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aeillien:

mortuarybees:

the left will fail and keep failing as long as it doesn’t offer joy or a vision of the future. Like chris smalls and the union organizers didn’t win by writing scathing op-eds about Amazon and sending out long dry newsletters with donation links about Amazon’s unfair labor practices to employees, they won by literally meeting people where they were at, at the bus stop where the workers gathered to go home, and hosting cookouts and bonfires. He ate with people and smoked with them and talked to them about their lives and the job, about their rights as workers and how life could be better. He brought joy to them!!! And food and community!! And that’s how one of the biggest victories for labor in a century was won. If I can’t dance I don’t want to be in your revolution

If there is one thing missing from alot of left leaning activism these days, it is this: joy.

Back during the previous gilded age, Union workers had picnics, sang songs, had fun as they were protesting, etc. Whole different vibe than the spaces built today.

Honestly, as a general rule, the organizing methods and type of space that came out of the New Left has just generally been not super successful. The “old left” (i.e socialists, communists, etc) whatever their flaws (and they had many) did this better, they built a crucial element to any social justice movement a sense of community, of dare I say it, solidarity that is absent from a lot of highly individualized left spaces today.

The movements that have been the most resilient and successful (LGBTQIA, African American movements) are the best at (broad generalization incoming) making the act of social justice a practice in joy and building community and this is no accident. 

“THE WHITE MAN’S WORLD.” By Daniel Carter “Uncle Dan” Beard, from Mark Twain’s travelogu

“THE WHITE MAN’S WORLD.” By Daniel Carter “Uncle Dan” Beard, from Mark Twain’s travelogue Following the Equator (1867)


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radicalgraff: “The urge for destruction is also a creative urge! Destroy what destroys you”Sticker s

radicalgraff:

“The urge for destruction is also a creative urge! Destroy what destroys you”

Sticker seen in Melbourne

Inspiration for the week


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the-haiku-bot:

defleftist:

If I see someone shoplifting at the store where I work no I didn’t.

If I see someone

shoplifting at the store where

I work no I didn’t.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

Someone took my post and made a haiku out of it, the poetry nerd in me is obsessed!

emphasisonthehomo:

Imho the idea of ‘cruelty free’ products or food shouldn’t mean that nothing died to create it, but rather that anything and anyone involved in the creation process hasn’t been exploited or harmed.

Leather is good actually. Veganism isn’t the end all be all to morality and consumption. The issue isn’t that a chicken died for those nuggets, but that while the chicken was alive, it’s life fucking sucked. Vegan chocolate means little if the cocoa that made it was gathered by child slave labor.

Factory farms, abuses of the people who pick the fruit and vegetables we eat, the focus profit and productivity over all else - that’s the fucking issue here. It’s capitalism folks.

Oops, someone dropped the truth.

I need to shout out my therapist and also my daily anti-depressant for getting me through today because my car officially died (in the middle of the road no less) and I was weirdly calm through the whole ordeal. Now I get to deal with being carless and unemployed in the middle of nowhere, so that’s fun. I’m listing below my v*nmo and c*shapp if anyone can help me out with these Uber rides.

V*nmo: @LeftHandSam

C*shapp: @LeftHandSam98

femoids:

femoids:

I saw a “we need more women in the top 1%” ad and SCREAM liberals will really praise an exploiting class whenever it seems progressive.

the top 1% shouldn’t even exist.

bonus: ad sponsored by google, unsurprisingly, LMAO

“imagine a world with more female ceos” imagine a world with NO ceos

Being a leftist feminist in liberal circles can be so exhausting sometimes.

I was in a therapy session with an 8 year old client the other today who asked me what I was doing for the rest of my day and I said I had to stay at work until 5pm. She proceeded to tell me that if she had to work until 5pm she would scream. And like yeah, I get that on a visceral level.

In lieu of getting an appropriate amount of sleep I’ve just decided to double down on my caffeine intake.

I’m still very unemployed, but I did get a one week dog sitting job and honestly getting paid $200 to watch a very cute and sweet german Shepard for the week is what my mental health needs rights now.

I’m still very unemployed after 5 job interviews and my car is barely functional at the moment. I’m crocheting and selling handmade rainbow pride scarves to get by until I can hopefully find another job soon. If you don’t want a scarf, I’ll also attach my v*nmo and c*shapp because every little bit helps right now. Thanks!

