The Workers Circle

The Workers Circle

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Cultivating a proudly progressive, diverse, and inclusive community rooted in Jewish culture and social action for more than a century. https://linktr.ee/workerscircle

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Hi there 👋, Bluesky! We’re the Workers Circle, a 125-year-old Jewish social justice organization focused on Yiddish language, social justice, and Jewish culture. Click that follow button to join us in building a better and more beautiful world for all/a besere un sheynere velt far ale (in Yiddish).

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Defiance Dispatch
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Hungary has overcome fascism. Brazil has overcome rising fascism. Serbia has overcome fascism. The Serbian people won and took back their country. Now, its our turn, America. GET OUT AND VOTE! Credit @millesini

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani
@mayor.nyc.gov

Nothing and no one should stand between New Yorkers and their right to vote — least of all the government.
 Early voting is happening now through November 1. Election Day is November 3. See you at the polls!

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Thanks to our amazing community, we made 6,777 phone calls during our Call-A-Palooza with the @ctr4cmnground.bsky.social yesterday! Let's keep up the momentum by phone banking tonight, Wednesday, and next Monday in advance of the November 3 midterms: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #DemandDemocracy

us02web.zoom.usWelcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Phone Banking to Black Voters. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.Join The Workers Circle and the Center for Common Ground to call Black voters across the country with crucial voting information before the midterm elections on November 3. Black voters are less likel...
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Anisley Cortés, the wife of Noslén Sendra, is one of many who has an ill loved one in ICE detention facing deportation. We must call attention to the medical neglect in these facilities and demand proper care, not deportation. #ImmigrantRights #HumanRights #DemandDemocracy #WorkersCircle

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Indivisible ❌👑
@indivisible.org

Emiliano Andrade-Covarrubias has died at a GEO-owned for-profit concentration camp in Texas. DHS denied him life saving medication, including for heart disease after he complained of chest tightness and trouble breathing. Emiliano was a father, husband, son who deserved dignity and due process.

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By locking the No Kings Coalition account, Meta was engaging in voter suppression. Unacceptable.

Public Citizen@publiccitizen.bsky.social

The No Kings coalition issued an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg after their account was censored & locked out during the largest single-day voting activation in U.S. history. Our co-president @lisa-pubcitizen.bsky.social reinforces that No Kings refuses to be silenced.

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This past weekend in Charlotte, Workers Circle members joined the Center for Common Ground, Team Unity, and local volunteers. Together we went door to door, bringing nonpartisan voting information to Black voters. These are voters who have been squarely targeted by restrictive voting laws.

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And as a team, we knocked on 1,028 doors! One of the people knocking was Bob Kaplan, a member of The Workers Circle board and former president. Bob is 91 years old, and he personally knocked on 50 of those doors. #DemandDemocracy

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50 doors. Up and down the streets of Charlotte, he went door after door. He did it because he believes, like we do, that every eligible voter deserves the chance to make their voice heard. #GOTV #GetOutTheVote #socialjustice

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FWD.us
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Across the country, communities and advocates are standing together to push back against aggressive immigration enforcement overreach. From blocking new detention warehouses to standing up for our neighbors, our collective action is making a difference.

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Trump’s appointees wanted a voting machine hacked, the findings sent to the White House, and its maker kept in the dark. And we’re supposed to trust them? Nobody in power should get a secret weapon to challenge the votes that could fire them. #TrumpsCrimesOnYourDime

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Following a press conference with the Workers Circle's Director of Social Justice, Noelle Damico, Immigrant Rights Organizer, Arianne Betancourt, and families of detainees, USA TODAY reports on gravely ill ICE detainees in South Florida facing possible deportation to African countries.

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“‘I received a call from several detainees letting me know that men were being pulled in to interviews with deportation agents, where they were being informed that because of their medical conditions, Mexico would not be accepting their entry, and they will be sent to Africa,’ Arianne Betancourt"

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@washingtonpost.com covered our Virtual Benefit, a table reading of the iconic film An American Tail, which featured stars including Mark Hamill, Jesse Eisenberg, Dulé Hill, and Bernadette Peters. Photo: Fievel Mousekewitz in the 1986 animated film “An American Tail.” (Universal/Everett Collection)

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In this article, author Lev Golinkin describes how the film and the benefit’s cause resonate with his own personal history as a Jewish refugee from Soviet Ukraine seeking the American dream.

