benaiah @benaiah@pdx.social

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_Arondeus

Absolute king.

On July 1, 1943 Willem was executed by Nazis for bombing a Dutch public records office preventing the nazis from identifying a huge number of Dutch Jews.

His last words were "Let it be known that homosexuals are not cowards."

Eternal love and respect. 🖤🏴🗡

happy labor day, join a union

When white people say "where does it stop?" to reparations, that's because they're beginning to comprehend the sheer extent of what they should give back. That's the sound of their head spinning at the sheer enormity of what they have committed

It's Labor Day in the U.S.

Join a union. Even just the IWW.

It's fake labor day, but, nonetheless labor day in the U.S.--a country that seems to be of the rich, for the rich, but by the workers.

The plight of labor has been discouraging for some time now, but there's something y'all should know:

Strikes are growing.

Someone might look at the graph below and get depressed, but that last bar (2018) gives me a lot of hope.

We're reaching a turning point. Labor is waking up; class consciousness is growing.

If you hear about a strike, do not assume it's an isolated incident...this is a growing movement; lend support if you can, spread the news, donate to the strike fund, but above all: Keep hope alive.

Happy labor day.

celebrate labor day by joining or starting a union

(join a union)

amazon says only 15 employees struck yesterday, but:

1) they only refer to a single location, though the strike was global
2) photos of the location show many more people than that
3) amazon doesn't consider most of its workers to be employees

brazen misinfo because humane treatment is ~too expensive~

i guess this is the morning routine now

@dankwraith teaching a two credit course just called "inheritance is fake, you don't need it, knock it off"

Water protector Buck Johnston ascended a 60-foot water drill and remained in prayer at the top for four days to oppose the deep-aquifer drilling agreement called the Abeyta Settlement.

Read more here: https://unicornriot.ninja/2019/new-mexico-water-protectors-demand-involvement-in-water-rights-agreement/ #WaterRights

During the #AmazonStrike running on the 15th and 16th today, here's another alternative to know about:

WorldCat is a catalog of books and media that helps you find out if the book you want is available at *any* library systems near you.

Tips for using WorldCat: Don't forget that (in the US, at least), university and college libraries are open to the public, since your tax dollars pay for them. Remember about interlibrary loans, too: if a book's not available near you, you can ask for it to ne lent temporarily to your local library.

https://www.worldcat.org/

in the first dream i was a bike courier in New Rose City. we strung power lines between buildings and hung mesh routers from tree branches. across the ruins of the river, the forests have turned the old downtown into a gleaming green scab.

"An anti-gay Brazilian priest who is celebrated in the country for his lively sermons was violently pushed from a stage on Sunday while delivering mass in Cachoeira Paulista, São Paulo
a woman pushes an anti-gay prie…

So I'm thinking like.

Queer people have legit done a whole ton to make society a lot more permissive about how people present, like, in general?

This thought was prompted by hearing a song lyric from the late 80's along the line of "you need to cut your hair".