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🇨🇺 #Cuba has restored electricity across all provinces as of a few hours ago.
#DonaldTrump #EpsteinClass #IsraelFirst
#StraitOfHormuz = #Iran #Sanctions
#news #socialmedia #uspol #israel #politics #mastodon #usa #protest @politics @socialmedia #humanrights #war #resistance #gaza #economy #freepalestine #tariffs #icc #eu #protest #canada #military #sanctions #latinamerica #China #Russia @law #education #trump #marcorubio #labour #union #labor #un @workersrights
RE: https://mastodon.social/@MplsPhotoBot/116244993617458947
More strike content from the photo bot. Wasn't really aware of this one either and looked it up. The teachers struck for voters to pass a tax increase. Would be highly illegal today and most unions wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole. Very reminiscent of the WV #Wildcat strike a few years ago. After this and a sympathy strike with janitors a few years later the state outlawed public worker strikes, setting up the famous 1970 strike. This strike at the time though was the second largest teachers strike ever.
#Minneapolis #Strike #Labor #LaborHistory #Unions #MFT #MFE #AFT
Massachusetts folks: please support public defenders in their drive to unionize. Currently they are prohibited by statute from unionizing. That’s unfair.
In 2025, private, court-appointed lawyers organized for higher pay and got a small (but insufficient) raise. In response, the legislature doubled staff public defender positions knowing they couldn’t unionize. Don’t let them get away with this gambit. #UnionYes #Labor #Unions #MApoli
https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2026-03-16/public-defenders-bring-fight-for-unionization-to-beacon-hill
5/x - I was fighting Apple's Protective Order as soon as I learned how they wanted to use it. Apple's lawyers told me they'd claim my #whistleblower disclosures & #labor complaints are confidential, gag me about it, & raise it all as a "discovery dispute" without evidence or trial
I told the Judge how Apple planned to use it (what Apple's doing now) & Judge said that's wrong, but then issued the Order anyways & abandoned me with Apple's rabid defense counsel
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.417952/gov.uscourts.cand.417952.307.0.pdf
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Plaintiff predicted this motion before the Protective Order was ever entered. She told Apple
on the record: the Order was an attempt to get her "into court jail," a "blank check" to jail her "for talking about
whatever Apple unilaterally claims is confidential." Dkt. 220-9 at 4, 7. She told the Court Apple intended to
use the Order "to do a summary judgment motion without summary judgment" & declare her protected
disclosures misconduct through contempt proceedings rather than trial. Dkt. 302-3 at 6–7. Judge Westmore
responded: "That's not how the protective order is used." Id at 7. Apple filed this motion anyway.
3/x - In a dry IP case, this prob makes sense. You assume its all #confidential by default & people can't just sue a biz to learn their secrets & exploit that info. However, the #Constitution is very clear that logic is irrelevant in public policy cases like #labor disputes
When one side wants to conceal misconduct, they insist on these orders. Then a public policy lawyer fights it. The court has to hear full #FirstAmendment briefing & Judge can't ok an order w/out detailing why its justified.
This is #GraceTame ‘s article in Crickey News. Do yourself a favour and have a read, especially if you’re a #Labor supporter.
As for an alternative to voting Labor, try the Greens they are more representative of the working class than the ‘workers’ Party’ is atm.
#Australians do not want to get dragged into #Trump and #Netanyahu's #illegalwar on #Iran, which is spiralling out of control.
We are all watching this, wondering, when will this end? We cannot bomb our way to peace. Violence leads to more violence & it's always civilians who suffer most.
As a party of peace & non-violence, the #Greens believe #Australia should be encouraging #dialogue and #diplomacy.
#Labor should be urging for #peace -- not joining with the #Liberals and #OneNation to follow Trump into another #foreverwar.
It may feel tricky to feel hopeful right now but as the world feels rough, it's more important than ever to connect with community and our common humanity.
The Greens will continue to call for peace and call on Labor to immediately rule out further Australian support for this illegal US-Israel war, end #AUKUS and close #PineGap. #auspol
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"The goal of these tools is to get more out of workers. But some metrics — like how much an employee is typing — may not translate cleanly to how much work someone is actually getting done. And workers, Dr. Reich argues, deserve periods of slack and 'moments of downtime outside of the gaze of the surveillance tools that are meant to drive productivity gains.'"
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/business/bossware-work-surveillance-tools.html
"At an Amazon fulfillment center in Spain, we used a flurry of brief walkouts late last year to force the company to improve wages and time off.
We struck for three days in November and in December in a series of “flexible strikes,” timed to hit production with intermittent walkouts during the holiday “peak” season. On December 22, the union committee announced a settlement, negotiated through government mediators.
The facility, RMU1 in the city of Murcia, employed 2,000 workers at the time, and our union the General Confederation of Labor (CGT) was one of four unions that represented them. [European countries don’t have the same “exclusive representation” system as the U.S., so multiple unions can have a presence at the same worksite. –Editors]
About 75 percent of the workforce, made up of workers from Spain and immigrants from Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, and Morocco, participated in the strike, reaching beyond the ranks of the CGT to include other union members.
Our experience shows what’s possible, even at a multinational corporation designed to neutralize organizing. Building from below, workers can organize a well-planned strike—over the objections of more conservative unions—draw on their knowledge of the production process, hit the company where it hurts the most, and wrest real gains.
Here’s how we got Amazon to negotiate with us when it didn’t want to."
https://labornotes.org/amazon-workers-spain-cgt-strategy
#Spain #Amazon #GGT #Murcia #CGT #Labor #WageSlavery #ClassWarfare
From Public Health Watch: More than 26,000 #workers — an average of seven per day — suffered workplace amputations from 2015 through 2024. Texas led the nation in worker amputations by a wide margin, with more than 3,900 reported in the 10-year period. https://www.texasobserver.org/workplace-amputations-on-the-rise/
"For more than three decades, local physicians staffed emergency departments for an Oregon hospital system. In a few months, they will be replaced by an out-of-state corporate staffing firm."
https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/features/120167
#healthcare #hospitals #ER #EM #EmergencyMed #physicians #labor #business #PrivateEquity #oregon
The #US #labor market lost 92,000 #jobs in February, a striking loss signaling a warning flag for the #economy
Employers cut 92,000 jobs in February, the Labor Department reported on Friday, & the #unemployment rate rose to 4.4%. The job losses cut across nearly all major sectors, including health care.
#Trump #recession #trumpcession #business #affordability #CostOfLiving
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03/06/business/jobs-report-economy?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Nike Is Moving Jobs to Low-Wage Regions of Indonesia
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Over the last decade, Nike has sharply expanded production in regions of Indonesia where workers don’t earn a living wage while cutting its workforce in places where they do.
https://www.propublica.org/article/nike-jobs-indonesia-living-wages?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
@ChrisMayLA6
what is it with Labor (Australia) and Labour (UK) and their vitriolic hatred of the Greens? Instead of lashing out at a party which welcomes the disaffected labor lefties, why don’t they come off their neoliberalist centre-right position and get back to the roots of Labor/Labour — traitors to the workers’ cause this bunch of revisionists.
#Labor #Labour #UK #Australia
#Greens
RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116136534798311130
THIS IS VIOLENCE
1. to demand emotional #labor for team cohesion
2. to then fire half the team
3. to dehumanize the lost team by calling them redundancies
4. to shame workers grieving their lost team mates
5. to declare XYZ #tech is better than people
6. to pocket the salaries of fired teams
7. to force free labor & reduced benefits from remaining teams
8. to lie about XYZ not being digital shackles and #spyware
9. to gaslight workers who wont willingly use the shackles
Accenture are firing people who don't use Copilot enough. This one comes from Microsoft (Accenture are a major vendor for MS). https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/25/accenture-youre-promoted-or-fired-on-using-the-ai/
LA Times: Delivery robots have his old job — and now they’ve created a new one for him
(paywall)
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-02-25/theres-job-that-ai-isnt-eliminating-robot-wrangler
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LA Times: Delivery robots have his old job — and now they’ve created a new one for him
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As autonomous delivery robots proliferate, more wranglers — Serve Robotics calls them field operations executives — will be needed.
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Snodgrass’ wrangling job, in comparison, pays $24 to $26 an hour, about $54,000 a year at the top end.
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Living Wage for 1 adult with 0 children in Los Angeles County, is $28.92 per hour
Hello, I'm a union member living in #Minneapolis, #Minnesota. My original posts are probably mostly about #labor, #unions, Minnesota, and left/progressive politics. I boost stuff about lots of other topics like science, technology, nature, or whatever. Created this account a bit ago but didn't use it much but I'm trying to get off of corporate social media more and onto the fediverse.
RE: https://phpc.social/@ramsey/116109626593551373
30% of India’s labor is unionized.
90% of the unionized labor joined the strike.
ALL THIS INFORMATION IS IN THE LINKS I PROVIDED.
yes, close to 300,000,000 workers ―in a country of +1 BILLION― did not show up to work in India on the 12th of February of 2026.
THAT’S WHY IT IS HISTORIC AND NEWS WORTHY.
Similar banners were installed at other federal buildings last year, including the #USDA & #Labor Department.
The #Trump banner hung between columns at the Washington headquarters of the Agriculture Department says “Growing America Since 1862.”
#fascism #strongmen #tyranny #propaganda
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Stalin propaganda banner
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can i just say something about #Colbert?
whomever negotiated his #CBS #labor & production contracts are geniuses.
have y’all noticed how notwithstanding everything, they can't get rid of him outright?
