#organize the south

[sataniccapitalist]

We are the Union of Southern Service Workers (USSW). We are organizing the South.

[warmhappycat]

Anyone who says "queer people should just move out of these states enacting anti-trans laws!" should have to visit the Shenandoah Valley, the Smokey Mountains, and the Gulf of Mexico and then explain to me why queer people shouldn't get to live there.

[wormsocialism]

Prison labor is big business in the United States. According to a 2022 ACLU report, Captive Labor: Exploitation of Incarcerated Workers, incarcerated workers save prisons more than $9 billion a year in operational costs and earn them more than $2 billion in sales of goods and services, while the prisoners make pennies per hour. They have no say over what types of work they perform or how they’re compensated for that labor, and a survey by the Bureau of Justice Statistics found that 76% of the nation’s roughly 800,000 incarcerated workers are unable to refuse to work without punishment or retaliation. 

[readingsquotes]

"The first time that I interviewed Sara Nelson, in 2019, she gave me a quote that I still think about: “People think there’s only a limited amount of power that you have, and if you exert some power, you’re not gonna have enough for the next fight. That’s just not how it works. Every time workers really grab their power and take action, it encourages the next group of workers to have that power and act more. Power expands, it doesn’t contract.” The constant impulse to stop doing daring, ambitious things, understandable though it may be, is wrong. It is not responsible leadership. It is deadly leadership. It is an act of turning off the tap of power, rather than opening it further. Instead of resting to rebuild our forts, it is crucial to take the energy generated by one battle and use it to propel us into the next battle. A bigger battle. A bigger fight. A bigger win. More! Bigger! Stronger! Seize the opportunities, or they will blow away in the breeze.

“Organize the South” is both a standing battle cry and a cliche in the labor movement. We have been hollering it ever since the CIO launched Operation Dixie in 1946. (And we’re still talking about Operation Dixie today, because it was the last time that the labor movement took the mandate to organize the South seriously.) The reasons that we need to organize the South are the same today as they were then: First, because it is where the most oppressed workers are who need the protection of unions the most, and second, because companies use the South as a domestic version of Mexico, a place to move operations to escape unions and pro-worker politics and regulations. There is a chapter in my book about South Carolina, the state with the lowest union density in America, and the tattered and beaten down state of organized labor there. There is something of a conventional wisdom in the union world that the South is a black hole for money, a hostile landscape where wins are too hard to come by. But do you know who does not believe that? The workers in the South. I have reported all over the South, and I have never heard a worker or organizer there say that workers cannot be organized. What they have said is that they need help. They need investment. They need resources. They need support that doesn’t pack up and move back to DC after a couple of years. They need a labor movement that believes in them."

[upstairsdownstairsandinbetween]

Bunkeren Residence, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia,

James Stockwell Architecture,

Photographer: Tom Ross.

[miyuecakes-moved]

"no politics" rule is shorthand for "this space is not safe for POC"

[silverbriseis]

Kyman are canonically like extremely strong when they join forces (eg. Crack baby, ass burgers, go fund yourself)

So like, future kyman au where they grow up and start running a extremely corrupt business together.

Cartman knows how messed up their business module is but he doesn't care because they rank in so much cash daily unlike Kyle, who basically has many sleepless nights to himself justifying how the company is secretly helping the society or really good for the workers etc etc and I don't doubt he'd be afraid to voice them out loud LMAO maybe he tries to ask Stan to join and their exchange goes:

Stan: I don't know dude, isn't this like- really messed up?

Kyle: Oh cmon, just how it is messed up? We're doing good for the environment and we give lots of benefits to our workers!

Stan: You guys literally give out contracts to homeless people to sign for free housing for three months then harvest their organs all under the guise of the contract.

Kyle: Well, yea but- they're the ones that signed the contracts. And we have like diversity hires and maternity leave for mothers, isn't that good?

Stan: ......

[comrade-onion]

Might wanna start a local ANTIFA chapter. What do yall think?

[sudaca-swag]

we either see justice be made or we literally see the fall of the League of Nations 2.0 electric boogaloo

[kkking]

did something for @k2week2023

it's day 2 - angels, and i tried to make it small but stylish by using black paper and giving Kyle red wings^^b he's a special angel hahah

I might not really be in the fandom or watch the new episodes anymore, but some good k2 always warms up my heart u///u

[gacha-incels]

Nexon has been named as 1 of the 7 obstacles to gender equality this year, selected by the Korean Federation of Women’s Organizations

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[fourkicks]

[moodboardmix]

Freiform Guesthouse, Chiusa, South Tyrol, Italy, 

Martin Gruber Architect

[thebrightestwitchofherage]

Todays daily reminder ✨

Don’t be a jerk who justifies a terror organisation!

[gummi-stims]

could I have a board of kyle broflovski from south park with studying / reading themes and overall just his kinda vibe (but no slime please)

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[princessmarionette]

these r my current children (more to come eventually)