug costs $80 in
   Canada.

- Companies profiting off denying americans life saving treatment.
- Over half of bankruptcies in the U.S. are due to medical debt.
- Working in healthcare, and still not being able to afford healthcare.
- Having insurance and still not being able to afford going to the doctor or dentist.
- Hospitals being for profit, not for the well-being of society.
- Charging infants $2,000 for room and board every time they are put in the nursery
   without being asked.
- Charging for two C-sections for one birth.
- Insurance telling mothers that their epidural was unnecessary and charging them full
   price for it.
- In-network hospitals hiring out-of-network doctors, leaving patients with unexpected
   bills.

- Charging mothers over a million dollars to save their child in the NICU. 

- People ubering to the hospital during medical emergencies because ambulances are too                   expensive. 
- National blood banks selling donated blood for profit.
- Medical research going towards men’s health takes priority over women’s. Despite the
   fact that women are the reason human beings exist.

-Charging mothers to hold their stillborn child.

-Formula companies lobbying government to deny maternity leave so mothers cant nurse their        children. Making them more money from formula sales.

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Economic Inequality and Wages

 

 

“Poverty is the parent of revolution, and crime.” - Aristotle

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- Being the richest country on earth but still having a homeless issue.

- Credit scores dropping when you pay off your debt.

- We can have Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness, so long as we have the money to afford       it. 
- Paying Social Security for our entire lives, but it’s not enough to afford a one-bedroom
   apartment.
- The minimum wage not being enough to live anywhere in the country.
- Calling Americans lazy, yet 40 hours of work a week still isn’t enough to scrape by for
   most people.
- Having less time off work than a medieval peasant.
- The top 1% of Americans have 10 times more money than the rest of the 99% combined.
- People who have enough money to spend a million dollars a day for the next 500 years
   pay less in taxes than the average citizen.
- The wealth gap in America being worse than the wealth gap that started the French
   Revolution, and larger than the great depression. 
- Working 60 hours a week with two jobs and still living paycheck to paycheck.
- Companies making billions in profits but not paying a livable wage.
- Politicians getting a cost-of-living raise almost every year, while the minimum wage
   hasn’t increased in almost two decades.
- Telling the poor to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, but corporations get bailed
   out with tax dollars when they gamble and lose.
- Banks and hedge funds committing financial crimes to the tune of billions of dollars,
   with penalties being just a small fine.
- The average American paying a higher percentage in taxes than the richest people on
   earth.
- Politicians complaining about people on food stamps and welfare, while giving tax cuts
   and bailouts to corporations.
- Citizens drowning in debt, but the government gives another tax break to billionaires
   after record profits.
- Having a masters degree and still needing two jobs to make ends meet.
- Being taxed 36% on our paychecks to then be taxed on every single thing we spend our
   already taxed money on.

- Allowing corporations to mooch of the american taxpayer by supplementing low wages with           food stamps and welfare. Rather than forcing companies to pay a thriving wage like the                     minimum wage was created to be.

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Housing and Homelessness

 

“It's all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps,” Dr. Martin Luther King

- Paying off a house but losing it if you can’t pay property taxes during hardship.
- Letting corporations buy up all the family homes, driving prices so high that no one can
   afford a home.

- We rank 18th in homeownership. (China is 2nd) 

- We rank 6th in homelessness among developed nations. 

- We rank second in highest poverty rate among developed nations.
- Having to make three times the rent to be approved for an apartment, despite rent being
   three times what it should cost.

- The government refusing to provide affordable housing, but making being homelss illegal. 

- The government allowing any american to live on the street like dogs. 
- Paying $1,500 a month in rent but being told you don’t make enough to afford a $700
   mortgage.

- Criminalizing homelessness but not funding programs to help people get back on their
   feet.

- Rent going up every year but the landlord isn't required to provide upgrades every year. 
- Half of the homeless population being former foster kids abandoned by the system.
- Putting spikes on benches so homeless people can’t lie down.

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   Education and Children

 

 

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” - Nelson Mandela

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- School lunch not being free for children.
- Putting children into school lunch debt if they can’t afford to pay.
- Teachers being paid $25,000 a year, while complaining that classrooms lack enough teachers.
- Expecting teachers to teach and act as soldiers because of school shootings.
- School funding being tied to property taxes, leaving poor areas with underfunded
   schools.

