Thought on culture, economy, ecology via @jacobinmag, @TWT_now, @itsfreezinginLA, @YesMagazine and elsewhere
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Reviewed a @PMPressOrg book for hometown folks on bootleg coal in the ‘turbulent years’ of the Depression.
Tl;dr “It offers fertile insight for the pursuit of a just transition in our own ‘turbulent years.’”
Review: Land and labor in Pa.’s ‘Bootleg Coal Rebellion’ post-gazette.com/ae/books/20…
The more stuff like this comes out around the East Palestine rail debacle, the more it’s going to radicalize people in deep neoliberal territory
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"If the language is not precise, the Class 1 railroads will avoid the scope of the law without violating the law, yet again putting the safety of our members and American communities into harm's way," said one union leader. cdreams.news/3ZGfKdG
Jared S. retweeted
.@Starbucks is a criminal enterprise
A new NLRB complaint against Starbucks says Howard Schultz broke the law through the company's "collaboration sessions" with baristas, and alleges the company used a new "heritage district" designation in Seattle to disrupt organizing efforts there huffpost.com/entry/starbucks…
The story on open ai ‘trainers’ paid a subsistence wage in Kenya to filter abuse for 9hrs/day, by @billyperrigo, is… Eerily similar to Severance? @strange_matters
I have no personal connection to Chicago, but this multi-million $ experiment in #communitywealthbuilding in a major American city has my attention: chicago.gov/city/en/sites/co…
The reason "nobody wants to work anymore" is no mystery.
My latest via @Strange_Matters on the waning neoliberal culture of work.
strangematters.coop/its-the-…
Drawing on the work of @Unemployedneg, @SarahlJaffe + others (not on twitter), the essay addresses the dissonance btw the ‘official mystery’ of workforce malaise and a widely-shared disaffection with work, recalling the oft-marginalized idea of “moral economy” (below c. 1837)
Daydreaming about the vernacular town architecture of Galicia and Asturias #goodurbanism
Jared S. retweeted
"Upon contact with Europeans, Native American groups like the Iroquois and Wendat had well-established democratic institutions, and individuals’ material needs were generally guaranteed among their communities." -@ThusSpokeJared
yesmagazine.org/issue/a-new-… #INDIGENOUS
Emergent structure of desire.
What fun is careerism in a morally bankrupt social order?
A rightfully epic indictment of the whole social order and establishment built up to a whimper of “awareness”and “vote harder”?
Self-organize. Refuse. Strike. Expropriate. Realize our collective power.
We should abandon the illusion that politicians will come to the rescue of planet Earth, especially those who delight in calling themselves climate leaders. Time and again they have betrayed the faith that has been placed in them.
I write in @NewStatesman
newstatesman.com/environment…
First they ignored degrowth
Then they ridiculed degrowth
Now #degrowth is a mortal enemy
Jared S. retweeted
"There’s increasing acknowledgment that billionaires’ wealth doesn’t simply trickle down, that a great deal of modern work is superfluous to social necessity, and that ever-accelerating busyness isn’t getting us closer to a good life for all."
Reviewed The Future is Degrowth for @Yesmagazine’s latest issue on Work.
@A_Vansi @MGSchmelzer and Andrea Vetter make the case for a globally just transformation to a more democratic, convivial, alive society beyond capitalism.
yesmagazine.org/issue/work/2…