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"Perhaps almost for the first time in the world, our schools are developing an experiment in the self-organization of deaf children. The children create a student self-government, composed of sanitary, economic, and cultural commissions, etc., which totally envelop the children’s life. Living skills, social behavior, initiative, leadership qualities, collective responsibility grow and strengthen in this system. Lastly, this social educational system is crowned by a children’s communist movement, through which a child learns to see himself as a participant in life on a world scale. In this way, the deaf-mute child lives and breathes with his whole country. His pulse, his efforts, his thoughts beat in unison with the masses. "
Lev Vygotsky on the positive potential of radicalized deaf children in a global communist movement. 1925.
#marxism#marxism leninism#self government#self management#student unions#disability#ableism#syndicalism#anarchism
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i think william shatner will be going back and forth between so anti spirk to the point of actual homophobia and so pro spirk it almost seems like he was in love with nimoy until the day he dies. and maybe even longer.
#so glad my student union building is named after him. every time i do student theatre in there i curse shatner as a prayer#star trek#spirk
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living with classics majors is so great because once I innocuously said "i love soup" expecting nothing in return and without missing a beat my roommate nodded sagely and said "like Dionysus in the Frogs"
#you too can live with a classics major that you meet through a student union at the university of toronto if you come to school here#tagamemnon#classics#aristophanes
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A social worker, an economist, and the legacy of Pakistan’s student movement of the 1950s
Something I wrote about my aunt who recently passed away, the economist Eric Rahim, and their decades-old linkages to progressive politics, and the ongoing legacy of the 1950s student movement #DSF my father led
OBITUARY: The legacy of a decades-old connection between social worker Shahida Haroon (1937-2023) and economist Eric Rahim (1928-2023) endures through the ongoing struggle for student rights, economic justice and democracy in Pakistan Demands Day at D.H. Science College, 07 Jan. 1953, Eric Rahim, Shahida Haroon Saad. Collage by Aekta Kapoor/Sapan News PERSONAL POLITICAL By Beena Sarwar / Sapan…
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#chitral#dr ghalib#Dr M Sarwar#DSF#Education#Eric Rahim#Marx#Pakistan#shahida haroon#solas#Student politics#student unions
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labor psa: a scab is somebody who does struck work. a scab may be a union member or not—usually not, in many industries. if you are doing work that would ordinarily be done by a person on strike, you are a scab, even if you yourself are not part of a union whose members are striking
for example, an influencer who starts doing promo work for struck companies that would ordinarily be done by actors: that is a scab
regular person going to see a movie: not a scab
annoyed addition: customer going to coffee shop whose baristas are on strike to get a coffee made by a scab: not scabbing, but crossing the picket line
#i saw a post today that said only people who should be on strike are scabs#and that is incorrect#managers are often scabs frex#(this happened at john deere iirc and was disastrous)#sometimes scabs get bused in from other towns#or just other departments or whatever#(happens a lot with grad student strikes where the institution tries to hire undergrads to grade)#anyway#crossing a picket line is a different thing also#like if starbucks baristas are on strike and you go get a coffee made by a scab you're crossing the picket line but not scabbing#we should all learn labor history in schools but of course#that would defeat the purpose of schools#we should bring back harsher consequences for scabs btw in my opinion#not to say all scabs should get the casey jones the union scab treatment but#well i do think it would benefit everyone if that song was back in the popular consciousness#with apologies to the actual casey jones who was apparently not a scab at all
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“This season Kristen is learning that chaos isn’t cute” MY ASS.
SHE IS WINNIE THE POOHING IT IN A SCHOOL HALLWAY.
#just full pussy out at 11:30am on a Monday#campaigning for student body president at a steelworkers union and the middle school#the Applebees batshit spirit is alive and well#dimension 20#fhjy#fantasy high#fhjy spoilers#dimension 20 spoilers#spilling the Tea
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My first CRM job in 2006 paid $12.50/hr. I had 2 masters degrees and was hired for my expertise in identifying fragmentary human remains and fetal remains. It was 4 years before I found a CRM job that paid more than $14/hr. I now make a hair over $30/hr, but considering I have been doing this for almost 20 years, that probably still isn’t nearly what I should be making, especially considering irregular hours and last minute cancelations mean I rarely see a full week’s pay.
