139 - How library workers can provide community support during a Trump presidency
What can library workers actually do within their institutional limitations?
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Two years ago, 48k academic workers walked off the job. Over six weeks, we won salary increases that reversed over a decade of stagnant pay. Our solidarity allowed us to take on one of the largest institutions in the country and winβletβs remember that in the coming years.
ALT Large crowd of people holding strike picket signs and walking down a street
ALT Big crowd of people holding picket signs
ALT Group of people walking with UAW strike picket signs
Translated a short piece from Ernst Bloch, written in 1938. Entitled "Pessimism", and written on the 150th anniversary of Schopenhauer's birth here's the final paragraph, on what Marxists think of pessmism.
"It is useful to be worried at times. But it is paralyzing and helps the enemy to artificially blacken the situation. Much, too much of this has been done in recent weeks."
How would you say "solidarity forever" in Arabic? Ψ§ΩΨͺΨΆΨ§Ω Ω Ψ₯ΩΩ Ψ§ΩΨ£Ψ¨Ψ― is the closest I can find, but I don't know if I trust that translation. And would the Palestinian dialect of Levantine Arabic be different?
Every time I see a clip from The Substance, my only thoughts are 1) wait thatβs whatβs making people throw up? thatβs it? and 2) yeah Iβve seen The Shining and Carrie too, stop making me want to watch those instead