#solidarity
Last Friday, a friendly neighborhood #anarchist from FAS stopped by the #UAW picket in Mansfield Mass to show a little #solidarity and talk with the strikers to see what’s up. A ton of different orgs have been coming out to show solidarity including IWW members (with scabby the rat), Service Employees International Union, and Black Rose. Cops have been watching the picket and unsurprisingly come through en masse to occasionally force scabs through the line. Let it be known that UAW aren’t cowards and don’t let the pigs through without a struggle!
The feeling on the picket line is in a word electric! Solidarity and the power of a unified people against an entrenched boss is on everyone’s lips in one word or many, and the comradery and positivity are palpable. This is an example of a charged and fed-up proletariat open to new ideas and weren’t the least bit afraid of a little anarchy! Come rain or shine, the spirit on the picket line is undiminished!
If you’re able to help out, you have several options. First and foremost they need people to show up and hold the line in solidarity. Whether you’re representing a group or just yourself, you’re invited to come walk with a sign and block the scabs! For material goods, the strikers said they have ample amounts of donuts, water, soda, and coffee, and that they get reimbursed for those specific items. All other foodstuffs are not being reimbursed and are appreciated. With the heavy rain they could also use some umbrellas, ponchos, and D batteries were mentioned.
They also have a #strike fund at https://givebutter.com/3afuHq
The #NTEU Has a Plan to
Improve Working Conditions
More Secure Work
Manageable Workloads
Better Parental / Carer's Leave
Restrict Restructures
Fair Pay
Better Flexible & Work from Home Arrangements
#Strike Week (2nd-8th October)
#Solidarity: Strip Club Waives Covers For Striking Auto Workers
https://jalopnik.com/doing-their-part-detroit-area-strip-club-letting-strik-1850891931
Tomorrow, Tuesday morning, join in #solidarity with a South Minneapolis #homeless camp that has been attacked and destroyed by #Minneapolis and #Minnesota government forces scores of times the past few months alone. #breakfast #eggs #MNastodon
coal mine collapses in Northern China, many die
#StopCoal #ClimateCrisis #solidarity #ClimateAction #FreeHumanity
@politico_eu_bot Expressing #solidarity w/ Ukraine!
Joe Biden creates history as first sitting President to attend a workers strike. https://youtu.be/REzQFgOUsMQ #Biden #UAW #USA #Solidarity
Neither #strike without #solidarity nor #solidarity without #strike.
It's because of unions that some federal employees will receive back pay once this potential shutdown is over. #Solidarity https://soundcloud.com/thedarkcornerpodcast/solidarity-mix?si=f6052f8d28fd4054ad2ae964f7c6e19d&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
Getting no love in this reddit post on r/Astoria about worker owned cooperatives. Why is it so hard to find like minded people?
https://www.reddit.com/r/astoria/comments/16w9sdm/why_arent_there_any_workerowned_and_operated/
#WorkerOwnedAndOperated #coop #cooperative #solidarity #SolidarityEconomy #socialism #unions #workerCoop #astoria #nyc
Red Line TV speak to Ken Loach about his new film the Old Oak, Labour the media and Palestine.
#socialism #socialist #socialistsunday #kenloach #labour #labourparty #solidarity
Writing a hopeful novel of ecological, social and economic redemption, driven by #solidarity, #repair, and #LibrarySocialism, was a powerful tonic against despair in this smoke-smothered, flooded, mosquito-bitten time. And while the book isn't out yet, there are early indications I succeeded, like #KimStanleyRobinson's reaction, "Along with the rush of adrenaline I felt a solid surge of hope. May it go like this."
23/
What we talk about as 'normal' was #racist af, #homophobic af, #sexist af
We're not going back & shouldn't want to
I miss believing we had a representative government. Honestly I do. But I'm ready to work for a real one, & hope y'all are too
#Solidarity from Tacoma :BLM: :af: :better_pride: :iww:
Activists disrupt bomb factory’s open day
Palestine Action disrupt bomb factory's open day with paint bombs
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/09/30/activists-paint-bomb-bomb-factorys-open-day/
#PalestineAction #Solidarity #Teledyne #TeledyneTechnologiesGroup
@georgetakei
Everyone, and I mean *everyone*, who is not getting a paycheck should not go to work.
