Sign the Petition: Support GE Workers to Build Ventilators Not Bombers!

Petition to Support GE Workers

We support striking General Electric workers\' actions and demands that GE build ventilators!

General Electric is laying off 50% of its highly skilled workforce and firing 2,600 workers due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. GE workers already make ventilators. Instead GE could easily expand production. Hundreds of thousands of lives are at stake.

GE workers are demanding that GE immediately reprioritize and start mass-producing ventilators and essential medical equipment. Support the workers demands that GE provide necessary protections for workers and instead of laying off its trained workforce, ramp up the building of ventilators and focus on the welfare of the people.

GE is a major defense contractor. Pouring hundreds of billions into the U.S. Defense Budget defends no one except Wall Street.

We are in dire need of medical equipment to defend those fighting for every breath.

In this moment of global crisis it is past time for both the US Government and Industries to re-prioritize:

US AID has pledged only $65 Million in International COVID-19 assistance. This puny amount is what the Pentagon spends in 1 hour on the US military budget. This is an endless subsidy for oil and military corporations. *

                                         *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *          Fund people’s needs not war!          *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *

Now GE is scheduled to get $ Billions more in Trump\'s stimulus package to defense industries, while laying off thousands of workers.

                                         *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *          People Need Healthcare and Jobs, NOT Warfare!          *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *

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More information: 

General Electric is laying off workers due to the Coronavirus Pandemic.  However, they might have a better option.    According to a report on AdWeek.com

At General Electric, some plant workers walked off the job Monday because they want the company to shift factories to produce the much-needed ventilators increasingly sought by desperate hospitals. The picket comes one week after GE announced plans to fire about 2,600 workers and temporarily lay off another 50% of its workforce for three months. In a letter, GE leadership said the layoffs would save the company $500 million to $1 billion, but later that week President Trump signed a stimulus package designed to pour money into defense contractors like GE.

The facts are:

  • GE gets $3+ Billion in US Military contracts.
  • GE get $Billions in Fed bailouts.
  • But are laying off workers.
  • GE workers already make ventilators. So GE could easily expand production.

According to an article in the Boston Business Journal,

The unions are asking GE to begin immediate discussions about manufacturing ventilators at its aviation, generator and lighting facilities. GE last week announced plans to lay off roughly 2,600 aviation employees in the U.S. because of the economic turmoil caused by the pandemic. Hospitals across the country face a severe shortage of ventilators, equipment necessary to save the lives of those most affected by the coronavirus.

“Our country depends on these highly skilled workers, and now they wonder why they are facing layoffs, instead of having the opportunity to use their unbelievable skills to help save lives,” CWA President Chris Shelton told reporters Monday.

President Trump’s initiative to pour money into defense is misplaced if it goes to manufacture standard military weapons when we are in dire need of medical equipment to defend ourselves against the Coronavirus caused Pandemic.

US AID has pledged only $65 Million in International COVID-19 assistance. This puny amount is what the Pentagon gets in 1 hour in the US military budget. $765 Billion @ year is $2 Billion / day or $60 million / hour for war.   General Electric, like USAID is a long time arm of the pursuit of US Global hegemony.

It is time for both Government and Industry to re-prioritize:

Fund people’s needs not war.
Build Ventilators, Not Bombers. 

*Featured Image:  General Electric employees protest outside the GE headquarters to try and persuade the company to make more ventilators. ~Gary Higgins / Boston Business Journal

