Marlena
@msnomar.bsky.social
Creative reuse, politics etc.
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The coming year could keep the strikes rolling through steel mills, state offices, telephone lines, axle plants, baseball diamonds, and hospitals from coast to coast.
Big Union Contract Fights Are Coming in 2026. Here’s a Preview of What’s Ahead.
Each of these fights is an opportunity to beat back the anti-union offensive.
buff.ly
January 2, 2026 at 12:30 AM
The coming year could keep the strikes rolling through steel mills, state offices, telephone lines, axle plants, baseball diamonds, and hospitals from coast to coast.
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Condé Nast’s mass layoffs and alleged illegal firings of union leaders highlight a broader corporate offensive on media workers, as unions fight consolidation, AI-driven job cuts, and attacks on diversity to defend workplace democracy and free expression.
Condé Nast Upheaval Signals a New Level of Corporate War on Media Workers
Facing the impacts of mergers and displacement by AI, media unions are fighting for democracy and freedom of expression.
truthout.org
December 23, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Condé Nast’s mass layoffs and alleged illegal firings of union leaders highlight a broader corporate offensive on media workers, as unions fight consolidation, AI-driven job cuts, and attacks on diversity to defend workplace democracy and free expression.
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2/ Our readers deserve clear labeling on AI content, and we deserve job security. Sign our petition for a fair contract and we’ll keep you updated on our campaign: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
Fair Contract Now for ProPublica Guild
We, the workers of ProPublica, provide our readers with deeply researched, unbiased news that holds power to account. This work is more important now than ever, but our staff can’t properly contribute...
actionnetwork.org
December 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
2/ Our readers deserve clear labeling on AI content, and we deserve job security. Sign our petition for a fair contract and we’ll keep you updated on our campaign: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
What’s up friendsss 🐙🐠✌🏼
December 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
What’s up friendsss 🐙🐠✌🏼
Garfield Park Conservatory🌵🍂🌿
December 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Garfield Park Conservatory🌵🍂🌿
I’m very slowly tapering off the big platforms. Bye bye Netflix and Hulu, you’ve been permanently deleted, hello @kanopy.com 📺📚✨
December 2, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I’m very slowly tapering off the big platforms. Bye bye Netflix and Hulu, you’ve been permanently deleted, hello @kanopy.com 📺📚✨
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Four Ways Philanthropy Can Support the Movement for a Third Reconstruction: nonprofitquarterly.org/four-ways-ph... @demosorg.bsky.social @caseygrants.bsky.social @rwjf.org #Philanthropy
Four Ways Philanthropy Can Support the Movement for a Third Reconstruction | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
Foundations can play an important role in helping movements not only survive but thrive. But doing so requires a shift in mindset—and accountability to the public good.
nonprofitquarterly.org
December 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Four Ways Philanthropy Can Support the Movement for a Third Reconstruction: nonprofitquarterly.org/four-ways-ph... @demosorg.bsky.social @caseygrants.bsky.social @rwjf.org #Philanthropy
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November 25, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Jamila Woods will join Kaveh Akbar for a live collab on art and empathy at the Metro. blockclubchi.co/48wDbgS
November 25, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Jamila Woods will join Kaveh Akbar for a live collab on art and empathy at the Metro. blockclubchi.co/48wDbgS
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have you ever been somewhere so dark you could step outside & immediately spot the Milky Way? i traveled to the Upper Peninsula to learn about efforts to balance industrialization & economic growth with the preservation of starry skies:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/s...
Fighting for ‘The Right to Night’ Under Starry, Rural Skies
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:21 PM
have you ever been somewhere so dark you could step outside & immediately spot the Milky Way? i traveled to the Upper Peninsula to learn about efforts to balance industrialization & economic growth with the preservation of starry skies:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/s...
More of this ✨🔥💕
FOIA Friday invite 🏵️
Spend an evening with Artists for Chicago and The FOIA Bakery and learn how to make Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Requests to use in your activism, writing, or artistic practice.
www.eventbrite.com/e/art-public...
Spend an evening with Artists for Chicago and The FOIA Bakery and learn how to make Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Requests to use in your activism, writing, or artistic practice.
www.eventbrite.com/e/art-public...
