Mark Gruenberg at People’s World reports on a Save the Post rally held in Washington, D.C. that  was much more than a protest against layoffs. Speakers and participants emphasized whether it involves the freedom of the press, saving Democracy or saving jobs, the Billionaire Class is working hard on the wrong side of history. “These layoffs are shameful,” said NewsGuild President Jon Schleuss, who then turned Washington Post Owner and Billionaire Jeff Bezos’s wealth around: “Billionaires only get rich by stealing from us. I am so sick and so disgusted with these layoffs. We have to hold power to account.” Bezos is the fourth-richest person in the world. For him, The Post’s costs are the equivalent of pocket change. One Washington-Baltimore NewsGuild Staffer told People’s World the $40 million Bezos spent on his laudatory film biopic of Right-Wing President Donald Trump’s wife, Melania, would have paid the fired Staffers for the whole year. “We asked him (Bezos) to save the Post. He refused,” said Schleuss. “It was a decision by Bezos to hire and promote incompetent executives” who could not draw up a monetary plan to save The Post without the massive cuts, Schleuss added. Said Sara Nelson, the President of the Association of Flight Attendants-Communications Workers of America: “He (Bezos) has done a good job of giving everything away to Donald Trump.” Saying the Nation’s Capital deserves and needs a great and investigative newspaper, hundreds of people gathered outside the front doors of The Post in a mass protest against the firings of the Workers and against the instigator, Bezos. While the theme of the rally was Save the Post, participants emphasized the peril to freedom of the press and independent news sources generally and The Post in particular from the Right-Wing Regime of Republican President Donald Trump and his political allies.

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