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Carolyn Poinelli
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Carolfrances Likins
Save lives, not profits!
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Alexandra Dinning
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Colin Smith
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Andrew Ward
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Kellie White
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Dan Wicht
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Stephanie Allen
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Stephanie Manzo
Thank you for your time and consideration of reprioritization of funds
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Antigone McDermott
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Rita Jacobs
Peace Action Committee of the Green Party supports your actions. Peace to all.
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Rita Jacobs
Peace must reign during this time of pandemic suffering.
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Eileen Dunn
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Brek Renzelman
Reset priorities--people first!
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Candy Stark
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William Young
GE, Stop creating humanitarian crises with your obscene war profiteering! Instead, help solve globsl
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Barbara Sardarov
Ventilators Yes...Bombs No
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Alan Batten
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Jesse Mark Freed
Great Work Thank You., be encouraged You are SO not alone Despite what the fascist try to sell US, WE the People are more United than Divided. With Swords made into underwater wave generators. Peace.
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Barbara Budd
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Barbara Harris
Workers For Peace - work for people's health
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Jean Brechan
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Ingrid Alpha
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Pearl Follett
Peace first save the planet no war material should be made ever
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Bill Angel
GE, Produce goods of social value instead of destructive anti-value. Keep the workers working for the good cause
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Margarita Elias
Support GE Workers, Produce Ventilators
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Kat David
Build Ventilators Not Bombs!
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Stephen Bailey
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Terrie Williams
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Thomas Gilmore
Human Welfare, Not More Warfare!
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John Estes
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Tina McKim
Workers have it right- we need to save lives!
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Olesia Januszewski
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Janine Vinton
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jenny maida
We've had more than enough death and destruction. How about a movement for Protection of life, rather than a Taking of life?!
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Libby Hazen
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Madeleine Holman
Ventilators, Not Bombers
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pat westwater-jong
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Tamara Lorincz
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Anthony Minnick
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Jim Yarbrough
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Bob Morse
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sue bastian
goodonya, ge workers! ventilators not bombs. capitalism sucks,
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Freya Harris
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Phylllis Arist
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greeley wells
Build Ventilators Not Bombers
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Glen Anderson
Trump is HORRIBLY CRUEL and HORRIBLY INCOMPETENT!!!! Ordinary people must take leadership to save our nation!!!!
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nancy mathers
We support..
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Mary Ann Jones
Stop subsidizing "defense" industries!
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Alex Mendelsohn
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Nozomi Stephenson
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Barbara Armentrout
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Elizabeth Story
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Susan Keane
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Betty Davis
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Gwendolyn Debrow
This is a no brainer of course GE should be building Ventilators NOW!
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marilyn Hymes
Please help workers do the right thing
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Gail Sredanovic
This is obviously the right thing to do and history will remember who did the right thing and who did not.
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Alice Anne Martineau
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Denise Lytle
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Wayne Stinson
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steve leggett
Build ventilators and save lives not bombs that take lives
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Terri Prevost
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Molly Rush
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Angelica Harter
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Elaine Carol
Please support the essential workers! Build ventilators not bombs!
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sherrod perkins keane
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Daryl Weeks
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Cynthia Wilson
I am forwarding this petition to everyone on my contact list
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Patricia Lower
WE NEED A WORK FORCE TO KEEP THIS COUNTRY GOING. RE-INSTATE THE GE EORKERS Please
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Tim Keating
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Jenny Howell
Seems like a sensible idea.
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Struan Dudman
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Victoria Carolan
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Martha Schmidt
This is a perfect kind of conversion, with a workforce at the ready and known demand.
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Rose Hall
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Elizabeth Waldron MD
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MARGARITA ASENCIO-LOPEZ
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Bill Preston
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Julie Wegener
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AJ Elterman
