"There is a measurable, generational collapse in sustained reading and writing, and the academy is responding to it with improvisation and exhaustion rather than the structural overhaul it requires."
Hm. Administrators are responding with corporate nonsense; faculty are responding by #organizing #unions.
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Kindly share it with folks willing to become a Public Narrative Coach.
Great idea ready for the stealing, from SmashingConf, a "convince your boss" template
Letzte Generation (Last Generation, or LG) dissolved in 2025.
LG faced a growing mismatch between vision and reality:
1. The expectation that demands on government would catalyse political climate action
2. The idea that repression of the movement would act as a ‘backfiring tool', stirring public sympathy.
3. The rise of the far-right and of multiple overlapping political crises.
4. LG’s structural rigidity hindered grassroots innovation.
RE: https://wikis.world/@bvibber/116666605146141540
You probably heard about @bvibber and @wwu #organizing their workplace! (Never mind about the ham-fisted, probably illegal, bullying from the greedhead bosses: it already backfired spectacularly)
You may not have heard about #PSFA winning our election and #unionizing faculty at Penn State!
Devs and writers and educators and healers and you too, if you earn a paycheck, you're a worker. Your work? It's. Your. Work. You should have a say. YOU TOO SHOULD ORGANIZE YOUR WORKPLACE
I attended the Mid-Peninsula #Indivisible chapter meeting today in Redwood City. It’s a gathering of such nice and dedicated people. Quite refreshing to see people working for good for a change.
I’m planning to attend various organizing events around the area, and maybe help out in some way or another. I need to make some community connections!
The Illusion of Change
@aram It's an old story and a mundane one. We patiently, doggedly organized. We got fed up, we decided it was time to form a union. (Crystallized around the administration ordering us back into classrooms in 2021 with no real mask mandate and an overt, cowardly capitulation to a tiny handful of Trumpist anti-vaxxers in the state capitol.)
A committed core quietly organized for two years. Auditioned a bunch of big internationals. Only SEIU had the resources to take us on: a historically large unit, 5,000+ faculty spread across a dozen campuses around the state. Two more years of quiet behind-the-scenes organizing.
I got seriously involved over the past year, after we went public. Testifying at the Capitol, talking to media, countless meetings, outreach to students, canvassing almost daily, knocking on colleagues' doors, getting enough cards for an election, and then winning it.
My spiel was simple: my wife is an academic with the same experience as I have, but she makes a 30% higher salary, and has laughably dramatically extra-galactically better benefits, than I do.
Like I said, so much more to say, but that's the nut of it.
Last week we got the results, a 3:1 victory, despite the administration's ham-fisted scare tactics.
"When we fight, we win."
Cooperating in coalition: An ongoing commonplace thread
#organizing #coalition #collaboration #dialogue #facilitation #solidarity #ChangeTheory #TheoriesOfChange
RE: https://mas.to/@evedazzle/116613077590637415
If you are in the Greater #Houston area and thinking of holding a protest of -any- size, please please PLEASE consider requesting the support of the all-volunteer Space City Marshals for everyone's #safety and let *them* interface with police, hecklers, harassers etc. for you so that you can focus on your demonstration work. https://htxcoalition.us/scm.html #HTX #TX #Texas #protest #protests #planning #organizing #demonstration #demonstrations #rally #rallies #activism #activist #activists
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