November 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM
More of this ✨🔥💕
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Jon is joined by @linamkhan.bsky.social to discuss how corporations continue to benefit from public goods and unfettered access even during the shutdown.
November 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Jon is joined by @linamkhan.bsky.social to discuss how corporations continue to benefit from public goods and unfettered access even during the shutdown.
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A Chicago artist started his own postal service — and will deliver and read mail to anyone for free. blockclubchi.co/49CTREB
November 21, 2025 at 2:48 PM
A Chicago artist started his own postal service — and will deliver and read mail to anyone for free. blockclubchi.co/49CTREB
How we’re feeling about fall I guess 🍁🍂🌾
November 22, 2025 at 1:33 AM
How we’re feeling about fall I guess 🍁🍂🌾
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Alice Wong, a writer and activist who was born with muscular dystrophy and who fought relentlessly for equal rights and access for people with disabilities, died on Friday. She was 51. nyti.ms/4r9WqEr
November 15, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Alice Wong, a writer and activist who was born with muscular dystrophy and who fought relentlessly for equal rights and access for people with disabilities, died on Friday. She was 51. nyti.ms/4r9WqEr
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Painted Lady butterfly with a magical background for #TextureTuesday
#Photography99 📷🌱 #Butterflies 🦋
#Photography99 📷🌱 #Butterflies 🦋
October 29, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Painted Lady butterfly with a magical background for #TextureTuesday
#Photography99 📷🌱 #Butterflies 🦋
#Photography99 📷🌱 #Butterflies 🦋
This. Many nonprofits, for a whole host of reasons, lose sight of the central importance of art & strong design. These things have gotta be a core part of your strategy, not simply an add-on or afterthought.
www.curbed.com/article/zohr...
www.curbed.com/article/zohr...
Zohran Mamdani’s Campaign Logo Looked Nothing Like a Campaign Logo
The bodega-influenced visual language of an outsider campaign.
www.curbed.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:13 AM
This. Many nonprofits, for a whole host of reasons, lose sight of the central importance of art & strong design. These things have gotta be a core part of your strategy, not simply an add-on or afterthought.
www.curbed.com/article/zohr...
www.curbed.com/article/zohr...
November 16, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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From me in the @thenation.com: The left needs to think beyond just winning the next election and build the kind of connective tissue that will allow us to win the next ten. www.thenation.com/article/acti...
The Left Must Build Its Infrastructure
We need to look not at what it will take to win the next election, but what it’ll take to win the next 10 elections.
www.thenation.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
From me in the @thenation.com: The left needs to think beyond just winning the next election and build the kind of connective tissue that will allow us to win the next ten. www.thenation.com/article/acti...
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A Texas shrimper just made ExxonMobil pause a $10 billion plastics project.
My new op-ed in @us.theguardian.com explores how Diane Wilson and her community used a local court challenge to pressure one of the world’s most powerful oil companies.
@breakfreefromplastic.org @goldmanprize.bsky.social
My new op-ed in @us.theguardian.com explores how Diane Wilson and her community used a local court challenge to pressure one of the world’s most powerful oil companies.
@breakfreefromplastic.org @goldmanprize.bsky.social
How a Texas shrimper stalled Exxon’s $10bn plastics plant | Shilpi Chhotray
Diane Wilson recognized Exxon’s playbook – and showed how local people can take on even the most entrenched industries
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:47 PM
A Texas shrimper just made ExxonMobil pause a $10 billion plastics project.
My new op-ed in @us.theguardian.com explores how Diane Wilson and her community used a local court challenge to pressure one of the world’s most powerful oil companies.
@breakfreefromplastic.org @goldmanprize.bsky.social
My new op-ed in @us.theguardian.com explores how Diane Wilson and her community used a local court challenge to pressure one of the world’s most powerful oil companies.
@breakfreefromplastic.org @goldmanprize.bsky.social
Some nice greens this year 🍃
LaBagh Woods
Yuba River
New Orleans City Park
LaBagh Woods
Yuba River
New Orleans City Park
November 14, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Some nice greens this year 🍃
LaBagh Woods
Yuba River
New Orleans City Park
LaBagh Woods
Yuba River
New Orleans City Park