Please choose to act to save lives by keeping your workforce and manufacturing life saving products instead of destructive ones.
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Art Hanson
Protect People NOT Profits!
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Tom Makarewicz
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Pat Devereaux
I agree with these GE workers they have their hearts in the right place
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Carolina Graterol
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Steven Books
I bet the GE can build a ventilator at a lower price than General Motors $ 16,313.33 each.
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Jim Bearden
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NR Kanhai
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Elizabeth Mow
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Michael Killeen
Save lives!
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Gordon Muggy
Adding more war to the world will never bring peace.
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Patricia Gracian
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John Melody
Plowshares!
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Sheila Koren
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Kira Gresoski
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Dennis Gallie
workers need income and sick people need medical equipment.
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Kima Garrison
EXPAND PRODUCTION OF VENTILATORS!
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pamela dauteuil
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Dorothy Johnson
This will save lives do the right thing
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Lynn Biddle
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Tara Swift
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Louis Makarewicz
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Julie Watkins
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Dr. Eshetu Wondimagegne
Urgent
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Marcy Gordon
Support GE Workers!
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Sharon Wallace
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Corey Schade
Support for GE workers
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Ann Ray
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Richard Hart
Solidarity to the strikers. Fighting for the good, not warfare
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Anne Clark
Common sense
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Binnie Yeates
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cheryl kozanitas
ventilators, not bombs!
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Ann Garrett
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Robert Spies
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Fran Makarewicz
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Sean Barclay
I support this initiative wholeheartedly
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Jeannine Laverty
GE: Turn to Life, away from Death!
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Adam Eyring
Use GE to make supplies!
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Meredith Bruskin
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barbara white
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Deborah Warden-Hicks
Support GE Workers!!!
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Kathryn Titus
Solidarity for your safety!
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Margaret Nielsen
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Cris Toffolo
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mallory musser
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joel lorimer
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Serit Kotowski
Alice in Wonderland; up is down, wrong is right and stupid is beyond stupid.
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Susan Davis
Build ventilators, not bombs!
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Daniel Klubock
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Arsha Keshishian’s
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Donna Gould
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Gene Ulmer
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Richard Falzone
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Karel Kilimnik
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Polly Mann
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Janet Collins
Breath, not bombs please
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Charles Keller
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Richard Krushnic
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Jacques Morris
Scale Up GE Production of Medical Equipment
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Bistra Staykova
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Jim Dorenkott
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Judith Becker
We need ventilators as soon as possible to save lives, not bombs to end them!
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Ellen Rosser
Yes, the world needs ventilators not bombs.
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William Warrick III MD
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Melissa Bird
Let's Produce More Productive Things
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karyn barry
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Chris Panzica
Thanks for standing up for everyone! We need high tech companies to build live saving, not life destroying products
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Gwen Morris
These workers are right! Nix the bombs, and fix the people!
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Dan Krauss
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Fay Strigler
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Barbara Humphrey
Healthcare not war
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Mark Lesko
Build things to save lives
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Junichiro Endo
That's the way.
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MALLIE TARKINGTON
Let them build ventilators!
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Seymour Kellerman
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joe reilly
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Roger Harris
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Catherine Stack
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Janet Harmon
Ventilator making is a necessary job
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Barbara Williams
Disgusting that we have to work to make GE do the right thing, but thank you UNAC!
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Hollis Higgins
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William Warnock
Be decent
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Susan Spang
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Victor Wallis
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JOHN HANCOCK
SUPPORT THIS FULLY!!
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Joshua Meyers
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nancy eberg
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Ed Broomfield
