Claire Bergstresser verlor ihren Job im US-Bauministerium im Zuge der Entlassungswelle unter US-Regierungsberater Elon Musk. Sie konnte zwar auf ihren Posten zurückkehren, fürchtet jetzt jedoch um ihre Zukunft – wie tausende andere Betroffene der radikalen Kürzungspolitik unter Präsident Donald Trump.
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00:00I have reached out to the unemployment people. I have done that. So now I am going to apply to some jobs.
00:20And, I don't know if you saw, but the court order said that we had to return to work.
00:26We are hearing down the pipeline that they are going to try to get rid of as many of us as possible.
00:31And so even though we have to be reinstated because they didn't correctly get rid of us,
00:36that doesn't mean that they are not going to try to correctly get rid of us over the next coming months.
00:43I have never seen so much fear in my friends over politics, over things that are happening on Capitol Hill.
00:50I have friends who are going through medical crisis because they are wondering if people in their lives are going to get arrested.
00:58For not doing anything wrong, just for being part of a community that is going to get arrested.
01:06For not doing anything wrong, just for being part of a community that Republicans don't like.
01:37About Valentine's Day, we got letters notifying us that we are being in a reduction of force, a RIF.
01:45So that created a lot of confusion for us. It kind of made the world stop, to be honest.
01:54It was hard. What was harder was having to go with colleagues to prison.
02:00It was like somebody was trying to erase us. But the thing is, it's really not possible.
02:09I mean, this is a calling that several thousand of us had. And that calling remains.
02:16And then relax your legs behind you.
02:21We can't control what happens with the government, but we can control our breath and we can control our bodies.
02:26So for one hour, every week, we are in our cell.
02:29We have a safety device. We don't want to have an arrest.
02:33We are not going to let anybody go to jail.
02:36We are going to let anybody go to prison.
02:39We are not going to let anybody go to prison.
02:42We have a special program.
02:45Wir können unseren Atemkontrollen, und wir können unsere Körper kontrollieren.
02:48Also für eine Stunde, jede Woche,
02:50geben wir den staatlichen Arbeitgebern den Platz, um genau das zu tun.
02:54Um in ihre Körper zu kommen, um durch sie zu atmen.
02:57Und es ist nur eine kleine Sache, die sie kontrollieren können, Woche nach Woche.
03:03Man spürt Leute, die sich unterstützen.
03:05Und man spürt auch die Schwierigkeiten.
03:08Die Traurigkeit.
03:11Vielleicht sogar die Depression.
03:14Der Verlust von sich selbst.
03:17Vielleicht sogar die Selbstvertrauen.
03:20Ein paar Leute haben darüber gesprochen.
03:23Ja, es ist schwer.
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