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IWW DMV Education Workers Organizing Committee @dmvewoc.bsky.social · Feb 2

On February 8-9, DMV EWOC invites you to the Education Workers Organizing Training: Workplace Control and Resistance Workshop. The training is in D.C. from 9am-5pm each day.

For details about the training, please fill out the following registration form:

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Education Workers Organizing Training

Please complete this form to register for the upcoming Education Workers Organizing Training in Washington, D.C. on February 8 and 9, from 9am to 5pm. The Education Workers Organizing Training is an...

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People’s City Council - Los Angeles @pplscitycouncil.bsky.social · Jan 11

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES IN LOS ANGELES:

If you’re looking to get involved with volunteer efforts in LA, please check out this list provided by Mutual Aid LA:

LA Fires | IN PERSON Volunteer Opps

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vee.soy @vashetc.bsky.social · Jan 12

ABC 7 just asked the firefighters passing where they’re from and the firefighters said they were incarcerated they immediately panned lmao 😭 let it be known that the firefighters fighting near reseda blvd ARE THE PPL MOST OF U HATE

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Capital B @capitalb.bsky.social · Jan 10

As multimillion-dollar mansions in celebrity enclaves dominate headlines, Black communities in Altadena face an uphill battle to rebuild their lives. capitalbnews.org/california-w...

Generational Black Homes in LA Reduced to Ash Amid Growing Wildfires

As multimillion-dollar mansions in celebrity enclaves dominate headlines, Black communities in Altadena face an uphill battle to rebuild their lives.

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Remora House DC 🎃 @remorahousedc.bsky.social · Jan 11

Snowy distro complete! We brought out propane, socks, gloves, and handwarmers to help folks stay warm and dry. We also took out breakfast and water!

If able, please donate to continue to support our work!

Links below.

Thank you all! 🤗🖤

CA: $RemoraHouseDC

Picture of blue Remora House wagon on snowy pavement with a thin path in front and behind it. Visible inside the cart is propane, bottled water, and a black tote.

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Read the book Starting Somewhere @jphillll.bsky.social · Jan 12

I wrote about how the richest guys on Earth also happen to be the biggest losers on the planet.

My latest newsletter: www.jphilll.com/p/were-ruled....

We're ruled by Losers

Zuck, Musk, Bezos and the power of sad little men

www.jphilll.com

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · Jan 12

USA: Largest health care strike in Oregon history begins as thousands picket Providence hospitals health.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/industr...

Largest health care strike in Oregon history begins as thousands picket Providence hospitals - ET HealthWorld

Oregon Health Care Strike: The union has described "chronic understaffing" as detrimental to patient care, and has called for its members to have reduced caseloads, increased wages and improved benefi...

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Teaching for Change @teachingchange.bsky.social · Jan 12

Tomorrow evening! Are you registered yet? #TeachtheBlackFreedomStruggle #TeachTruth

Teaching for Change @teachingchange.bsky.social · Jan 8

Register for our @zinnedproject.bsky.social 's FIRST Teach the Black Freedom Struggle class on January 13th!

www.zinnedproject.org/news/the-hea...

The Healing of Organized Remembering: The Struggle to Teach Truth

On Jan. 13, 2025, educator Jesse Hagopian will discuss Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education, and the campaign to fight back against bans on books and education. This session is part of t...

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Peanut (Repost Pinned) @peanutium.art · Jan 12

Urgent Food mutual aid
110/400
#disability

#mutualaid

#helpsky

#disabled

Peanut (Repost Pinned) @peanutium.art · Jan 11

Been applying for jobs w/no luck.
Here's the help I need for the whole month

140/459.87 Electric Bill
0/1500 Rent
0/800 Food (whole month house of 3)
0/60 Cat Food

$givepancake
paypal.me/inosaramet
ko-fi.com/inosaramet
venmo: glitchwitch420

Anything helps
#mutualaid
#helpsky
#disabled

Peanut's cat curled up on an embroidered blanket; the cat is black and has his eyes closed

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Read the book Starting Somewhere @jphillll.bsky.social · Jan 12

It is illegal for landlords to do this. And it's evil. And it shows why housing should not be a for-profit industry.

NPR @npr.org · Jan 12

For one listing, rent jumped nearly 86% since September. In an interview with LAist, the agent said she told her client, “People are desperate, and you can probably get good money.” via @laist.com

Asking rents skyrocket as LA fires destroy homes

For one listing, rent jumped nearly 86% since September. In an interview with LAist, the agent said she told her client, “People are desperate, and you can probably get good money.”

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MEANS TV @means.tv · Nov 27

50% off 1 YEAR of Means TV right now: fucknetflix.net

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Antonio Medina @antoniomedina1965.bsky.social · Nov 24

Viva la IWW!!!