Come on GE, show some leadership.
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Gabriel Camacho
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Michael Keefer
This is a no-brainer, GE!
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Steve Livingston
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john papandrea
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Edward Hennessy
GE laying off workers that could produce critically needed medical supplies, plus keep them workiong, though typical of large corporations putting profits over people, is especially dispicable in our current pandemic situation. Shame/Shame on them all!
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Kristine Moore
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Rael Nidess, M.D.
Breathing Not Bombs!!
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Drake Myers
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Barbara C. Marriott
Thank you GE workers
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Andrew Costigan
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Sheila Hamanaka
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Gary Neu
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ron wilson
i worked for ge 33 years. things changed with jack welch as ceo and now its a nightmare
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John Warne
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Linda Sturgeon
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Caryn Cowin
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Michael Grish
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Mike Gimbel
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Sarah Martin
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Kent Mori
Money for Human Needs, Not for War.
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David Brandt
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Susan Etscovitz
Get on with it now!
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Suz McLaughlin
GE, YOU OWE the AMERICAN PEOPLE YOUR EFFOTS in our time of NEED!!!
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TINA VOLZ-BONGAR
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Karen Barton
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Bonniie Nessanbaum
Stop building bombs and contributing 2 destruction! Build human and environmental resourcesfor life;
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Dave Long
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MICHELE DESROSIERS
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Phil Wilayto
Fight COVID 19, not our Sisters and Brothers around the world!
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NK Acevedo
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Roger Best
Ventilators Not Violence!
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Sara Driscoll
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Meredith Aby
Money for human needs not war!
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Peter Scholtes
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Christine Roane
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Francine Ungaro
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arlene d
skip the bombs do something good
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James Henle
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Bill Sloan
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Nancy Woolley
Put your efforts to promote life not death.
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Louis DE benedette
No bombs no nuclear parts of ge
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Sandra Diener
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Rev Susan W
YES. GE is perfectly positioned to make protective equipment. Now is the TIME!!!!
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Alan Papscun
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Barbara Mullin
No reason to layoff workers when ventilators are in great need. Time to expand production.
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Katarina Burda
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Jonathan Cook
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Dorothy Anderson
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marcia caban
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Bonnie Koshofer
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Jacqueline King
Healthcare not Warfare!
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Susa Smith
Ventilators Not Bombs
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Ellen Mass
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Douglas Pomeroy
Keep on keeping on!
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Jay Hormel
Put people before profits!
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Chris Panzica
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Linda O'Brien-Rothe
make ventilators not bombs
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Jill Paulus
Turn this nation toward Health! Hire people to build ventilators
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Norma De Santiago
We need ventilator to save lifes
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Susan McLucas
This is a wonderful reason to strike. Good for the workers at GE!
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Henry Lowendorf
More killing machines mean more death. Bigger military budgets mean more wars and more enemies. Fight Covid-19, not our fellow human beings.
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Mary Beth Sullivan
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Jan Thomas
This is a no-brainer. Do not waste these workers' expertise when it is so desperately needed.
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Joan Rossy
No more unnecessary wars to fill the pockets of certain people
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chris smith
Stop the greed remember the jeed6
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Thomas Moss
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Phillip J Crabill
Peace and NOT war!!!!!!
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Fred Morrison
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Timothy Havel
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Rachel Bruhnke
Healthcare Not Warfare
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Nicolas Davies
Please make more ventilators. We will not forget or forgive how GE responds to this crisis!
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Ann Adams
Let's finally get it right, end war makers and enabkers
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Robert Sacco
Capital over all. The deadly Ethos of our time. GE and other manufacturers should shift production priorites and use this crisis for longer-term reordering of manufacturing priorites to stockpile vital equipment for future crises. But that would require rational planning and-God forbid!-cooperation w/non-profit-priority planning entities, workers, and people generally, the bane of of capitalism!
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Diane Nassif
Build ventilators not bombs.
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Michael Clarke
Allow GE workers to do something useful to help tackle the Covid-19 crisis.
