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Since the early 1980's, the public schools, Coast to Coast, have been involved in taking or directing minor children to Planned Parenthood for advice and/or abortions. There is the chance that any of these minors could die or end up sterile!! Who holds the liability for this murder and maiming?
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What I think should make me happy, and what makes me happy, are not the same.
What makes me happy is accepting whatever bullshit Life dishes out (including accepting hating it).
What I think should make me happy is Life dishing out different bullshit. This doesn't make me happy because it doesn't happen. Life dishes out what She dishes out.
These are masked men, with weapons, no warrants and this is extrajudicial abduction, and with local police aiding and abetting this thuggery. It is illegal under international human rights law. nytimes.com/2025/06/07/us/la-i…
I'll never forget this one time I was organizing with a music workers' group against YouTube, and we met with another music union to see if they'd sign on to our demands.
One guy says, "No, YouTube is like a Creative Commons."
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Really? Google owns a creative commons, huh? You're just gonna let them be cultural landlords?
He says, "Where else will I get to see Miles Davis perform at such-and-such back in the day?"
Dude, if you'd rather let Google continue to be evil than risk your favorite videos being taken away from you, idk what to tell you. Maybe you shouldn't let your favorite videos just exist on a corporate server then?
This kind of pernicious entitlement that comes from some "leftists" is why we need to talk more about #degrowth, but that's a rant for another day lol.
Lemme tell you something about YouTube, as a music streamer. Google is making bucks off pirated music. Whatever you think about piracy, doesn't matter: the question is, why is Google making money off of Joe Schmo's file-share of his favorite deep cut album? They have the technology to content ID music, right? So why aren't they sending that money where it belongs: into the hands of artists?
Now, when we brought this to the attention of the other union, they fixated on the piracy part and essentially defended people's right to piracy, as Gen X/Millennial leftist dudes are wont to do lol. Now I'm not saying that they're wrong. But hearing it from a bunch of cis white guys is not convincing, if you know what I mean. It was me, a Black woman, a Black dude, and another GNC white person on the call with them.
I don't mean to be reductionist about their concerns with our campaign. That's why they're to remain nameless. They had some legitimate concerns. But I believe their hang-ups were ultimately not in music workers' best interests and did not serve our immediate needs.
They said they couldn't sign on, which was a disappointment since they had had some repute, and then they said, "but we are still your allies in the fight for streaming justice."
Maybe that's why we need comrades, not just allies.
i like that ending quite a bit. comrades not allies. make coalitions where we can on specific issues. i was chatting with my friend @resl a week or so ago about a similar situation. there's a huge disconnect between the general left and the tech-left. where the former often feels that the latter is barking up inconsequential trees no one cares about. maybe most people don't care, but inconsequential i do not think. tech is the primary economic driver in today's world. if our tech isn't left, the activism isn't (effectively) left. not to devalue the work they do, but i must ask... if your activism is really threatening the power structure, don't you think they would pull the plug?
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@benda Yep. If it begins to look genuinely powerful, it can be policed and suppressed on those platforms easily. That is just one of many reasons to boycott those things as much as we can, and if someone can't or doesn't, at least they can be aware of the limits and risks of popular participation.
@benda That's well said. I've been disturbed about that disconnect you describe, but it has been hard for me to articulate.
Seems more of us have started to get wise to it since we've become aware that Big Tech has their hands in Palestine. But I'm continually surprised by organizers (and friends and comrades) who still primarily use Meta for their organizing. Seems to me like it's shooting yourself in the foot, at best.
Anyone who was following politics in 2007 and 2008 knows exactly what role the SEIU (Service Employees International Union) played in supporting candidate Barack Obama.
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