Yet another antiRomani attack in Ukraine, this one on June 23, 2018. One Romani man, aged 24, died of stab wounds, while at least three more people were injured, including a 10-year-old boy.
AntiRomani racism is continuing to rise in Europe. This is what “Gypsy life” REALLY is. Please spread the word and try to donate to organizations like the ERRC, that actively try to help Romani communities in Europe. This is the fourth or fifth reported attack on Romani people in the last few months in Ukraine ALONE. Please spread the word and donate if you are able! If anyone has any other organizations besides ERRC, feel free to add them.
If people could spread info on this that would be amazing! We can’t let this continue.
There are so many of these tiny toads along parts of the San Pedro River that you have to walk carefully. They hide in the grass, bask on the mud, and hunt event tinier insects on the water weeds.
Unionized UPS Teamsters – 260,000 of them – are set to strike in the
biggest American strike since UPS’s unionized drivers walked out in
1997.
Superficially, the issue is about the company moving to seven-day
delivery, but the issue that’s forcing the strike is the sizable cohort
of union members who are unwilling to accept a two-tier workplace where
established workers get the full protection of the union and younger
hires are given a worse deal. This has been a traditional way that
employers have split, weakened and ultimately killed their workers’
unions – by buying off the long-established employees with better deals
that make the workers who’ll replace them feel that unions have nothing
to offer them, which establishes divisions that can be exploited later
to lay off those higher-paid workers, leaving only the lowest-paid
employees and no union they can use to press for better pay.
It seems like some of UPS’s Teamsters have figured out that solidarity pays.
Yo, if they do strike, don’t listen to the media bitching about those workers being uppity or what the fuck ever. Transit and shipping is a increasingly huge industry in the US, and the Teamsters should be cheered on and congratulated for demanding solidarity and support for junior workers–formal union members or not.
If you’re waiting longer on Amazon packages or whatever, of course, that doesn’t mean you can’t complain–but frame your complaints to aim at UPS management for failing to treat its workers well and negotiate, not at the workers themselves. In this Second Gilded Age, that’s the only way we’re ever going to see any kind of improvement from the exploitation of the nation by the uber-wealthy–and UPS certainly qualifies.
They were actually in the building. They were doing a sit-in in the atrium. The charge was under this part of the DC code.
Penalty is up to a $500 fine or 90 days in jail if they are formally prosecuted. At least one Representative was arrested. Also, be more specific, it appears all of the protestors were women.
And although they were arrested, they got the cheers from the office workers, not the cops.
There isn’t a fundraiser to help pay fines yet.
Basically, keep it up for those of us who can’t risk arrest for whatever reason (health, disability, young children, sole breadwinner, etc).
My restaurant is always full because I am, in all modesty, a great cook. But when I close my place at night, here come my favorite clients—stray cats from the neighborhood. I give them milk and feed them with the leftovers. I thank Saint Francis because during the day I earn money and get praised for my dishes and during the night I receive gratitude and caress.
The angel porn bot ARG is finished! It was an absolutely wild ride and I am so glad I got to participate in it with all of you! However, I have some sad news. I will not be making the masterpost for everything that happened in the ARG. I am not well enough to work on it in a timely manner, and getting it to my standards of quality would either take too much out of me, or would become redundant/past being close to topical. I am sorry to disappoint you.
That being said, I will link some blogs that have ACTIVELY collected information, so everybody can learn what happened and so those that followed me to learn more about the ARG won’t be empty handed.
@max2019arg: the person running this is absolutely lovely and has reblogged and documented EVERYTHING that was in the ARG. They worked incredibly hard on it and I respect the hell out of them! They also have ko-fi set up to help them out, so if you can, you should send them a few bucks! (X)
@greyskies-productions: An absolute powerhouse, with an incredibly well formatted masterpost, that links to every important site in the ARG, google docs with archived info on the ARG, and youtube playlists that explain everything in great detail! Amazing work by an incredible person! (X)
@thot-pilgrim: A legend that has gone above and beyond in archiving things. They have made multiple videos on the ARG, including an exclusive interview with the creators! From what I understand they plan on making a couple more videos and I am incredibly excited to see what they do! (X)
@butchsona: An incredibly skilled artist that has made some absolutely lovely fanart and an amazing fanmix for the ARG. Her art is top notch and if for no other reason, you should follow her for that! She also also reblogs a lot of other fan content and it’s really cool to see! (X)(X)
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