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Felicia Eaves
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Medea Benjamin
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Eugene Woloszyn
Cut War production, satisfy human needs in a time of corona & a repeatedly failing financial system
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Eleni Christopoulou
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Francine Dempsey
Don't punish loyal employees. Help the virus sufferers.
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Phil Kindler
I’m a retired GE worker from River Works plant in Lynn, Mass and a union activist.
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Lesley Grahame
Let's take this opportunity to diversify
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Matthew Scholtes
Save Lives!
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Christy Gordon
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Evan Giller
Retool to build ventilators
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Kent Shifferd
Make as many as possible--put everone to work
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Leila Black
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Ceil Lavan
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Marylee Hardenbergh
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Alex Koskinas
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Peter perry
Prioritize life saving equipment not war!
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Janyce Lukowski
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john sillett
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Brian Salisbury
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Romea Gerini
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Peter Lee
Yes, the Right Thing to DO!
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Erwin Franzen
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Steven Jonas
https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Deconstruction-of-the-by-Steven-Jonas-2020_Corporations_Death_Epidemiology-200325-746.html
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Andreas Wisuschil
I suport these Petition!
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Anit Dutt
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Angelo Baracca
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John Routley
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Paula Shafer
I support the strikers. Keep up the good work!
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Magda Oldziejewska
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Dogan Ozkan
Workers rights are human rights
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Brian Reynolds
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Lisa Savage
Protect GE workers and let them build ventilators to protect everyone
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Lionel Burman
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jeff hoffman
we must stop producing and spending on weapons of all kind
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Gary Hankins
Solidarity!
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Susan Metz
Transition to Survival. Suicide is foolish
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Romayne Phoenix
Socially useful production now !
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Tom Violett
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Erich and Joan Ruger
Reassign workers to build ventilators
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Karamjit Gill
it is wonderful to see the historical LUCAS PLAN alive and in action
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Ursula Mathern
Swords in to Ploughshares! Very good action!
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Darlene Coffman
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Astrid Möller
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Mary Jo Fesenmaier
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Giorgio Riva
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Kristin Norderval
GE needs to step up! This is a national emergency.
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Elizabeth Aaronsohn
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Janet Larson
this message needs to get out to cities and states short of ventilators
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Clive Fudge
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Ken Parks
Médicos no bombas -Doctors not bombs
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David Lamar
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jan bennett
People over money and war.
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alice slater
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Joan Bleidorn
Support!
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Jan Passion
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Theodore Voth
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Thomas Re
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Carolyn T. Israel
Military stuff is good for only one thing: DEATH, while we're fighting for LIFE.
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Martin Birkle
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Barbara Birkle
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Peter Reay
Ventilators now.. not weapons of destruction
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Llamedos Traut
Agree
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Paolo D'Arpini
Sure!
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Gordana Rešicki Degoricija
Production should be human-oriented , produce what people need, not only generate profits.
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Ivo Sesnic
Fire Trump is the best
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caitlin manning
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Roberta Badger-Cain
Work for good, fear not evil, work for good.
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Darina Drapkin
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Charlene Tanner
Ventilators b4 bombs
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Grace Shimizu
GE Workers are exposing not only the incompetence of the Trump Administration, but also what it and GE stand for - profiteering from the lives of the people of this nation and the world during this global public health and economic crisis. Let history record the names of those elected officials and corporate bandits in a Hall of Shame and uphold the courage of the GE workers!
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Mary Sprunger-Froese
amen! my dad was a lifelong GE employee, and would say the same!
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Carole Abrahams
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Theodore Wilcox
We've got your back. Keep up the good work!
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Bob Bryner
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Louise Slattery
Build Ventilators Not Bombs
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Caroline Dutton
Instead of laying off workers have them make badly needed medical equipment
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Susan Scott
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Oosha Ramsoondar
