¡Abbie!
Alex Akselrod
¡Abbie! and 1 other boosted
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
@blogdiva@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

taking care of your family, be they children or elderly, healthy or infirm, is #labor. household work like cooking, cleaning, gardening, painting, shopping, healing, mentoring, parenting, decorating, repairs ―all labor.

you have never been paid for all your labor. if you’re a woman, doubly so.

this is why the #feminism of ex-CIA operative and former Henry Kissinger lover, Gloria Steinem, is bullshit.

they never fought for #UBI.

USA’s minimum wage should be $35/hr.

https://apnews.com/article/labor-department-deregulation-worker-safety-wages-223309692fecb3721ef377154e7689ed
AniFem
@animefeminist@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

From the Verdigris House to the Rear Palace: Sex workers’ perspective on The Apothecary Diaries

Kyli Rodriguez-Cayro speaks with other sex workers about the series' depiction of the profession, and how it subverts many common harmful tropes.

https://www.animefeminist.com/from-the-verdigris-house-to-the-rear-palace-sex-workers-perspective-on-the-apothecary-diaries/

#kusuriya#anime #sex #labor #women
AniFem
@animefeminist@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

From the Verdigris House to the Rear Palace: Sex workers’ perspective on The Apothecary Diaries

Kyli Rodriguez-Cayro speaks with other sex workers about the series' depiction of the profession, and how it subverts many common harmful tropes.

https://www.animefeminist.com/from-the-verdigris-house-to-the-rear-palace-sex-workers-perspective-on-the-apothecary-diaries/

#kusuriya#anime #sex #labor #women

Alex Akselrod
Dan Gillmor
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dan
@civicDetroitDan@a2mi.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

AFP says its freelance journalists in Gaza may starve to death unless Israel lets them evacuate. The major international news agency backed a statement issued by its workers union.

“We have lost journalists in conflicts, some have been injured, others taken prisoner. But none of us can ever remember seeing colleagues die of hunger.”

https://www.npr.org/2025/07/22/nx-s1-5476532/agence-france-presse-gaza-afp

#gaza #journalism #labor #media #palestine
Nithin Coca నితిన్
@ncoca@social.coop  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

One thing I liked about #Greenpeace was that they always made an effort to include social factors in their reports or research, and not have it just be about #climate or #environment.

Yet, in this report, no mention of any #humanrights, or #labor issues in #EVs. Purely a climate ranking.

It is because it includes #China?

https://www.greenpeace.org/eastasia/press/68215/leading-battery-makers-fall-short-on-climate-commitments/
dan
@civicDetroitDan@a2mi.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

AFP says its freelance journalists in Gaza may starve to death unless Israel lets them evacuate. The major international news agency backed a statement issued by its workers union.

“We have lost journalists in conflicts, some have been injured, others taken prisoner. But none of us can ever remember seeing colleagues die of hunger.”

https://www.npr.org/2025/07/22/nx-s1-5476532/agence-france-presse-gaza-afp

#gaza #journalism #labor #media #palestine
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
@blogdiva@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

taking care of your family, be they children or elderly, healthy or infirm, is #labor. household work like cooking, cleaning, gardening, painting, shopping, healing, mentoring, parenting, decorating, repairs ―all labor.

you have never been paid for all your labor. if you’re a woman, doubly so.

this is why the #feminism of ex-CIA operative and former Henry Kissinger lover, Gloria Steinem, is bullshit.

they never fought for #UBI.

USA’s minimum wage should be $35/hr.

https://apnews.com/article/labor-department-deregulation-worker-safety-wages-223309692fecb3721ef377154e7689ed
Louise Auerhahn 🏳️‍🌈
@lauerhahn@sfba.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

"Another farmworker, Gabriel, who came out to speak, brought a backpack full of yellow envelopes containing all his tax documents over the decades.

“These are my taxes. I have been paying my taxes for 19 years, without rights,” he said, as he pulled out each envelope and threw them on the ground in front of the podium. “I’ve been doing this year, after year, after year. For a promise that I would get my citizenship, this is my testimony that I am not a criminal. We are not criminals.”"
#farmworkers #food #farming #immigration #workers #labor#California#HumanRights
https://lamag.com/news-and-politics/farmworkers-call-for-worker-led-strikes-and-boycotts-amid-recent-raids-targeting-farms-at-a-press-conference-on-monday
Louise Auerhahn 🏳️‍🌈
@lauerhahn@sfba.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

"Another farmworker, Gabriel, who came out to speak, brought a backpack full of yellow envelopes containing all his tax documents over the decades.

“These are my taxes. I have been paying my taxes for 19 years, without rights,” he said, as he pulled out each envelope and threw them on the ground in front of the podium. “I’ve been doing this year, after year, after year. For a promise that I would get my citizenship, this is my testimony that I am not a criminal. We are not criminals.”"
#farmworkers #food #farming #immigration #workers #labor#California#HumanRights
https://lamag.com/news-and-politics/farmworkers-call-for-worker-led-strikes-and-boycotts-amid-recent-raids-targeting-farms-at-a-press-conference-on-monday
Chelsea Thompto
@cthompto@tldr.nettime.org  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

An email landed in my inbox today promoting a faculty retreat for my college with a large time slot on "AI for productivity". I responded in part with:

"I say this without exaggeration: There is no way to adopt generic AI tools (like LLMs) at an institutional level in a way that is ethical."