Colbert must have nuclear options in his & his workers contracts that exponentially raise the costs of CBS getting rid of them under any circumstances.
this is only possible with the backing of labor #unions. Hollywood proves #unionization is the only path to wealth for the working classes.
** ‘War by Another Means’: #Union Movement Condemns Trump Economic Siege of Cuba**
“Recent actions by the Trump administration have further exacerbated an already #US-manufactured humanitarian crisis,” said Public Services International Inter-America.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-cuba-blockade
from #CommonDreams
Feb 10, 2026
The inter-American branch of a global #labor federation representing tens of millions of #workers issued a statement Monday condemning the #Trump administration’s intensifying economic assault on #Cuba and threats of regime change, calling such actions “war by other means” and violations of international law.
“They are incompatible with peace, the human right to dignity, and the principle of national sovereignty,” said PSI as the Trump administration blockade of oil imports fueled a worsening humanitarian crisis for the island nation, bringing rolling blackouts, straining hospitals, and causing shortages of food and other necessities.
The ongoing #genocide in #Gaza is part of the war industry’s pillage of taxpayer dollars to enrich themselves at the expense of our #health , #education , social services & #democracy . There is a direct line from the terror we inflict abroad to the terror inflicted at home
https://chuffed.org/project/disarmgenocide
#DonaldTrump #fascism #imperialism #plutocracy #billionaires
#GazaGenocide #FreePalestine #Minnesota #ICE #AbolishIce #immigration #poverty #labor #labour #union @workersrights @democracy @politics
Jobs report shows a historic stall in hiring last year
U.S. job estimates for 2025 were revised down this week by more than a million jobs, to a level of low growth rarely seen outside of recessions.
https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/02/11/repub/jobs-report-shows-a-historic-stall-in-hiring-last-year/#affordability #business #economy #labor #politics-&-gov #us-jobs-report #us-recession
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Construction workers install finishing touches at a Scout Motors electric vehicle assembly plant in Blythewood, S.C., in February. Health care and construction hiring helped boost January jobs, but downward revisions for the whole of 2025 marked the lowest increase in U.S. jobs outside a recession since 2003. (Photo by Jessica Holdman/SC Daily Gazette)
While "don't panic, organize!" is a catchy phrase, what does organizing mean and how does it help us succeed?
As I hopefully answer that question in this post, we need to keep a few things in mind:
- none of this works without an intersectional politic; we must have solidarity, trust and a willingness to engage with difficult topics
- there are many ways to do this work; but make sure to also use proven methods for successful organizing
- organizing is for everyone; accessibility, inclusivity, and thinking beyond our own circles are paramount for the movement
- it's going to require effort; building resilient structures of friends, partners, and community members takes work!
- sometimes it feels like everything sucks but do not be discouraged for very long; acknowledge moral injury and grief, know your support systems, and rejoin the fight when you're ready
Inspired from my previous posts on organizing and unions 101, I created this short and condensed guide of my understanding of organizing and how to do it!
Organizing is about connecting people to effectively make change and/or cultivate community and resources for the community.
I'm using organizing in a much broader context than some people do.
Not constrained to labor unions, organizing is how we can: build trust in our communities; wield power as the working class; form our found-families; forge a sense of solidarity and an educated squeaky-wheel confidence; and actively participate in creating the world we wanna see.
The work of organizing can seem overwhelming, but it's really just a bunch of small steps:
- one on one conversations with people: listen to their concerns and help them get plugged into areas that matter to them
- start with small asks to show up at community events, sign petitions, etc. We need to interact with the systems in front of us in order to have wins. Complaining about the existence of capitalism is ofc something we do all the time, but it can't be the main focus. Make people your focus.
- use Signal group chats which allows people to mobilize fast, keep up-to-date on current happenings, and allows for asynchronous conversations. Start new chats and invite people to them. Get your inner circle into a chat.
- educate ourselves and others with reading books, articles, attending talks and keynotes, and sharing your knowledge
- always be organizing: know your bandwidth, prioritize based off your assessments and reflections, and keep chipping away at it
What we are aiming to be
Qualities of a good organizer from labor notes
- Effective organizers are good at their jobs and respected by the people theywork with
- They have the trust of their co-workers. Their opinions carry weight. When theyoffer advice, people listen.
- The best organizers are motivated by a strong sense of justice and clear principles.
- They’re responsible, honest, and compassionate.
- They’re confident, even courageous.
- Organizers must be good listeners. They know you don’t have to be the most vocal tohave the biggest impact.
- They bring people together, welcoming new co-workers on the job and looking forways to involve every member.
- Organizers move people to collective action. They don’t just solve problemsalone—they equip their co-workers to solve problems together.
- They put the interests of the group first, ahead of their individual concerns.
- They don’t operate as lone rangers. They respect group decisions.
- Good organizers are knowledgeable about their contract, but not afraid toadmit when they don’t know the answer.
- They can stay cool under pressure and handle stress and conflict.
- They’re willing to stand up to management—and they can inspire others to standup for themselves as well.
Don't freak out if you don't have all of these right now (I still have work to do on many of these).
This is our "platonic form" of an organizer: if we want to organize people, we need to aim to become these people.
Even if we are far away from this right now or feel overwhelmed, that's okay; start where you are!
"but Raven, im not a leader!" or "there is no way i could be those things" are phrases one could say, but lemme tell you something,,,,
the secret to organizing is that we all have these abilities inside of us.
We are all potential leaders.
No one is coming to save us.
We save us.
if you wanna change the world, this is how we do it.
organizing as a heuristic and guiding principle
our friends, partners, polycules, and queer spaces can be places we create trusted circles.
I want deep systems of care and community to be at the forefront of our thinking with this; we can make incredible connections, change, and life-long relationships with folks that inspire us, empower us, help us, and with people who love us.
socialize to mobilize
be an active voice in chats, ask people to hang out, and create new groups based on interests.
Example time. You could host a weekly queer movie night and invite a few folks over, maybe cook for them or maybe it's potluck style; and you automatically have a social event and an organizing event:
- people in the room talk and make connections
- various larger political and philosophical conversations can be had
- bonding and social cohesion can occur
as time goes on and relationships deepen, you now have an active group of folks who you are socially involved with---your friends and comrades---who can then: support each other with mutual aid, discuss or share information with each other, and build something full of joy, care, and compassion with each other.
you might be thinking: what? this is organizing?
yes!
Not all actions have to be big and flashy nor do they have to involve direct political action on the streets.
Getting involved in protest and direct action is only one facet of organizing and I hope you feel encouraged that you can start organizing community and structures of care right now.
However, I want to caution against complacency here and say that being plugged into larger structures like DSA is imperative at the same time.
The small group is the linchpin, the large group is the wheel, and the vehicle itself is the global leftist/progressive/socialist etc. movement
Things you can do to be a more well-rounded organizer
- if you are in the US, consider joining and attending DSA meetings
- read "Secrets of a Successful Organizer" from labornotes
- have basic medical training in first aid, CPR, AED, and tourniquet use: this gives you valuable skills, practice, connections, and communication specific things like closed-loop communication and SBAR
- find a picket line and stand out there with them to show our solidarity with each other, and best of all, make a friend!
- watch Deviant's talk on preparedness and building resilient systems
- start a book club focusing on books that talk about community, communication, relationships, labor, bias, political philosophy, etc.
- workout - don't underestimate the power of exercise (perhaps do this with a comrade!)
- watch politics streams or clips from leftists
- get on or start posting more to social media (fedi has cool ppl, come join us!) - creativity is important for this work
- take a break when u need it
- see a therapist
- work on creating better habits and don't forget about pesky time-management!
- acknowledge and understand moral injury
- learn basic mindfulness techniques
- practice your solutions with your team (ie do a mock drill of someone in an emergency and how you can show up for them)
- if you have a union, get involved with it!
- wear a respirator mask when in indoor crowded spaces
Questions I have received related or semi-related
This whole post was born out a signal group chat where there was a lot of discussion on how we do this work. Here are some questions from that group and my answers to them.
"how to do we fight misinformation, disinformation, and LLM's on public forums while maintaining privacy?"
If this is your passion, I highly recommend reading and particpating with groups like eff.org, wikipedia.org, and fightforthefuture.org.
Also, moving the people in your life largely off mainstream social media for things like Mastodon and Signal. Notice I didn't say entirely off of mainstream media, as a lot of groups still unfortunately organize on Instagram, so we should have a type of presence on those platforms, but they can be secondary or checked occasionally instead of driving societal behavior.
This should go without saying, but don't use ai chat bots and create a culture of calling-in people on their use.
how do you find communities that engage in real political change?
Look at what is successful.
Does the community or org have a good history of effecting political change? What is happening in your city or state that you can do? What are things that interest you and how can you use that interest to organize? Does the org or community you're apart of make you feel included and welcome? A lot of research is needed to find this. Personally, I recommend and like the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and my chapter in #pdx has done amazing things. But really, we have to do research, lurking, showing up to events to see if these spaces will work for us.
"how does solidarity lead to change? why would the elite do anything different, regardless if we're holding hands or not?"
people alone weak. people together strong.
history is full of examples of amazing people, banding together to fix or improve their job environments, their cities, their countries, and the world.
selfish people like the "elites" have no power to enact their will if we stand together.
"how does gathering all my friends in a signal chat fight the elite?"
on it's own, it doesn't.
the people in the chat fight the elite
Signal is a really good tool for our movement, but it does not replace the work of building relationships.