V*nmo: LeftHandSam

C*shapp: LeftHandSam98

hater-of-terfs:

Online advertising uses over 100 TWh of electricity per year, about 1/10th the consumption of the entire internet, and produces about 60 megatons of CO2 as of 2016

Junk mail destroys over 100 million trees every year in the US alone. 44% of junk mail is discarded without even being opened, and only about 22% is recycled

Each digital billboard consumes about 30 times more energy than the average American household, and there are almost 9,000 just in the US

All of this for an industry that objectively makes people’s lives worse, that everyone openly hates, whose only goal is to manipulate people to buy things that they by definition do not need. And this isn’t even including TV and radio ads, conventional billboards, posters, construction, maintenance, design, all the countless hours of labor spent polluting our public spaces and our minds with the sole purpose of making the rich richer

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

starlightomatic:

As Russia invades Ukraine, I wanted to share this message and request from Rabbi Avraham Wolf, Chief Rabbi of Odessa & Southern Ukraine. It’s from a few days ago and I’m not sure if there have been any updates but it just feels really important to signal boost this:

“The Jewish community in the Ukraine is in need of your assistance during these dire times. As the threat of war intensifies, Mishpacha Chabad Odessa is preparing to support the hundreds of Jews who are unable to evacuate the country including orphans, students, and Holocaust survivors. Preparations are also underway to absorb Jewish refugees from the surrounding regions of Kharkiv, Kiev, and Dnieper.

$300,000 in donations are urgently needed to purchase medical gear, protective equipment, and basic necessities such as clothes and sleeping bags. Money is also needed to help stock emergency shelters with several tons of cereal, buckwheat, sugar, rice, flour and other non-perishable staples. These donations will also help defray the costs of additional security personnel arriving from Israel to help protect the Jewish community.


Your generous donation will help ensure that the Jewish community of Odessa is prepared for all eventualities and is able to provide security, shelter, and food for everyone in need during this dangerous time. $130,000 has already been spent in food alone - but much more is still needed.”

https://www.mishpachaorphanage.org/templates/fundraising/default_cdo/aid/5405630/jewish/Campaign.htm

My heart is heavy for Ukraine today. As always, it feels absurd to go about my normal life when others’ lives are being torn apart by the ravages of war and imperialism.

The best part of adulthood that no one ever talks about is that you can just make brownies whenever you want brownies. Truly incredible.

It’s important to find joy where you can in hard times. Today for me that looked like spending an hour browsing a used bookstore and buying these lovely finds. Take time for yourself, away from your phone. You deserve some peace.

Some days are heavier than others, that’s okay. Give yourself grace to rest when needed, cry when needed, and laugh at the mess of the world when needed.

hater:

there is no woke or acceptable way to put conditions on which abortions are allowed! individual choices about your fucking body are not the same as eugenics! abortion on demand without apology!

garthgender:

garthgender:

garthgender:

White vegan types who shit their pants and cry and throw up about a prey animal being killed for food/hide/etc and then love plastic and slave labor are maybe some of the stupidest bitches on earth sorry

“I won’t eat honey because it exploits the bees :(” & where did your quinoa come from

Uh oh girls I got the pleather fandom after me for this one

I know many lovely people who don’t eat meat or limit their meat consumption for ethical reasons and even they shy away from the term vegan because of stuff like this.

Sometimes pharmaceutical reps bring free food to the place where I intern at. And yes, pharmaceutical companies are evil but I will eat the free Panera Bread they bring.

A man named Wynn Alan Bruce used self immolation (settings oneself on fire) in front of the Supreme Court to protest government inaction on fighting climate change. This method of protest was made famous by Buddhists monks protesting the atrocities of the Vietnam War. Our Earth will be destroyed because saving it is not profitable. The government will not make the news of this man’s sacrifice and its reason well known, they don’t want it to be known. Destroy capitalism, save the earth. Rest in power Wynn.

defleftist:

Earth day got corporations out here performing environmental activism while shilling useless products that the environment would be better off without in the first place.

Happy Earth Day to all the earthlings and non earthlings alike. We’re very inclusive here.

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