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Demonstrators in New York have disrupted the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, calling for a free Palestine! 🇵🇸

Calling to mind the genocide that white settlers carried out on Native Americans, they held a banner reading "Genocide Then, Genocide Now."

“God is under the rubble in Gaza. He is with the frightened and the refugees. He is in the operating room. This is our consolation. He walks with us through the valley of the shadow of death.”

– Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac, in his sermon “God is under the rubble in Gaza.”

I made this painting of the manger scene created by Rev. Dr. Isaac’s church, Christmas Lutheran Church in Bethlehem, with the Christ child under the rubble (original image here).

Full sermon • An interview with Rev. Dr. Isaac about the installation

Another union shout out — Bandcamp workers are organizing with Tech Workers Union Local 1010 and need your support! Email [email protected] with your support for the workers and their right to organize, and follow Bandcamp United on twitter to keep up with their campaign for equity in the workplace.

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White Supremacy has a vested interest in pitting Jewish and Black communities against each other because if we're divided we're easier to eradicate.

We can absolutely talk about racism in Jewish communities, ethnic Jewish identity and Whiteness, and antisemitism in Black communities without pitting ourselves against each other. Lest you forget, Black Jews exist and are actively part of both our communities.

There's no reason to divide ourselves and force people to choose between the important pillars of their own identities by giving into White Supremacist rhetoric that is already primed to divide us.

fuck yeah

If CR shuts down in solitary with the SAG strike or because of strike rules as union members themselves and I see anyone being weird and entitled about it I’m blocking on sight.

I’m not procrastinating on writing fic, I’m standing in solidarity with the Writer’s Guild of America

This is their plan. They want to break the writers. They want to break this industry and everyone around it for their bottom lines. They do not care about anything, but profit.

And it will not stop here, it will impact EVERY CONTRACT DOWN THE LINE FOR EVERY UNION IN THE INDUSTRY. And the impact will ripple through every industry in entertainment hubs: LA, NY, ATL, etc.

"Convinced that “giving in,” as another insider put it, to the writers will result in every contract cycle from the WGA, IATSE, the Teamsters and more ending in a strike, the AMPTP is aiming for the bottom line."

Please continue to support the Writers. If SAG-AFTRA joins in tonight, support them too.

This is not just about the entertainment industry, this is about the impact and power of workers standing together. Everyone in this country is suffering from being underpaid. Unions are our power to fight against that.

The holdouts are NOT the workers on strike, it's the Producers & Executives. It's THEIR fault this is going on. It's THEIR fault the industry has ground to a halt because they won't pay fair wages and they would rather use AI to spin endless and souless profit than pay people to do the work.

Here's the article I quoted. Here's another discussing the AI issue.

July 12, 2023 9AM PST.

SOLIDARITY FOREVER!

Lil update (11/28/22) on Amazon and union busting…

From Instagram

Labor unions successfully organized more than 58,000 workers through the National Labor Relations Board’s election process in the first six months of 2023, a massive influx of workers on a scale that we’ve rarely seen before—but that we’re likely to see again. The 662 NLRB representation elections won by unions in the year’s first half covered a total of 58,543 workers, according to Bloomberg Law’s just-released NLRB Election Statistics report. That’s the second-highest first-half organizing total in this century. By itself, this statistic isn’t the surest measurement of labor strength; all it takes is one freakishly large election result to make a six-month period appear a lot more impressive than it really was. (This is exactly what happened in May 2013: A bargaining unit of nearly 45,000 already-unionized workers switched representation from one union to another through the NLRB election process, raising the midyear total to 67,687.) No such anomaly is present in 2023. The sheer number of union wins so far this year, surpassing even last year’s Starbucks-studded total, makes it plain that this current wave of organized workers is no fluke.

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hey i just wanna give a quick shout out to the organizers of the Tesla union in Buffalo, NY. their account has been repeatedly shadow/banned by Elon Musk but you can still follow them on twitter by direct link to their profile to keep up with them as they build their union ✊

please im begging this is incredibly urgent. the people that have allowed us to stay for the last two nights put my wife through an incredibly traumatic experience and she’s scared to leave the room without me to get food or even go to the bathroom and we have to keep the door locked at all times. we really need help right now, we have a plan but nothing that can happen for another week. please anything to help us get by we have no money and are trapped.

c4$happ: goldenratio1123 or melancholicore

p4ypal: iwannadaisuki or poppybun

v3nmo: iwannadaisuki

im so sorry to ask for help again but this is an extremely volatile environment and its incredibly important we find a way out of here and survive until we can make that happen as our lives have been threatened multiple times.