That's cool! Didn't know PSL was starting labor organizing campaigns. I put an effort post I saw on hexbear a couple years ago below so hopefully whoever you talk to shares similar materials/ideas.

Steps for initial union organizing:

1.Get a list of everyone at your site

2.Make a spreadsheet with your estimate on how pro-union they all are (5-point scale: would help organize, would vote yes on union card, neutral, anti-union but could be convinced, would rat you out to the boss so avoid talking union to this person)

3.Start talking to people about unions, carefully, and add them to the spreadsheet

4.If you find someone who’s super pro-union (5), give them access to the spreadsheet too

5.Keep going until everyone is in the sheet

6.If your sheet says you don’t have a majority, identify fence-sitters and the workers they respect, and work on recruiting the workers they respect

7.When you’re getting close to a majority, contact another union in your area and ask for advice and a lawyer recommendation

8.Make sure you’ve talked to another local union and a labor lawyer

9.Get the union card in front of everyone at once, as fast as you can

Special note: 51% isn’t going to be good enough for your majority. Unless you feel you need to take the risk (for some reason) of 1~2% flipping at the last minute and losing the vote, its probably a good idea to wait until you’ve got a solid (like rock solid) 60~75% pro union.

Chapo podcast on making the list: https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/288-so-you-want-to-start-a-union-feat-brace-belden-21019

No Shortcuts, the book. It’s long and detailed case studies: https://janemcalevey.com/no-shortcuts/

No Shortcuts, the interview. It’s honestly better than the book. Very good additional details, especially about step 6 above. I recommend this one the most: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/04/jane-mcalevey-on-how-to-organize-for-power/

Makes sense, we're an empire in decline. American capital is stripping the copper out of the wires. Child labor is coming back. Slavery is coming back (and never really went away). For what purpose do you need an educated populace as a capitalist. AI being the last possible new market is way more important to them

c'mon balkanize

I know the Biden admin are doing this cynically but god i hope this stays. The sanctions are evil and they make it so hard for people in Cuba to survive

I don't really know what to say other than that this pisses me the fuck off. I know i've said shit like this in the past and i know lots of people who've said shit like this. They're making her an example

Probably not, the US skirts the legal definition of a blockade by creating insane hoops to jump through. Countries that want to trade with Cuba can't use the SWIFT banking system, meaning no digital transactions, meaning they literally have to carry the cash with them to the island and back. They have to use ships that can't dock in US ports for 6 months after docking in Cuba (which Cuba having a gdp less than half a percent of US gdp means businesses have no incentive to choose trade with Cuba). And the trade has to be humanitarian, no military applications (but this also applies to medical and tech equipment which US says have "dual purpose"). All that said, there are awesome countries that choose to go through these hoops at significant cost and risk. But it takes a lot of time and planning to setup and get the right permits.

yup finished a few days ago, pretty lib, all the good guys are royalty, the bad guys are the church and a libertarian magician. Pretty standard jrpg fare tho. Fun gameplay

Obligatory another kkkrakkka down unlimited genocide on the first world

"but is behind 5 to 10 years in quality and reliability"

Calling it now, they're going to have the best and most reliable chips in the world by next summer

Guess they turned off the heart attack gun

Let's fucking go! Good luck trying to find replacements for some of the most specialized workers in the world

"I've come to make an announcement; Big Pharma's a bitch ass motherfucker, he pissed on my fucking wife. Thats right, he took his overpriced-insulin quilly dick out and he pissed on my fucking wife, and he said his dick was "This big" and I said that's disgusting, so I'm making a callout post on my twitter dot com, Big Pharma, you've got a small dick, it's the size of this walnut except WAY smaller, and guess what? Here's what my dong looks like: PFFFT, THAT'S RIGHT, BABY. ALL POINTS, NO QUILLS, NO PILLOWS. Look at that, it looks like two balls and a bong."

This means they're finally going to give us healthcare right?