Bret McCabe (he/him)
@BretMcBret
Arts writer, Tejano, giggler. Police/prison abolition. Pro choice, science, #BLM, immigrants, public schools, unions, & nachos.
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http://bretmccabe.com 07-07-2009 18:19:50
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Today I met Rhonda & Linda, who have worked at the stadiums for 17 & 27 years without adequate raises. And I met Lamont, who makes $18.85 working at the Linc, but just $17.05 across the parking lot at Wells Fargo.
They deserve a fair contract. One job should be enough. Aramark Corporation
My mother taught me to rely on nobody but myself.
This article in The Nation urges #freelancers to take action and demand fair pay, not marry some rich dude for livelihood.
It's worth a read.
t.ly/n_4EC
Law students at Emory with National Lawyers Guild have been pulled off the scene and taken to the deans office. NLG observes interactions between police and citizens in order to keep everyone safe. There is now no NLG eyes or ears at the protest.
In the midst of nationwide violent crackdowns on student encampments protesting universities’ complicity in the US-Israeli genocide of Palestinians, New York Magazine decides to make a cultural martyr out of a professor who has spent 7 months terrorizing Arab & Muslim students at Columbia.
'The second album by the trio of Ambarchi, Berthling and Werliin, is music for The Long Now. They hold onto the present, make it tangible – almost tactile'
Ghosted II By Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling & Andreas Werliin is tQ's Album of the Week
buff.ly/3JvuhTH
ITS SPREADING!!! Take over your campus challenge is everywhere - north, south, east, west, ya mommas house. Solidarity with everyone taking action right now. Shut it down for a #FreePalestine
Love this call for freelancers to band together - not just seek individual solutions to inequity.
Thanks Amy Littlefield The Nation for shouting out The Institute for Independent Journalists ‘s survey of laid off journalists. (Only 5-7 mins to complete & helps inform journalists!) 🙏 bit.ly/IIJcensus