Ventilators will save many lives, focus on life not death.
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Thomas Bauch
Healthcare not warfare
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Farook Chandiwala
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Maryq Davies
Great idea!
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Gregg Kozloff
Good
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JOE DECESARE
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Karen Grissom
GE needs to be making ventilators and other equipment for the common good. This should be a priority of everyone including the Trump Administration.
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Pierre Labossiere
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Natasha Mayers
Make ventilators, not weapons
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Roger Lagassé
Respiritory Health not Nuclear Hell !
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Alan Taplow
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Annapoorne Colangelo
Put people's lives at top priority - not money!
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Ken Yale
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Holly Hart
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Brian Holmes
What are people for? For each other!
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Virginia McFarland
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Richard Ochs
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Lynnda Mankin
There is one heart and we have to protect our American people with vents now.
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Aga Trojniak
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Susan Hawkinson
Stop global militant usa
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Murray Beaver
Ventilators not weapons can save lives
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Paul Troyano
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Raphael Montoliu
The SOCIOPATHS at GE have a unique opportunity to REDEEM themselves.
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Margaret Flowers
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Rev. John Long
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Kevin Zeese
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Jana Mariposa Niernberger Muhar
Yes, Brothers and Sisters, it is time to stand up for AMERICA; and peace, and compassion!
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William Grosh
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James Yarker
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Timothea Papas
Yes, ventilators and light bulbs!
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George Milkowski
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Rev. Sandra Decker
Move to peace time, full time.
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Elizabeth Topitzer
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Corey E. Olsen
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Tom Klem
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David Ledesma
"THEY CAN BOMB THE WORLD TO PIECES, BUT THEY CAN'T BOMB THE WORLD TO PEACE"
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Kathryn Melton
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David Barouh
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Michael S Goodman
Make PPE, not defense weapons!
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Douglas Turnbull
Capitalism kills everything, people and our Earth. Yes to people and Earth friendly SOCIALISM NOW.
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Joan Nicholson
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Tony Savino
Save lives and employ workers now!
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steve Saelzler
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Jane Toby
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Raleigh Koritz
Help these people now, please.
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clare ritchie
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Bonita Staas
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Nancy Withington
WEAPONS KILL! VENTILATORS SAVE LIVES!!! WE, THE PEOPLE WANT LIVES SAVED!!!!!!!!
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Robert Grace
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J Peters
Turn the manufacturing to a social purpose. Put decent wages for all before profit for few.
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Toni Serafini
People over profit !!
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Juan Gomez
The world need peace and health, no weapons and wars
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janet nye
Let's turn toward peace before it is too late. We can build a peace-oriented economy, and one that guarantees a viable planet for future generations.
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Mieko Iwasaki
I hope storong this is.
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joe weis
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Laura Wilder
We need ventilators; we don't need bombs!
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Maureen Wheeler
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Jeanne Peters
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Suzanne Renard
Keep your employees and turn your production to saving lives. Everyone wins with ventilators, not bombs!
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Peter Godfrey
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Ann Clune
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Hilda Richey
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Richenda Kramer
Lives are more important than anything else.
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Lewis Patrie
We need sickness prevention; not war promotion!
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Jelica Roland
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Mike McDonald
The empire will fall!
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Barbara Boltz
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Laura Ziegler
GE, Deploy your workers to meet this desperate national need!
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Mike Madden
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Fred Koster
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Mark Hackler
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Philip Dennany
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Raphael Agosto-Miranda
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Marian Cruz
I support the workers!
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Susan Oehler
I support GE workers actions!
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Susan Sheinfeld
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Loren Goldnere
Good work!
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Josette COUCHOUD
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Barry Riesch
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Harvey Yoder
Please do this!
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Linda Jenkins
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Gerald Hassett
Good work
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Gregory Holston
