That’s good! And good to focus on union affiliation questions early. It will determine how much support you get during the campaign and some unions are so bad at this as to be counterproductive while others will send you a ride or die comrade.
Relationships with management often result in surprising “changes” when you try to unionize. Companies are top-down dictatorships. Except in extremely rare circumstances, the reaction will come from the top and filter down through management, who will need to choose between losing their job and engaging in union-busting: sharing information (perhaps naively) with their own “superiors”, stalling, helping build anti-agitprop, and eventually firing organizers. Smart companies will try to leverage personal relationships to undermine the campaign, “sure they fired KatySosa, but the guy who announced it is such a nice person and they said it was for performance reasons. That guy has us over for parties and I’ve met his kids! He wouldn’t do anything for a mean reason.”
You should go into any unionization campaign expecting to be fired and for your coworkers to need to strike / do walkouts for your resinstatement. Are your coworkers ready to do that? I don’t mean to discourage, the advice I’m giving is meant to increase your chance at success. You want to build up with structure tests and a committee before showing your hand or the compsny will just fire you and kill the campaign early through this intimidation.
I haven’t checked but if you’re the person who got active in part with PSL support I think it should be noted that they are not a known quantity in labor organizing. They might be more interested in radicalization than a successful campaign, e.g. suggesting agitprop before building a committee or a list (list building is always step 1! Always!). Or PSL mighy just be naive.
I think Ghorman has a mix of inspirations. I think its main character is different from Gaza, however, and in ways that matter.
Ghorman is portrayed as vaguely Western European, with French-Germanic language, exclusively white people, a wealthy country with one make export: extremely expensive textiles made of silk. They are not portrayed as imperialized, but as a wealthy and proud group. Their racial characteristics are in line with those of the empire, just without British accents, whereas imperialized groups in Star Wars are depicted as racially diverse humans or “aliens”.
The Ghorman resistance is portrayed as incompetent and arrogant, generally unserious and making poor strategic choices. They are constantly surprised by the outcomes of their actions. They do not listen to the free advice of people with more experience and revolutionary resources. Their main leader is literally a wealthy businessman nationalist. The people under him are naive youths. They have no consistent goal or idea of how they accomplish the major goal of removing occupation. They think a big show of “peaceful protest” and singing songs in a square will work and are massacred for it. Very late in the game their main leader realizes his idealism will lead to this massacre but nobody listens to him. He has no caché even among his alleged subordinates. They are a liberal bourgeois shitshow. They are even depicted as a color revolution in many ways.
Ghorman is closer to the idea of fascism returning home, or otherwise betraying its allies for its own interest. It has the one common attribute with Gaza, which is genocide and forced migration by an imperialist group, but it is not done for colonization, but resource extraction. They’re mining a mineral so extensively that it ruins habitability. There is no real precedent for this among Euro imperialists: they destroy habitability via extraction outside the imperial core, not within it. Even when conquering one another! Ghorman us a mixture of elements.
But the main “message” of Ghorman is that “if it can happen to us, it can happen to you”, something that wouldn’t make sense if they were already considered marginal and downtrodden. Ghorman are insiders of the Empire, they are rich, they are ethnically privileged, but the Empire saw it necessary to destroy them to keep the rest of their subjects in line via a superweapon, so Ghorman was destroyed. And via the propaganda apparatus, consent for this was manufactured and bourgeois democrats sold it as a necessary evil against an arrogant state gone rogue.
This. This moment right here. This moment right here is why this emoji was invented.
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Build an organizing committee first. Use a small agitation that is not about unionization to figure out who you want for the OC.
Do not let management know you are trying to unionize until at least 3 people have your back.
I need to see Italians with deep (and silly) beliefs about authenticity react to this. I once worked with an Italian that got very angry about American pizza. Pizza with tomatoes didn’t even exist until nearly 1900 and wasn’t popular in Italy until it was already popular in the US.
Perfect your pasta soup recipe, comrade.
True professionals would save Presentation-2025-05-20–v7-final-2.pdf to a thumb drive.
Jk OneDrive is terrible and it’s not your fault for expecting it to do the only thing it is supposedly good for. Sounds like everyone was understanding so it is all good! And your boss is on board, so everything considered that’s a pretty good work situation.
Sometimes what the world needs is guillotines.
The title is actually true. The Chinese diaspora in the US preceded the Italian by decades. While the Chinese diaspora faced segregation and then mass deportation, Americanized versions of its food - and basically just enough people to run the restaurants - remained. At first, Italian food was considered exotic and vulgar by white Americans, a category that did not include Italians.
The negative effects of this are the axe constantly held over those countries via US “aid”. All it takes is the stroke of a pen to starve large populations. Better not step out of line.
If there is any silver lining I hope that countries can become morr food sovereign from this. I hope that they will receive multipolar aid to bridge them to food sovereignty.
And then his son Guaidito will take his rightful place at the throne.
That’s awful. I hate roaches.
Since this is the room you sleep in, be careful about using sprays, borax, and diatomaceous earth there. All of those things are also bad for you if yoi breathe them in. So you would want to apply them, open a window, and leave thw room for a while. And diatomaceous earth creates dust that is not great for you, so set up an air filter and vacuum + reapply regularly if you use it.
If the entire unit starts doing something about the roaches, then you’ll want to make your place inhospitable and hard to get to for roaches. All food secured in glass or hard plastic. Water sources plugged up when not in use. Clean and vacuum every day. No crumbs! Treat the area by the refrigerator condenser (in the back) with roach killer. And seal up little cracks everywhere, especially under doors.
Hell yeah bicycles are great.
I definitely recommending getting a tune-up or, if you are a nerd like me, some basic tools to do it yourself. Make sure that thing is safe! Bicycle co-ops will often offer free or reduced cost tune-ups and have cool people to talk to.
What kind of saddle is it? Saddles are a personal preference thing but some are still better than others.
Aluminum cranks are really common and should be okay as a material. I would guess that that particular one is old and/or busted assuming it isn’t the pedal. Replacing a crank requires a special tool called a crank puller so you might be able to get this all done in one go going to a co-op. That would also be a good opportunity to see how the bottom brackey is doing because bottom brackets can be a nightmare to remove if you don’t have penetrating oil and a huge wrench in addition to the special tool for bottom brackets.
Some teachers / professors are criminally unfair and lazy when it comes to grading. Most are dealing with their own very unfair situations and are trying their best but some are just selfish jerks.
Be sarcastic and never take them seriously unless they are harassing someone. They want to feel smarmy and knowledgable and waste time and make people upset. “Yeah, sure, okay champ” is more devastating than trying to explain things to them.
No jokes this might mean you need to work on your core strength, particularly abs, and maybe glutes. Back problems are usually due to the back doing work it isn’t supposed to because the other muscles aren’t pulling their weight.
Here are some signs of a weak core that leads to back problems:
Hips are anteriorally rotated when standing (very common and corresponds to many muscles being weak).
Your lower belly (the very lowest part) sticks out a little while standing (this is usually from weak inner abdominals).
Your default stance has your lega pointing outwards, like the opposite of pigeon-toed (this is related to hips / lower abs, e.g. psoas)
Don’t feel pressured to confirm or deny or share details. Just wanted to drop this info in case it is helpful. For most people all of this can be addressed with pretty easy physical therapy.
Not me but I have had friends ask for a reduced increase and had it work. I think it is basically petitioning a lord to takw pity, not really a negotiation. I’m sorry this is happening to you.
He is probably just lying using PR nonsense speak. But I wouldn’t be surprised if they used some tortured definition of homelessness that meant if they can’t track a person for X consecutive nights they won’t be included in the statistica.
Good idea!