I repeat this with a shattered heart: I will not forgive anyone who sees my post and keeps scrolling away. My sister is fading. Pleaseāshare and donate now. Donāt let your silence be the reason my sister disappears.
My sister is running out of time. Her condition worsens while treatment is delayed because I cannot afford it. Every ignored post is another hour of pain. Please donateāyour help could save her life.
I am a child begging the world not to abandon my sister. If you cannot donate, please share. Compassion spreads hope. A single donation today could mean tomorrow for my sister.
HELP SHIRA SURVIVE A TRANSMISOGYNIST ATTEMPTED MURDER
Shira is a Turkish trans woman who was the victim of attempted murder by a man on the street who realized she was transfemme. After he stabbed her, dozens of people walked by her on the sidewalk until a teenager stopped and helped her.
Shira is now in the hospital in critical condition. Sheās undergone emergency surgery and will need multiple operations and long-term care to recoverāphysically and emotionally.
Shira has no close family nearby, is not accepted by public organizations in Turkey because she is trans, and sheās unable to work while she heals. Her friends are raising funds to cover her medical bills, therapy, and basic living expenses during this painful time.
As of me posting this, the fundraiser has ā¬125 out of a ā¬12k goal. If you canāt give anything to help a trans woman survive a horrific attack, please at least reblog this, set it on your queue, whatever you need to do to make sure others can see and help. Thank you.
With the help of our community and your donations Shira has been able to stay in the hospital. She now needs to be operated on as soon as possible, we need to get to our first goal of 4000ā¬ urgently. Please share this and consider giving what you can if you haven't already.
Currently we're at ā¬2994/4000
We can do this guys!
UPDATE: With the help of our community and your donations Shira has been ableā¦ Mariam Eve needs your support for Help Shira Recover After a
Reviving this old post cos it seems to have way more traction than some of my newer posts.
January update:
Shira's surgery has been successful and she's been out of the hospital for a few months. Thanks to everyone's generous donations she's been able to afford an apartment where she can recover in a safe environment. However, she's still unable to work due to her injuries. Currently all her money is going towards staying housed, and there's not enough left for food and medicine.
In her own words from her January 12th update:
Iām truly in a difficult situation right now. All the money I managed to raise went toward paying my rent so I can make it through the rest of this month. At the moment, I still need to buy my medications and continue my treatmentāon top of the healthy food Iām supposed to eat to support my healing.
The amount I urgently need is around ā¬500. I swear I currently have only ā¬3 left, and I honestly donāt know how Iām going to get through the rest of the month.
Please help me if you can. Iām in desperate need of support. If youāre not able to donate, sharing my fundraiser would mean a lot to me. Thank you so much.
Please everyone. She hasn't received a single donation in over 2 weeks.
Shira is a kind, hardworking woman who has faced more challenges than mostājuā¦ Mariam Eve needs your support for Help Shira Recover After a
Everything feels small until it all hits at once.
If I save for treatment, I canāt afford food. If I save for food, rent is waitingā700 euros by the end of the month. And behind that is 1,200 euros for the operation that could finally ease this pain.
It feels unrealālike a dream I canāt reachāto somehow find 2,000 euros in one month and cover it all.
She's really struggling here guys. But if everyone pitches in and pushes real hard, maybe we can get her out of this hole she's in! Please donate if you can, and share as much as possible!
Shira is a kind, hardworking woman who has faced more challenges than mostājuā¦ Mariam Eve needs your support for Help Shira Recover After a
Nah you guys donāt get it. For all that Gandalf complained about Pippin, he better than anyone else knew that Pippin was absolutely crucial. Pippin accomplishes a very impressive feat: not only does he manage to see something in the palantĆr (most hobbits would perceive nothing, as these stones were designed for use by high elves), but he manages to close his mind against Sauron. That is a seriously impressive feat of Ć³sanwĆ« given Pippinās youth and almost total inexperience. The only clue Sauron manages to glean from the meeting with Pippin is that he is in Meduseld: which Pippin probably did not even directly give to him. Pippin did not tell Sauron his name, so Sauron is led to believe that Pippin is Frodo. I remind you, in the books, the Good Guys manage to trick Sauron, by making him believe that Aragorn has claimed the One Ring. They can only do that because of Pippinās ridiculous feat of Ć³sanwĆ«. Far from sabotaging the mission, he is the one who allows it to succeed (albeit, not on purpose). This is why Sauron doesnāt think anything is fishy when Aragorn wins the Battle of the Pelennor Fields by controlling ghosts: that would be consistent with the idea that he is using the One Ring. Which Sauron believes that Pippin brought to him. This is why Sauron pulls out his old āplay nice and weakā card from his NĆŗmenor days. He first of all believes that Aragorn is a lot more powerful than he actually is, and secondly thinks that the Ring is beginning to affect him.
He should perhaps have remembered that Aragorn is named for Fingolfin. Fingolfinās mother-name, ArakĆ”no, would properly be translated to Sindarin as āAragornā. Most people would not show up to an enemy fortress with an army they knew was far too small, and start a battle they knew they would lose. But Fingolfin famously did exactly that.
When you read the line āfool of a Took!ā It is important to understand that in the context of Gandalf calling himself a fool on several occasions. Galadriel too sees beyond the veneer of foolish naivety in Pippin. She gives him and Merry belts that almost definitely were once her brothersā. A golden flower on a gift from Galadriel can only be a golden lily, the sigil of the House of Finarfin. Galadriel, while all hell was breaking loose in Tirion, raided her brothersā rooms and took their belts from when they were little kiddos, hauled them across the HelcaraxĆ«, and then held onto them for three Ages before giving them to two hobbits she just met. Merry, of course, is comparable to Angrod and Aegnor: his great deed is done in a moment of beserk rage, and it is a feat of strength. This then implies that she is comparing Pippin to Finrod. Thatās one hell of a complement coming from Galadriel: but as I just pointed out, entirely warranted. Pippin manages to reproduce Finrodās feat of radio silence, in the face of torture by Sauron. Which again, is extremely impressive given that Pippin is far younger and less experienced than Finrod was.
We're not living... we're barely surviving. In a tattered tent amidst the bitter cold, we're struggling to stay alive. The rain has shown us no mercy, seeping into our tent from every side, flooding the ground, soaking our bedding, and drenching everything we own. We have no dry place, no warm blanket, not even a single moment of rest.
Two weeks ago, a fierce wind tore away a large part of our tent, leaving us exposed to the elements, at the mercy of the wind and rain. We shiver from the cold, trying to appear strong, but the truth is we're on the verge of collapse because the cold and illnesses are relentless.
My name is Ahmad Dany. I am writing to you from the heart of the daily suffering we ā¦ Ahmad dany needs your support for Help Ahmed And His F
We need your help, friends. Please donate so we can live a safe and warm life, buy blankets and medicine, and repair our tent. Please help us by donating and don't leave us to suffer. Please donate to us.
Please have compassion for my dear friend Ahmed. He is only a teenager, and his life has been stolen from him. His education, his community, his health, his future.
To rebuild his future, he must first survive the present moment. He needs warmth, shelter, medicine, and healthcare. Please donate what you can to help him survive this brutal winter.
"It is clear that after everything we have endured, we ā like other displaced Palestinians ā cannot survive a third winter in these harsh conditions. We survived two winters in displacement, living in tents that protected neither from cold nor rain, waiting with exhausted patience for a ceasefire that would end our suffering. The ceasefire finally came, but relief did not. We remain in the same place, with bodies drained by malnutrition and illness, under tents worn out by the sun and wind."
- Eman Abu Zayed, "We now see the ugly face of Gazaās ānew normalā" 14 Dec 2025.
What is the reality facing Gazans this winter during the ceasefire?
Israel has breached the terms of the ceasefire hundreds of times, killing nearly 400 people.
Israel has continued to block the delivery of aid. The Gaza Government Media Office recorded that no more than 234 trucks per day have entered Gaza since the ceasefire began.
Storm Byron hit Gaza. Strong winds destroyed over 27,000 tents and 11 people were killed by collapsed buildings.
People cannot stay warm without shelter or sources of heat. The first deaths from hypothermia were of a nine year old child, Hadeel al-Masri, and two little babies, Rahaf Abu Jazar and Taim al-Khawaja.
Please help my friend Fadel in Gaza. His family is trying to survive prolonged illness and repeated flooding while living out of a tent.
My name is Fadel Al-Dane, a Palestinian from Gaza, my age 23-year-old third-year Iā¦ Fadel Aldane needs your support for Help Fadel And His F
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Today Fadel (@fadel-dani) told me that he was forced to spend money he had saved for his urgent surgery on a used tent. His family could not afford a new one, but their previous tent was torn apart so they needed to buy what they could afford.
They have been sick with the flu for weeks now, unable to get enough donations to afford adequate shelter, medicine, or food.
Please donate as soon as you can. They cannot endure these brutal conditions for much longer. Fadel is disabled and needs monthly medication, and he has also sustained extremely painful injuries, with shrapnel from the bombing of his home splintering his body.
Offer any relief you can, as soon as you can. Please.
There's many points in Clair Obscur when the character has a noble front reason and a selfish backup reason. It's particularly on display in act 3.
Verso in the ending:
Noble - Save his sister, save his mother, stop the cycle.
Selfish - Wants his own death.
Maellicia in the ending:
Noble - Save the canvas residents and Gustave, save Versoās only work of soul art.
Selfish - Have a playground to escape into without pain, where she is loved and no one challenges her.
You can even go into earlier decisions...
Maellicia gommaging Painted Alicia:
Noble - Give Alicia peace, honor her wishes.
Selfish - Erase the reminder of Maellicia's own pain and the life she rejects, maybe jealously since Verso only needs one Alicia to roleplay as his sister.
Verso letting Gustave die:
Noble - Best odds to get his mother out of the canvas and save her.
Selfish - Convenience, and maybe jealousy that Alicia was so close to a painted older brother.
Clair Obscur is packed with examples of narrative duality, the most dramatic of which are embodied by Verso and Maelle. Over and over again, they trace the same patterns as mirrors of each other. As protagonists they both selfish and self-sacrificing. How you calculate that ratio may differ depending on how sympathetically or critically you interpret their motivations. Yet what's incredible to me about the story is how it gives us the honorable and the dishonorable reasons for why characters make the choices they do.
The noble reason makes them sympathetic and admirable, but the selfish reason makes them feel human and realistic.
And importantly: both are true.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, like its artistic namesake, celebrates dissonance. Two things can be true at once, and beauty is found in the contrast.
Recommend checking out an article by Kasey Keeler and Ryan Hellenbrand, published at Edge Effects in 2021.
Aside from addressing the Ojibwe story about the Nanabozho fighting against logging (including an image of the encounter), they also describe Paul Bunyanās entanglement with the transition from clear-cutting timber logging to the later advent of the US federal governmentās āGerman-styleā extraction and āsustained yieldā management (an approach, like early twentieth-century āBritish forestryā style, which still pursues profit-oriented extraction). Basically, they recount/argue: Story-telling makes claims to landscapes. Nostalgia can be a powerful tool. Paul Bunyan stories became more widely known after 1914. A logging company which used Paul Bunyan in promotional marketing owned the land that would become Paul Bunyan State Forest and Chippewa National Forest (the first national forest established by act of Congress rather than presidential proclamation), which functioned as a ālaboratoryā.
All text (images and captions, too) below is excerpted from their article.
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Across the Northwoods, a geography that spans the U.S.-Canada border, stories are used to make and claim space. [ā¦] Throughout northern Minnesota, legends of Paul Bunyan, the fictional giant lumberjack, have been used to claim space. [ā¦] Bunyan has been credited with creating Minnesotaās 10,000 lakes, the Mississippi River, and the Grand Canyon, while simultaneously logging millions of acres of forest. [ā¦] Together, we juxtapose the history of two forests - the Paul Bunyan State Forest and the Chippewa National Forest - to reveal how German settlement, logging, and forestry have contributed to placemaking narratives, and how [ā¦] nostalgia links past and present. Paul Bunyanās literal and figurative imaginings advance American Indian erasure narratives, leading to the invisibility of these same communities today. [ā¦] The Northwoods have been popularized and imagined as Americaās version of northern Europe. [ā¦] Across Minnesota, towns like New Ulm, New Munich, Heidelberg, and Luxemburg bear witness [ā¦]. More recently, Native scholars Michael Dockry and Christopher Caldwell have examined [ā¦] āthe Menominee peopleās profound sense of place and their intimate relationship with place.ā [ā¦]
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Ojibwe dispossession, well underway by the late nineteenth century, is not told in any Paul Bunyan story. [ā¦] The āheroic laborā of logging formed a significant portion of Great Lakes region economies [ā¦] on the heels of, and entangled with, Ojibwe dispossession. [ā¦] Formally established in 1908, the 1.6-million-acre Chippewa National Forest (CNF) lies nearly contiguous with the Leech Lake Reservation. [ā¦] [T]he CNF was the first national forest created āfor the benefit of [American] Indian people.ā [ā¦] In 1902 came the Morris Act. Authored by [a] Duluth congressman [ā¦], the act ācreated the first forest reserve established by congressional action rather than presidential proclamation.ā The act established the 225,000-acre Minnesota Forest Reserve as a ācompromise,ā a way to tackle the āIndian problemā while allowing for timber harvest. Here, Ojibwe homelands became āa laboratory for the first comprehensive forest management plans undertaken by a federal agency.ā In 1928, the forest was renamed the Chippewa National Forest, as it remains today.
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While the Chippewa National Forest forces us to consider the many ways logging and forestry has usurped American Indian peoplesā access to land, the nearby Paul Bunyan State Forest encapsulates the material legacy of symbolic myth. [ā¦]
Officially recognized in 1935, the Paul Bunyan State Forest evolved from the site of the Red River Lumber Company sawmill. Founded in 1884, the Red River Lumber Company (RRLC) directly participated in and contributed to Ojibwe dispossession. By the end of the nineteenth century, he RRLC had purchased most of the land that comprises the present-day Pual Bunyan State Forest, milling millions of board feet of lumber at the company town of Akeley. [ā¦]
The expansion of RRLC to California precipitated another key move: using Paul Bunyan in their marketing. William B. Laughead (pronounced Log-head), advertising manager in 1914 and a logger himself, spun another Paul Bunyan tale for the promotional booklet āIntroducing Mr. Paul Bunyan of Westwood, Cal,ā which included Bunyanās first pictorial representation. This marketing campaign relied on the new and growing nostalgia for the grand logging days in the Great Lakes to keep the transcontinental corporation rooted in place.
With logging long established throughout the Great Lakes region, the ecological damage was clear. To remedy this, in the mid-1930s (German) forestry was introduced to manage timber on a sustained yield base. This, then, is the irony of the Paul Bunyan State Forest: named for an American legends who is said to have literally cleared the path for settlement, forest management now proposes to maintain the integrity of the forest. [ā¦]
Though Paul Bunyan narratives dominate the landscape of the Northwoods, if we look closely we can see the ways Native people resist the legendary exploits. Indeed, a lesser-known Ojibwe oral story reminds us that the Anishinaabe people, their culture, and their histories will always prevail over dispossession and logging. In the story, Nanabozho, an Ojibwe trickster or cultural figure, confronts Paul Bunyan, who had already logged off most of the northeastern states before making his way to Minnesota. Nanabozho tells Paul to leave, to not log any more timber. A fight ensues, and [ā¦] Nanabozho swings a Red Lake walleye at Paul, knocking him off his feet. As Paul stumbles, Nanabozho pulls at Paulās whiskers, making him promise to leave the area. This is why, today, Paul Bunyan does not have a beard and why he is facing west at the statue on Lake Bemidji, as he prepares to leave the region. This is also why we have the Chippewa National Forest, because Nanabozho and his Ojibwe kinsmen saved it from being logged. It is this contemporary narrative that highlights the complexity of Ojibwe storytelling [ā¦].
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Images, captions, and text by: Kasey Keeler and Ryan Hellenbrand. āPaul Bunyan and Settler Nostalgia in the Northwoods.ā Edge Effects. 2 December 2021. At: edgeeffects dot net/paul-bunyan-narratives/ [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me. Presented here for commentary, teaching, criticism. Images and captions are shown unaltered as they originally appear in the article.]
hi!! over the past year or so, iāve been radicalizing leftwards (does that make sense?), and while i do like to say that i have a pretty good understanding of things like socialism and communism and such, one thing i havenāt really been able to figure out is what anarchism is and how it works. like, i get the basic idea, but what with google being google and most people on breadtube not being anarchist, itās definitely not as easy to research as socialism.
anyways, tl;dr: what defines anarchism and how does it work?
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"Anarchism asserts the possibility of an organization without discipline, fear, or punishment, and without the pressure of poverty: a new social organism which will make an end to the terrible struggle for the means of existence,āthe savage struggle which undermines the finest qualities in man, and ever widens the social abyss. In short, Anarchism strives towards a social organization which will establish well-being for all."
leftward ho! thanks for writing. these questions are always difficult to answer because i donāt know where youāre coming from on your personal journey. but iāll try to answer some of the basics and recommend some good resources to start with.
first of all, there are many anarchisms and if you ask three anarchists youāll get five opinions. but probably the most prevalent form of anarchism is anarcho-communism, so while iāll try to talk broadly from a general anarchist position, much of it be from an anarchocommunist perspective for simplicityās sake.
at itās most basic, anarchism is an opposition to hierarchy, to one person having control over another. it is a radical commitment to compassion and absolute freedom. like communists, anarchists want a moneyless, stateless, and classless society. unlike leninists, who falsely claim to be communists, we know that there has never been a good state, and never can be. they are by their very nature oppressive, and cannot be used as a means to an end to achieve communism. no group or individual can wield that much power over others and not become corrupted by it. absolute power corrupts absolutely, etc. so while we are committed to the fight against capitalism, we are also committed to the fight against the state. they are intertwined and must be defeated simultaneously. so we believe in the abolition of all government and the organization of society on a voluntary, cooperative basis without recourse to force or compulsion, and the abolition of money and private property, as the best way to ensure the basic and higher needs of everyone are met.
if you havenāt read it yet, the wikipedia article for anarchism is actually a pretty good place to start:
Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is skeptical of all justifications for authority and seeks to abolish the institutions they claim maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including, though not necessarily limited to, the state[1] and capitalism. Anarchism advocates for the replacement of the state with stateless societies or other forms of free associations. As a historically left-wing movement, usually placed on the farthest left of the political spectrum, it is usually described alongside communalism and libertarian Marxism as the libertarian wing (libertarian socialism) of the socialist movement.
Humans lived in societies without formal hierarchies long before the establishment of formal states, realms, or empires. With the rise of organised hierarchical bodies, scepticism toward authority also rose. Although traces of anarchist thought are found throughout history, modern anarchism emerged from the Enlightenment. During the latter half of the 19th and the first decades of the 20th century, the anarchist movement flourished in most parts of the world and had a significant role in workers' struggles for emancipation. Various anarchist schools of thought formed during this period. Anarchists have taken part in several revolutions, most notably in the Paris Commune, the Russian Civil War and the Spanish Civil War, whose end marked the end of the classical era of anarchism. In the last decades of the 20th and into the 21st century, the anarchist movement has been resurgent once more.
Anarchism employs a diversity of tactics in order to meet its ideal ends which can be broadly separated into revolutionary and evolutionary tactics; there is significant overlap between the two, which are merely descriptive. Revolutionary tactics aim to bring down authority and state, having taken a violent turn in the past, while evolutionary tactics aim to prefigure what an anarchist society would be like. Anarchist thought, criticism, and praxis have played a part in diverse areas of human society.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism
Anarchism - Wikipedia
i donāt know how much original theory youāve read before, but iāll give some reading recs. personally iām a big fan of peter kropotkin, and found the conquest of bread to be a breath of fresh air after studying marx for years. others have recommended starting with errico malatestaās anarchy or peter gelderloosā anarchy works. and zoe baker (anarchopac) is excellent if videos or tweets are more your speed.
PĆ«tr Kropotkin The Conquest of Bread 1906
PĆ«tr Kropotkin Mutual Aid A Factor of Evolution 1902
Errico Malatesta Anarchy 1891 Freedom Press 1974, 1994. ISBN 0 900384 74 3. LāAnarchia was written in 1891, appeared in English translation
Peter Gelderloos Anarchy Works 2010 Anarchy Works was originally published by Little Black Cart and can be found in book form here.
I'm a trans woman (she/her), who talks about the theory and history of anarchism, feminism and marxism. I have a PhD in the history of anarc
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hopefully thatās enough to get you started but please feel free to ask questions, and there are many more knowledgable people here who can help as well.
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recently saw a comment section full of people, primarily women, talking about loving living with their best friend and being sad about having to live separately one day. some people talking about missing living with their best friend, some talking about āgettingā to live with their best friend āuntilā they find partners. saw one person mention that moving out to move in with a partner felt like a divorce. it makes me so genuinely sadā¦ all these people recognizing the joy they can find living outside the norm, letting themself live with a friend instead of a romantic partner, but still feeling like they have to live with a spouse eventually. like itās not even a decision, just an inevitability.
similarly, it makes me sad when someone shares their happiness from living with a friend with others and the biggest response is people insisting/assuming they must have a secret unrecognized romantic connection. just taking over a moment of joy to insist theyāre wrong about their own life and feelings; all to reinforce the lifestyle everyone is already expected to conform to eventuallyā¦
Demand Sick Days. By Jefferson Pierce. Introduction The restaurant industry stands at the frontlines of a new labor movement. A recent repor
Restaurant Worker Manifesto
Posted on September 18, 2025September 18, 2025 by IU640 Members of SE Michigan
(Demand Sick Days. By Jefferson Pierce.)
Introduction
The restaurant industry stands at the frontlines of a new labor movement. A recent report reveals that the highest concentration of strikes in recent years has come from the food service sector. From fast food counters to fine dining kitchens, workers are rising up. These struggles are not isolated incidents but signs of a broader transformation ā a wave of unionism sweeping through the food service sector.
Why Organize Restaurants?
Most restaurants are small shops, a structure that presents unique opportunities for dynamic and decentralized organizing. Within a framework of solidarity unionism ā where workers take collective action independently of formal recognition or contracts ā restaurant workers can take swift and effective action on their own terms.
The labor movement doesnāt just need a revival; it needs more and better organizers. The food sector is rich soil for growing new leaders. Many workers enter food service at young ages and often transition to other industries over time, spreading the skills and experiences gained through organizing. This makes restaurants training grounds for a new generation of militant, thoughtful, and strategic unionists.
Building a Diverse and Powerful Coalition
Restaurant work is disproportionately held by marginalized communities ā immigrants, LGBTQ+ individuals, BIPOC workers, women, and others. This makes the food industry a vital terrain for building a multiracial, gender-inclusive, and intersectional labor movement. Organizing here can empower communities that have long borne the brunt of exploitation, exclusion, and precarity.
Restaurants as Sites of Resistance
Restaurants have also become battlegrounds in the fight for immigrant rights. ICE raids target these workplaces more frequently than many other sectors, threatening workers and communities. Organizing in these spaces is a form of resistance against the criminalization of immigrants.
Moreover, airports ā where food service workers are often employed ā are sites of deportation. Organizing airport food workers opens a strategic front in the struggle against immigrant deportation and state violence. Workers can use their power on the job to disrupt these operations and stand in solidarity with those targeted by the state.
Restaurants as Revolutionary Social Spaces
Restaurants, cafes, pubs, and similar establishments are not just workplaces ā they are social hubs where people come together to share meals, ideas, and experiences. These spaces play a vital role in the cultural and political fabric of our communities. When we organize these workplaces, we arenāt just building a revolutionary movement among workers; we are also claiming and transforming these spaces into centers of social and political life.
By holding space for others to gather, converse, and organize, food service workers extend the reach of our movements beyond the shop floor. We turn everyday places into sites of resistance, mutual aid, and collective imagination.
(Assh**e Chef. By Jefferson Pierce.)
A History of Resistance
The food service industry has long been a flashpoint in broader social and political struggles. Historic job actions in restaurants have helped reshape society:
Sit-downs at segregated lunch counters during the Civil Rights Movement played a pivotal role in dismantling racial segregation.
The Stonewall Rebellion, often cited as a turning point in the fight for LGBTQ+ rights, erupted at a pub where workers and patrons resisted police violence.
Hiring halls were used as a tool to desegregate waitstaff in Detroit restaurants.
Boycotts and pickets were leveraged to desegregate workplaces and build equitable employment systems.
Restaurant workers have engaged in direct action by refusing service to police officers as a protest against police brutality.
Workers have fought for and won the right to express their religious beliefs on the job, asserting their dignity and autonomy in the workplace.
These examples show that food service jobs are not just sites of economic struggle ā they are arenas for broader social transformation.
Conclusion
The food service sector is not just ripe for organizing ā it is essential. It holds the potential to revitalize the labor movement, diversify its leadership, and root it in communities that face intersecting oppressions. It is time for restaurant workers to take the lead in shaping a new era of labor power.
Militant and democratic shopfloor committees are the building blocks for a new social and economic order. Organize with your co-workers. Link your struggle to others. And together, letās lay the foundation for revolutionary industrial unions that can transform the food service industry ā and society as a whole.
