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frontline intellectual | critical management theory | abolition @organizer.bsky.social · 1h

It plays like a mockumentary but it isn’t.

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frontline intellectual | critical management theory | abolition @organizer.bsky.social · 1h

Trump: “ANTIFA is bad but there are numerous groups.”

Now these “journalists” are just making up things.

frontline intellectual | critical management theory | abolition @organizer.bsky.social · 3h

I have done a good job tapering down from the prescriptions I couldn’t afford but I can’t do this one — and have no choice.

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frontline intellectual | critical management theory | abolition @organizer.bsky.social · 4h

Reminding myself I don’t have the medicine I need to live, that’s real, and taking a break.

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frontline intellectual | critical management theory | abolition @organizer.bsky.social · 4h

If you are hiring for a job, stop asking those of us who have been looking for work for a long time what we have been doing. You really don't want to know how we have been surviving poverty. Trust me on this one.

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frontline intellectual | critical management theory | abolition @organizer.bsky.social · 5h

The whole shift to "it's the billionaires" lets off people who have more than enough and should be moving money. I just saw it, again. It's gross the way people will justify inequality in NPIC (and society) to keep down the very communities they are supposed to lift up.

frontline intellectual | critical management theory | abolition @organizer.bsky.social · 11h

Being displaced taught me that every time could be the last.

The last phone call with a friend
The last chocolate chip cookie from your favorite bakery
The last museum visit
The last walk around the pond
The last birthday celebration
The last cocktail
The last hug

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frontline intellectual | critical management theory | abolition @organizer.bsky.social · 12h

It’s true that some can simultaneously hold a paid and unpaid job. It’s also true that many unpaid jobs are incompatible with what needs to be done during an authoritarian takeover. And some of us no longer have the energy we did 30 years ago.

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frontline intellectual | critical management theory | abolition @organizer.bsky.social · 12h

Some of the questions I’ve considered:

Will this save lives?
Are there others with more skills who would be better at this?
Is anyone else willing to do it?

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frontline intellectual | critical management theory | abolition @organizer.bsky.social · 19h

I have never had a proper mask fit but think I have a decent seal. I mean, generally I’m not ok but that’s status quo if you are poor in 2025.

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frontline intellectual | critical management theory | abolition @organizer.bsky.social · 19h

There is no difference between my life in “lockdown” & my life now — except I’m a lot poorer. I read the research as soon as there was research. I’m perhaps more cautious because I know 6 feet is a myth & COVID can remain in the air after someone leaves a room. I’m more cautious about outdoor spread

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frontline intellectual | critical management theory | abolition @organizer.bsky.social · 22h

I’m still shocked at what people don’t know. Capitalism has made people obedient to cops & bosses. It’s time to stop differentiating. So often being obedient to the “boss” means entering a workplace with cops, using surveillance technology, and worse.

We need (organizational) structural change.

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frontline intellectual | critical management theory | abolition @organizer.bsky.social · 1d

I was a very early HONK! Committee member brought onto the committee to help fundraise. Help these folks make this festival happen. Lots of folks spend countless hours making sure bands get to Somerville, have a place to stay, get fed, and are welcomed. It's a true labor of love.

Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 1d

Somerville folks, help the HONK! Festival happen this year!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/dnb...

2025 HONK! Festival of Activist Street Bands

The HONK! Festival is a one-of-a-kind street spectacle of revolutionary proportions. This year marks the 20th festival!

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frontline intellectual | critical management theory | abolition @organizer.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. I read that.

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frontline intellectual | critical management theory | abolition @organizer.bsky.social · 1d

I think we’re getting to the point where “I didn’t know” is no longer an excuse.

I go for months without being able to afford leaving my neighborhood in Maine and I know.

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frontline intellectual | critical management theory | abolition @organizer.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. This isn’t solving an accessibility issue for me! i’m not interested in how they might improve “business” practices. My concern is causing harm to other communities in pursuit of income for me (and potentially a firm that is fine economically!) no matter how modest my income might be.

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frontline intellectual | critical management theory | abolition @organizer.bsky.social · 1d

I find it easier to set a boundary & stick to it. So, if I'm going to (potentially) engage w this firm, I don't want to say "yes" & then "no" when we hit contract time. I need the enviro info -- or the "we don't know" -- to make a decision I can ethically live with. I'm ok with the death part. ❤️

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frontline intellectual | critical management theory | abolition @organizer.bsky.social · 1d

More and more when I go to apply for nonprofit jobs, I'm uncovering questionable real estate transactions in the 990s by founders. I thought it was a one-off. Maybe it's not.

Am I discovering a new characteristic of founder's syndrome?

We work hard in this sector. We don't need this.

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frontline intellectual | critical management theory | abolition @organizer.bsky.social · 1d

Most of what we are seeing nationally was piloted as local policy or custom and has worked its way up and is scaling. Look for the signs in your local community to anticipate what is next. Some consultants are branding this as "futurism" and charging $$. Because, of course.

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frontline intellectual | critical management theory | abolition @organizer.bsky.social · 1d

Every time I hear: she's someone's mother, sister, aunt, cousin -- I'm reminded I'm none of those. All things reliant on a rhetoric of traditional family and reproduction.

In our society, unless you are "someone" you are no-one.

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frontline intellectual | critical management theory | abolition @organizer.bsky.social · 1d

I've seen this pattern with people who are incarcerated. Often an organization will take on a single "celebrity" person to free while ignoring people without family, friends. I fear this is happening to people being kidnapped by ICE.

I celebrate those wins; I mourn the lack of systemic change.

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frontline intellectual | critical management theory | abolition @organizer.bsky.social · 1d

For those of us displaced, we're reminded that we're disposable. It's a function of capitalism that exists in our work, housing, and (now) our relationships where communication is often transactional for most. That's the hardest part if you, like me, see communication as relational.

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frontline intellectual | critical management theory | abolition @organizer.bsky.social · 1d

I remember being told that organizations will fight for you to keep your housing but once you lose it -- you are gone. The perception is: "you didn't fight hard enough." My guess is philanthropy also plays a part -- there is no grant for bringing people back.

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frontline intellectual | critical management theory | abolition @organizer.bsky.social · 1d

I'm thinking about how society has normed ignoring people who are displaced. Cities often don't allow testimony from non-residents. People routinely ignore emails, calls, and texts.

Transportation and meetings are inaccessible.

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frontline intellectual | critical management theory | abolition @organizer.bsky.social · 1d

Malak's apartment was bombed. Her sister is partially paralyzed. We know disabled women are frontline -- hit first and worst with incredible challenges upon the incredible challenge of surviving genocide.

It really takes nothing to share this.
If you can donate, please do so with generosity.

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