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Mazel tov

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[thoughtportal]

join a union

the power of collection action

[queen-mabs-revenge]

the power of withdrawing your labor collectively

this is such a good interview because he’s basically narrating the reason why the working class is actually the most powerful force in society. by striking and shutting down production, the writers are showing that they are truly the profit producers because when they withdraw their labor profits don’t get made. and by withdrawing their labor they flex their power as the gears grind to a halt.

it can be the same for climate change if the same tactics were applied instead of trying to always approach things from an individualist or consumer activist standpoint. fossil fuel workers withdrawing their labor and inviting other unions and members of public to join and/or support the pickets in solidarity would actually grind the system to a halt. manufacturing workers withdrawing their labor and demanding their workplaces be refitted to manufacture parts for renewable energy could tip the scales.

we’ve had decades of propaganda trying to destroy class identity so that people feel like the only thing they can do is buy reusable straws and perform stunts. we make change by demanding collective, democratic control over production, not hoping we can consume in the right way.

[feral-ballad]

Erika L. Sánchez, from Lessons on Expulsion: Poems; “Amá”

[Text ID: “In One Hundred Years of Solitude, / Márquez wrote that we are birthed / by our mothers only once, but life obligates / us to give birth / to ourselves over and over.”]

[theambitiouswoman]

Before anyone asks, I have the person I mentioned in the previous post blocked lmaoooo idc how much I love someone, I love myself more and don’t tolerate any form of disrespect. My friends ask me all the time how I can do that. It’s not easy, but it’s also not a decision I have to think about 80 times.

[weltenwellen]

James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

[weltenwellen]

Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

[gentil-minou]

Cannot fucking emphasize how awful it is to have things you want to do (Things you! Want!!!!! To do!) and yet the mental block that's preventing you from doing them is like this massive weight that just makes you feel like the most incompetent. It's exhausting and I wish more folks understand that

[delicateribbons-deactivated2025]

[weltenwellen]

Adonis, tr. by Khaled Mattawa, Selected Poems

[deviika]

— Clarice Lispector, tr. by Johnny Lorenz, Um Sopro de Vida

[aidashakur]

[weltenwellen]

Nikki Giovanni, The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998

[arinar]

[ripe]

paperocelot on ig

[time-bomb-baby]

“What is it that I have to tell myself again and again? That there is always a new beginning, a different end. I can change the story. I am the story. Begin.”

— Jeanette Winterson, The PowerBook

[lacetulle]

Paolo Sebastian | Monarca Couture Trunk Show

[arinar]