#archaeology#archaeologists#organized labor#labor unions#fair wages#i am absurdly lucky not to be drowning in student loan debt
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June 20, 2024 - Members of the University Workers & Students' Unions of Athens Agricultural University blocked a visit by the US ambassador, in solidarity with the Palestinian people and demanding an end to the USA sponsored Israeli genocide. [source]
#athens#greece#solidarity#free palestine#palestine#us ambassador#ambassador#2024#students#student protest#unions#israel#genocide#occupation
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Biden dropping out has been, no joke, the best thing for the Democratic Party in years.
I haven't felt this sort of excitement in electoral politics since Bernie's 2015/2016 campaign. I genuinely do not believe that the Dems have had anything this good happen for them since Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015.
After weeks, months! of Biden fumbling so fucking much (student protests for a ceasefire in Gaza, god-awful debate, etc), to drop out and suddenly . . .
the main Democratic candidate is now a charismatic woman of color who called for a ceasefire in Gaza
a category 5 storm of memes about the biggest album of the year in pop music and pop culture and Kamala Harris
the Republican VP pick generally being an off-putting grifter weirdo
a rumor about aforementioned VP pick having sex with a couch starts to pick up traction
a genuinely exciting search for the Democratic VP slot
Minnesota governor Tim Walz (correctly) calls Trump and Trumpian Republicans “weird”
Harris picks Tim Walz, a middle class, ex-military, former public school teacher who coached his school's football team and sponsored the gay-straight alliance, now a pro-union Democrat attack dog (which I have never seen on a Democratic ticket as long as I have been alive) to be her running mate
he makes a JD Vance couch joke in his first speech as Harris’ VP pick!
How absolutely perfect is this? I have never seen this energy and excitement in electoral politics (save for MAGA-types [but they're a cult]) in my life. This is potentially a godsend for the Democratic party.
Moreover, I genuinely think this could make conditions for pushing for more progressive and left-leaning policies at all levels of government in the U.S. possible.
#once again THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A GOOD US POLITICIAN#BUT I DO NOT CARE#THIS IS SUCH A GOOD OUTCOME FOR US POLITICS#I don't want to jinx it but I wonder if this is the dawn of a new golden age of progressive politics in the US#obviously led by activists & students & organizers#but the conditions FOR organizing & agitating & unionizing & protesting will be SO much better#and leftists can get more DONE#and if the overton window is shifting left that means that more progressive politicians can get elected and actually PASS legislation!#anyways I'm very excited#also we DO get sweet midwestern dad Tim Walz on a presidential ticket and I do really like that#US politics#u.s. politics#2024#2024 presidential election#fuck trump#fuck jd vance#tim walz#politics
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Hey guys it's that time of the month
That's right, the time of the month where I take my dad's credit card and buy you guys whatever you ask for. [ so long as its not illegal.]
As usual:
- The money isn't traceable by my father
- This won't have legal ramifications, it's money he gave to me
- He's an Anti-Mutant Billionare running for a political office or some shit. So every month everyone in the X-mansion, and anyone else who sees this, can place orders from me. I like wasting his money.
- For every dollar I spend, I match it and donate to a Mutant positive charity.
So far:
- Aranza: New paint supplies, an easel, and other tools [ she didn't ask but I'm doing it anyway] and Hedgehog care supplies
- Deanne: New jewellery, medical textbooks, sports equipment, and a new laptop
- Molly: New fairytale books, 150 Jellycats, Club room materials, a megaphone, winter clothes, Halloween decorations, a clipboard, Polaroid camera, and an inflatable hamster ball.
She also requested silly string but I have veto'ed that.
- Megan: new book bag, stationary, sanrio "stuff", wing warmers
- Sativa: Beads, wing warmers, new dresses, accessories
- Reaper- Skateboard and cat toys
- Nod - Office decor, $100 donation
- Pyxis - New mountain bike, New winter coat, $50 donation
- Scott- Wood carving supplies, 50 cases of waterbottles, and top of the line New kitchen utensils.
- Mihai - Ps5, and a new laptop
- Kurt - Repair the trapeze. While I'm at it I'm going to get new equipment for the gymnasium in general.
- Rogue - Cat toys [ according to Google that's the best thing for a gator] and new romance novels.
- Negasonic Teenage Warhead : 2x giant 12 ft tall skeletons, costumes for the skeletons , a giant kuromi plush
- Yukio: several pieces of limitied sanrio merch, giant hello kitty plush.
- Eel: Luxury Yacht + hoverboard wheelchair
- Logan - New motorcycle + a helmet. Get fucked logan.
- Forget-me-not - New baking supplies, and equipment.
