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Joyous Bravery: #StopCopCity at the Crossroads
Midway on a road trip across the South, I intended to camp in a parcel of woods in South Atlanta known officially as Intrenchment Creek Park, the planned site for the construction of a $90 million police training facility (or military base, as described by commentator Jacquie Luqman) which most people now know as Cop…
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Real River Pirate Shit
I left town straight from work at 3:00 on the Friday before Labor Day. I packed my bicycle, tent, sleeping bag, clothes, drugs, reading materials (which I barely cracked open) Sadie the Goat, the Boat and food (which I left at work). The last hour or two at work I scrolled anxiously on my phone,…
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The U.S. was “a great ecological and social catastrophe”
A review of Intimate Direct Democracy by Dr. Modibo Kadalie and a short biographical sketch A year ago, I found myself wanting to read something new. Not just something I hadn’t had a chance to pick up yet; no, I wanted something I had never even heard of before. I’ve followed Black anarchist writers for…
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Proletarian Dreams
These perspectives are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of my employers. I work for a living. I don’t think that’s some great sign of character or integrity. Personally I think work is for chumps, and any day I don’t do my part to undermine the regime of wage slavery, I feel extra…
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Hartford Workers & COVID
This is a post I plan on updating as new information relevant to those of us working face-to-face with the Hartford public becomes available, which you can bookmark for easy reference. Contact me with updates, additions, corrections or if you’re interested in organizing for stronger health protections for workers. Update 4/10/22–Although the number of tests…
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Labor History is Black History: Hartford & Beyond
On April 1st 1968 the first contract between Local 1716 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME, pronounced “AF-smee”) and the City of Hartford, Connecticut went into effect. At that moment, AFSCME sanitation workers were locked in an all-out strike in Memphis, Tennessee. The International Union as a whole had grown…
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Facebook Funding Anti-Masker Disinformation Campaign in Connecticut
These perspectives are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of my employers. As the Trumpian right-wing has dissipated over the past year, other far-right groupings have stepped into the void left by the former president’s departure from the public eye. The Libertarian Party of Connecticut (LPCT), whose chair only managed to secure 291…
The Cultural Workerist 