"when does the effective action start? who makes that choice? how bad does it got to be before people make that choice?"
effective actions are actions that are objectively effective after the event
we can use debriefing to establish what went well and what could go better in the future
we make that choice, hopefully in a democratic or even consensus-based fashion
people are making these choices everyday
"How do we connect people to these decentralized spaces BESIDES going in person and meeting someone?"
for accessibility, there are lots of orgs that do hybrid meetings, but we def need to prioritize this more across the board
On today's episode of worlds most believable statistics...
"U.S. employers added a surprisingly strong 130,000 jobs last month, but government revisions cut 2024-2025 U.S. payrolls by hundreds of thousands.
The unemployment rate fell to 4.3%, the Labor Department said Wednesday."
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ap-us-economy-jobs-report_n_698c87c5e4b01dbafe65f9d8
RE: https://fairdinkum.one/@John/116048605183207260
A group #Labor members have voiced their “distress & disgust” at the police response to protests over #Herzog’s visit to #Sydney, accusing the #NSW govt of overseeing a “terrible erosion of #civilliberties” in its crackdown on public demonstrations.
They demanded an independent investigation of the actions of police at the rally, with footage showing officers pepper spraying demonstrators, #punching a man with his hands up, & forcibly dragging a group of #Muslim men kneeling in prayer. #auspol
Automation was eating into #labor since the 1800s.
#luddites had a go, but were smashed.
But as long as it was steam shovels and the victims were labourers, the upper classes did not have any problems replacing #labour with the machines...
... Even when specific #AI like spreadsheets and Decision support Systems were pushing folks out of jobs over the last ~30 years, everything was peachy.
But now that AI is going after white collar jobs, and we are going to see 80% unemployment, everyone suddenly is developing morality.
There were few of us, myself included warning of this as late as 3 years ago, and the folks who are posting memes now,were laughing at the #AiThreat
TLDR; #capitalism was replacing labour with machines for the last 225 years but there was little of class solidarity...
.. Now the machines are coming for us and there is no labor masses to help us.
*siiiiiiigh*
am having flashbacks of the astroturfers during Occupy Wall Street posting about a #generalStrike so liberals and their nazi cousins could say, see socialists/anarchists/syndicalists suck.
soOoOoo… which #labor #unions are calling for a general strike?
if at least 3 of the major labor unions aren't involved ―and SEIU isn’t one of them? it’s not a General Strike.
period y san se acabó.
OWS, RickyRenuncia are two examples of how to start small to go big
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/112208331867673411
the Caucus for Powerful Reform (CPR) is gonna do amazing things within our union, the Oregon Nurses Association (ONA)!
i have trust that together, our slate of candidates will make things better not just for our union but large changes throughout Oregon; imagine an engaged membership base that does things to flex our worker power ✊
#catsofmastodon #nurses #nurse #union #labor #democracy #oregon #pdx #cats
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a floofy black and white cat wearing a bandana that has the outline of Oregon with the letters CPR across the middle and a lightning strike diagonal across
overlay text says: "loki is wondering,,,"
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a floofy black and white cat wearing a bandana that has the outline of Oregon with the letters CPR across the middle and a lightning strike diagonal across
overlay text says: "if ur an ONA member,"
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a floofy black and white cat wearing a bandana that has the outline of Oregon with the letters CPR across the middle and a lightning strike diagonal across
overlay text says: "have u voted for our slate yet, @cpr_for_oregonnurses ?"
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a floofy black and white cat wearing a bandana that has the outline of Oregon with the letters CPR across the middle and a lightning strike diagonal across
overlay text says: "there's only a few days left, so vote today!!"
Good news from the #SaltLakeCity Library system. Congratulations to the workers and management. I love the downtown library. It's great to have City and County library cards as you can find titles in one that aren't always in the other.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/02/05/slc-approves-union-contract/
#Library #Union #Labor
Experts say there aren’t enough state and federal inspectors to adequately vet whether labor contractors who oversee farmworkers are following the rules.
Nor is there broad political support to invest more resources to protect foreign workers.
https://www.propublica.org/article/h-2a-visa-farmworker-exploitation-regulators?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Immigration #Agriculture #Labor #Abuse #Exploitation #Regulation
photos in pdx today
#ice #iceout #pdx #union #labor
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a person holds a sign at a protest in Portland, OR. it says "don't look away" and has a drawing of blue kids toque which is referencing the ICE abduction of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos
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at a protest and rally in a Portland, OR park, there is a person in an inflatable frog costume, standing next to another person in a red shirt that says "socialism is the future" on it
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at a protest and rally in a Portland, OR park, a yellow sign says "ICE OUT OF PDX"
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a photo of the posting user sitting in a wheelchair in a park in Portland, OR. she is holding a sign that says "I.C.E. OUT!" her shirt says "ONA" on it which is the Oregon Nurses Association (this user is posting this image solely at my own discretion and not speaking on behalf of institutions i represent), she has a dog handkerchief around her neck that says "CPR" which is The Caucus For Powerful Reform, a reform caucus aiming to win ONA elections as a slate
"The latest Bureau of Labor Statistics’ jobs report shows some striking disparities: 91,000 women left the labor force last month, compared to 10,000 men who joined the labor force last month. If we zoom out to look at all of 2025, men’s labor force size grew by 572,000, while women’s grew by only 184,000. That means men joined the labor market at a rate three times greater than women."
#PublicHealth #workers #labor #employment #gender #diversity #equity #inclusion
What #Utah businesses deserve your money... after today's general strike.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/01/30/utah-business-join-national-anti/
#IceOut #labor
The student groups – including the associations representing Black, Somali, Liberian, Ethiopian & Eritrean students & the graduate #labor #union – first gathered on 21 January to plan the calls for local & national #strikes. “We came out in huge numbers despite the cold,” he said, referencing last week’s actions. “We are now doing it again.”
#GeneralStrike #law #immigration #RightToProtest #CivilRights #ExtraJudicialKillings #UseOfForce #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung #Trump #StateSponsoredTerrorism
I recommend you organize a bloc of ticket holders that go to the Melania movie with the express purpose of harassing and disrupting the showing of the film.
Like this:
"...50 passes had been set aside for men purportedly intent on heckling, booing, and harassing Williams."
https://archive.is/htS7p#selection-2317.204-2317.304
That approach will work...once. After that, security gets wise to this tactic.
OK, use subtle tactics as listed in the Simple Sabotage Field Manual:
https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/SimpleSabotage.pdf
That document lists techniques suitable for sabotaging movie screenings.
#Politics #USpol #Trump #MAGA #Fascism #Venezuela #Strike #GeneralStrike #Greenland #law #DueProcess #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #ICE #CBP #Minneapolis #TRUMP #FASCISM
#ReneeNicoleGood #ICE #civilrights #humanrights #PoliceState #USA
#Minnesota #MInneapolis #fuckICE #JUSTICE #FreeSpeech
#politics #socialmedia #mastodon #fediverse #whitesupremacy #imperialism #protest #activism #resistance #unitedstates #classwar #racism #lgbtq #indigenous #poverty #Immigration #education #US #tiktok #antifa #labor #labour #unions #AlexPretti #Melania #Sabotage #Disruption
An average worker at the foreign factories that make Nike’s goods earns 1.9 times the local minimum wage, the company says.
None of the workers The Oregonian/OregonLive spoke with in Nike’s second-largest production hub said they earned that much.
https://www.propublica.org/article/nike-wages-clothing-shoe-factory-indonesia?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Heather Cox Richardson, speaking about the execution of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis today:
"23 people could stop this if they wanted to."
(Transcript excerpt)
27:05
But here's the other, and this is the reason that I am so angry.
27:12
You've heard me say this a lot. The Republicans could stop this tonight
27:20
if they wanted to. Elected Republicans could stop this
27:27
tonight if they wanted to.
27:32
And here's the thing. You know how many Republicans that would take?
27:38
16 Republicans. 16 Republicans voting with the Democrats.
27:45
This is a country of 340 million people. 16 people could stop this. And you could
27:55
actually impeach and remove Trump with 23.
28:00
23 people could stop this if they wanted to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r8fI8DhI0o
#Politics #USpol #Trump #MAGA #Fascism #Venezuela #Strike #GeneralStrike #Greenland #law #DueProcess #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #ICE #CBP #Minneapolis #TRUMP #FASCISM
#ReneeNicoleGood #ICE #civilrights #humanrights #PoliceState #USA
#Minnesota #MInneapolis #fuckICE #JUSTICE #FreeSpeech
#politics #socialmedia #mastodon #fediverse #whitesupremacy #imperialism #protest #activism #resistance #unitedstates #classwar #racism #lgbtq #indigenous #poverty #Immigration #education #US #tiktok #antifa #labor #labour #unions #AlexPretti
Two days to the Nationwide Shutdown - 30 January
NO WORK
NO SCHOOL
NO SHOPPING
https://www.instagram.com/p/DT9ULZQjFUU/
#Politics #USpol #Trump #MAGA #Fascism #Venezuela #Strike #GeneralStrike #Greenland #law #DueProcess #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #ICE #CBP #Minneapolis #TRUMP #FASCISM
#ReneeNicoleGood #ICE #civilrights #humanrights #PoliceState #USA
#Minnesota #MInneapolis #fuckICE #JUSTICE #FreeSpeech
#politics #socialmedia #mastodon #fediverse #whitesupremacy #imperialism #protest #activism #resistance #unitedstates #classwar #racism #lgbtq #indigenous #poverty #Immigration #education #US #tiktok #antifa #labor #labour #unions #AlexPretti
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Two days to the Nationwide Shutdown - 30 January
NO WORK
NO SCHOOL
NO SHOPPING
https://www.instagram.com/p/DT9ULZQjFUU/
The tech that nobody wants is running rampant through the workforce and we're supposed to just be okay with this?!