- Prison companies building larger prisons (with our tax dollars) in areas with low test scores.           Instead of that money going to the schools to help the kids get better educations and stay out of       prison.

- Judges sentencing children to jail time for finacial kickbacks. One of those judges is currently         free from prison after his sentence got commuted. 

- Firing school employees for giving poor children food. 

- The government claiming to care about children but voting no on any program to help children.

- We rank 54th in infant mortality. 

- College being free, or next to free. Until black people started to go to college. Then politicians         raised the cost of college to prevent that.
- Having to go through mass casualty training as an elementary school teacher.
- Seeing Korean and Japanese school lunches and wondering why American kids get
   subpar meals.
- Adoption being a billion-dollar business. That is called human trafficking.  
- Politicians claiming to care about children but voting to defund programs that help
   families and single mothers.
-America being the only country whose children need bulletproof vests in school.
- Degrees putting you in debt for the rest of your life.
- In 1960 you could go to the most expensive college in the country and come out debt-
   free with a minimum wage job. But now you could work three full-time minimum wage
   jobs and still being in college debt.

- Being the only developed nation where children go to school with bulletproof vests.

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Racism and Discrimination

 

“Injustice anywhere, is a threat to justice everywhere.”- Dr. Martin Luther King

 

 

- Reversing years of hard fought discrimination protections against minority groups for race,           religion, gender, sexual orientation. 

- Maternal death rates being almost 40% higher in women of color.

- Protecting police from prosecution in cases of murder against minorities. 

- Purposefully underfunding black, and other minority schools. 

- Allowing for longer sentences to be handed to minorities while showing lenience on the same         crime committed by someone who is white.

- We rank 6th in incarceration rates. 

- Non violent drug charges carrying a longer sentence than rape, or pedophilia. 

- Judges sentencing people of color for financial kickbacks from prisons. 

- Actively preventing any aid, or resources to keeping ex cons from returning to prison. Instead         making staying out of prison system almost impossible.

- White washing history, so the public is ignorant about the history of racism in america.

- The government going out of its way to ensure minority communities stay poor. 

- Painting civil rights protests as violent, even if they were peaceful. But not calling violent                   protest by whites peaceful. (Jan. 6th)

- Having a larger police force than most countries military. (Yet crime rate doesn't go down)

- Doing nothing about the infant, and maternal mortality rates being higher in black                             communities.

- Getting a higher jail sentence for the same crime if you are a person of color. 

- You are 3x more likey to be killed by police if you're a person of color. 

- Redlining. (The financial discrimination based on race, or ethnicity.)

- The war on drugs being a rouse to lock up black men, in an attempt to destroy the family unit.

- Not teaching the true history of the genocide committed against the Native Americans. 

- Not teaching the true history of slavery in america. 

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Government and Politics

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“Governments will use whatever technology is available to them to combat their primary enemy- their own population.”- Noam Chompsky

 

- Being a “free” country but only having two political parties.

- Calling us a free country but we rank 17th in freedom. 

- Knowing the cure for crime for over 2000 years since Aristotle. But not curing it because rich         people wanna make more money.  

- Politicians claiming to care about family values but create a society that requires parents to             both work full time away from their children, and families. 

- Politicians claiming to be pro life, but somehow they are pro gun, war, and death penalty. 
- Politicians being allowed to buy stocks without reporting them for 45 days.
- Politicians being allowed to gerrymander district lines to stay in power.
- The electoral college allowing small towns to have the same voting power as large
   cities.

- Citizens going to prison for committing felonies, but if a politician does it there are no                        consequences. 

- Freedom, and justice for all... Unless you're poor. 

- 18 states allow for rapists to have parental rights. 

- 98% of rapists going free of any consequences. 

- Politicians saying they are "pro life" but only being pro life for specific skin colors.

- Deciding to ban Tik Tok but not with releasing the epstein files because too many rich, and               powerful people were in it. 

- We rank 49th in human rights.

- We rank 132nd in safety. 

- We rank 23rd in happiness. 

- We rank 27th in social mobility. 

