Hello, hello, hello. How is everybody? This is John Mason. Tomorrow is Mother's Day. And that is the time we pay our respects to all the women in our lives, our mothers and our wives, and our girlfriends, and our sisters, and every other woman that we come across. Happy Mother's Day, ladies. And if we want the best for the women in our lives, we must protect the reproductive rights. There are all these states going around that places the most onerous restrictions on abortions. Like you only have an abortion after so many weeks before you even know the woman even knows that there's a fetus inside of her. And you remembered uh Katie Brett, the senator from Arkansas, who had this very ham bad case of ham acting after Biden's uh State of the Union address. Is that the best Republicans can do? Well anyway, she has this bright idea of a database. She's proposing this bill that would establish a database for all women who are pregnant. Hello, hello, hello. John Mason, how is everybody? Hope you're all well. Keeping cool in the heat. And Philadelphia's 97 degrees Fahrenheit right now. On a cheering note, one of the myriad of labor organizations I am active in is Philipposh, the Philadelphia Area Project for Occupational Safety and Health. We recently had our membership meeting. And what is Philiposh? It's an organization of trade unionists who are active in the issue of occupational health and safety, making sure that workers are free to work in a healthy and safe environment without the danger of any injury or even death. That has been a problem. Workers have been injured on the job and killed on the job. Whereas and meanwhile, their loved ones, the wives, their spouses, their children feel abandoned, lost, they're devastated. But what does the bot company do? Nothing. They don't give a rat's ass about the worker. Find us some other cog to put in the machine. That's their attitude. But we know that workers are human beings. And the rights to a healthy and safe working environment must be must be addressed. We network with academics in the field of what they call industrial hygiene to check on issues related to occupational safety, like if there is any chemical fumes in the air that might be carcinogenic, or or there's a there is a some sort of machinery that is not good ergonomically for workers, or that a work site may cause a worker to like fall down and be injured, if not outright killed. If they are injured, how do they Philip Hosh helps them navigate the workers' comp system? It's as if the corporate company is uh stingy about uh giving any support to workers who have been injured. Because it cuts into their bottom line. It cuts into their quarterly profit margin. And we hold such bosses uh to account. We have several regular events, such as Workers Memorial Day. That is an event at the end of June. No, April, at the end of April, where we commemorate workers who have been killed on the job. I've been to several of those events. We have the the families of those who have been who have been killed on the job in the most horrific ways. And we have workers who have been injured on the job explaining their situation. I remember this one Mexican gentleman who was working in the kitchen of a restaurant. He felt this pain in his leg. His boss wouldn't let him have a sick time, so he had to keep working at the in that kitchen. It turns out the leg was gang had gangrene. It had to be amputated. These are real workers going through real and really bad situations, telling their stories. And we are capable of telling our stories. We are capable of banding together, fighting for what is our due. Or if there isn't a union in your work site, get together with your co-workers and contact a union that for it that is compatible for your industry. After that is done, make this on top of your do-to-to-do list, addressing uh work site safety. Find out which chemicals are laying around and poisoning the atmosphere, spraying fumes all over the work site. And ventilation. It's particularly important in these uh in this ninety degree or so weather. Make sure that there's ventilation so that air circulates and the fumes don't collect and fumes can get out and fresh air can get in. If a worker is injured, make sure they get their health, their a hand, they hold their hand through the workers' comp. And just remember, without the workers, the bosses would be talking to their own damn selves. They they won't be able to accomplish nothing. Okay. Okay then. That's it for now. For now, and now advertisements. All this work I do in my media with my media, my blog and my podcast and my YouTube channel, all that. My poetry, my fiction is work. Yes, it's work. It's work I have to do. And I need to be paid for my work. I need support. So I can uh reimburse myself for the for what I have to shell out for this work. Like uh paying for this uh the podcast system and uh paying for the work on my YouTube channel and see about uh raising it to the higher level. Therefore, I ask you, please get on my website, john omason.com, and click either the PayPal button or the buy me a coffee button. And rest assured I greatly appreciate it. Thank you. And also my novel and my two volumes of poetry. Soldier of the Cross is available on Amazon.com. It's the story of David Lucas, who as a young man in the early 60s is a drunken, a horde chaser, and a school bully. He gets in trouble in the army. He comes out of the army, a born-again fanatical Christian, a fundamentalist, manly man for Jesus, who just wants to serve Jesus, but the way he goes about it leads him to disaster. Please look him up. Please look it up. Soldier of the Cross. And my two poetry volumes, Mutterings and Out of the Box. Thank you. I greatly appreciate it. They're on Amazon.com. And also, Hamporific is a lovely little CBD product store located on Snyder Avenue near 15th Street in South Philadelphia. There you'll find some of the finest cannabis-infused products. Gummies and candies and flour and teas and lip balm and hand sanitizer and dog treats. Dog treats, yeah. Do please look her up. Look them up. Himporificlc.com. And also my beloved career and business coach Michelle Snow. Michelle is way excellent in helping you develop your professional career or small business. Let you know what you're doing right, where you need work, and help you network with other up-and-coming entrepreneurs or professionals. Please look her up. Grow with snow.com. Okay. Alrighty then. That's it for now. For now. One more thing. I'm big on affirmations. These short, sweet, positive statements you make to yourself on a regular basis. I got mine on printed on index cards. We have to retool our minds. Everywhere people are telling us we're defeated. We're broken. We can't do anything. We're helpless. They can do anything they want to us. But we must have this information. We are strong, we are powerful. We beat them in the past. We'll keep on beating them until they stay beat. Keep that in mind. As the saying goes, free your mind, your ass will follow. Alrighty then? Take care. Shabbat shalom. Bye.
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