#EssentialWorkers died for us during #COVID19. The #WorkingClass is essential. Air traffic controllers are NOT slaves. Neither are SSA workers, park rangers, FDA inspectors, ...
If you're not getting paid what are you working for? Let the billionaires take responsibility for a change.
#LGBTQ+ #fans are feeling #seen at #ImagineDragons #shows
#LGBTQ+ #youth have found an #ally in #pop-#rock #band following #displays of #support and #solidarity.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #Music #Allies #Representation #Culture
https://www.dailydot.com/irl/lgbtq-fans-are-feeling-seen-at-imagine-dragons-shows/
Every time I see this picture I think it should have won a pulitzer.
#union #solidarity
I didn’t follow the writers’ strike closely, though I certainly supported them. Drew Carey, on t(w other hand, provided free meals to WGA members at two LA restaurants for the duration of the strike. When the end was announced, he encouraged writers to go celebrate with one more meal on his dime. That’s solidarity.
मिलाद-उन-नबी समारोह के बीच पाकिस्तान में दूसरा बम विस्फोट, मरने वालों की संख्या बढ़कर 57 हुई
https://www.newsfeedindia.in/2023/09/Second-bomb-blast-in-Pakistan-amid-Milad-un-Nabi-celebrations-death-toll-rises-to-57.html
#PakistanBombBlast
#MiladunNabi
#TerrorAttack
#BalochistanExplosion
#HanguMosqueBlast
#MastungTragedy
#CounterTerrorism
#SecurityAlert
#PakistanStrong
#PrayForPeace
#TehrikiTaliban
#ExtremismFight
#UnityAgainstTerrorism
#InternationalSupport
#StaySafePakistan
#MourningTheLoss
#Solidarity
#PeaceInPakistan
#SecurityEfforts
#EndTerrorismNow
Further to my post about the Australian Human Rights Commission receiving an FOI request; apparently the FOI has been withdrawn.
This is happy positive news for community well-being and safety. Remember, always keep safe mentally and physically, but never let the fascists get you down and silence you.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/uaw-strike-international-solidarity-mexico-brazil-union-labor
#UAW #
The Metalworkers Union of Greater #Curitiba (SMC) holds an assembly in #Brazil to express support and #solidarity with the #strike of U.S. automaker workers #union.
'We Did It! Ex-WGAW President Howard A. Rodman Weighs in on Screenwriters' New Contract'
The 5AM StoryTalk guest contributor discusses our Guild's 'glorious' deal with the AMPTP, the cruelty of the companies that necessitated the strike, and the importance of collective bargaining in our culture.
https://colehaddon.substack.com/p/we-did-it-ex-wgaw-president-howard
#WGA #WGAstrong #WGAstrike #unionstrong #solidarity #screenwriting
We got a tentative agreement on a contract at the Seward Community Co-op, where I work. I'm part of the bargaining committee, and I'm really pleased with what we came up with. And a series of job actions, as well as an overwhelmingly majority vote to authorize a ULP strike should it become necessary, have brought co-op employees much closer to each other, creating the strongest sense of community I've seen there in the fourteen and a half years I've worked there. We're all very grateful for all of the support from customers, has been wonderful.
There’s been a lot of strikes this year #Solidarity https://m.soundcloud.com/thedarkcornerpodcast/solidarity-mix
Additionally, “the WGA reserves the right to assert that exploitation of writers’ material to train AI is prohibited by MBA or other law” — a major issue given many authors’ recent discovery that their work is being used to train AI owned by Meta and other companies.
This turned out SO MUCH BETTER than I expected.
https://www.vox.com/culture/2023/9/24/23888673/wga-strike-end-sag-aftra-contract
Way to go Union!!!
When disasters strike, #solidarity lights the way.