Pinterest to Lay Off 15% of Its Workforce As It Doubles Down on AI
#Pinterest #Layoffs #Labor #AI #SocialMedia #Tech
The calls for a nationwide shut down are growing louder, spoken by more and more people.
January 30
NO WORK
NO SCHOOL
NO SHOPPING
https://www.instagram.com/p/DT9ULZQjFUU/
#Politics #USpol #Trump #MAGA #Fascism #Venezuela #Strike #GeneralStrike #Greenland #law #DueProcess #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #ICE #CBP #Minneapolis #TRUMP #FASCISM
#ReneeNicoleGood #ICE #civilrights #humanrights #PoliceState #USA
#Minnesota #MInneapolis #fuckICE #JUSTICE #FreeSpeech
#politics #socialmedia #mastodon #fediverse #whitesupremacy #imperialism #protest #activism #resistance #unitedstates #classwar #racism #lgbtq #indigenous #poverty #Immigration #education #US #tiktok #antifa #labor #labour #unions #AlexPretti
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The calls for a nationwide shut down are growing louder, spoken by more and more people.
January 30
NO WORK
NO SCHOOL
NO SHOPPING
https://www.instagram.com/p/DT9ULZQjFUU/
Nationwide shut down
January 30
NO WORK
NO SCHOOL
NO SHOPPING
https://www.instagram.com/p/DT9ULZQjFUU/
#Politics #USpol #Trump #MAGA #Fascism #Venezuela #Strike #GeneralStrike #Greenland #law #DueProcess #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #ICE #CBP #Minneapolis #TRUMP #FASCISM
#ReneeNicoleGood #ICE #civilrights #humanrights #PoliceState #USA
#Minnesota #MInneapolis #fuckICE #JUSTICE #FreeSpeech
#politics #socialmedia #mastodon #fediverse #whitesupremacy #imperialism #protest #activism #resistance #unitedstates #classwar #racism #lgbtq #indigenous #poverty #Immigration #education #US #tiktok #antifa #labor #labour #unions #AlexPretti
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Nationwide shut down
January 30
NO WORK
NO SCHOOL
NO SHOPPING
We must continue to apply pressure.
When will the General Strike begin?
#Politics #USpol #Trump #MAGA #Fascism #Venezuela #Strike #GeneralStrike #Greenland #law #DueProcess #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #ICE #CBP #Minneapolis #TRUMP #FASCISM
#ReneeNicoleGood #ICE #civilrights #humanrights #PoliceState #USA
#Minnesota #MInneapolis #fuckICE #JUSTICE #FreeSpeech
#politics #socialmedia #mastodon #fediverse #whitesupremacy #imperialism #protest #activism #resistance #unitedstates #classwar #racism #lgbtq #indigenous #poverty #Immigration #education #US #tiktok #antifa #labor #labour #unions #AlexPretti
Avi Lewis’s NDP Labour Plan Is A Remarkable Document
The proposal complements the campaign’s other policy plans in housing, health care and the environment.
#Canada #CanadianPolitics #cdnpoli #NDP #NDP2026 #AviLewis #workersrights #labour #labor
https://www.readthemaple.com/avi-lewis-ndp-labour-plan-is-a-remarkable-document/
When will the General Strike begin?
#Politics #USpol #Trump #MAGA #Fascism #Venezuela #Strike #GeneralStrike #Greenland #law #DueProcess #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #ICE #CBP #Minneapolis #TRUMP #FASCISM
#ReneeNicoleGood #ICE #civilrights #humanrights #PoliceState #USA
#Minnesota #MInneapolis #fuckICE #JUSTICE #FreeSpeech
#politics #socialmedia #mastodon #fediverse #whitesupremacy #imperialism #protest #activism #resistance #unitedstates #classwar #racism #lgbtq #indigenous #poverty #Immigration #education #US #tiktok #antifa #labor #labour #unions #AlexPretti
We need to combine the impending government shutdown with a nationwide General Strike:
#Politics #USpol #Trump #MAGA #Fascism #Venezuela #Strike #GeneralStrike #Greenland #law #DueProcess #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #ICE #CBP #Minneapolis #TRUMP #FASCISM
#ReneeNicoleGood #ICE #civilrights #humanrights #PoliceState #USA
#Minnesota #MInneapolis #fuckICE #JUSTICE #FreeSpeech
#politics #socialmedia #mastodon #fediverse #whitesupremacy #imperialism #protest #activism #resistance #unitedstates #classwar #racism #lgbtq #indigenous #poverty #Immigration #education #US #tiktok #antifa #labor #labour #unions #AlexPretti
When will the General Strike begin?
#Politics #USpol #Trump #MAGA #Fascism #Venezuela #Strike #GeneralStrike #Greenland #law #DueProcess #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #ICE #CBP #Minneapolis #TRUMP #FASCISM
#ReneeNicoleGood #ICE #civilrights #humanrights #PoliceState #USA
#Minnesota #MInneapolis #fuckICE #JUSTICE #FreeSpeech
#politics #socialmedia #mastodon #fediverse #whitesupremacy #imperialism #protest #activism #resistance #unitedstates #classwar #racism #lgbtq #indigenous #poverty #Immigration #education #US #tiktok #antifa #labor #labour #unions #AlexPretti
uspol, nursing, boosts appreciated [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
My nurses union (the Oregon Nurses Association or ONA) issued a statement on the murder of Alex Pretti
if u didn't know, im a nurse and im involved heavily in my union to make healthcare and working conditions in healthcare better for all Oregonians
https://www.oregonrn.org/page/MN_Nurse_Shot_by_ICE
"ONA Statement on the Shooting of Alex Pretti, an ICU Nurse For Veterans
January 24, 2026 (Portland, Ore.) — The Oregon Nurses Association is outraged, heartbroken, and profoundly disturbed by the fatal shooting of 37-year-old registered nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis on January 24, 2026. Alex was an intensive care unit (ICU) nurse and union member at the VA hospital who dedicated his life to caring for military veterans and their families. A life devoted to healing was cut short — gunned down in the streets by federal agents while speaking out.Our deepest condolences go out to Alex’s family, his patients, his colleagues, and the people of Minneapolis as they grieve this senseless and devastating loss.
A nurse's job is to care for their patients — but they are also ethically bound to speak out in the face of injustice and human rights violations. Provision 8.2 of the American Nurses Association Code of Ethics for Nurses is clear: “Where there are human rights violations, nurses ought to and must stand up for those rights and demand accountability.” That is exactly what Alex was doing.
No one should be targeted by federal agents for speaking out. No nurse should be killed for standing up for human rights.
ONA members in Oregon are reporting growing fear and distress as they encounter federal agents in healthcare settings, particularly at Legacy Emanuel Medical Center. The killing of a nurse is intensifying these fears and could create unsafe conditions for patients, their families, and frontline caregivers alike. Healthcare settings must be places of care, not sites of intimidation or terror.
The Oregon Nurses Association stands in unequivocal solidarity with immigrant communities, with nurses, and with all frontline healthcare professionals across the country who are demanding accountability, and an independent investigation. Federal enforcement tactics that endanger lives and traumatize communities have no place in a just society.
We call on all major healthcare systems in Oregon to stand up for nurses, publicly denounce this killing, and to hold ICE and similar federal agents accountable in healthcare settings.
A nurse who spent his life caring for veterans was killed by his own government for speaking out. He deserves justice."
Today in Labor History January 24, 1977: Right-wing extremists assassinated five labor activists in Madrid during the Atocha massacre. It was part of the far-right reaction to Spain's transition to democracy after the death of fascist dictator Francisco Franco. While the reactionaries hoped to provoke a violent left-wing response that would legitimize a right-wing counter coup d'état, the massacre actually increased popular revulsion of the far-right and accelerating the legalization of the long-banned Communist Party. In Madrid up to 100,000 people joined the funeral procession on January 26 for three of the victims of the Atocha massacre.
Remember, the original poem by pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) began with the lines: first they came for the socialists, but I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a socialist. Then they came for the union members…. Of course, in today’s scenario, they’re already coming for the immigrants, and the trans and nonbinary people. But unions and labor activists are most definitely in their crosshairs, too. This was one of the primary goals of Project 2025.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #spain #massacre #fascism #franco #communism #dictator #labor #organizer #Project2025 #trump #immigration #lgbtq #transrightsarehumanrights #proudboys #januarysix #oathkeepers
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In Madrid up to 100,000 people joined the funeral procession on January 26 for three of the victims of the Atocha massacre. By Unknown author - https://www.cuartopoder.es/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/cortejo-f%C3%BAnebre-abogados-Atocha.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=89833016
"Hundreds of shops, restaurants and cultural institutions are closing their doors Friday and activists are urging Minnesotans to stay home as part of a #protest against the federal deportation operation now in its eighth week.
The “ICE Out! Statewide Shutdown” was planned by #labor and #faith leaders and will include a march through downtown at 2 p.m. that will culminate in a rally at Target Center."
https://www.startribune.com/ice-raids-minnesota/601546426
#Resist #ICE #IceOut #Minneapolis #Minnesota #USA #News #Press #US
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Headline from The Minnesota Star Tribune:
Twin Cities
Live: Scores of Minnesota businesses close in protest of ICE enforcement
January 23, 2026
Minneapolis airport - Peaceful demonstrators being arrested.
