Desai at a Funeral

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There is a very sad story to be told about the head of the Taxi Workers Alliance, Bhairavi Desai. A while back, a taxi driver parked his car on a bridge and commit suicide. Distraught for some unknown reason, he felt this was his only way out. The owner of his taxi saw that the GPS unit had stopped on the bridge, but could not immediately know why. He consulted a colleague, who advised him to call the Taxi and Limousine Commission and the police.

They all converged on that taxi to discover that indeed, a driver chose to end his life in the face of what likely seemed to be insurmountable circumstances.

What came next showed the nature of the head of the TWA. The dispatcher, knowing that this man was a struggling immigrant from India, paid for the funeral and for the cost of sending his body back to India so that his family could bury him close to home and with the proper ritual his background demanded.

During the local ceremony for his friends and peers, Ms. Desai felt the need to send a private note to the dispatcher who had made the arrangements which read, “He killed himself because of you!”

That is how she supports her so called members.

The Counter Intuitive Bhairavi Desai

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In a remarkable turn of expectations, the counter intuitive Bhairavi Desai sees no issue taking cash out of the hands of the drivers with the six cent phony health initiative, to pad her own organization’s coffers, but takes issue when the city sets up speeding cameras and fines drivers for doing something illegal and dangerous.

She said of speed cameras, they are “simply another tactic to raise revenue for the city.” “With a camera, who do you argue against?” she said.

So to hear Ms. Desai tell it, the problem with speeding cabbies is that they sometimes get caught.

Someone who gets paid to advocate for the well-being of cab drivers thinks that speeding is ok, that the fines are padding city coffers, but takes money senselessly when it is her TWA that is getting the benefit.

Bhairavi Desai discusses Capitalism & Other Unnatural Disasters, in her Introduction to Marxism

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In a funny twist on the anti-Capitalism debate, Bhairavi Desai was a presenter at the Brecht Forum’s 29th Annual Intensive Introduction to Marxism on July 13, 2007, that they were charging about $95 per person for the average worker to attend.

Not sure about most people, but $95 is hard to make for the average person, and even harder for most of the people who Desai claims to represent – the taxi driver.

The class she gave was introduced by suggesting that capitalism is part of the destructive waves that “mark our times and even threaten life on this planet”. It further suggests that the “complicity of capitalism in perpetuating these ills.”

Desai then introduces the class to Karl Marx' revolutionary critique of capitalism. Desai does this as she inked a secret deal with the TLC to fund her activities lavishly off the backs of the very workers Marx wanted to protect. Taking six cents, $600 dollars per year per driver, for a fund that is only useful to the Taxi Workers Alliance and its CEO is exactly the problem that workers should not have to face.

Under the guise of defending them from the evil capitalists, Desai has subtly ripped them off in a manner that is so egregiously deceptive. She represents the very image of what she claims to detest.

Bhairavi Desai, Marxism

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Bhairavi Desai is an avowed Marxist, supporter of many un-American values. 
This site will show the truth about Bhairavi Desai, the head of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance.

Bhairavi Desai is the founding member of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, a union representing approximately 15,000 taxi drivers in New York City.
She claims to be a social activist, including advocating for the " Cuba, Palestine, and El Salvador solidarity movements." (http://socialjustice.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/index.php/Biography_of_Bhairavi_Desai)

When the New York Times wrote a story about her on December 8, 1999, they referred to her as having Marxist tendencies. She agreed, “You will forgive her if she has a tendency to speak in a kind of Marxist-labor jargon. It's just on labor that this is the way she is." (http://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/08/nyregion/public-lives-an-unlikely-organizer-as-cabdrivers-unite.html?src=pm )

For those who do not know, Marxism is a socio-economic and political ideal based on a materialist interpretation of historical development, a dialectical view of social transformation, an analysis of class-relations and conflict within society. Marxists tend to critique the development of capitalism and the role of class struggle in systemic economic change. Railing against the successful, and blaming them for the ailments of those still struggling is symbolic of Marxist mentality.

Marxism gets its name from Karl Heinrich Marx, a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and a socialist. His work in economics laid the basis for the current understanding of the labor movement and its relation to capital. He wrote the The Communist Manifesto (1848) and Das Kapital, which are guide books for Bhairavi Desai.
Marx was Born into a wealthy middle-class family AND studied at the University of Bonn and the University of Berlin. He wrote for a radical newspaper in Cologne, and began to work out his theory of dialectical materialism. Marx campaigned for socialism and became a significant figure in the International Workingmen's Association.

Marx's theories about society, economics and politics – collectively known as Marxism – hold that human societies progress through class struggle: a conflict between an ownership class that controls production and a dispossessed laboring class that provides the work for production.

He called capitalism the "dictatorship of the bourgeoisie." believing it to be run by the wealthy classes for their own benefit. This is the theory under which Bhairavi Desai operates the TWA.