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[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Who liquidates the liquidators?

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's rare, but it happens. I have contacts in management that offer us information when we talk to them informally as union stewards

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

I don't know if this was true when they posted it, but conservation efforts are working! They're considered near threatened for their small habitat and endangered to give it protected status

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

"any means necessary" also means doing what's available to you, like organizing labor and tenant unions, joining debtor and credit unions, organizing your community, creating alternatives to capital, etc. It all builds to the big change we want.

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Bell was killed, and another person filled in the role. I believe that we'll have our moment, but it isn't now. Bell isn't going to save us, we need to save ourselves.

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

Ok, but this the last time for the day. No more crimes until tomorrow

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Well there's an episode in ds9 where a replicator is modified into a teleporter, so in the star trek universe they're very similar. Replicators reconstitute matter from waste material, and seems to me to be far more likely in the realm of scientific possibility.

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

Screw teleporters, I want replicators

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago

I prefer Parenti's quote on democracy

Democracy is a wonderful invention by the people over history to protect themselves from the power of wealth. That's what democracy was in Greece, that's what democracy has been ever since. It's an invention of the people, nobody else but the people. There's no great philosopher that invented democracy, there's no great political theorist that thought about it and put it together, there's no great intellectual or writer or artist who created democracy! It was the mass of people! Anonymous, ordinary working people, working women and working men, people trying to survive, they're the ones that fought for it and they're the ones that gained whatever modicum of decency and security we might have in this inhumane capitalist system throughout history.

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

When's a good time to visit? I've been fishing up in Canada, but I've never visited the cities up there

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you're celebrating Vermont cheese, you need to get out to Wisconsin. I'm a Minnesotan so it does pain me to say that they're better than us at something, but Wisconsin cheese lives up to the hype.

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

I don't know if you've kept your head buried in the sand for 8 years, but all we've seen is Trump proving that he believes any perceived wrongdoing to himself is a crime. It's a CEO philosophy of fire anyone that disagrees.

 

Too often this song is seen as an unwavering patriotic song, which to me indicates that people aren't paying attention to all the lyrics. This song is about the country forcing the poor and downtrodden to go to war on behalf of people they will never meet and then expected to, somehow, return to normal. When understood in it's appropriate context, this song is better than anything uncritical listeners hear.

 

This is another legendary classic. Seeing the protest crackdowns on college students had me thinking about this song for the last few days.

 

This one is a cover of a song written by Joe Hill. The IWW still publishes the little red songbook, which has this song in it!

 

This is a legendary classic, covered by dozens of leftist artists. While I prefer studio recordings generally, hearing an entire crowd singing this song gives so much more weight to it. I also really like this (admittedly it's mostly a meme) edit with rifle fire to really drive home that we would not have our labor rights today without these brave workers literally fighting with guns for better working conditions.

 

Harry Simms was an organizer for the NMU, a communist union that had been organizing in Harlan county, Kentucky during the events of Bloody Harlan. In fact his death, as described in this song, reignited militant labor into more violent action against the capitalists. Eventually the UMW won the hearts and minds of the workers while beating back the capitalist union busters, but the NMU was a crucial part of the story in supporting workers and their families after getting kicked out of company towns.

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