Via @MathijsvdSande op Bluesky: "Jewish Staff and Students respond to the attack against Harry Pettit"

👇 ❗ #HarryPettit #RadboudUniversity

" @mathijsvdsande.bsky.social‬
Belangrijke reactie op de hetze tegen een gewaardeerde collega: "People like Harry Pettit are those who live in accordance with values that have been taught to us by our parents and grand-parents who survived the Holocaust and European fascism."
27 oktober 2025 om 23:02

https://studentintifadarapport.substack.com/p/jewish-staff-and-students-respond #Gaza #Palestine #solidarity

💌 Every week we donate tiny solidarity envelopes worth 6€ to families in Gaza Verified.

📩 How to participate? Find the poll in this thread with the fewest votes and then the people with the lowest percentage. Donate an envelope via their profile link and then vote for those you have donated to.

https://tuiter.rocks/@fedisobrecitos/115408060867410582

#Gaza #Palestine #MutualAid #FediAid #Donations #Solidarity #GazaVerified

A heartwarming story and a call to action for self-hosters and users of independent services:

I just had a very pleasing interaction with a customer support person (Eddie) who works at a website that provides a service nationally in the small country where I live. The localness of the site is the point.

The site has recently put in place account blocking for scammers who put URLs in PMs that aren't on an allow list. As a user of a self-hosted Nextcloud, my account got blocked without warning when I shared a URL in a DM.

I contacted support, and Eddie replied to tell me I'd been blocked because of the URL in the PM, and that he'd restored my access.

I thanked him and asked him to pass on a message to the site's product managers. Here it is verbatim:

I use your website because it's a local, independent website. I have largely rid myself of the giants of the web, like Microsoft, Facebook, Google and Amazon. (I won't elaborate here how problematic they are.) I want to see a decentralised web for the benefit of society - and that means using niche websites like yourselves, including self-hosted services. That means it's hard to build an "allow list" of (for example) permitted file or image hosting services, because instances like my Nextcloud server will automatically fall into the "suspicious" pile.

I appreciate the work your website do to block scammers. But let's try to build protections that avoid the unwanted side effect of pushing people away from independent services.

Within minutes, I got a reply to say my Nextcloud instance had been added to the allow list! Bravo Eddie!

There's so much to unpick here: Because the site isn't a giant monolith, Eddie has the autonomy to edit the allow list; he's motivated to do it because he recognises he and I have common cause; and I was polite in my interactions with him, so he was prepared to take the time to read and absorb the case I was making.

#selfhosting #nextcloud #solidarity

From the article:

Anarchists in Indonesia are calling for international support for comrades imprisoned and tortured following the August uprisings. In the wake of mass protests against corruption and inequality, around 900 people are being detained and named as suspects, many of them anarchists or sympathisers, spread across various cities.

The latest solidarity call named over 40 anarchists arrested in West Java, accused of being part of the so-called “Chaos Star” network, which the government describes as a “foreign-backed anarchist group”. According to an activist source, the arrests were triggered by social media posts showing actions such as Molotov cocktail attacks.

https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/10/27/crackdown-in-indonesia-anarchists-appeal-for-solidarity/

#Indonesia #anarchism #solidarity

A heartwarming story and a call to action for self-hosters and users of independent services:

I just had a very pleasing interaction with a customer support person (Eddie) who works at a website that provides a service nationally in the small country where I live. The localness of the site is the point.

The site has recently put in place account blocking for scammers who put URLs in PMs that aren't on an allow list. As a user of a self-hosted Nextcloud, my account got blocked without warning when I shared a URL in a DM.

I contacted support, and Eddie replied to tell me I'd been blocked because of the URL in the PM, and that he'd restored my access.

I thanked him and asked him to pass on a message to the site's product managers. Here it is verbatim:

I use your website because it's a local, independent website. I have largely rid myself of the giants of the web, like Microsoft, Facebook, Google and Amazon. (I won't elaborate here how problematic they are.) I want to see a decentralised web for the benefit of society - and that means using niche websites like yourselves, including self-hosted services. That means it's hard to build an "allow list" of (for example) permitted file or image hosting services, because instances like my Nextcloud server will automatically fall into the "suspicious" pile.