Lina- New bass strings, and a donation of 100k [ she didn't ask for this but I decided I wanted to donate extra in her name]
Emma - New lipstick in her favourite shade
- laurya- a bunch of cool rocks [ @goddess-of-birds ]
Phantom - Broadway year pass, compression gloves [ @phantom-x ]
Valentine - Designer outfitt [ @valentine-vuong ]
Vanessa - 50 sets of winter clothes for kids, and a large donation to the chosen charity.
Tagging relevant people [ let me know if you don't want to be tagged]
@jeangrey-xmen
@roguefromthexmen
@remy-lebeau
@wolverineofficial
@deadpoolsmeanestally
@dead-in-the-pool
@professorcharlesx
@scottsummers-xmen
@hankmccoyhere
@reapers-graveyard
@totally-not-a-mutant
@vanessa-howlett
@pyxis-deliveryservices
@a-trip-and-a-fall
@thebesttelepath
@forgotten-x-men
@just-a-mutant
@prettyplasma8
@blue-man-group-reject
@queenofthetempest
There's...so many people to tag so I'm going to stop here. If I missed you it wasn't intentional.. - J.🕯
[ no limit on price as long as its reasonable]
#mutantblr#mutanttumblr#mutant tumblr#mutant rp#xmen rp#mutant powers#xaviers student union#mutant power#jasper speaks#jaspers monthly spending spree
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by Dion J. Pierre
The University of Michigan’s Black Student Union (BSU) has resigned from the anti-Zionist student group Tahrir Coalition, citing “pervasive” anti-Black discrimination fostered by its mostly Arab and Middle Eastern leadership.
“Black identities, voices, and bodies are not valued in this coalition, and thus we must remove ourselves,” BSU said in a statement posted on Instagram. “The anti-Blackness within the coalition has been too pervasive to overcome, and we refuse to endure it.”
Proclaiming its continued support for the anti-Zionist movement, the group continued, “The BSU’s solidarity with the Palestinian people is unwavering, but the integrity of the Tahrir Coalition is deeply questionable. We refuse to subject ourselves and our community to the rampant anti-Blackness that festers within it. For this reason, we will no longer be a part of the Tahrir Coalition.”
BSU did not cite specific examples of the racism to which Black students were allegedly subjected, but its public denouncement of a group which has become the face of the pro-Hamas movement at the University of Michigan is significant given the history of cooperation between BSU and anti-Zionist groups on college campuses across the US.
BSU’s Black members are not, however, the first to openly clash with anti-Zionist Arabs.
When Arab and Palestinian anti-Zionist activists launched a barrage of racist attacks against African Americans on social media in August, Black TikTok influencers descended on the platform in droves to denounce the comments, with several announcing that they intended not only to remove Gaza-related content from their profiles but also to cease engaging in anti-Zionist activity entirely. The conversation escalated in subsequent posts, touching on the continuance of Black slavery in the Arab world and what young woman called “voracious racism” against African Americans.
“What’s even crazier is that earlier people were like, oh these are bots, no — this is how people really feel. And she made a video that’s a real human being that feels exactly that way,” one African American woman said. “These are people who feel like they are entitled to the support of Black people no matter what, that they get to push us around and tell us who the hell we get to vote for if we support them … They’ve lost their minds.”
An African American male said, “Why don’t we talk about the Arab slave trade? And keep in mind that the Arabs have enslaved more Black people than the Europeans combined.” Another African American woman accused Arabs of not denouncing slavery in Antebellum America.
#university of michigan#university of michigan's black student union#racist attacks#racist attacks against african americans#anti-zionists#arab anti-zionists#palestinian anti-zionists#tahrir coalition
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#us politics#twitter#tweet#2023#more perfect union#us supreme court#scotus#biden v. nebraska#biden administration#student debt#cancel student debt#student debt forgiveness
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#organized labor#anti capitalism#socialism#anarchy#communism#twitter post#tweet#leftism#organizerideas#soviet union#unions#union#european union#workers rights#labor rights#labor unions#gabrielle union#workers#state of the union#union strong#protests#peaceful protest#protest#columbia university#student protests#college protests#campus protests#gaza strip#gaza#free gaza
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Craig Harrington at MMFA:
The economic policy provisions outlined by Project 2025 — the extreme right-wing agenda for the next Republican administration — are overwhelmingly catered toward benefiting wealthier Americans and corporate interests at the expense of average workers and taxpayers. Project 2025 prioritizes redoubling Republican efforts to expand “trickle-down” tax cuts for the wealthy and deregulation across the economy. The authors of the effort’s policy book, Mandate for Leadership: A Conservative Promise, recommend putting key government agencies responsible for oversight of large sectors of the economy under direct right-wing political control and empowering those agencies to prioritize right-wing agendas in dealing with everything from consumer protections to organized labor activity. [...]
