the thing about the american labor movement (one of many!) is that you can look at one of the most privileged & high-profile trade unions in the world, representing specialized workers in a market with growing profits, and you'd expect that they at least would be getting along just fine, but instead their employers are fucking with their equipment & lying about it as they get injured while wearing see-through pants on national TV. and like sure, the major league baseball players association is not strictly representative, but jesus fuckin christ man that's bad
MSHA silica standard enacted!!! mining workers now have a federal silica dust standard in line with other industries, cutting the acceptable limit by half. the new rule also requires mine operators outside the coal sector to provide similar free health exams to miners
This Haggadah is color coded to indicate the age of various parts of the text, creating a visually striking historical commentary.
Haggadah. Polychrome historical Haggadah for Passover. [Hagadah Meʹir ʹenayim] With a commentary, interpretative translation, introd., notes, references, and bibliography, by Jacob Freedman. Illus. in color from rare medieval Haggadah mss. Springfield, Mass., Jacob Freedman Liturgy Research Foundation, 1974.
it is my nine-year anniversary this week & to celebrate it my partner made a $50 donation to the appalachian citizens' law center, a nonprofit organization which assists black lung benefits claimants, in my name, which is why i am making this post while wearing an extremely sick 'black lung kills' shirt. love is real! & if we all work together, we can make black lung not be!
“Power is never total. Even the most subjugated peoples have dared to plan and fight for their own forbidden aims. The rebels’ perspectives on empire and insurrection should inform our own. Their struggles illuminate cracks in the edifice of racial capitalism, reminding us that another world is not only possible, another world is inevitable.”
— Vincent Brown, Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War (2020), p. 15
(yes some of these overlap and some are suppositions. for example if parchment is always used for ephemera, rough drafts, notes, and never re-used or re-purposed, we can also assume that the author is unaware of wax tablets as a concept)