I hate that universities are often so willfully ignorant when it comes to adopting new technologies. As if they are somehow separate from the moral, ethical, and political implications of their development and use when they are in fact central to it.

#AI #criticalAI #futures #resist #academia #academicchatter #labor
Chelsea Thompto
@cthompto@tldr.nettime.org  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

An email landed in my inbox today promoting a faculty retreat for my college with a large time slot on "AI for productivity". I responded in part with:

"I say this without exaggeration: There is no way to adopt generic AI tools (like LLMs) at an institutional level in a way that is ethical."

I hate that universities are often so willfully ignorant when it comes to adopting new technologies. As if they are somehow separate from the moral, ethical, and political implications of their development and use when they are in fact central to it.

#AI #criticalAI #futures #resist #academia #academicchatter #labor
Voting is Your POWER
@digyoursoul@universeodon.com  ·  activity timestamp last month

ICYMI: 9,000 Philadelphia city workers are on strike for the first time in 40 years as they fight for better pay, benefits, and more.

These workers provide essential services for their communities day in and day out. Philadelphia doesn’t run without them.

Solidarity!

#unions #unionstrong #union #Solidarity #labor #workers #power #philadelphia

https://bsky.app/profile/rbreich.bsky.social/post/3ltanmtwld324
Voting is Your POWER
@digyoursoul@universeodon.com  ·  activity timestamp last month

ICYMI: 9,000 Philadelphia city workers are on strike for the first time in 40 years as they fight for better pay, benefits, and more.

These workers provide essential services for their communities day in and day out. Philadelphia doesn’t run without them.

Solidarity!

#unions #unionstrong #union #Solidarity #labor #workers #power #philadelphia

https://bsky.app/profile/rbreich.bsky.social/post/3ltanmtwld324
David August
@davidaugust@mastodon.online  ·  activity timestamp last month

No ok.

Source @thetimothysnyder@threads.net: https://snyder.sub stack.com/p/concentration-camp-labor

h/t @paula_rhodes@threads.net

#USpol #labor #labour #slavery#HumanTrafficking#ConcentrationCamp

Concentration Camp Labor Cannot Become Normal TIMOTHY SNYDER JUL 04, 2025 With the passage of Trump's death bill, we face the prospect of many great harms, including an archipelago of concentration camps across the United States. Concentration camps are sites of tempting slave labor. Among many other aims, the Soviets used concentration camp labor to build canals and work mines. The Nazi German concentration camp systemfollowed a capitalist version of the same logic: it drew in businesses with the prospect of inexpensive labor. We know this and have no excuse not to act.
Concentration Camp Labor Cannot Become Normal TIMOTHY SNYDER JUL 04, 2025 With the passage of Trump's death bill, we face the prospect of many great harms, including an archipelago of concentration camps across the United States. Concentration camps are sites of tempting slave labor. Among many other aims, the Soviets used concentration camp labor to build canals and work mines. The Nazi German concentration camp systemfollowed a capitalist version of the same logic: it drew in businesses with the prospect of inexpensive labor. We know this and have no excuse not to act.
Concentration Camp Labor Cannot Become Normal TIMOTHY SNYDER JUL 04, 2025 With the passage of Trump's death bill, we face the prospect of many great harms, including an archipelago of concentration camps across the United States. Concentration camps are sites of tempting slave labor. Among many other aims, the Soviets used concentration camp labor to build canals and work mines. The Nazi German concentration camp systemfollowed a capitalist version of the same logic: it drew in businesses with the prospect of inexpensive labor. We know this and have no excuse not to act.
David August
@davidaugust@mastodon.online  ·  activity timestamp last month

No ok.

Source @thetimothysnyder@threads.net: https://snyder.sub stack.com/p/concentration-camp-labor

h/t @paula_rhodes@threads.net

#USpol #labor #labour #slavery#HumanTrafficking#ConcentrationCamp

Concentration Camp Labor Cannot Become Normal TIMOTHY SNYDER JUL 04, 2025 With the passage of Trump's death bill, we face the prospect of many great harms, including an archipelago of concentration camps across the United States. Concentration camps are sites of tempting slave labor. Among many other aims, the Soviets used concentration camp labor to build canals and work mines. The Nazi German concentration camp systemfollowed a capitalist version of the same logic: it drew in businesses with the prospect of inexpensive labor. We know this and have no excuse not to act.
Concentration Camp Labor Cannot Become Normal TIMOTHY SNYDER JUL 04, 2025 With the passage of Trump's death bill, we face the prospect of many great harms, including an archipelago of concentration camps across the United States. Concentration camps are sites of tempting slave labor. Among many other aims, the Soviets used concentration camp labor to build canals and work mines. The Nazi German concentration camp systemfollowed a capitalist version of the same logic: it drew in businesses with the prospect of inexpensive labor. We know this and have no excuse not to act.
Concentration Camp Labor Cannot Become Normal TIMOTHY SNYDER JUL 04, 2025 With the passage of Trump's death bill, we face the prospect of many great harms, including an archipelago of concentration camps across the United States. Concentration camps are sites of tempting slave labor. Among many other aims, the Soviets used concentration camp labor to build canals and work mines. The Nazi German concentration camp systemfollowed a capitalist version of the same logic: it drew in businesses with the prospect of inexpensive labor. We know this and have no excuse not to act.