happy juneteenth🤍!!! here’s a list of black gfms that have yet to meet their goals! (black ppl feel free to link your or others donation posts in a reblog! reblogs from nonblack ppl appreciated!)
[ID: tweet by roshan @papa_rosh. The tweet is dated 7/12/21. “anyway, I think an apt way to think about climate change is that there are "no non-radical futures.” Either we change everything, or the earth changes everything for us. Anyone selling you “realistic” incremental change is performing the work of charlatans and denialists.“]
Holy shit please do not do this. This is the most disorganised disaster I’ve ever seen and all they’re going to do is get vulnerable people fired. Do not go on strike as an individual. Do not do not do not. The point of a strike is collective action to show the collective power of workers.
It is not enough to say that the NLRB has made vague gestures at showing that a non-union strike is theoretically possible. If you get fired illegally and you’re not part of a union, who’s going to pay for your employment tribunal? You? Unless you’re aware of how expensive tribunals can be and have that money set to the side, you’re opening yourself up to a world of hurt.
This is genuinely the most dangerous, nonsensical thing I’ve seen on this website in a long, long time. Do not do this. Do not mistake masturbatory individualistic action for a collective movement.
If you would like to find a way to seriously stick it to your bosses, speak to your coworkers, organise an actual union in your workplace (if you need pointers on this, don’t be afraid to reach out — I’ve done it before and would be happy to share pointers!). If you want public healthcare, get involved in any of the myriad campaigns for single payer going on. But do not, do not welcome unnecessary risk into your life like this.
Seriously, this is so incredibly sus. You do not just organize a general strike on a national scale by sending out a tweet and slapping together a website with no relevant information. At best, this is a well-intentioned but dangerously misguided social media activism move. At worst, this is an intentional disinformation campaign to undermine the labor movement. Do your research and learn your history before getting involved in stuff like this- the consequences are very real
I’m not passing around blame but this feels like a consequence of social media activism misunderstood as organizing. It rarely if ever is. Social media can be introductory, informative, and discursive, but you can’t organize workers by announcing what they should be doing
Sultan the Pit Pony is a 200-meter-long, raised-earth sculpture made of 60,000 tonnes of coal shale in Caerphilly, South Wales. Designed by Welsh artist Mick Petts, the colossal work of art is known as the largest figurative earth sculpture in the United Kingdom.
Yesterday (July 18th) settlers and IOF soldiers raided Al Aqsa mosque. They beat women, attacked worshippers and shot live bullets inside the mosque to make way for Israeli Jewish visitors
A flooded street in Verviers, Belgium (photo: Belga)
Residents of Valkenburg, Netherlands, assessing the damage done to their houses (photo: Marcel van den Bergh)
A battered ship at the Maas river in Luik, Belgium (photo: AFP)
An army vehicle removes debris in Aachen, (North Rhine-Westphalia) Germany (photo: DPA)
Damage in Schuld, (Rhineland-Pfalz) Germany, where the Ahr river flooded (photo: EPA)
A woman swims through a flooded street in Luik, Belgium, where the Maas river flooded (photo: Reuters)
Two men in Bad Neuenahr, (Rhineland-Pfalz) Germany, attempt to rescue what they can (photo: AFP)
The running water stacked cars on a roundabout in Verviers, Belgium (photo: AFP)
An auto mechanic in Mechelen, Netherlands, watching the water run into his garage (photo: Marcel van den Bergh)
for who it wasnt clear yet: climate change is no longer something that’ll have catastrophic effects 9 years from now or only in “lesser” (bah) countries that arent as well prepared. the dutch are famous for our water ingenuity and infrastructure and look where we are. eat the rich
People close to me had to evacuate to safer places. Our local gym had to open it’s doors for the evacuees from the town next to us.
“In an experiment revealing the importance of having friendships, social psychologists have found that perceptions of task difficulty are significantly shaped by the proximity of a friend. In their experimental design, the researchers asked college students to stand at the base of a hill while carrying a weighted backpack and to estimate the steepness of a hill. Some participants stood next to close friends whom they had known a long time, some stood next to friends they had not known for long, and the rest stood alone during the exercise. The students who stood with friends gave significantly lower estimates of the steepness of the hill than those who stood alone. Furthermore, the longer the close friends had known each other, the less steep the hill appeared to the participants involved in the study. In other words, the world looks less difficult when standing next to a close friend.”
— my new favorite psychological study, done by Schnall, Harber, Stefanucci, and Proffitt and published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