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An American Tail tells a Jewish story of immigration, a topic that is still relevant today — 40 years after the film’s release — as the Trump administration deports and persecutes immigrants. Read more here: www.circle.org/news/washing...

circle.orgIn the Washington Post: That cartoon mouse was me, and his American Dream is still mine — The Workers CircleThe Washington Post covered the Workers Circle’s Virtual Benefit, a table reading of the beloved film An American Tale , featuring stars including Mark Hamill, Jesse Eisenberg, Dulé Hill, Bernadette...
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This illustration from the October 1950 edition of the Call highlights how Congress should be answerable to the people who elect them. With the midterms in only a few weeks, vote for strong leadership whose actions back up their words. #TheCall #WorkersCircle #Vote #Voting Courtesy, "Justice"

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We knocked 1,028 doors this past weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina as part of our voter empowerment efforts to get out the vote and fight voter suppression before the midterms! #NoKings #NoKingsVoteEarly #GOTV #GetOutTheVote #DemandDemocracy

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This October, we’re ghosting voter suppression. It’s time to leave limiting groups of people to register, vote, or cast an effective ballot in the dirt. Every eligible voter deserves the same opportunity to vote. What are you ghosting? #WorkersCircle #Ghosting #SpookySeason #SocialJustice

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Remarks by Yosl Mlotek, the Workers Circle / Arbeter Ring educationald Director at the 1995 Workers Circle / Arbeter Ring Teachers Conference. A little piece of history! (English supertitles by Yasha Giner) #WorkersCircle #yiddish

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Oscar Belgal was shot in his car while his five year old was sitting in the back seat. He is now in ICE custody with the bullet still lodged in his neck. We will not be silent until Oscar is released, the agents involved are held accountable, and ICE is abolished. #ICEOutOfNY #DemandDemocracy

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Your call can make the difference as you'll provide critical non-partisan information to help Black voters overcome obstacles and vote. Our very democracy is on the ballot. We'll train you on the call. Can we count on you? https://www.circle.org/events/early-vote-call-a-palooza-2026

circle.orgEarly Voting Call-a-Palooza — The Workers CircleJoin Center for Common Ground and the Workers Circle as we call Black voters in four different states for four hours, encouraging them to vote and providing resources that make it easier to check where they are registered and find the voting information they need. Our very democracy is on the ballo

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Indivisible ❌👑
@indivisible.org

Today, millions of Americans hit the streets for the BIGGEST early vote activation in US history! Next, we're going to make sure every vote is counted, the election results are certified, and the winners are seated in January. Join our mass call to learn more: bit.ly/whatsnext1021.

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Refugee Advocacy Lab
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North Carolina is home to more than 13,000 Haitian-Americans: caregivers, construction workers, small business owners, and parents of American citizen children. Take action to protect our neighbors with TPS! actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-s... @momsrising.org @workerscircle.bsky.social

actionnetwork.orgTell Senator Tillis: Co-Sponsor S. 4814 and Protect Haitian TPS!The Senate has gone home until after Election Day, and senators left without acting to protect 350,000 Haitian people from deportation. Since TPS ended in July, ICE has ramped up deportation flights t...
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Gemini and Crypto. com faced SEC investigations. Trump’s SEC dropped them. Then the companies, executives, & investors tied to those cases sent more than $210 million to Trump-aligned super PACs. That’s a hell of a return on investment and it didn’t help you. #TrumpsAbuseOfPower

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You pay $4 at the pump. Trump calls Canada, our biggest energy partner, “one of the worst countries in the world,” then goes shopping for diesel from Russia. Putin gets cash for his war. Trump gets a headline. You get the bill. #TrumpsAbuseOfPower

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ACLU
@aclu.org

ICE is refusing to return personal items to people who've been released, including driver's licenses and passports, proof of immigration status, employment authorization documents, cell phones, wedding rings, cash, and more. This is illegal. The ACLU of DC and ACLU of Illinois are suing.

courthousenews.comACLU sues ICE over refusal to return personal items to detainees after releaseOne of the seven named plaintiffs, an immigrant from Russia, had his work authorization documents and his wedding band seized by ICE and has been unable to retrieve them after five months.

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Indivisible ❌👑
@indivisible.org

We stand with Indivisibles and our partners demanding Oscar Belgal’s release, a full independent investigation, and immediate release of the body camera footage. And we join them in urging the public not to shop at Target until they stop letting DHS use their parking lots as staging sites for ICE!

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Defiance Dispatch
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In a major ruling Friday, a federal judge struck down the Trump administration’s nationwide voter roll campaign, delivering a damaging blow to the Department of Justice’s effort to obtain states’ unredacted voter rolls,

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In this conversation, Avram and Moish will attempt to cover all of it — honoring Moish's own multifaceted Workers Circle legacy, the pioneering work of Yiddish song collectors and scholars Yosl and Chana Mlotek, Avram's new Yiddish dictionary for our time, and the future of the Mlotek legacy.

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In an intimate interview exploring Yiddish cultural roots, Avram Mlotek will sit down with his uncle Mark (Moish) Mlotek — past president of the Workers Circle, treasurer of the Forward, and president of the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene.