Please share your untested ideas!
I think the fact that most folks aren’t unionized is evidence enough that the old strategies aren’t working.
Personally, I think the internet seems underutilized in getting folks organized (though I might just be ignorant). Shouldn’t there be an app for that?
PLEASE STAY EAGER!!!
More than anything, we are all cheering for you. I’m SO hyped up about this, and I think asking here is a brilliant way to get feedback.
Know that just by talking about it here, you’re helping tons of people (myself included) learn the details of how to run a union campaign. We are collectively scheming, and it’s awesome that we have folks with union experience to give advice on what has and hasn’t worked in the past.
Making a pamphlet to hand out is a super reasonable idea, and you’re saying correct things in it. I think lots of folks would have had the idea, made the pamphlet, passed it out, and possibly ran into the problems that folks are talking about.
I LOVE that you posted about it for feedback instead - I think THAT is the decision that makes us inevitable. You can leverage the collective knowledge of the hivemind, and at the same time are teaching us.
If capitalism wasn’t so myopic and capable of thinking long term
I think the two are inseparable? i.e. short-sightedness is an emergent property of a society where individuals are motivated by capitalism.
Neoliberalism is an attempt to control the emergent properties of capitalism without changing individual’s underlying motivators, and we see that it fails to do so.
The properties of a society emerge from the incentives, motivators, and beliefs that individuals in that society hold.
Changing motivators at the individual level is how a society can start thinking long term, and I don’t think there’s a way keep the extractive greed that capitalism promotes AND have a society that is run for the benefit of all people in the long term.
I really like Diallo’s thoughts on a cultural revolution
Without knowing who this person is, this reads extremely pro-trans
the trans rights movement has no intention of taking no for an answer
YOU’RE GODDAMN RIGHT
We have one group of people demanding that women hand over their legal existence, their rights, their language, their analysis, and their political movement.
Yeah, fuck those people! Trans woman shouldn’t have to deal with that shit!
We have another group of people saying no.
“No. Leave trans women alone.”
If you think that the end of this should come by unrelentingly pressuring those people’s ‘no’ until they submit, you are in the domination business. It’s that simple.
Hell yeah, fuck em up
feminism’s prime directive is resisting male dominance
I mean… She obviously means “patriarchy” and not “male dominance,” so hell yeah! Gender essentialism serves the patriarchy and must be resisted!!!
Jane Clare Jones: trans rights activist
This might be the bit already, but I unironically think the body is a great metaphor for how society should run!
E.g. different cells have different specializations, but every cell gets the nutrients it needs.
SUCH A GOOD INTERVIEW HOLY SHIT!!! THANK YOU!!
Those absolutely make sense to me, thanks for sharing!
The first two kinda dovetail with something I’ve heard elsewhere - that unions are becoming a service that a worker subscribes to, and not something that they’re actively participating in.
I think a militant minority would definitely get workers more leverage with corporations, but I understand why unions as a legal entity need to do things by the book. I think there’s a balance to strike between the weak “we will follow all laws, regulations, and norms” and the mob-boss “it’d be a shame if something were to happen to production timelines,” and I agree that things currently seem to skew too far towards the former.