Since 2001, the #EUCivilProtection Mechanism has been activated 700 times, channelling emergency assistance in and outside the #EU.
Besides EU countries, nine other states participate in the mechanism.
How does it work?
- A country can request assistance via our #Emergency Response Coordination Center (ERCC) – 24/7.
- Participating countries can offer assistance
- Once the offer is accepted, the ERCC coordinates the delivery of the aid.
Of course he would be! As a member of the #ZionistLobby in the US, as others do here in the UK, Gottheimer’s intervention is intended to suppress *any* expression of support for the do-called ‘deligitimization’ (anti-Zionism) of #ApartheidIsrael in universities!
As Hil #Aked notes in his excellent new book “Friends of Israel: The Backlash Against #Palestine #Solidarity” (p150):
“Academia has long been a critical arena of concern for the #Zionist movement. Many of the key North American and European nodes in the do-called delegitimization (anti-Zionist) network challenging the legitimacy of #Israeli #apartheid - as mapped out by Israeli think-tank the #Reut Institute - were universities. Similarly, US-based lobby group, The David Project, called universities ‘the leading venue for anti-Israel activity’.
The principal reason that higher education holds this status as an arena of deligitimization par excellence is the academic boycott campaign. A key plank of the wider #BDS movement, some advocates argue that academic boycott could play as pivotal a role in the struggle to end Israeli apartheid as the sport’s boycott did, in previous decades, in the campaign against South African apartheid.”
As I’m sure you, at Mondoweiss, are all acutely aware of the Lobby’s backlash against the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism (#ICSZ) & the announcement of its first-ever conference examining the politics and impacts of calls to adopt the “#IHRA definition of antisemitism.”
I quote:
“Since the moment we announced the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism, our work and people have been attacked. We’ve kept our focus on building our research community and working toward the October conference. Still, we cannot let pass these efforts to stifle academic freedom and prevent antiracist education, nor the harassment of scholars. Please read and amplify ICSZ’s statement on the attacks and the supporting letters from our community — and then let’s keep doing the work that ICSZ was created to support.”
Any others interested in ICSZ can read more here:
https://mailchi.mp/24d6d4c160dd/standing-up-for-academic-freedom-antiracist-education?e=93b3f10e66
Culture of Solidarity
Culture of Solidarity is a fast growing mutual aid group based in Tel Aviv-Jaffa in Israel-Palestine.
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/09/28/culture-of-solidarity/
#Anarchism #CultureOfSolidarity #Israel #MutualAid #Palestine #Solidarity
So, three days ago the Australian human rights commission released its preliminary response to the Lesbian Action Group's request for a 5 year exemption to the Sex Discrimination Act here in Naarm.
Thankfully their preliminary view is to decline the application.
Today the commission advised an FOI has been received for the information of all individual submissions (which were not released with the initial verdict). This release of information would include the name of the individual who lodged a response.
This is simply a witch hunt by LGB Alliance Australia et al to discover, harass and we all know what else, to individuals who oppose them.
This is terrifying.
#LGBTQIASB+ #Pride #queer #trans #transMasc #unity #solidarity #FightFascism
“The streaming industry has thrived on data opacity — allowing an industry in the business of fiction to twist the story to how it sees fit with carefully crafted data. Now, there will be real, actual, hard data available to the WGA membership.”
https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/26/23891835/wga-contract-summary-ai-streaming-data
So very happy to see #WGA and #AMPTP arrive at a tentative contract. 🥳 The Writers' Guild posted a PDF showing how it compares to when negotiations broke off earlier. An interesting read, and lets you see where various wins & concessions were made. 💪
https://www.wgacontract2023.org/wgacontract/files/wga-negotiations-tentative-agreement.pdf
when you have more than you need - build a longer table, not a higher wall... ☝️ :anarchismred: :yayblob:
#pomoc_wzajemna #solidarnosc #mutual_aid #solidarity
(wzięte od: @pezmico)
On the #UCUrising picket line at Oxford Brookes University this morning spreading my positive vibes of #solidarity grounded in #empathy with this crocheted scarf I made in #UCU colours. It's time to build the union so that we can save the sector.
