BitterITLeftist

@bitteritleftist

SE Michigan based, Madison born. Nothing is too good for the working class. Free Palestine and abolish "AI". linguistics stan. a leftist who hates technology.

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BitterITLeftist@bitteritleftist· 20d

ypsi, 7/22/26 (after-smoke)

the river from the Cross Street bridge in Ypsilanti Michigan: trees and a pavillion alongside a river bank with clouds in a blue sky

a path and green grass below a blue sky with clouds: Riverside Park in Ypsilanti Michigan

BitterITLeftist@bitteritleftist· 26d

ypsi, 7/16/26

an intersection in Ypsilanti, Michigan, shrouded in wildfire smoke

BitterITLeftist@bitteritleftist· 26d

wayne, michigan, 7/16/26

Ford plant on Michigan Ave in Wayne, MI, shrouded in wildfire smoke

BitterITLeftist@bitteritleftist· 26d

update

an air quality monitoring showing 351 ppm PM2.5

BitterITLeftist@bitteritleftist· 27d

we're getting the bad stuff now in Metro Detroit

air quality monitor reading Unhealthy: 107

BitterITLeftist@bitteritleftist· Jul 12

from rosalux.nyc/labor-notes-... (shared by DSA Communist Caucus on Tw)

"More specifically, in conversations with several longtime Labor Notes organizers, some argued that aspects of McAlevey’s approach can be overly formulaic and too centered around staff organizers, and, in certain applications, even “coercive.”

One seasoned organizer argued that McAlevey’s emphasis on agitation can sometimes stir emotions that are not productive for organizing and that highly structured organizing conversations geared toward securing concrete commitments can make it difficult for workers to say no. They noted that some organizers using these methods had even found coworkers beginning to avoid them as a result.

Many of these critiques drew—implicitly or explicitly—from traditions associated with Myles Horton, Ella Baker, and Paulo Freire, emphasizing collective political development, popular education, and relationships as spaces for collective learning and democratic self-activity rather than simply vehicles for securing commitments. One organizer further argued that an overemphasis on individualized one-on-ones risks obscuring Marx’s understanding of human beings as fundamentally social and relational creatures whose political development emerges collectively."

BitterITLeftist@bitteritleftist· Jul 4

i sing of olaf glad and big (e.e. cummings)