11,000 fired by Ronald Reagan
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William Schneider
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John Tischhauser
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Vyacheslav Shokurov
We need to train workers to use ventilators.
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Manna Jo Greene
I am a shareholder and urge GE to retain and redirect you workforce to address the Covid pandemic.
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Keith Brooks
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Ginny Schneider
Build Ventilators, Please
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Jon Olsen
Shut down all war production!
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Eileen Weitzman
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Eleanor Levine
Support GE workers desire to build ventilators not bombs
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Emilie Vardaman
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Wally Inglis
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Diane McKenna
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Rosemary Graf
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Dante O'Hara
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Miguel Gravelle
All power to all the people!
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Paul Sauerw
More ventilators!
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Edward Briody
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Wendy King
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Margot Becker
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Rep.+Seth Armstrong, +retired
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Charles Altman
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Alice Hamers
Global Ceasefire End Sanctions Build Ventilators Not Bombs
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Marc Norton
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Brian Reardon
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Laura Dewey
It should be all hands on deck during this crisis
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Shay Hearne
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Renate Bridenthal
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Sally McMillan
GE is a good example of what the war and Wall St.culture can bring down. Get smart, GE/try peace.
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Duane A Kamrath
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Wesson Gaige
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Rev. Dr. Holly Beaumont
GE needs to demonstrate their allegiance to this nation by building Ventilators NOW.
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Eugene Marner
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Marina Kun
Ventilators are clearly a priority to save Canadians' lives
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Florence Steichen
bombs don't save lives
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J Marie
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Marina Shpirt
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Robert Siegel
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Elise p Rackmill
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Joseph Hancock
Bring good things to life!
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Carol Jagiello
Ventilators desperate;y needed worldwide right now. As you know people are on ventlators for up to many weeks with this virus. The excess supply is needed and the sooner the better. Put your workers back to work and help save lives now.
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Wendy Fast
We need ventilators to save lives. We don't need bombs to take lives!
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Manuel paz
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Karlene Embler
Don't take lives, save lives.
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Hazel Landa
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Diana Bohn
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Kim Hagerich
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Allen Thompson
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Susan Pennington
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Lynn Shoemaker
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Prisca Gloor
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Patricia Greene
Make more ventilators and save lives. What could be more important!!!
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kouichi toyoshima
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Kenneth Mayers
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Ralph Tuscher
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Susan Klein
Ventilators not Bombs
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Barbara Zaha
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Millie Phillips
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Irving Lee
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Suzanne Ross
215
Lois Romanoff
Be responsible!!!
214
Nick Macdonald
Support the workers. Build ventilators, please.
213
Bety Robinson
We need all of our talented workers helping to provide what our hospitals need!
212
Elizabeth Clymer
211
John Avery
210
Shelia Cassidy
Put them back to work making masks and ventilators!
209
Colleen Lobel
We support striking General Electric workers' actions
208
Barry Kade
When making ventilators, GE is a defense contractor. When making bombs, it is a military contractor.
207
Deborah Armstrong
206
JOHN CEVASCO
205
Kathleen Densmore
204
Diane Turner
203
Ting Barrow
202
Ken Burritt
201
Connie Frisbee Houde
200
Nancy Ramsden
No more arms for war help stop this virus so we can all stay alive by building ventilators
199
Chuck Nasmith
chuck
198
Babette Grunow
Save lives--Build Ventilators!
197
EILEEN MASSEY
196
Thomas Sanders
Fuck GE!!
195
Gérard Couchoud
194
Peter Gale
193
Marlena Santoyo
I support the workers demands that GE provide necessary protections for workers and instead of laying off its trained workforce, ramp up the building of ventilators and focus on the welfare of the people.
192
Bob Lichtenbert
191
Howard Petrick
Stop the layoffs and firings!
190
Ben Gordon
189
Linda Jansen
Breaths Not Bombs!
188
James Mulcare
187
Gloria Rubac
I suport the GE workers to make ventilators!
186
Sanderson Beck
185
dorinda kelley
they need protection from the virus
184
Henry Noble
I'm a former GE worker in Lynne. MA Yes. make ventilators!
183
M. Canz
182
Christopher Overfelt
181
Max Obuszewski
We need ventilators.
180
Shan L
179
Anne Curran
healthcare not health destruction!
178
Con Carroll
Solidarity
177
robin hensel
176
judy lubow
175
Kathe Garbrick
174
John Hansen
173
Niall Farrell
200% support!
172
Dan Luker
171
Joan McClellan
Know we're going to need more!!
170
Brandon Barnard
Now is the time.
169
Kathleen Myers
168
fran merker
perhaps your workers will actually feel good about what they are doing for a living
167
Bill Scheurer
166
Gretchen Nielsen
Am writing letters to editors/want Tiucson's Raytheon to make ventilatos !
165
Jeanne Finley
164
Robert Cable
We must defend against REAL enemies--scarcity, poverty, disease, unemployment, etc.
163
Alice Brody
Ventilators, Not Bombs
162
Mary Beth Brangan