Activists crash Europe’s largest drone conference
Yesterday, Palestine Action crashed the DroneX Trade Show & Conference
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/09/27/activists-crash-europes-largest-drone-conference/
#Drones #Elbit #PalestineAction #SHUTELBITDOWN #Solidarity
It looks like the WGA got pretty much "everything it wanted", including structural change.
UNION SOLIDARITY WORKS.
https://www.wgacontract2023.org/the-campaign/summary-of-the-2023-wga-mba WORKS #WGAStrong #Union #Labor #solidarity #UnionStrong
Details of the WGA agreement: https://www.wgacontract2023.org/the-campaign/summary-of-the-2023-wga-mba The AI provisions are a significant step forward, this will have an impact across other creative fields. Thank you strikers! #solidarity #WGA_strike
@ulidig it's really terrible, I feel awful for the CVS workers. Anyone who has to put up signs saying, and I paraphrase, but not by much, "hey, we're people too, please don't scream at us because we're understaffed", is being put in a terrible position by their bosses and absolutely should be getting organized.
#Solidarity to CVS and Walgreens and everyone else being intentionally understaffed in the name of profits.
You can't quite see vests from here, but I'm pretty sure I just heard a SAG-AFTRA captain leading chants at a light. Solidarity, friends. #SAGAFTRA #WGA #Solidarity
Shareish is a web platform based on Open Source principles that promotes mutual aid and solidarity through a gift economy #solidarity
@shannoncurtis Billy Bragg’s ‘There Is Power in a Union’ from 1986?
Oh, we’re not doing that here are we?
Patches with Velcro in support of anarchists from Resistance Committee @ResComUA are here! Recommended donation 20 euro a piece (plus some stickers with same motive). Donate via https://abcdd.org/2023/04/07/3768/ with "ResCom"subject and send your address to our email #Ukraine #Solidarity
While we're at it, we should also support folks from the NUJ, BMA, PCS and others (including some school staff here in Scotland) who are also striking this week.
ASLEF striking at the weekend, pay and conditions.
Make a donation to ASLEF's fighting fund:
Account Name: ASLEF Fighting Fund
Account Number: 20230973
Sort Code: 60-83-01
Ref: “WHO THE PAYMENT IS FROM”
PCS striking over conditions at courts, they can't even open some days because they're underfunded, understaffed.
Fighting Fund:
Account name: Fighting Fund Levy
Account number: 20331490
Sort code: 60-83-01
https://www.pcs.org.uk/campaigns
Need to click on "Donate to the PCS strike fund" link to open.
UCU on strike for pay and conditions. Strike fund here.
Canadian autoworkers ratify new labor agreement with Ford
> The new agreement raises base hourly pay for production workers by almost 20% over three years, and by more than 25% for trade workers, the Canadian autoworker union Unifor said. It also gives permanent workers a $10,000 bonus and adds a cost-of-living adjustment, a mechanism that adjusts wages in line with inflation.
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/canadian-autoworkers-ratify-new-labor-agreement-ford-103449414 #Canada #unifor #strike #unionstrong #labour #union #solidarity
"The unwavering support of the vast majority of WGA members was the muscle that allowed the guild’s negotiating committee, led by Chris Keyser and David Goodman, to dig in on priority issues.
Now that a deal with the WGA is in hand, AMPTP negotiators will turn their attention to SAG-AFTRA, which has been on strike since July 14. Production and promotion cannot fully restart until SAG-AFTRA members vote to ratify a new agreement."