Livestream:
https://www.youtube.com/live/3xcVB5D4csM
#Politics #USpol #Trump #MAGA #Fascism #Venezuela #Strike #GeneralStrike #Greenland #law #DueProcess #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #ICE #CBP #Minneapolis #TRUMP #FASCISM
#ReneeNicoleGood #ICE #civilrights #humanrights #PoliceState #USA
#Minnesota #MInneapolis #fuckICE #JUSTICE #FreeSpeech
#politics #socialmedia #mastodon #fediverse #whitesupremacy #imperialism #protest #activism #resistance #unitedstates #classwar #racism #lgbtq #indigenous #poverty #Immigration #education #US #tikrok @povertyandinequality @democracydocket @blackvoices #antifa #labor #labour #unions @UnicornRiot
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Minneapolis airport - Peaceful demonstrators being arrested.
Livestream:
https://www.youtube.com/live/3xcVB5D4csM
"growing #strike movement across the country against ICE's occupation of #Minneapolis. So far... there are Minneapolis #GeneralStrike solidarity actions in at least 215 cities across the #UnitedStates.
The strike wave comes after the Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation, the Minnesota AFL-CIO, and several large #labor federations around #Minnesota have called for a “Day of Truth of Freedom" as workers intend to strike and walk out on Friday"
#Protest #Resist #ICE #News #US #USA #UnitedStates
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Map and headline.
Map: The continental United States with locator pins stuck in a bunch of places across the US.
Headline: MAP: Minneapolis General Strike Movement Spreads to 215 Cities on Friday
by Mike Elk Jan 21, 2026
"Tomorrow, tens of thousands of workers in #Minneapolis are expected to take to the streets in a mass #GeneralStrike. The “Day of Truth and Freedom” has been endorsed by all the major #labor organizations in #Minnesota. Every major #school & cultural institution, as well as hundreds of restaurants & small businesses, are expected to close.
... Minneapolis shows other cities how to fight back when #ICE comes to occupy their cities."
https://paydayreport.com/minnesota-labor-leaders-talk-organizing-lessons-as-strike-movement-goes-national/
#Strike #Protest #Resist #News #US
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Photo and headline.
Photo: Protestors stand in the snow holding up a large banner that reads, "An injury to one is an injury to all. CWA 7250. Solidatiry forever!" Other protestors hold up signs that read, "ICE out!"
Headline:
Minnesota Labor Leaders Talk Organizing Lessons as Strike Movement Goes National
by Mike Elk Jan 23, 2026
UAW Statement in Solidarity with the Fight for Justice in Minnesota
The UAW stands in solidarity with the people of Minnesota, including hundreds of UAW members, who are standing up and fighting back against the federal government’s abuses and attacks on the working class.
The UAW stands for freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and human dignity no matter where you were born, what language you speak, or the color of your skin. We will not tolerate a government that attacks working class people’s constitutional and human rights.
It is the working class that makes society run, and it is the working class that can shut it down if need be. On January 23rd, working class people will demonstrate that power in Minnesota, and the UAW has their back.
https://uaw.org/uaw-statement-in-solidarity-with-the-fight-for-justice-in-minnesota/
#Politics #USpol #Trump #MAGA #Fascism #Venezuela #Strike #GeneralStrike #Greenland #law #DueProcess #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #ICE #CBP #Minneapolis #TRUMP #FASCISM
#ReneeNicoleGood #ICE #civilrights #humanrights #PoliceState #USA
#Minnesota #MInneapolis #fuckICE #JUSTICE #FreeSpeech
#politics #socialmedia #mastodon #fediverse #whitesupremacy #imperialism #protest #activism #resistance #unitedstates #classwar #racism #lgbtq #indigenous #poverty #Immigration #education #US #tikrok @povertyandinequality @democracydocket @blackvoices #antifa #labor #labour #unions @UnicornRiot
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UAW Statement in Solidarity with the Fight for Justice in Minnesota
The UAW stands in solidarity with the people of Minnesota, including hundreds of UAW members, who are standing up and fighting back against the federal government’s abuses and attacks on the working class.
The UAW stands for freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and human dignity no matter where you were born, what language you speak, or the color of your skin. We will not tolerate a government that attacks working class people’s constitutional and human rights.
It is the working class that makes society run, and it is the working class that can shut it down if need be. On January 23rd, working class people will demonstrate that power in Minnesota, and the UAW has their back.
https://uaw.org/uaw-statement-in-solidarity-with-the-fight-for-justice-in-minnesota/
#Politics #USpol #Trump #MAGA #Fascism #Venezuela #Strike #GeneralStrike #Greenland #law #DueProcess #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #ICE #CBP #Minneapolis #TRUMP #FASCISM
#ReneeNicoleGood #ICE #civilrights #humanrights #PoliceState #USA
#Minnesota #MInneapolis #fuckICE #JUSTICE #FreeSpeech
#politics #socialmedia #mastodon #fediverse #whitesupremacy #imperialism #protest #activism #resistance #unitedstates #classwar #racism #lgbtq #indigenous #poverty #Immigration #education #US #tikrok @povertyandinequality @democracydocket @blackvoices #antifa #labor #labour #unions @UnicornRiot
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ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA
DAY OF TRUTH & FREEDOM
JANUARY 23
MARCH @ 2PM, DOWNTOWN MPLS
#Politics #USpol #Trump #MAGA #Fascism #Venezuela #Strike #GeneralStrike #Greenland #law #DueProcess #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #ICE #CBP #Minneapolis #TRUMP #FASCISM
#ReneeNicoleGood #ICE #civilrights #humanrights #PoliceState #USA
#Minnesota #MInneapolis #fuckICE #JUSTICE #FreeSpeech
#politics #socialmedia #mastodon #fediverse #whitesupremacy #imperialism #protest #activism #resistance #unitedstates #classwar #racism #lgbtq #indigenous #poverty #Immigration #education #US #tikrok @povertyandinequality @democracydocket @blackvoices #antifa #labor #labour #unions @UnicornRiot
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‘ICE Out of Minnesota’ day is this Friday. Here’s what you need to know.
By: Michelle Griffith
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January 20, 2026
4:14 pm
15,000 nurses strike in largest nurse walkout in NYC history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjeiEeOnFN8 #NYC #Labor #Strike #Healthcare
Thousands of NYC nurses on strike at major hospitals | Team Coverage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRj_97seg3s #NYC #Labor #Strike #Healthcare
Mayor Mamdani, Bernie Sanders join nurses on strike; no resolution in sight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF0o6p_3KzM #NYC #Labor #Healthcare #Strike
#Greens say #extremismbill a #threat to #freespeech, claiming #Labor followed #Coalition ‘down the rabbit hole’.
The Greens, who will pass the government’s #firearmslaw in the #Senate, have stood up to criticise the government’s extremism bill, and attacked Labor for going down the “rabbit hole” with the Liberal party.
Leader #LarissaWaters again says the bill, which will create a new hate groups listing and increase grounds to cancel or deny visas under the migration character test, was #rushed.
She says the bill could lead to the #criminalisation of #peacefulprotesters.
“It is an atrocity that we have seen the government go down the rabbit hole following the Liberals to further crackdown on people’s ability to speak out peacefully against human rights abuses anywhere in the world.”
Deputy leader Mehreen Faruqi calls the last minute deal with the Coalition a “#sham process”. #auspol
‘#ICE Out!’ No Work, School, or Shopping on Jan. 23 in #Minnesota
Community-Labor Coalition Calls March in #Minneapolis on ‘Day of Truth & Freedom’
https://world-outlook.com/2026/01/18/ice-out-no-work-school-or-shopping-on-jan-23-in-minnesota/
from #WorldOutlook
January 18, 2026
[contains 3 parts: an editorial by World-Outlook; an article from In These Times and Workday Magazine; and a press release from the Minneapolis Regional Federation of #Labor, AFL-CIO.]
MINNEAPOLIS — #Unions and community groups gathered in front of the Hennepin County Government Center in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, this morning to announce a day of “no work, no school, no shopping” on January 23 to oppose the ferocious assault on the state by federal #immigration authorities.
“We are facing a tsunami of hate from our own federal government,” Abdikarim Khasim, a Minnesota rideshare driver, told the crowd. “We’re going to shut it down on the 23rd. We’re going to overcome this.”
#StopTheDeportations
#MeltICE
#news #politics #USpol #deportations
🚨 In Oct., Trump's Labor Dept. lowered the minimum wage for foreign farmworkers.
Weeks later, Trump's winery filed to hire 36 foreign, temporary workers.
The rate? Almost $2/hour less than in 2025.
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me, for @Forbes
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2026/01/12/trump-organization-foreign-labor-winery-wages/
"According to the Trump Labor Department’s own jobs data published Friday (and also leaked early by Trump on Thursday), 2025 was the worst year for hiring since 2020, and what the Wall Street Journal says is the worst year for annual job growth outside of a recession since 2003."
~ Marcie Jones
#Trump #economy #JobGrowth #labor #recession #SoMuchWinning #tariffs #TaxCuts #BigBeautifulBill #EconomicElites
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"The rebukes are now coming from every direction. Oil executives are rejecting his Venezuela stunt. Norway and the Nobel Peace Prize board are calling him out. Economists confirm we are in a hiring recession. Protests against his policies and abuses of power are spreading across the country."
~ Ben Meiselas
#Trump #economy #JobGrowth #labor #recession #SoMuchWinning #tariffs #TaxCuts #BigBeautifulBill #EconomicElites #Venezuela #BigOil #NobelPeacePrize
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https://www.meidasplus.com/p/saturday-afternoon-news-updates-11026
"They made no such commitment. Trump appears to have invented the number out of thin air, unless what he really meant was that taxpayers would foot the bill."