I appreciate the work your website do to block scammers. But let's try to build protections that avoid the unwanted side effect of pushing people away from independent services.

Within minutes, I got a reply to say my Nextcloud instance had been added to the allow list! Bravo Eddie!

There's so much to unpick here: Because the site isn't a giant monolith, Eddie has the autonomy to edit the allow list; he's motivated to do it because he recognises he and I have common cause; and I was polite in my interactions with him, so he was prepared to take the time to read and absorb the case I was making.

#selfhosting #nextcloud #solidarity

From the article:

Anarchists in Indonesia are calling for international support for comrades imprisoned and tortured following the August uprisings. In the wake of mass protests against corruption and inequality, around 900 people are being detained and named as suspects, many of them anarchists or sympathisers, spread across various cities.

The latest solidarity call named over 40 anarchists arrested in West Java, accused of being part of the so-called “Chaos Star” network, which the government describes as a “foreign-backed anarchist group”. According to an activist source, the arrests were triggered by social media posts showing actions such as Molotov cocktail attacks.

https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/10/27/crackdown-in-indonesia-anarchists-appeal-for-solidarity/

#Indonesia #anarchism #solidarity

Gil McGowan - head of the Alberta Federation for Labour and the Common Front has said - “I just want to make it really clear that if the government puts a gun to the head of the teachers and they’re not able to continue their strike, then we in the broader labour movement will stand where they’re not able to,”

https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/unions-react-to-bill-2

#ABPoli #CdnPoli #TeacherStrike #AFL #ATA #Solidarity #Labour

The Alberta #UCP has just blown up a century of labour action and worker’s rights hard won against coercive and exploitative employers. They - the employer - have just unilaterally imposed a contract on teachers in clear contravention of their constitutional and Charter rights, and have invoked the “notwithstanding” clause to shield themselves from legal consequences.

A summary of the act:

Here are the 20 key takeaways from Alberta’s 2025 Back to School Act (Bill 2) — the highlights that matter most for understanding what this law does:
    •    Ends the Alberta teachers’ strike that began Oct 6, 2025, and the lockout by TEBA that began Oct 9, 2025.  
    •    Forces all teachers back to work immediately — strike must end at once.  
    •    Forces TEBA and school boards to end any lockout immediately.  

#ABPoli #CdnPoli #Solidarity #WorkerRights #Dictators

Via @MathijsvdSande op Bluesky: "Jewish Staff and Students respond to the attack against Harry Pettit"

👇 ❗ #HarryPettit #RadboudUniversity

" @mathijsvdsande.bsky.social‬
Belangrijke reactie op de hetze tegen een gewaardeerde collega: "People like Harry Pettit are those who live in accordance with values that have been taught to us by our parents and grand-parents who survived the Holocaust and European fascism."
27 oktober 2025 om 23:02

https://studentintifadarapport.substack.com/p/jewish-staff-and-students-respond #Gaza #Palestine #solidarity

Via @MathijsvdSande op Bluesky: "Jewish Staff and Students respond to the attack against Harry Pettit"

👇 ❗ #HarryPettit #RadboudUniversity

" @mathijsvdsande.bsky.social‬
Belangrijke reactie op de hetze tegen een gewaardeerde collega: "People like Harry Pettit are those who live in accordance with values that have been taught to us by our parents and grand-parents who survived the Holocaust and European fascism."
27 oktober 2025 om 23:02

https://studentintifadarapport.substack.com/p/jewish-staff-and-students-respond #Gaza #Palestine #solidarity

Gil McGowan - head of the Alberta Federation for Labour and the Common Front has said - “I just want to make it really clear that if the government puts a gun to the head of the teachers and they’re not able to continue their strike, then we in the broader labour movement will stand where they’re not able to,”

https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/unions-react-to-bill-2