Health supplies not destruction supplies!
161
Barbara and Jim Dale
We need no more life-destroying technologies; we desperately need life-saving ones.
160
Rik Masterson
159
Jeffrey Shurtleff
We Need Workers Building "LIFE MACHINES".......not the opposite
158
Joanna Straughn
157
Fern Tishman
156
Ralph Poynter
155
William Johnson
154
Tom Nulty
You Have My Full Support!
153
Elisabeth Ecker
152
Pamela Gudino
HI, I am a GE shareholder because my family members helped build this company and I know they'd agree that GE should pivot to support the needs of the country and build ventilators, not bombs. They were inventors who wanted to make things to fix problems, not make bombs.
151
Joseph Modugno
150
don menowe
SOLIDARITY FOREVER
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Gary Mesker
In our country's hour of need, it's imperative for corporations to step up. General Electric should do the right thing and put layed off workers back to work on increased production of ventilators.
148
nancy sheehan
147
Robert Vail
146
Karen Pope
Keep your workers employed to make life saving equipment
145
Kathryn Christian
144
Irwin Hoenig
143
Anne Streeter
Health not war!
142
Anneliese Schultz
My dad worked for GE for many years, and I speak for him as well in asking that GE adapt and reprioritize by greatly expanding production of ventilators and, in the process, supporting its dedicated and skilled workers!
141
John Schmittauer
Keep people working.
140
Serge Arakeli
139
Rena Lewis
138
Darrion Smith
137
Stephanie Lenn
136
Michael Holmes
135
Benita Smith
134
Michael Miller
133
Carol Devoss
132
Daniel Gilman
131
Victoria Ross
130
Josie Lenwell
Protect your workers and let them make the ventilators! No more weapons of war!
129
J S
Common good. Common sense
128
Mickie Lynn
Let GE workers support life rather than war and death!
127
Valerie Niederhoffer
Ventilators help people breath who have lung problems
126
Susan R Washington
125
Jim Clune
124
Laura Kallen
123
Ryan Scott
Get it together!
122
Brian Mainprize
121
S Hedgecoke
120
SESHADRI SRINIVAS
Bombs wont save a dying person or a dying world.
119
T Mitchell
Let them build ventilators
118
dino camacho
117
Barry Grimm
116
Amy Harlib
115
gaetano apicella
Agropoli
114
Roger Drew
113
Peggy Kaufmann
Ventilators not bombs!!
112
Pe Ha
...
111
Nadezhda Garza
110
Jess Jones
109
Brian Ross Ashley
108
Rose Beatton
Im behind this
107
Rebecca Sweeney
Existence means...?
106
Miriam Torzillo
Make this change now - let's all build the transition for a post Covid economy based on well-being not war.
105
Desiree Whitney
104
Trina Stevens
103
Geoff Thomas
Very sensible suggestion
102
Terry Spackman
I support life over death manufacturing
101
Dominic Armstrong
100
Margie Pestorius
Margie
99
DH TEWS
98
Ersyla Nellajoy
Ventilators not bombs
97
Karen Aram
Defend the people, instead of killing people.
96
roberta chevalier
Yes, ventilators, not bombs now!
95
Inga Wernersdóttir
94
Johnny Panic
93
Erin Radford
92
Kurt Miron
I support GE workers
91
Sandra Twang
90
Dan Atkinson
89
Cecily O'Neil
Our very lives, and yours, may well depend on your decision.
88
Dona LaSchiava
BRAVO! GOD BLESS! STAY SAFE!
87
Sharon Dellinger
86
Ausra Kubilius
85
Ridgely Fuller
expand ventilator production: we need medical equipment NOT bombs; think of the people not your profit margins
84
Lynne Lokken
83
John Martin
82
Jobe Traywick
81
Maria Marks
Build Ventilators!
80
Kika Mann
79
Gary Lord
Free Julian Assange
78
Simon Wood
Let's care for everyone
77
Shawn Tamborini
76
Lisa Weber
75
Jim Currie
74
Cheryl Sculteis
73
Cynthia Papermaster
72
carol barclay
71
meaveen o'connor
70
Ednalyn Neeley
I support striking General Electric workers' actions and demands that GE build ventilators!
69
Laurie Konwinski
Workers want to work and we need them to work! Do the right thing, GE! Save lives!
68
Joanne Gavin
67
Jesse Bello
This is an important effort for everyone in the US to demand to leave the war economy and support actions that suports live
66
Todd Saddler
65
Katherin Cobbett
64
Mark Hackler
63
Peter Mitchell
62
Carol Pinson
Carol
61
John Koethen
60
Colleen Evans
59
Helene T Gilroy
Health Care not Warfare
58
Laura Zweig
57
Gary Evans
56
Danielle Evans
55
Greg Dunkel
54
Pippa BARTOLOTTI
ALBANY
53
John Amidon
52
Dennis Ingham
Duh
51
Roger Dennis
Why should there need to be a petition for this to happen?! I think most of us - sadly - know the answer.
50
Teri Rosenberger
49
Betsey Piette
48
Helga Fellay
Carmel Valley
47
Jean Bowdish
46
Judith Oney
45
Johnnie Lewis
44
Frederick Bialy
43
mark scibilia-carver
Omnicide is worse than a pandemic. Better to help stop a pandemic than work for the destruction of everyone.
42
Holly Reid
41
Flora Rogers
40
Mary Ellen Gilroy
Save lives! Build ventilators, not bombs!
39
william mccoy
38
Timothy J Taugher
37
Phebe Eckfeldt
I totally support!
36
Toby Blomé
35
douglas noble
this is labor in solidarity with all of us
34
Laurie DeFlaun
We are way behind the curve with absolutely no leadership on this matter of life and death. In fact we have a hoodlum in chief who, with his lackeys want to profit from the sourcing of the needs of our medical establishment.
33
Barbara Goodwin
32
Bill Jacobson
31
Jean Maloney
Ossining
30
Sue Harris
29
Mary Loehr
Ithaca
28
Elizabeth Salon
27
Larry Evans
26
Maureen Gilroy
Yes let's help people not hurt them with bombs.
25
Jack Gilroy
24
Trajan Cainaru
23
Marge Maloney
22
Zan Gerrity
21
Rev James Swarts
People and life before bombs and death.
20
Moira Scheuring
19
Sara Flounders
New York City
18
Kathy Kelly
17
Clare Grady
Thank you GE workers you bring good things to life
16
James Thompson
Come on, this is a no brainer: save lives and make $ vs kill people and lay folks off!
15
Richard Keough
Manufactor items for life not death and suffering.
14
ed kinane
13
Martha Hennessy
12
Pat OBrien
Right on!!!! thank you!!
11
Margaret Matlin
10
Arnold Matlin
9
Yoshie Furuhashi
8
Beverly Rice
Employers MUST care for workers!
7
Mark Stansbery
6
Patrick McCann
Time to stop war and save the world!
5
Bruce Gagnon
4
Ron VanNorstrand
3
Joe Lombardo
People before profit
2
Ann Tiffany
1
Judy Bello
These workers are right on! Lets all pitch in and deal with the crisis at hand.
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5 comments

  1. Not curious to note only 60 people have signed onto this petition that should have millions of Americans supporting it. Just more evidence that our greatest addiction is not opioids but militarism…we need to find a way for a cure…putting dollars into arms industry workers pockets is the tactic of corporate America that makes our struggle almost insurmountable—almost!
    jack Gilroy
    http://www.bensalmon.org

  2. The interconnectedness of all life on this planet is very obvious now . We must make choices with each other in mind.

  3. This corona is a crown of thorns. It fits all of us. No boundaries. We must distill this plague and learn to love and care for each other. Dear General Electric, find in your heart a way to help. This plague knows no boundaries. No blood is red enough to defy its gravity. Ventilators made by you could save valuable lives. Perhaps even yours.

  4. While GE is a major defense contractor, as far as I know it doesn’t make bombs, so I think the slogan is stupid. I think its major military engines and electronic components. Maybe make ventilators, not bomber engines.

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