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Women’s Rights and Reproductive Health

 

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

 

- Paying insurance to cover medical expenses, but the insurance doesn’t actually pay for
   anything.
- Having to meet a deductible for insurance to cover medical expenses, even though
   that’s why we pay for insurance.
- 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.
- Over half of bankruptcies in the U.S. are due to medical debt.
- Declaring bankruptcy at 19 because of medical debt.
- 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.
- 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.

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Economic Inequality and Wages

 

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

-Credit scores dropping when you pay off your debt.
- Paying Social Security for our 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 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.
- 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.

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Housing and Homelessness

 

- 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.
- Having to make three times the rent to be approved for an apartment, despite rent being
   three times what it should cost.
- 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.
- Half of the homeless population being former foster kids abandoned by the system.
- Putting spikes on benches so homeless people can’t lie down.

   Education and Children
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.

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Government and Politics

 

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

- 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 allowed to serve while being old, decrepit, and senile.

- 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.
- Prison companies having contracts with states that require a mandatory minimum
   quota of inmates.
- Getting a higher jail sentence for the same crime if you have melanin.
- 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.

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Infrastructure and Public Services

 

- 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
- 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.
- Saying you support the troops but cutting funding to the VA every year.

- Military families qualifying for food stamps.
- Starting a 20-year war over WMDs, which turned out to be a lie to benefit oil companies.
- Using tax dollars to fund wars and imperialism while ignoring domestic issues.

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Workforce Injustices

 

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

-The constant mistreatment, abuse, short staffing, and traumatization of nurses. 
- Having a college degree but still needing a second job to make ends meet.
- Being the only developed nation where children go to school with bulletproof vests.
- Politicians being allowed to serve while being old, decrepit, and senile.