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Wanted: #GeneralStrike Songs
(Sing while you Strike, Occupy a Chorus!)
https://www.labornotes.org/blogs/2025/02/contest-songs-and-chants-strike-line
2025 Contest
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfqVTQ9vCsmQ_PR9K5GzBSAyrWIs8YboQOU6bOxxMSTMwynGA/viewform
Labor Notes · Contest: Songs and Chants for the Strike LineMusic has special power to raise our morale in times of fear and grief. In the Pittsburgh Labor Choir we’ve learned that songs have their greatest power when everyone is participating, not just listening. When the crowd takes the responsibility for chanting, or the whole assembly sings together, we feel our collective power. We may still be grieving and scared, but we’re also filled with hope. From rhythm, to morale, to endurance—to victory. What makes a chant or song good for large-group participation? Making it consistent and predictable makes it easy for people to join in.
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@angryeducationworkers @workingclasshistory
22 Feb 2018, 20,000 #educationworkers in West Virginia walked out on a #wildcatstrike protesting against low pay and the inferior health insurance scheme.
#RankandFile teachers organised themselves in defiance of the law and their own #unions. They shut schools in all 55 counties, affecting a quarter of a million students.
March 6 2028 teachers and other state employees got a 5% pay rise.
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Feb 2025. 4,000 #warehouseworkers at #Amazon in #NorthCarolina vote on a union. Bosses “mobilized an army” ahead of the election, siccing local police on organizers and trying to pit black and Hispanic workers against each other.
https://jacobin.com/2025/02/amazon-union-north-carolina-racism
jacobin.comAhead of Workers’ Union Vote, “Amazon Mobilized an Army”Today 4,000 Amazon workers at a North Carolina warehouse will finish voting on a union. Employees say the company “mobilized an army” ahead of the election, siccing local police on organizers and trying to pit black and Hispanic workers against each other.
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February 2025 Skirmish https://www.labornotes.org/2025/02/first-skirmish-ten-thousand-grocery-workers-strike-kroger
Essential Workers For Democracy
https://www.ew4d.org/blog/solidarity-pledge
UFCW Local 7 vs KS
https://www.ufcw7.org/l7press/king-soopers-files-frivolous-lawsuit-in-attempt-to-silence-workers-voices-during-strike
Colorado
https://www.grocerydive.com/news/kroger-albertsons-colorado-attorney-general-merger/735393/
#frombelow #groceryworkers #labormovement #organize #rankandfile #solidarity #Unions #strikes #Teamsters
#UFCW vs #Kroger #Albertsons #KingSoopers
Labor Notes · First Skirmish: Ten Thousand Grocery Workers Strike KrogerTen thousand members of United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 7 are on strike all across Colorado. They work for King Soopers grocery stores, owned by Kroger, the largest supermarket chain in the U.S. When their contracts expired January 16, they voted by 96 percent to authorize a two-week-long unfair labor practice strike, including high-traffic Super Bowl and Valentine’s Day weekends. Even with scabs staffing the stores, these holiday weekends should give the boss a headache.
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#Environmentalism #fromBelow environmental liberation as forests burn and oceans acidify, grassroots movements defend commons; forge just ways of living.
#ViaCampesina #ShackDwellers and struggles in South Africa, Colombia, India, Nigeria for food, urban sustainability, energy transition, and conservation challenging #colonialism of industrial agriculture through #foodsovereignty and #agroecology resisting #extractivism using mass #directaction.
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2101-environmentalism-from-below
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“Anti-Imperialism” https://leilashami.wordpress.com/2018/04/14/the-anti-imperialism-of-idiots/
Burning Country
https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745337821/burning-country/
From the Periphery
https://fromtheperiphery.com/
Leila's blog · The ‘anti-imperialism’ of idiotsOnce more the western ‘anti-war’ movement has awoken to mobilise around Syria. This is the third time since 2011. The first was when Obama contemplated striking the Syrian regime’s military capabil…