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David Graeber: After the Pandemic, We Can’t Go Back to Sleep
In an essay penned shortly before his death, David Graeber argued that post-pandemic, we can’t slip back into a reality where the way our society is organized — to serve every whim of a small handful of rich people while debasing and degrading the vast majority…
Forwarded from CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective
Columbia’s Graduate Worker Union Struggle, 2004-2022
https://cwc.im/ColumbiaStrike
Last week, after over nine weeks on the picket line, striking graduate workers at Columbia won a rare victory. In this analysis, participants chronicle why they had to confront the union bureaucracy in order to take on the administration.
Their victory shows that workers who seek to assert their interests in the workplace must begin by fighting for self-determination and grassroots power within workplace organizing itself.
https://cwc.im/ColumbiaStrike
Last week, after over nine weeks on the picket line, striking graduate workers at Columbia won a rare victory. In this analysis, participants chronicle why they had to confront the union bureaucracy in order to take on the administration.
Their victory shows that workers who seek to assert their interests in the workplace must begin by fighting for self-determination and grassroots power within workplace organizing itself.
Forwarded from Antiwork
Going on strike in 12 hours, and I've never felt closer to or more proud of my coworkers.
The last day of work before the strike was so reassuring. The company came at us with another garbage offer, and I was afraid I'd have to convince people it was garbage and not to fold at the last minute. Instead, it just made everyone even more eager to strike tomorrow morning. Every robocall from an executive (which is happening daily at this point) just galvanizes us further. I've worked with some of these people for years and hardly given them more than a nod in the morning, and suddenly we're talking to each other about what matters to us, our families and hobbies, and joking around about how this billion dollar grocery store chain can GET FUCKED.
I am also a ball of stress and confusion because holy shit I'm going on strike tomorrow. Don't cross picket lines, don't scab, but do bring me a sandwich.
https://redd.it/s1pnt4
@r_antiwork
The last day of work before the strike was so reassuring. The company came at us with another garbage offer, and I was afraid I'd have to convince people it was garbage and not to fold at the last minute. Instead, it just made everyone even more eager to strike tomorrow morning. Every robocall from an executive (which is happening daily at this point) just galvanizes us further. I've worked with some of these people for years and hardly given them more than a nod in the morning, and suddenly we're talking to each other about what matters to us, our families and hobbies, and joking around about how this billion dollar grocery store chain can GET FUCKED.
I am also a ball of stress and confusion because holy shit I'm going on strike tomorrow. Don't cross picket lines, don't scab, but do bring me a sandwich.
https://redd.it/s1pnt4
@r_antiwork
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Going on strike in 12 hours, and I've never felt closer to or more...
The last day of work before the strike was so reassuring. The company came at us with another garbage offer, and I was afraid I'd have to convince...
Forwarded from Florida Youth Liberation Front
School walkout & student strike wave hits LA today
https://twitter.com/dsmlacctv/status/1481345537009860615?s=20
https://twitter.com/dsmlacctv/status/1481345537009860615?s=20
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Digital Surveillance
Students walk out of high school in Redondo Beach over COVID safety concerns High school students in Redondo Beach participated in a walk-out on Wednesday to bring attention to COVID-19 safety concerns on the campus. Aerial video from Sky5 showed a large…
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All SOLIDARITY & SUPPORT for the brave AF organizers on #RikersIsland on a #HungerStrike since Jan 7 and everyone struggling inside #Rikers and cages everywhere.
SEND COMMISSARY $ to folks you know at RNDC. (DM us their names of folks you know, if you can’t send $ right now.)
BOOST the hunger strikers’ demands. No peace for jailers!!!
FREE THEM ALL.
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HUNGER STRIKE
ON RIKERS ISLAND
SOUND ON [speaker icon] to listen to an inside organizer announce the strike, list demands, recount inhumane and deadly conditions in the RNDC jail
voice mail recording from
https://www.amny.com/news/enough-is-enough-prisoners-in-rikers/
SUPPORT FOLKS' FREEDOM
donorbox.org/Covid-Bail-Out-NYC
Linktr.ee/CovidBailOutNYC
See comments for a transcript of the voice message from the hunger strike organizer played in this post’a video - provided by @rootsunbound
🔗 @covidbailoutnyc
SEND COMMISSARY $ to folks you know at RNDC. (DM us their names of folks you know, if you can’t send $ right now.)
BOOST the hunger strikers’ demands. No peace for jailers!!!
FREE THEM ALL.
.
.
image text [on black background]
HUNGER STRIKE
ON RIKERS ISLAND
SOUND ON [speaker icon] to listen to an inside organizer announce the strike, list demands, recount inhumane and deadly conditions in the RNDC jail
voice mail recording from
https://www.amny.com/news/enough-is-enough-prisoners-in-rikers/
SUPPORT FOLKS' FREEDOM
donorbox.org/Covid-Bail-Out-NYC
Linktr.ee/CovidBailOutNYC
See comments for a transcript of the voice message from the hunger strike organizer played in this post’a video - provided by @rootsunbound
🔗 @covidbailoutnyc
Forwarded from /r/latestagecapitalism
Forwarded from Strike Force
Strike at Rikers
200 detainees at the Robert N Davoren Center on Rikers Island in NYC have been on a hunger strike for 7 days. Conditions at the facility have been deteriorating for years, and the recent Covid-19 surge has brought conditions to a breaking point. An ineffectual "quarantine" means that detainees have no access to recreation and spend much of their time locked in their cells. A major staffing crisis and ongoing sickout among COs (up to 1/3 of the whole staff calls in sick on some days) have led to more service cuts. Some units reported having their commissary visits cut. The heating system in many units is also failing and violence (both between detainees and from COs) has skyrocketed.
In this article, David Campbell, a former political prisoner at Rikers, reflects on how challenging it is to organize collective action at Rikers, and why the current strike is a huge deal.
https://www.nysfocus.com/2022/01/14/rikers-strike-david-campbell/
200 detainees at the Robert N Davoren Center on Rikers Island in NYC have been on a hunger strike for 7 days. Conditions at the facility have been deteriorating for years, and the recent Covid-19 surge has brought conditions to a breaking point. An ineffectual "quarantine" means that detainees have no access to recreation and spend much of their time locked in their cells. A major staffing crisis and ongoing sickout among COs (up to 1/3 of the whole staff calls in sick on some days) have led to more service cuts. Some units reported having their commissary visits cut. The heating system in many units is also failing and violence (both between detainees and from COs) has skyrocketed.
In this article, David Campbell, a former political prisoner at Rikers, reflects on how challenging it is to organize collective action at Rikers, and why the current strike is a huge deal.
https://www.nysfocus.com/2022/01/14/rikers-strike-david-campbell/
New York Focus
I Know What It Means to Strike at Rikers
I helped organize a strike at Rikers during the first wave. Those striking now are not to be ignored.