#Trump #economy #JobGrowth #labor #recession #SoMuchWinning #tariffs #TaxCuts #BigBeautifulBill #EconomicElites #Venezuela #BigOil #NobelPeacePrize
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#BestOf2025: Between 2010 and 2020, Texas ordered employers to pay #workers $99M across 57,000 wage theft cases. As of 2024, 80% of of those wages had yet to be recovered. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-workers-wage-theft-complaints-surge/
#Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles
https://theonion.com/trump-still-polling-well-with-working-class-american-pedophiles/
#DonaldTrump #epstein
@democracy
@journalismandcomment @politics @socialmedia #nokings #democracy #mastodon #usa #us #america #politics #war #tiktok #ai #cdnpoli #elections #government #poverty #immigration #ice #racism #lgbt #indigenous @indigenouspeoples @socialmedia @blackvoices @workersrights #labor #labour
I received this email from Doximity's "DoxGPT." Check your AI accuracy for you? For free? No, thank you.
#healthcare #science #research #AI #labor
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Screenshot of an email message with white background and black text. There is Doximity's "d" logo at the top center. The message reads, "Dr. Nguyen, Your article ***redacted*** was recently cited in a clinical answer on DoxGPT. Given your expertise, we kindly request your review to ensure both the answer and the citation are accurate. We appreciate any feedback - just reply directly to me here. Signed, ***redacted*** MD, Product Development, DoxGPT."
Between the second and third sentences, there is a centered blue rectangle with "Review the Response" in white text where the receiver can click through to presumably complete the requested task.
It would seem the grip Israel has on Australia it quite strong, with Labor Israel Action Committee sending a letter to NSW party leadership condemning Bob Carr for his call out on how some Jewish groups are part of a foreign influence operation.
Yes, you absolutely should be concerned about this. This is an attempt to silence one of the few Labor voices who are speaking out regarding Israel. His actions are not antisemitic.
uspol,socialmedia [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
Why 2025 was hell for job hunters
Why the economy felt so, so bad this year.
Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/6b5q0
https://www.vox.com/money/473182/jobs-hiring-economy-us-market-linkedin#economy #labor #linkedin #money #politics #social-media #technology
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A sign reading “NOW HIRING / APPLY TODAY” in the foreground with palm trees and a Mobil gas station in the background.
Long: Gory details of the bullshit that is gen ed assessment in the US [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
It's late and I'm tired but unsleepable, and I spent the last 2 hours doing something I hate, so I will tell you about #assessment in #highered (in the USA). I'm extrapolating from personal knowledge of 2 universities' practices and hearsay about a few other places.
It's bullshit. Much of it, anyway. This is not an exaggeration.
Accrediting agencies, university systems, and other bodies want to see assessments. Administrators (presidents, provosts, deans, and the increasing cloud of quasis around them) want to see assessments, too. The big problems I see (caveat: I'm wrong sometimes) are embedded in the fact that (contrary to popular belief) almost all American public colleges and universities are not controlled by professors; they are authoritarian institutions controlled by suit-wearing, corporate-cosplaying middle-managers. This leads (because reasons) to a management-vs-labor dynamic.
For administrators, assessment is not about understanding processes or outcomes; it is about control of the university (especially the faculty, who tend to get uppity and think that they should have a say in things just because they know stuff about stuff) and career management. The last point is not remotely independent from the first, BTW; higher ed admins' careers options are impacted heavily by how hard they knock faculty heads.
Result: assessment is not about assessment at all, but anyone who says this out loud runs headfirst into authoritarian power games. Institution-level assessment is about power.
One big area of assessment is the ubiquitous General Education program (i.e., the "liberal arts" curriculum in which engineers have to take a philosophy class and aspiring writers have to take a math class). The schools of which I have knowledge all do the following:
- Revamp their gen ed program every 7 years or so
- Assess the new gen ed program to see if it's better than the old one
- Conclude that it is (100% of the time)
General education programs theoretically serve university "mission statements" etc., which have become so vague and stuffed with business-speak in recent years that they are nearly meaningless. However, they still tend to have some language about "success" or "skills" or "critical thinking" or similar. These things can be assessed. Perhaps a good way to demonstrate how assessment works is to show how I tried to influence assessment of these things at one institution.
I'm an Assessment Person. I'm not the most skilled and knowledgeable psychometrician in the world, but I am a psychometrician. I have a PhD that says "Psychology and also statistics with a focus on stuff like psychometrics or whatever." This, I have found, makes me more qualified to do all things educational-assessment-related than 99% of other employees at the average American college. Of course, my big head as I figured this out and my stats-specific imposter syndrome faded led me to bonk directly into an unspoken but firm rule of administrators at universities: Never let a faculty member contribute to anything of operational importance.
After a year or two at a particular school I volunteered to be on the Gen Ed Assessment Committee for our brand new gen ed program, which was hammered out by dozens of faculty over three years or so, with administrators over their shoulders and fingers on the scales at every turn. Well, I know some things about how to assess stuff when human behavior is involved, so it was a cool gig.
What followed was a year of meetings with three other faculty and one vice-provost. The VP was the chair of the committee and the rest were appointed, not elected. I spent many hours parsing our committee's charge, the university's mission and values statements, and the voluminous literature about educational assessment. I prepared briefs, made suggestions, etc.
You see, it's pretty goddamn simple (not the same as easy, but not that hard): If your gen ed program's mission statement says it will increase critical thinking in students, you get a fucking critical thinking assessment (there are a few pretty decent ones) and you fucking give it to the fucking students. You can do a longitudinal study, assessing students at various points in their college experience. You can do a cross-sectional thing where you assess a bunch of 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th year students all at once. You can get fancy and do a cross-lagged design. You can get picky and weird with the methdology, but it's not that fucking hard.
I didn't understand the problems with this approach. They included (but probably were not limited to) the following. This kind of assessment...
- Fails to occupy hundreds of faculty members for dozens of hours each, every semester
- Doesn't provide buzzword-intensive "initiatives" to go on the VP's resume
- Allows a few faculty members to gain social status by demonstrating their expertise
- Allows faculty members to have a meaningful say in university bidness
- ** Might show that the new gen ed program is not better than the previous one
So I spent a year working my ass off, not quite understanding (but beginning to suspect) why all my suggestions (e.g., "We want to know about skills. What if we measure skills?") were ignored or sometimes pointedly shot down. After a year, the committee was disbanded with no final report and no meeting minutes (another suggestion that got me some surprisingly hostile responses). There is no record, as far as I know, of anything we did. A year or two later, that same administrator announced the "faculty-led" assessment system we have now, which bears no resemblance to anything we discussed in that committee, let alone my suggestions.
The system we have now is this:
Every instructor of a gen ed course comes up with their own assessment of 3 to 6 learning outcomes. The learning outcomes were developed by a bunch of faculty committees, sort of. They're high-level and don't have a single obvious assessment process (e.g., "student utilizes relevant knowledge sources to evaluate claims in discipline", etc.). They are all basically OK, but literally every faculty member makes up their own assessment. It could be a test question, a class project, a student interview, a portfolio, whatever.
Then every instructor must evaluate every student in every gen ed class (hence the many hours) on each of those learning outcomes, and score them on a rubric which was suggested by... someone, then voted into existence... or maybe just mandated. It is based on a well and truly debunked theory of learning, and it has 4 categories: did not meet outcome, approached outcome, achieved outcome, and exceeded outcome.
Side note: After this assessment process was dropped on us several years ago, there were a couple of months of intense discussion about how and who, etc. After the contention, the University Senate and administrators (who are goddamn members of our Senate for reasons that continue to elude me) agreed that no students would be identified in the assessment process, nor would any instructors or course sections. Everything would be reported in broad categories of courses, with all identifying information removed. This is because (see everything above) faculty who have been at a college/university more than a couple of years do not trust administrators. If you give them data, they will use it to fire, marginalize, or just be shitty to faculty they don't like, or in pursuit of whatever buzzword career booster is popular among provosts and deans that semester.
Great. It sucked but it was a compromise.
Then an admin announced that we had spent something like $50K/year on a "solution" to collect these data from faculty. Sadly, the "solution" required us to enter all student names attached to all scores, and our own names attached as well. When some of us mentioned the previous agreement we were told that we were harming the university by wanting to make this big (for us) financial investment worthless. When some other of us (OK, me) mentioned that every part of the assessment could be done with an Excel workbook or even pieces of paper slipped under the provost's door at the end of the semester and tallied up by a secretary, we were told that we clearly didn't understand assessment.
So now we have a tedious, laborious, overly complex, data-harvesting online platform to do the job of a single Excel workbook. It costs tens of thousands a year while we are told that we might go bankrupt at any minute and we can't have copier paper for exams. Our "assessment" involves a bunch of outcomes that were never evaluated for validity or effectiveness, assessed by hundreds of people who have (a) no expertise in creating valid assessments, (b) instructions that guarantee very low validity, and (c) fear-based motivation to inflate scores as much as possible. And we all spend a dozen or two hours a semester creating the assessments, scoring them, entering them in the cumbersome system, and dealing with dozens of emails about how to do it.
I hate some parts of my job, and this is one of the hateyest. I hate being forced (literally on threat of unemployment) to participate in this farce every semester. I hate being gaslit (gaslighted?) about the history, validity, and need for this process. I hate watching ritualized authoritarianism on display: Do this thing and prentend it makes sense and shut up about what's actually going on. I figure a junior faculty member who never took a psychometrics course and who didn't understand how universities work would feel OK about this; it has the appearance of assessment.