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · Nov 28

Around this time every year, I share a list of ways to support Native people. From supporting Indigenous people seeking abortion care to defending Native voting rights and keeping Native families together, here are some causes worth supporting. 🧵

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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · Nov 22

Anyone who thinks this attack on higher ed is going to stop with the humanities or courses on race and gender has another thing coming - Florida is already targeting classes on “Labor and Globalization” and “Introduction to East Asia” for removal from the curriculum

“When the state begins to regulate what we can teach at the level of the university,” said Katie Rainwater, whose class, Sociology of Gender, is marked for removal from the core curriculum, “then we have to question whether the university can serve its social function, which is to be a place of free inquiry.”

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · Nov 15

"If we are going to ever defeat Trumpism, modern fascism, and wage a viable challenge to gendered racial capitalism, we must revive the old IWW slogan, “An injury to one is an injury to all.” www.bostonreview.net/articles/not...

Notes on Fighting Trumpism - Boston Review

To mobilize the abandoned working class, we need to revive the idea of solidarity.

www.bostonreview.net

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IWW DMV Education Workers Organizing Committee @dmvewoc.bsky.social · Nov 23

We couldn't agree more. Even better, the IWW is still here! We're rebuilding to help wage the revolutionary labor struggles of the future!

Get in touch! iww.org
[email protected]

#EduSky

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IWW DMV Education Workers Organizing Committee @dmvewoc.bsky.social · Nov 17

It's time to wake up (if you haven't already), then organize your workplace! DMV EWOC is here to support you. If you work in schools, museums, libraries, archives, daycares, or other educational facilities, use our organizing lead intake form to get in touch!

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Industrial Workers of the World - DMV Education Workers Organizing Committee - Contact Form

Thanks for your interest in organizing with the IWW DMV Education Workers Organizing Committee (DMV EWOC). Please fill out this form and we will have an EWOC organizer arrange a phone or virtual call...

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Boise Street Medics @boisestreetmedx.bsky.social · Nov 13

We need your support!

Our task is more important than ever. As we expand our operations with Emergency Response Teams, training, and gaining members with higher levels of training, we need more and more expensive medical supplies. Please consider donating to our Open Collective.

Link in Linktree.

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⚒️IWW🐈‍⬛Phoenix🌵 @iwwphx.bsky.social · Nov 13

November 5th wasn't what any of us wanted. At the end of the day, our low pay, awful managers, and sub-par benefits will continue, until the working class organizes.

Want to fight the good fight? Organize your workplace today.

Phoenix IWW - Organizing Intake Form

Use this form to engage the Organizing Committee of the Phoenix IWW for assistance in organizing your workplace.

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Angry Education Workers @angryedworkers.bsky.social · Nov 17

With how the US election just went, those of you who follow us here on Bluesky might appreciate what we had to say on the role revolutionary unions have to play in antifascist struggle:

angryeducationworkers.substack.com/p/towards-a-...

#EduSky #anarchism

Towards a Revolutionary Union Movement, Part 9: Antifascist

Fascism represents an all out war against the proletariat. Revolutionary unionists must unite with antifascist struggles of all types if we hope to outlast the repression we will inevitably face.

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Angry Education Workers @angryedworkers.bsky.social · Sep 8

The UK IWW's Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) Workers' Union is racking up victories for normally isolated workers in an extremely precarious part of the education industry:

angryeducationworkers.substack.com/p/a-report-f...

#EduSky #HigherEd #workers

A Report from the UK IWW's TEFL Workers' Union

The UK IWW's Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) Workers' Union is building power among usually isolated educators. We republish these updates about recent organizing victories and protests.

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Angry Education Workers @angryedworkers.bsky.social · Jun 28

Our fellow workers in Amiens, France, are intervening in both the student and labor movements to organize against fascism. See their latest updates on our site!

angryeducationworkers.substack.com/p/report-fro...

#EduSky #HigherEd #News

Report from Amiens IWW on organizing the working-class against fascism

With the tide of fascism rising rapidly in France and worldwide, the Amiens IWW set an example for unions everywhere.

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IWW DMV Education Workers Organizing Committee @dmvewoc.bsky.social · May 5

We have added bail funds for:

Virginia Commonwealth University
University of Florida
Rural college support fund and resources
Please donate if you can afford it! Either way, please share far and wide!
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Urgent Call to Action: Support the Palestine Solidarity Encampments!

There has been an upsurge in student organizing to stop the genocide in Palestine. They are facing severe repression, and need our solidarity!

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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · May 1

Reminder: Sure, the student protestors turned out to be right about Vietnam, and gay rights, and apartheid, and the Latin American dirty wars, and the invasion of Iraq -- but *this time* they are cluelessly naive and only protesting to look cool to their friends.

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IWW DMV Education Workers Organizing Committee @dmvewoc.bsky.social · May 1

Cops aren't workers, cops OUT of the labor movement!

Kragar @kragar.bsky.social · May 1

Labor unions protect the workers from their bosses

Police unions protect cops from facing consequences for their actions

Misty K Snow @mistyksnow.bsky.social · May 1

This. Cops aren't workers.

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