- Politicians being allowed to serve while being old, decrepit, and senile.
- Politicians getting free healthcare while voting against universal healthcare for citizens.
- Politicians being allowed to run deficits and fail audits for 20 years with no
   consequences.

- Politicians being found in nursing homes with dementia, yet somehow still being paid.

- Politicians offering "Thoughts and Prayers" to families who just lost their children to gun                 violence. But never actually doing anything to protect peoples children.

- Politicians voting for raising their own salary, while voting no on raising the minimum wage of       the American people 

- Politicians voting to raise their meal reimbursement allotment while voting no on giving                   children free lunches. 
- The government failing an audit six years in a row but facing no consequences.
- Politicians being able to pardon anyone they want, despite conflicts of interest.
- Legalized bribery of government officials in the form of lobbying.
- Politicians getting up to 230 days off a year, while Americans are guaranteed zero.
- Politicians going on vacations during natural disasters, leaving constituents to suffer.

   Criminal Justice and Inequality
- Giving longer prison sentences for non-violent drug crimes than for violent crimes like
   assault.

-  Voting not being a national holiday to allow all americans to exercise their voting right. 

- The government having all hands on deck to find insurance CEO assassin. But not caring at all about the thousands of murders that occur daily to the poor. 
- Prison companies having contracts with states that require a mandatory minimum
   quota of inmates.
- Corporations being considered people when it comes to bribing politicians but not
   facing charges for harming millions.
- Allowing corporations to knowingly poison the earth and face no consequences.
- Banks allowing overdrafts to charge fees to people who are already poor.

- Wage theft by corporations being called “good business,” while employees are called thieves             for taking food.

- The government admitting that the Vietnam conflict was started over a lie. 

- Starting a 20-year war over WMDs, which turned out to be a lie to benefit oil companies.

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Infrastructure and Public Services

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“They got money for the war, but not for the poor.”- Tupac Shakur

 

- Being taxed on everything, but our roads still look like roads in Afghanistan.
- Using tax dollars to build highways and then charging tolls to use them.
- Toll roads in Texas being owned by companies in foreign countries.
- Flint still not having clean water after a decade.
- Utilities being owned by monopolies that extort people for necessities.
- Public transportation being nonexistent in many areas.

   Climate and Environment

- Criminalizing homelessness.

- Road repairs tax months, to years longer than it should because the people fixing the roads are       there to make money, not do a good job building our infrastructure. 

- Private monopolies controlling utilities for states, and price gouging the residents.  

- Hostile infrastructure to make life for the homeless even more miserable.

- Issuing a fine for feeding the homeless.

- Charging us taxes for our cars every year, but not fixing the pothole/ roads.
- Denying climate change so companies can make more profits.
- Allowing corporations to knowingly poison the earth and harm public health.
- Water being traded on the stock market.
- Companies destroying food rather than donating it to help people.

   Military and Veterans
- Serving your country isn’t a good enough reason to get you off the street if you’re
   homeless.

- Ambulances being $4000 for a 2 miles ride, but the paramedics barely make above minimum         wage. 

- Churches being tax exempt, but the pastors being multi millionaires with luxury jets. 
- Saying you support the troops but cutting funding to the VA every year.

- Military families qualifying for food stamps.
- Using tax dollars to fund wars and imperialism while ignoring domestic issues.

- The government admitting that the Vietnam conflict was started over a lie. 

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Corporate Crime

 

“It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By "business" I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt 

 

- Being the richest country on earth but having no guaranteed time off work.

- It's Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.. So long as you have the money to afford it. 

- We rank 5th in household income, but we are taxed so heavily that it doesn't matter.

- Having to ask your boss if its okay to leave work early to see the birth of your child.

- Having to miss important life events because of work, children's entire life, marriages, deaths,       funeral, etc.  

- Calling the younger generation lazy when the younger generation could work 3 times as hard           and still receive less for their work than the older generations. 

- Contributing to social security for your entire life, but when you retire you only get $900 a               month. Which doesn't even cover rent.

- Companies saying there is no money for raises in the budget despite the company having the           10th year in a row of all time high profits

-The constant mistreatment, abuse, short staffing, and traumatization of nurses. 
- Having a college degree but still needing a second job to make ends meet.

- Companies being able to fire you if you become pregnant to avoid paying maternity leave. 

 

 

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