emarsh @emarsh@scholar.social

University of Michigan Graduate Workers Are on Strike

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/09/university-michigan-graduate-workers-strike

"GEO is insisting that 'safety' and 'security' aren’t two separate subjects. Take, for example, the university’s police force’s name: the Division of Public Safety and Security. GEO is insisting that such security forces do not make us safe. And the COVID demands speak to a different vision of safety, where the health of the community is not subordinated to the university’s bottom line."

JSTOR has compiled a list of well-researched essays that "addresses institutionalized racism and how it’s caused historic, pointed harm at the Black community in the U.S.": https://daily.jstor.org/institutionalized-racism-a-syllabus/

If your admin sent out an email about "police brutality" and "racial injustice" but doesn't want to defund their campus police, they don't really care about white supremacy or the lives of their black students, faculty, and staff #CopsOffCampus

Educators: If you wish to aid in the dismantling of a racist police state, you should avoid Zoom at all costs since they've made it abundantly clear they'll willingly team up with law enforcement: https://thenextweb.com/security/2020/06/03/zoom-wont-encrypt-free-calls-because-it-wants-to-comply-with-law-enforcement/

the great thing about this website is i'm not all the time running into twerps who have me blocked because i told jp hotcakes the auther of henry porter to huff jamba juice one time in 2017

plastics: incredibly durable and airtight material, almost immune to breakdown

capitalism: lets use this for disposable packaging