I just criticized fiction authors for not knowing how to end a story. I don't, either, I guess, because The End.
#highered #professor #assessment #psychometrics #bullshit #power #labor
It’s been nearly two years since Seattle’s gig worker minimum wage took effect.
A new study shows that Seattle food delivery drivers now have more unpaid idle time, and drive longer distances between orders.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/has-seattle-s-gig-worker-wage-law-delivered-increased-pay
#KUOW #News #Uber #Labor #Economy #Wages #Seattle #ArtsAndLife
From @josephinelee: Total membership in Texas #unions has been growing. According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 603,000 Texans belonged to unions in 2024, up from closer to half a million a decade ago. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-afl-cio-changing-of-the-guard/
Conor does incredible work and this collection is an incredible resource for #Washington and #labor history
The USA is lost as a nation until labor remembers that it has no friends in the C suite. It is an adversarial relationship, and we've let them gaslight us into devaluing our own contribution.
Your immigrant neighbor is not the problem. The stay-at-home parent who just needs health insurance is not the problem. The trans librarian at your local library is not the problem.
The people who amass unimaginable wealth and still, at every opportunity, pick our pockets through wage theft--THEY are the problem, and they are working around the clock to make sure you never see it that way.
Minnesota Letter Carriers Demand: ‘ICE Off Postal Property!’
https://world-outlook.com/2025/12/17/minnesota-letter-carriers-demand-ice-off-postal-property/
from #WorldOutlook
Dec. 17, 2025
By Louise Halverson
#MINNEAPOLIS, #Minnesota — On December 14, 2025, some 100 letter carriers and their supporters gathered here as the temperature hovered at 4° F to demand “ICE Off Postal Property!” Immigration Customs and Enforcement (#ICE) agents had been using post office parking lots as staging areas for raids in nearby neighborhoods, disrupting postal workers as they tried to carry out their duties.
At a rally at Lake Street Station, Chris Pennock, vice president of #NationalAssociationOfLetterCarriers (#NALC) Branch 9, told the local NBC #News affiliate: “At the Powderhorn post office, they arrested somebody right in the middle of when we’re bringing back our mail. Vans with tinted windows and body armor and guns. We shouldn’t have to work in that environment.”
#Solidarity
#immigrants #deportations
#USA #USpol #politics #unions #labor #workers
A lax regulatory environment has led to the widespread abuse of farmworkers — including threats of violence, stolen wages and forced labor.
Experts say the Fair Food Program's reforms could help.
But few farms have signed on.
https://www.propublica.org/article/fair-food-program-farmworker-abuse-exploitation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Agriculture #Farming #Immigration #Labor #Abuse #Exploitation #Immigrants
#Unemployment rose to a 4-year high of 4.6% in November — the worst since the #pandemic — & the economy “added” 64,000 “#jobs”, new Bureau of #Labor Statistics [#BLS] data shows
#economy #affordability #CostOfLiving #recession #trumpcession #trump
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12/16/business/jobs-report-economy?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Portugal general strike: Tens of thousands protest against new labour law
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id7VDPXE0jg #Union #Labor #GeneralStrike #PortugalGeneralStrike
AFL-CIO Slams Trump Admin for Another Illegal Union-Busting Attack on TSA Workers Just Before the Holidays
> This is DHS’ second attempt to union-bust TSA in explicit retaliation for members standing up for their rights, and comes as their union, AFGE, is still fighting for justice in court. A union contract ensures TSA officers can speak up about dangerous working conditions, shift scheduling, and more. Without those protections, WE ARE ALL LESS SAFE.
#labor #laborNews #airlines #airTravel #travelNews #unions #unionBusting #workersRights #workerRights #workers
Veto Record Belies “Progressive” Air of Dem Leaders’ Pick for Key Senate Race
Janet Mills has vetoed collective bargaining rights, wealth taxes, protections for renters, and tribal sovereignty laws. [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
At a time when Democratic voters are demanding new, antiestablishment leaders, the Democratic Party’s power brokers are pushing a 77-year-old candidate for a key 2026 Senate race who’s spent the past six years as governor vetoing collective bargaining rights for workers, tax increases on the wealthy, renter protections, and tribal sovereignty protections, according to a Lever review.
This post has been syndicated from Truthout, where it was published under this address.
Minnesotans Defend #Somali Community, #Immigrant Workers
Protesters Stand Up to #Trump Administration’s Dehumanizing Bigotry
https://world-outlook.com/2025/12/11/minnesotans-defend-somali-community-immigrant-workers/
from #WorldOutlook
December 11, 2025
#SEIU Local 26 and UNITE HERE Local 17 organized the protest, joined by airport #workers wearing Airport Workers United hats and community supporters. Additional co-sponsors included Jewish Community Action, #Minnesota Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Alliance, the interfaith group ISAIAH, SEIU MN State Council, Indivisible Twin Cities, Women’s March Minnesota, Minnesota AFL-CIO, Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation, and 50501: Minnesota.
The crowd marched from the terminal to the offices of Signature Aviation — a private aviation terminal used by some private charter planes for #deportation flights.
#ImmigrantRightsAreHumanRights
#solidarity
#DueProcessForAll
#StopTheDeportations
#WorkersRights #Unions #Labor #LaborUnions
#immigration #ICE
#USA #US #USpol #politics
#news
LOL Washington Post editorial carrying weight for the billionaire class. #billionaires #labor
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Editorial: Starbuck's CEO was paid $95 million. It could be worth every cent.
So much for #StatesRights
#Trump signs #ExecutiveOrder to neuter #State #AI laws, a win for #tech companies & #billionaires that have #lobbied against #regulation of the #technology.
The order would create one federal regulatory framework for #ArtificialIntelligence, Trump told reporters.
#law #regulations #safety #labor #DataCenters #energy #climate #PublicHealth
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/technology/ai-trump-executive-order.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
"Thirteen House Republicans joined Democrats in advancing a bill that would reverse Pres. Donald Trump’s executive order to crack down harder on federal worker unions. The bill was led by Democratic Rep. Jared Golden of Maine, who forced a vote on the measure using a discharge petition":
https://thenationaldesk.com/news/americas-news-now/13-house-republicans-join-democrats-to-advance-bill-reversing-trumps-union-crackdown
#bipartisan #politics #labor copy: @renewedresistance
#Queensland parliament has voted to kill its legislated #renewables targets, despite a last-minute attempt to rename it the “Propping Up #Coal and Delaying Renewables Amendment Act 2025”.
The bill also repeals a development approval for a #windfarm near #Gympie, the Forest windfarm. It replaces Labor’s targets with the #LNP’s energy policy, which would extend the operation of the state’s government-owned coal generators past their planned closure dates.
Maiwar MP #MichaelBerkman moved amendments to rename the bill, saying the government was “pouring literally billions of dollars into propping up ageing coal-fired #powerstations, keeping them on life support potentially beyond 2050”:
“The LNP is pitching their roadmap as pragmatism but I am pretty sure pouring billions more taxpayer dollars into keeping ageing #coalfiredpowerstations open for longer while delaying the #transition to renewable energy is not pragmatism, it is plain stupidity.”
During debate, assistant minister #BrysonHead [Dick to those who know him] told the parliament that he loved coal and accused #Labor and the #Greens of “propping up renewables”.
“The beauty about our plan is that the cheapest form of power will ultimately win … the beauty about a free market is that the cheapest and best value good always wins,” he said.
Berkman’s amendment was shot down and the bill passed just before 9.30pm, both on party lines.
“In considering the extent & timing of additional adjustments to the target range for the federal funds rates, the Committee will carefully assess incoming data," the rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee said in language that in the past has been used to signal a pause in policy actions - an outlook at odds with market expectations of 2 rate cuts next year.
#economy #FederalReserve #InterestRates #labor #inflation #unemployment
The decision to lower the benchmark policy rate drew three dissents, with Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee joining Kansas City Fed President Jeffrey Schmid in arguing the policy rate should be left unchanged, & Fed Governor Stephen Miran again advocating a larger half-percentage-point reduction.
#economy #FederalReserve #InterestRates #labor #inflation #unemployment
The #FederalReserve cuts #InterestRates by ¼% point with 3 dissenting votes
But the central bank signaled it will likely pause further reductions in borrowing costs as officials look for clearer signals about the direction of the #labor market & #inflation that "remains somewhat elevated."
#economy
https://www.reuters.com/world/fed-meeting-live-december-interest-rate-decision-2026-outlook-2025-12-10/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement
New projections showed the median policymaker sees just one quarter-percentage-point cut in 2026, the same outlook as in September, with inflation expected to slow to around 2.4% by the end of next year even as economic growth accelerates to an above-trend 2.3% & the #unemployment rate remains at a moderate 4.4%.
The #capitalists have been whiteanting #labor since mid 1700s with machines.
Now that the machines have come for intelligentsia, there is little Labor left to defend us.
"Setting aside perceptions, foreign leaders are aware, even if Trump is not, that his anti-immigrant push has hurt global and local economies.
In the US, no sector has been hurt more by Trump’s anti-immigration push than farmers. American farmers today say their #1 challenge isn’t the weather, equipment costs, or even the mortgage- it’s finding enough labor."
~ Sabrina Haake
#Trump #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #agriculture #farms #labor #food #FoodSupply
/18
https://sabrinahaake.substack.com/p/exporting-ignorance-to-allies-who
"With over 40% of American farm workers lacking legal status, people who used to do the heavy lifting are now staying home in fear while crops rot in the fields."
