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theoreticallysensible · 9 months

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The Power and Purpose of Strikes

Simone Weil, the philosopher/anarchist/mystic, describing an ideal political future for France after WW2, lamented that trade unions have become primarily concerned with wages. This might seem strange to us now, when even this activity is so contested by conservatives, but Weil saw it as playing too much into the capitalist spirit.

She saw this as just one of trade unions’, and the worst of the lot, because it encourages workers to think about personal monetary gain rather than justice, solidarity, and even their own needs beyond the material. It also risks the union becoming institutionalised through frequent direct interactions with established economic forces. Again, this will sound weird today, given how unions fighting for wages represent one of the few remaining avenues for working class justice, and yeah Weil was a Catholic with strong convictions about the importance of moralism, but I think fundamentally she had higher hopes than we can easily imagine today.

I think a lot of people sense the truth of what she says today - though unfortunately it’s usually conservatives, who would turn back on it immediately if they recognised what it was they were saying. You see it when they say “Why are train drivers striking? Why are writers striking? Why do they think they deserve more than nurses, or posties, or actors?” And of course, the answer is: “They should strike too!” (As some of them now are 🎉). But it’s true that the narrow focus on wages does foster a sort of competitive individualism which can undermine solidarity with other industries. This means that a more revolutionary conception of unions is needed, which is not what these critics have in mind, but it is what Simone Weil has in mind.

What Weil sees in trade unions is the potential for fostering community, freedom of intellectual and spiritual thought, and a degree of independence from capitalism, all of which amount to a greater degree of what she calls ‘rootedness’ - something involving confidence in truth, having material needs met, security in community, and relative freedom (among other things). She saw them as being able to foster solidarity to meet workers’ need for community, free them from the corrupting influence of monetary concerns, and fight for justice as a group. She also hoped that they could provide a space for freedom of thought, to avoid the fetishisation of community she saw in both the French and Russian revolutions.

Trade unions then should not merely concern themselves with accumulating resources, but also with accumulating time and freedom - with the expansion of what Henri Lefebvre called everyday life, the time in which we are free to do what we want and create new types of experiences. When we have enough of it, we can build our own institutions free from capitalist influence which can form the infrastructure for disruptive situations. This can be mutual aid groups, creative projects, intellectual and spiritual communities, and reimaginings of what it means to work, through permablitzing, learning crafts, and starting co-operatives.

The ideal version of this is the general strike. Walter Benjamin described the general strike as a form of divine violence, violence which acts instantaneously, bloodlessly, without coercion. Rather than sort of blackmailing capitalists, as most strikes do, the general strike is (ideally) a complete disengagement with the entire capitalist system. It asks nothing of it, and simply makes it irrelevant by building entirely new social relations in its place. This is not at all feasible with where we are at the moment, but I like to think that it can be used as an inspiration for incorporating more utopian ideas into our more limited actions, all of which are still so radical in this current climate.

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evumeimei · 2 years

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the les mis twitter account is at it again lads

#les miserables #train strikes #uk politics #did you even SEE the show #maybe javert is running the twt

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aquitainequeen · 10 months

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Alarm bells being rung by Maureen Johnson on AI and the Big Publishers

#I've already got academics wanting it put into their contracts that their work CAN'T be used to train AI #This is a scary time #ai MUST be regulated #on publishing #wga strike #sag aftra strike #sag-aftra strike #AUTHORS UNIONIZE

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myroombaofthought · 7 months

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The train strikes mean that my girlfriend cant come to visit and quite frankly that’s not on. Whoever is supposed to be sorting this out, please can they sort it soon because it has simply been too long since I’ve seen them

#i love my girlfriend #lesbians #i miss my girlfriend #train strikes #sad times #:(

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down-therabbithole · 10 months

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If your going to the Hozier gig at Cardiff Castle tomorrow, some the trains have been cancelled due to strikes. Check you can get there and back again safely!

#hozier #hozier tour 2023 #cardiff castle #train strikes uk #train strikes #of all fecking days

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chaossurvives · 10 months

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Just had to extend my hotel for the London e-prix because of train strikes

#Claire’s complaints #train strikes #surely this has gone on too long #just give them what they want already!

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isabellecheren · 10 months

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#virtual reality #virtual world #second life #blogging #secondlife #sl virtual reality #train strikes #linden labs #fun #Youtube

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mosslistic · 1 year

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If every industry starts striking, I don’t think the “system is working right now!” I actually think it’s broken!

#like teacher strikes #train strikes #writer strikes #BE SO FRRRRR #theyre not striking for fun???#strikes #pay rise #pay gap #communism #capitalism #facism

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peachyshitposting · 1 year

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Omfg trying to get home from London tomorrow is gonna be stress city

#fallout boy #fall out boy #London #train strikes

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delicatefury · 9 months

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Look. I have literally no horse in this race when it comes to the WGA/SAG Hollywood strike. I do not watch enough TV or movies to be affected and I’m not a part of the industry. I really haven’t cared.

As a lawyer and orchardist, however, I am now utterly entranced by the fact that some Universal Studios exec thought it was a good idea to cut down city-owned trees in the middle of summer.

There is no way to get around the absolute clusterfuck they have brought down upon themselves.

