I wander into the blog…kick the floor. Dust fills the air.
I sneeze.
This is not a New Years resolution list. It is a vision of what I want to see in the world and in myself in the coming year.
Category: Activism
If This Goes On: Labor, Immigration and Activism
I’ve been doing some reading and documentary watching lately about labor movements and revolts, particularly in Wales. Immigration and activism were two faulty valves that couldn’t keep up with the horrific pressure on labor movements in the UK. The history of labor in the 19th and early 20th century was bloody, and not just in terms of the opportunities for horrible deaths and maimings on the job. I can’t help but imagine similar squashings of fully justified revolts happening in the US again now and over the next 10 years or so. Our government isn’t owned by plutocrats – to an overwhelming extent it is made of plutocrats. Trumpism has just revealed that identity much more clearly and unmistakably.
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