Still working on getting Mastodon into my routine, and as a teacher & organizer this has been a particularly difficult stretch to change any routines. Routines are what’s getting me to the holiday break, especially since this is such a difficult time of year for so many young people I work with. It’s still hard to catch secondary trauma since it’s rarely “a moment” that it manifests in, let alone the way it compounds with my own struggles.
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Connecticut Democratic Socialists of America #DSA, Connecticut Tenants Union, movies, books, music, pit bulls, housing, running
Peace & healing to all the students & teachers out there who are steeling ourselves for the week ahead. We’re bombarded with messages of joy, family, & love, but the reality is that it’s almost definitely the most difficult school week of the year for so many.
Rank-and-file workers resolution: Congressional imposition of railroad contract is “completely illegitimate”:
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/12/01/reso-d01.html
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/12/01/reso-d01.html
Rank-and-File workers resolution: Congressional imposition of railroad contract is “completely illegitimate”
The resolution, adopted on Wednesday, states, “As representatives of rank-and-file rail workers, we declare that, as far as we are concerned, there is no contract, whether Congress passes legislation or not.”
The power that’s been built by the Seramonte Tenants Union & the movement for organized tenants’ power in the Greater New Haven Area is just awesome. Throw in by signing this petition, but also get connected up with the movement for Housing Justice in Connecticut more broadly. We are winning struggle after struggle after struggle!
#CTDSA #CTTU #HousingJustice #RentCapsNow
https://www.change.org/p/pass-the-tenants-rights-ordinance-now
“in 2019, renters in the US collectively paid $512.4 billion to landlords…added to the cumulative $4.5 trillion renters paid during the 2010s…more than the GDP of Germany or greater than the combined market value of Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, & Alphabet.”
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0308518X221135612
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0308518X221135612
The idea “market rate” should be confined to real-estate speculation is the hegemony of landlords’ & employers’ “common sense” in our society. It’s much more common sense to tie rent to wages, or abolish rent altogether b/c tenants maintain & increase speculators’ investments.
#RentCapsNow #CTDSA #dsa
#RentCapsNow #CTDSA #dsa