First, the ownership question. These trees are not owned by Universal. They’re the City of Los Angeles’ trees. That means the responsibility, and the right, to maintain them belongs to the city government. If you want to touch city property like that, you better have their permission. If not, you’re looking at anything from fines, to replacement/maintenance costs, to jail time.

Now, I don’t know LA, and I’m not licensed in California, but a lot of cities also require permits for any massive trimming like that that can affect public property (like the roads and sidewalks).

Second, they have zero excuses that can even remotely minimize the trouble they’re in. Anything that justifies that kind of pruning at this time of year would have likely required the full removal and destruction of the trees.

Because that level of pruning? You don’t do that in summer. You absolutely do not do that in summer unless the trees are dying or infested with something. Why? Because summer is healthy growth time. Summer is when your trees need all the energy they can get so they can grow and strengthen their branches and roots.

It’s also when they’re susceptible to diseases. Various bacteria, fungi, and insects strike during the summer and can cause severe damage. By trimming those trees so severely, not only are there a ton of gapping wounds for diseases to enter the tree, they’re now stressed by trying to replace that lost growth, which makes it even harder for them to survive any further damage.

Basically, Universal Studios might end up accidentally killing the trees. Which will make everything so much worse.

So, yeah. Now I’m invested.

#fury’s a lawyer #wga strike #sag strike #universal studios #tree law #it’s like watching a train crash real time #I don’t even practice tree law #but I know it’s reputation is well earned

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thefirsthogokage · 1 year

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Great thread by John Rogers on why writers need to be on set for TRAINING purposes, written late on May 6th, 2023:

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(link to first tweet)

Bonuses:

Link to John's thread about having writers on set for DIALOGUE.

#john rogers #writing tips #wga strong #wga strike #training writers #writing for visual media

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rashmeerl · 1 year

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pendwelling · 6 months

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!!! Wow! So you have a favourite story, too?

#omniscient reader's viewpoint #when the third wheel strikes back #전지적 독자 시점 #전독시 #서브 남주가 파업하면 생기는 일 #섭남파업 #ORV #TWSB #kim dokja #jung eunseo #orv x twsb #twsb x orv #crossover #kdj and subway stations where you continuously watch trains come and go in a neverending loop #eunseo and her favourite chair designated for her at the dining table where she rants and eats with her brothers on the daily #READERS AND THEIR BELOVED STORIES SOBS.........#my art #twsb fanart

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salt-and-shade · 9 months

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BARBENHEIMER - July 21, 2023

The most ambitious crossover event in history (artists cited under the cut!)

I hyperlinked the original posts to the artist handle wherever possible so go show the artists some love!! ROW 1: @JohnBeLucky on Reddit @anglespizza on Twitter (they made this for a class-iconic) @whovianrad on Twitter @shadowknightdk on Twitter @BossLogic on Twitter ROW 2: @rahalarts on Instagram @justralphy on Instagram @GrungiestBunny on Instagram, available as a poster here @envelopandkissme on Tumblr (I think? idk this one was hard to find) @shirtsthtgohard on Twitter, available for purchase here ROW 3: @omarg294 on Twitter (possibly not the original source) @raichu.copper on Instagram/@raichucopper on Twitter @galactic_psychedelia Instagram, available on Redbubble here @thesenatortheatre on Instagram (possibly not the original source) @nannymcghee on Tik Tok

ROW 4: Retro Travel Design on Redbubble @rahalarts on Instagram @stevereevesart on Instagram @jonattfieldart on Instagram @gringgieespons on Tik Tok

ROW 5: @BossLogic on Instagram/@BossLogic on Twitter @rahalarts on Instagram @nolanlounds Tik Tok @seanlongmore Instagram @Cornettogod on Twitter

ROW 6: @readfulthings on Instagram (aka Adam Perocchi) I cannot find this artist but you can buy the shirt here and here @moviemantis on Instagram (possibly not the original source, idk) Jason P on LinkedIn (ok career barbie!!) and finally, you can buy the shirt here

huge love to all the incredibly talented artists that put their work on the internet for free for all of us to look at, we love you!! (please sign/watermark your works though, the amount of art theft I found while looking these up made me sad for you)

anti-shoutouts: to google for nerfing their reverse image search with google lens (seriously-CHANGE IT BACK), to twitter for making it almost impossible to use the website after I deleted my account, and to basically no one on tik tok (or any other social media site for that matter) for crediting artists because that made tracking down the original posts so much harder than it needs to be :')

#barbie #barbenheimer #oppenheimer #barbie movie #barbie 2023 #margot robbie #cillian murphy #ryan gosling #fan art #movie art #movie poster #the art isn't mine but the collage is #the hype riding the marketing train has been fascinating #and now with the strikes hollywood is really going out with a bang! (pun intended)#embarrassing number of tags bc sorting these by aspect ratio to make a pretty grid took forever #ok this got more notes than I anticipated so I went back and cited the artists bc I'm not an asshole

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don-lichterman · 2 years

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'Most people in the rail industry haven't had a pay rise in three years,' says Aslef General Sec

‘Most people in the rail industry haven’t had a pay rise in three years,’ says Aslef General Sec

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kez-bez · 2 years

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the majority of the seats were reserved and there were hardly any seats available, so I had no choice but to sit in a reserved seat until I was asked to move, stand in the aisle and then move to another seat once someone got off the train 🤷‍♀️

#england women #womens euros #Wembley #final #London #train strikes #grand central

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