Deliberately choosing to decimate your labor force, labor desperately needed to put food on your table, for the cheap, evanescent thrill of demonstrating domination over those you consider less than yourself, is not just stupid: it's suicidal.
#Trump #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #agriculture #farms #labor #food #FoodSupply
/19
The former CEO of Geisinger made 4.6 million dollars in 2020. (No figures are available for the current CEO.) Yet they are not offering many employees a living wage, and have cut their benefits to the bone. DOWN WITH CORPORATE GREED and UP WITH UNIONS! Support our local hospital employees. #union #unionstrong #labor #labormovement #strike
Lawrence W. Britt: 14 Characteristics of #Fascism
[Unattributed, but based on the writings of #UmbertoEco]
"#Historian #LawrenceBritt studied the fascist regimes of #Hitler (Germany), #Mussolini (Italy), #Franco (Spain), #Suharto (Indonesia), and #Pinochet (Chile) and found they had 14 elements in common. He calls these the identifying characteristics of fascism.
1. Powerful and Continuing #Nationalism
Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of #patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. #Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.
2. Disdain for the Recognition of #HumanRights
Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of “need.” The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, and long incarcerations of prisoners.
3. Identification of #Enemies / #Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause
The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: #racial, #ethnic or #religious #minorities; #liberals; #communists; #socialists, #terrorists…
4. Supremacy of the #Military
Even when there are widespread #domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.
5. Rampant #Sexism
The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional #gender roles are made more rigid. Opposition to #abortion is high, as is #homophobia and anti-#gay legislation.
6. Controlled #MassMedia
Sometimes the media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation or by sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Government #censorship and #secrecy especially in war time, are very common.
7. Obsession with #NationalSecurity
Fear of hostile foreign powers is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.
8. #Religion and Government are Intertwined
Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government’s policies or actions.
9. Protection of #Corporate Power
The #industrial and business #aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.
10. Suppression of #Labor Power
Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor #unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed.
11. Disdain for #Intellectuals and the #Arts
Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to #HigherEducation and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other #academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts.
12. Obsession with #Crime and #Punishment
Under fascist regimes, the #police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego #CivilLiberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.
13. Rampant #Cronyism and #Corruption
Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.
14. #FraudulentElections
Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by #SmearCampaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control #voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.
This post is a summary of Fascism, Anyone? by Lawrence W. Britt published in 2003 by Free Inquiry magazine."
https://voxpopulisphere.com/2017/08/23/lawrence-britt-14-characteristics-of-fascism/
#History #Histodon #RabidRight #Antifa #Antifascism #FarRight #Trump #Putin #Russia #MAGA #Project2025 #CharacteristicsOfFascism
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The 14 Defining Characteristics of Fascism
1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism
2. Disdain for Human Rights
3. Identification of Enemies As A Unifying Cause
4. Supremacy of the Military
5. Rampant Sexism
6. Controlled Mass Media
7. Obsession With National Security
8. Religion and Government Intertwined
9. Corporate Power Protected
10. Labor Power Suppressed
11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts
12. Obsession With Crime and Punishment
13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption
14. Fraudulent Elections
For the motion capture actors that come after!
Clair Obscur Cast Wants TGA To Have More Awards For Actors
#ClairObscur #Expedition33 #TheGameAwards #VoiceActors #MotionCapture #Actors #Labor #Gaming
🤬 🚨NEWS: Dem powerbrokers moved to crush GrahamForMaine & hand Maine's Senate primary to Janet Mills - after Mills' donor-enriching vetoes of Dem bills to:
- Let farmworkers fight for better pay
- Raise the min wage
- Protect renters from landlords
- Raise taxes on the rich
https://www.levernews.com/janet-mills-veto-record/
@democracy @povertyandinequality #usa #maga #democrats #republicans #tiktok #labor #health #healthcare #labour #union #poverty #america #unitedstates #us #democracy #socialjustice #billionaires
Private employers cut 32k #jobs in November, acc/to the payroll processing company #ADP. Economists are closely watching the company’s data because numbers from the Bureau of #Labor Statistics [#BLS] have been delayed [& are unreliable] by the federal govt shutdown, which ended last month but is continuing to have lingering effects on the nation’s economic stats.
#Trump #economy #inflation #tariffs #recession #unemployment #affordability #CostOfLiving #trumpcession
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12/03/us/trump-news/d59c4e1b-0ff9-5512-a6b4-fd0adf144637?smid=url-share
https://prospect.org/2025/11/28/california-child-farmworkers-exposed-toxic-pesticides-part-1/
If #California is looking the other way when this is happening within its borders, then god help those being exploited elsewhere in the world.
«The global AI industry is fueled by hidden and precarized labor: workers who collect and annotate data, keep data centers running, and mine rare earth minerals—not to mention the artists, translators, writers, and actors whose work fuels so-called generative AI» 📢 This paper redirects attention to those workers.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1609/aies.v8i2.36667
@milamiceli
@timnitGebru
@DAIR
@alex
@Weizenbaum_Institut
#Paper #AI #IA #IAgenerativa #generativeAI #data #workers #datacenters #labor #work
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Data Workers´ Inquiry
Methodological Considerations for Centering Workers’ Epistemic Authority in AI Research
Milagros Miceli, Adio-Adet Dinika, Krystal Kauffman, Camilla Salim Wagner, Laurenz Sachenbacher, Alex Hanna, Timnit Gebru
The Distributed AI Research Institute
Weizenbaum-Institute
Technische Universit ̈at Berlin
mila@dair-institute.org,
adio@dair-institute.org,
krystal@dair-institute.org,
camilla.salim.wagner@tu-berlin.de,
l.sachenbacher@tu-berlin.de,
alex@dair-institute.org,
timnit@dair-institute.org
https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AIES/article/view/36667/38805
LAist: California court tosses Wonderful Company lawsuit over farmworker unionization law
"...California ag giant the Wonderful Company suffered a setback on Tuesday in its bid to overturn a new farmworker unionization law when an appeals court tossed its lawsuit against state labor regulators.... The Wonderful Company — owner of the Wonderful Pistachios brand and Fiji Water, Pom pomegranate juices and Halos oranges —filed suit against the state’s Agricultural Labor Relations Board last year trying to overturn the law..."
You're watching the General strike against the far right in Italy today. Against Meloni-fascism and her war economy. Working class resistance is the road to victory. We destroy fascism by taking control of the streets.
https://x.com/DurrutiRiot/status/1994371024906031471
#italia #italy #labour #labor #politics #geopolitics #protest #resistance #Palestine #tiktok @democracy
"Following direction from the Trump administration’s One Big Beautiful Bill, the Department of Education determined that nursing was among the programs that would now be excluded from the 'professional degree' list. This would affect how those seeking a nursing degree would be reimbursed for student loan payments."
#healthcare #education #HigherEd #StudentLoans #nurses #nursing #DOE #labor #hospitals #massachusetts #USpol
"Immigrants make up about a quarter of all the country's doctors, and the U.S. health care system depends heavily on them. There are roughly 325,000 physicians — not including nurses or other critical health care workers — living and working in the U.S., who were born and trained elsewhere."
#healthcare #physicians #hospitals #RuralHealth #immigrant #immigrants #visas #labor #poverty #PrimaryCare #FamilyMedicine #USpol
spoilers: Brightness Falls from the Air by James Tiptree, Jr. [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
As a young adult I read Brightness Falls from the Air by James Tiptree, Jr. I don't think I've read anything else by her, but this one has stayed with me more than most of the one billion books I consumed like Corn Pops as a youngperson.
It's a murder mystery and, IIRC, a pretty good one. More than that, the context--I think maybe an important part of the mystery resolution, hence the spoiler protection on this post--is that there is a cosmetic product valued across the galaxy, which turns out to be made by literally torturing some innocent native people and harvesting their tears, or something very much like that.
Anyway, I've been reading about how "convenient" GenAI is for so many people and how "smooth" it makes so many daily tasks for millions of folks, while the backend is an environment-pollluting, labor-degrading, economy-lurching, internet-crappifying monstrosity.
It seemed relevant.
"The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has brought back everyone it laid off during the government shutdown, a top official told a California federal court Friday...Those 954 employees were set to receive their retroactive pay for the entire shutdown period, from Oct. 1 to Nov. 12, Nagy wrote."
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5620380-hhs-restores-laid-off-employees/
#healthcare #PublicHealth #HHS #CDC #shutdown #courts #labor #unions #USpol
#ConsumerConfidence falls to lowest in 7 months as concerns grow about the #economy
America’s economic mood is souring as worries about the #labor market mount.
The Conference Board’s latest survey of American consumers, released Tuesday, showed that consumer confidence declined sharply this month to a reading of 88.7, the lowest level since April, when #Trump unveiled sweeping #tariffs.
#inflation #affordability #CostOfLiving #recession #trumpcession
https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/us-inflation-retail-sales-economy?post-id=cmiephbs800003b6oigkt7xq3
#LarissaWaters: “I think #Labor wanted to avoid the scrutiny.
Of the fact that they, within 2 weeks of re-winning government, approved the biggest #gas plant in the southern hemisphere that would have more emissions than all of our #coal-fired power stations put together over 10 years, an absolute #carbonbomb.
The fact that they’ve ticked off on more than 30 other coal and gas projects since they took government, the fact that they’re currently trying to rewrite our environmental laws to fast-track coal and gas approval.
And the fact that there’s an #algalbloom that’s driven by a marine heat wave that’s caused by #climatechange on the beaches of #Adelaide.”
#COP31 #auspol