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New in Labor Notes today 🇵🇸
As campus protests—and violent police repression—play out across the country, some unions are getting involved. Read the latest by Labor Notes writing fellow @lilacisms: labornotes.org/2024/05/unions…
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yung hegelian
@lilacisms
organizing for union democracy w/ @EW4Democracy, formerly @TeamsterRnF • @ c.a.i.t.l.y.n on tiktok • bylines: @labornotes @jacobin @moreperfectUS
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Joined June 2014
- we’re like 2 weeks out from academics writing “queering the quarantine: towards radical forms of queer isolation”
- who’s ready for 2074, when all the suspended and arrested students get brought back as guest speakers for “50 years of student resistance” panels and dinners probably while other students are getting arrested outside for some other thing 🙃
- btw the cure to male loneliness is being in a union
- i graduated from yale with my dual bachelor’s and master’s degrees in political science. today bushwick earns another DJ 👼
- driving in the bay 🚉| 🚘|| | _____________ 🏢| 🚘 || | | SHEN YUN | 🏘| 🚘 || | | 神韻 | 🌁| 🚘|| | |—————-|
- this is what lana del rey had in mind when she wrote brooklyn baby
- ivy league corporate activists can’t do community organizing. all they know is instagram, found a non-profit that already exists, $40k high school , # ad, “empower young people”, be capitalist and lie
- only at labor notes: stopped a random group of men in matching troublemakers t-shirts for an interview. turns out they’re staffers at an airport union in GHANA and traveled 19 HOURS to get here, proceeded to tell me all about organizing in ghana and how people are power
- Replying to @lilacismsjk i am actually going to be working at TDU getting teamsters across the country strike ready and i could not be more excited! as always, the cause of labor is the hope of the world — and to serve that cause is the highest duty and honor of my life!!
- trying to de-rot my brain by reading more. recommendations for *fiction* for socialists? homage to catalonia is already on the list
- Replying to @lilacismsjust kidding we’re gonna dismantle the neoliberal university this time 🙏