#ABPoli #CdnPoli #TeacherStrike #AFL #ATA #Solidarity #Labour

    •    No one can sue the government or seek damages of any kind for anything done under this Act — past, present or future.  
    •    Teachers’ salary grids will get 3% increases in 2024, 2025, 2026, and 2027
    •    Substitute teachers’ daily rate rises to $271/day Sept 1 2025, then increases further in later years.  
    •    1000 new teachers per year will be hired province-wide in 2025–26, 2026–27, and 2027–28 to address classroom complexity.  
    •    Northern & remote allowances are created — up to $6,300 per year depending on school location.  
    •    Government also commits to hiring 1500 new Educational Assistants by Aug 31 2028.  
    •    Teachers retain access to COVID-19 vaccinations at no cost, facilitated by the government.  
    •    The entire Act automatically repeals on Aug 31 2028, unless ended earlier by the government

[the repeal is notably *after* the next scheduled election… we need to make sure this government doesn’t make it that far

#ABPoli #CdnPoli #Solidarity #Dictators

The Alberta #UCP has just blown up a century of labour action and worker’s rights hard won against coercive and exploitative employers. They - the employer - have just unilaterally imposed a contract on teachers in clear contravention of their constitutional and Charter rights, and have invoked the “notwithstanding” clause to shield themselves from legal consequences.

A summary of the act:

Here are the 20 key takeaways from Alberta’s 2025 Back to School Act (Bill 2) — the highlights that matter most for understanding what this law does:
    •    Ends the Alberta teachers’ strike that began Oct 6, 2025, and the lockout by TEBA that began Oct 9, 2025.  
    •    Forces all teachers back to work immediately — strike must end at once.  
    •    Forces TEBA and school boards to end any lockout immediately.  

#ABPoli #CdnPoli #Solidarity #WorkerRights #Dictators

@KevinCarson1

+ 15.6 million U.S. retail workers

+ 20,700 Dollar Generals, 8,000 Family Dollars and 9,000 Dollar Trees.

+ 4% of retail workers in the U.S. are unionized lower than the private sector average of just under 6%.

https://capitalandmain.com/dollar-store-workers-fight-to-improve-jobs-even-without-a-union

PreMajority Unionism - EWOC
https://workerorganizing.org/premajority-unionism/

Step Up Louisiana
https://www.stepuplouisiana.org/

#labourmovement #organize #solidarity

@KevinCarson1

+ 15.6 million U.S. retail workers

+ 20,700 Dollar Generals, 8,000 Family Dollars and 9,000 Dollar Trees.

+ 4% of retail workers in the U.S. are unionized lower than the private sector average of just under 6%.

https://capitalandmain.com/dollar-store-workers-fight-to-improve-jobs-even-without-a-union

PreMajority Unionism - EWOC
https://workerorganizing.org/premajority-unionism/

Step Up Louisiana
https://www.stepuplouisiana.org/

#labourmovement #organize #solidarity

@Mannanan that is the most ignorant and/or intentionally anti-union take I've seen today.

Hold the bosses responsible. They're the ones holding the power in these dynamics. The #unions are just asking for what they deserve - a fair piece of the economic activity for which their #workers are the primary driver!

#Solidarity

BREAKING: Alberta unions warn Premier Danielle Smith: unprecedented use of the Notwithstanding Clause against workers will result in an unprecedented response from unions in defence of worker rights.

At an emergency meeting held today at 5:00pm (MT), the Common Front, an umbrella group for all Alberta unions, leaders unanimously endorsed the following message to Premier Danielle Smith.

Dear Premier Smith,

On behalf of the more than 350,000 working Albertans who we represent, we urge you, in the strongest possible terms, to rule out the use of the Notwithstanding Clause as part of your government’s approach to the teachers’ strike. Invoking the clause would be unprecedented in the history of Canadian labour relations. It would also escalate the situation from a confrontation between your government and the teachers to a confrontation between you and the entire Canadian labour movement. If governments start using the Notwithstanding Clause as a tool in their dealings with workers and unions, it will make a mockery of the constitutionally protected right to strike. Without a robust and reliable right to strike, worker bargaining power will be eroded, and with it, the wages and living standards of all Canadian workers. If you take this unprecedented approach, we will have no choice but to mobilize an unprecedented response. There are many avenues your government could pursue to negotiate with public sector unions that do not involve invoking the Notwithstanding Clause. We urge you to choose them.

Signed by all the unions of the Alberta Federation of Labour and the Alberta Common Front

#abpoli #cdnpoli #Solidarity #strike #union #generalstrike #unionstrong