Project 2025 would chill labor unions' abilities to engage in political activity. Project 2025 suggests that the National Labor Relations Board change its enforcement priorities regarding what it describes as unions using “members' resources on left-wing culture-war issues.” The authors encourage allowing employees to accuse union leadership of violating their “duty of fair representation” by having “political conflicts of interest” if the union engages in political activity that the employee disagrees with. [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023; National Labor Relations Board, accessed 7/8/24]
Project 2025 would make it easier for employers to classify workers as “independent contractors.” The authors recommended reinstating policies governing the classification of independent contractors that the NLRB implemented during the Trump administration. Those Trump-era NLRB regulations were amended in 2023, expanding workplace and labor organizing protections to previously exempt American workers. [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023; The National Law Review, 6/19/23; National Labor Relations Board, 6/13/23]
Project 2025 would reduce base overtime pay for workers. The authors recommend changing overtime protections to remove nonwage compensatory and other workplace benefits from calculations of their “regular” pay rate, which forms the basis for overtime formulations. If that change is enacted, every worker currently given overtime protections could be subject to a slight reduction in the value of their overtime pay, which the authors claim will encourage employers to provide nonwage benefits but would effectively just amount to a pay cut. The authors also propose other changes to the way overtime is calculated and enforced, which could result in reduced compensation for workers. Overtime protections have long been a focus of right-wing media campaigns to reduce protections afforded to American workers. [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023, Media Matters, 7/9/24]
Project 2025 proposes capping and phasing out visa programs for migrant workers. Project 2025’s authors propose capping and eventually eliminating the H-2A and H-2B temporary work visa programs, which are available for seasonal agricultural and nonagricultural workers, respectively. Even the Project 2025 authors admit that these proposals could threaten many businesses that rely on migrant workers and could result in higher prices for consumers. [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]
Project 2025 recommends institutionalizing the “Judeo-Christian tradition” of the Sabbath. Under the guise of creating a “communal day of rest,” Project 2025 includes a policy proposal amending the Fair Labor Standards Act to require paying workers who currently receive overtime protections “time and a half for hours worked on the Sabbath,” which it said “would default to Sunday.” Ostensibly a policy that increases wages, the proposal is specifically meant to disincentivize employers from providing services on Sundays as an explicitly religious overture. [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]
[...]
International Trade
Project 2025 contains a lengthy debate between diametrically opposed perspectives on international trade and commerce.Over the course of 31 pages, disgraced former Trump adviser and current federal inmate Peter Navarro outlines various proposals to fundamentally transform American international commercial and domestic industrial policy in opposition to China, primarily by using tariffs. He dedicates well over a dozen pages to obsessing over America’s trade deficit with China, even though Trump’s trade war with China was a failure and as he focused on China, the overall U.S. trade deficit exploded. Much of the rest of Navarro’s section is economic saber-rattling against “Communist China’s economic aggression and quest for world domination.”In response, Kent Lassman of the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute promotes a return to free trade orthodoxy that was previously pursued by the Republican Party but has fallen out of favor during the Trump era.
The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 agenda would be a boon for the wealthy and a disaster for the working class folk.
See Also:
MMFA: Project 2025’s dystopian approach to taxes
#Economy#Project 2025#The Heritage Foundation#Donald Trump#Income Inequality#Mandate For Leadership#Federal Reserve#IRS#Student Loan Debt#Unions#Labor#Overtime Pay#Independent Contractors#H2A Visa#H2B Visa#Sabbath#Workplace Safety#Gender Pay Gap#Trade#Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
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(265) University AU, in which the Autobots and Decepticons are opposing parties running for election to the student union/student association.
Megatron believes in the dictatorship of the proletariat, democratising access to military weapons and voluntary collectivism, none of which are as relevant to student life as he thinks they are. As a student politics leader he's mostly famous for the number of arrests he's racked up. Optimus Prime is a moderate left-leaning type hoping that when he puts this experience on his CV the federal centre-left party will let him run, probably in a safe opposition seat. Neither of them is running on a platform that includes frivolities like mandating pre-exam study periods, lighting, or a campus bus, which is par for course.
It is clear to all bystanders during election season that they both desperately want to fuck each other.
#tf fic ideas#maccadam#optimus prime#megatron#megop#(writing this one gave me flashbacks to 2010s student union elections as though i was in a fucking war zone)
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