#WGAStrike #SAGAFTRAStrike #solidarity
https://variety.com/2023/biz/news/writers-strike-ends-wga-amptp-deal-2-1235733452/
UAW Scores Early Victory In Big Three-Face Off
> The United Auto Workers’ unprecedented strategy to simultaneously target all three legacy carmakers is showing results.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-09-22/bloomberg-evening-briefing-uaw-scores-early-victory-in-big-three-face-off #UAW #strike #union #labor #solidarity #unionstrong
Biden to join the picket line in UAW strike
> “Tuesday, I’ll go to Michigan to join the picket line and stand in solidarity with the men and women of UAW as they fight for a fair share of the value they helped create,” Biden wrote on X
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/22/biden-to-join-the-picket-line-in-uaw-strike-00117749 #JoeBiden #UAW #strike #union #labor #solidarity #unionstrong
Today is the eighth day of the historical United Auto Workers strike. UAW members are fighting for fair labor compensation, benefits, and job security for automotive workers. Support and stand with the UAW in solidarity: https://uaw.org/standwithus/. Their fight is our shared fight for a fair and equitable society.
Check out their latest video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LzdmxkbwY4
@pluralistic
“They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn
But without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn
We can break their haughty power, gain our freedom when we learn
That the union makes us strong”
#solidarity #SolidarityForever #union #UnionStrong
Reversing two generations of anti-worker politics is a marathon, not a sprint. The strikes are going to run for months, even years. Every worker will be called upon to support their striking siblings, every day. We can do it. #Solidarity now. #SolidarityForever.
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You can track all the ongoing strikes in the US with the Cornell ILR Labor Action Tracker. Sort by worker demands, industry, duration, and more: https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu
As of today, there are 24 ongoing strikes in 42 locations across the country.
UAW Bashes Trump Ahead of Michigan Speech
> “Every fiber of our union is being poured into fighting the billionaire class and an economy that enriches people like #DonaldTrump at the expense of workers,” said union president Shawn Fain in a statement on Tuesday.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/uaw-president-bashes-trump-ahead-of-michigan-speech-1234827686/ #union #labor #strike #UAW #solidarity
Current and former workers doing prospective employees a solid:
#Solidarity among the Displaced
How Russian Anarchists in #Exile Supported Armenian #Refugee Squatters
"Throughout the world, mass displacement is accelerating as climate catastrophe, economic crisis, and war drive millions into exile, both within their own countries and across borders. These mass migrations are exacerbating gentrification, driving up housing costs just as real estate speculation is rendering more and more people homeless. How can displaced people continue to take political action in their new homes, establishing solidarity across ethnic lines in unfamiliar settings? In #Armenia, #Russian anarchists living in exile set one example, supporting Armenian refugees who had squatted the abandoned Ministry of Defense."
https://de.crimethinc.com/2023/09/19/solidarity-among-the-displaced-how-russian-anarchists-in-exile-supported-armenian-refugee-squatters
#Anarchism #Exil #Migration #Squat #Antireport #MigrationIsAHumanRight
Yes, #unionization is legit medical advice in 2023. See also: @bicmay 's replies timeline today.
“We have to fight to just keep a 40 hour work week so some asshole can shoot himself to the Moon.”
I ❤️ Shawn Fain.
#UAW #Solidarity #unionstrong
Labour Activists: Use your power right now. Revoke your labour from Twitter/X. Refuse to be captured and your energy used for the benefit of this fascist tycoon. Bring your siblings to the decentralized social universe where we can all organize and advocate freely. #labour #workersrights #Solidarity #fascism #unions #decentralized #twitter #TwitterMigration #musk
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1968789
Favourite chant so far:
"THERE'S MORE OF US THAN YOU."
Accurate.
#NoPasaran 🏳️⚧️❤️✊🏼
#YouAreLoved
#DubTrans #TERFsOut #TransRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights #Solidarity #Dublin #Ireland #MastoDaoine
Don't mess with the Mammies.
#NoPasaran 🏳️⚧️❤️✊🏼
#YouAreLoved
#DubTrans #TERFsOut #TransRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights #Solidarity #Dublin #Ireland #MastoDaoine
I've seen a lot of people saying they're unable to attend the solidarity rally today - so, if you can be there, please go.
We need all the support we can get.
See you at 11am by the Dáil. ✊🏼
#NoPasaran 🏳️⚧️❤️✊🏼
#DubTrans #TERFsOut #TransRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights #Solidarity #Dublin #Ireland #MastoDaoine
