So true, but that's a long-term gain and one that won't help me at the moment cover my costs! (Ahh, the story of most farmers, corporations etc. right? Ugh.)
Oh, yeah, and based on what I read yesterday in a reliable source it’s about to get worse for y’all if you don’t start organizing to fight. Still, knowing the benefit is better than focusing only on the loss. 😉
thought-provoking writing here, thank you! I'm not totally clear that organizing has to be either/or paradigm. Can we grow a new form that encompasses all worker power (big umbrella) & some of the progress that identity politics has advanced in our consciousness?
Wouldn't that be great? I'm with you! In my 4 decades of doing this work I haven't seen the balance yet though. And honestly, it's exhausting to see the struggles of historically oppressed people in this country - Black, Brown and Female - be made equivalent to other issues (just about any other issue.) And then there's the issue of people no longer identifying as "workers." Argh.
This statement right here: We did not bring people together for each other around a single unifying issue like our lack of access to resources and power. We came together for our own issues.
The Right is already unified.
They’ve rallied around one issue: Power. Control. White Christian Nationalist rule.
They don’t need separate silos because their silo is the entire damn barn.
Meanwhile, the Left is out here trying to:
Protect books
Protect bodies
Protect truth
Protect identity
Protect speech
Protect water
Protect everything
And we forget that the thing that ties all of that together is:
Access to power and resources.
And the comparison to a pile of stacked wood is Chef's Kiss!
"…individual pieces will sit on the ground and get eaten by worms and fungi."
Ah, but those are regenerating the soil, so not really a loss. 😉
So true, but that's a long-term gain and one that won't help me at the moment cover my costs! (Ahh, the story of most farmers, corporations etc. right? Ugh.)
Oh, yeah, and based on what I read yesterday in a reliable source it’s about to get worse for y’all if you don’t start organizing to fight. Still, knowing the benefit is better than focusing only on the loss. 😉
thought-provoking writing here, thank you! I'm not totally clear that organizing has to be either/or paradigm. Can we grow a new form that encompasses all worker power (big umbrella) & some of the progress that identity politics has advanced in our consciousness?
Wouldn't that be great? I'm with you! In my 4 decades of doing this work I haven't seen the balance yet though. And honestly, it's exhausting to see the struggles of historically oppressed people in this country - Black, Brown and Female - be made equivalent to other issues (just about any other issue.) And then there's the issue of people no longer identifying as "workers." Argh.
This statement right here: We did not bring people together for each other around a single unifying issue like our lack of access to resources and power. We came together for our own issues.
The Right is already unified.
They’ve rallied around one issue: Power. Control. White Christian Nationalist rule.
They don’t need separate silos because their silo is the entire damn barn.
Meanwhile, the Left is out here trying to:
Protect books
Protect bodies
Protect truth
Protect identity
Protect speech
Protect water
Protect everything
And we forget that the thing that ties all of that together is:
Access to power and resources.
And the comparison to a pile of stacked wood is Chef's Kiss!
Thank you!