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Since morning, the sounds of explosions and gunfire have not stopped.

Lately I've been thinking about traveling and escaping this difficult and bitter reality; I'm tired of this life.

But travel is very difficult and the crossing has not been properly opened.

I need your help to escape death and survive. There is no ceasefire; it's all a lie. Death is constant, all the time.

Please try to save my children and my family.

Donate what you can. I will not forgive anyone who sees this post and does not donate or share.

Shira is a Turkish trans woman who was the victim of attempted murder by a man on the street who realized she was transfemme. After he stabbed her, dozens of people walked by her on the sidewalk until a teenager stopped and helped her.

Shira is now in the hospital in critical condition. She’s undergone emergency surgery and will need multiple operations and long-term care to recover—physically and emotionally.

Shira has no close family nearby, is not accepted by public organizations in Turkey because she is trans, and she’s unable to work while she heals. Her friends are raising funds to cover her medical bills, therapy, and basic living expenses during this painful time.

As of me posting this, the fundraiser has €125 out of a €12k goal. If you can’t give anything to help a trans woman survive a horrific attack, please at least reblog this, set it on your queue, whatever you need to do to make sure others can see and help. Thank you.

With the help of our community and your donations Shira has been able to stay in the hospital. She now needs to be operated on as soon as possible, we need to get to our first goal of 4000€ urgently. Please share this and consider giving what you can if you haven't already.

Currently we're at €2994/4000

We can do this guys!

Reviving this old post cos it seems to have way more traction than some of my newer posts.

January update:

Shira's surgery has been successful and she's been out of the hospital for a few months. Thanks to everyone's generous donations she's been able to afford an apartment where she can recover in a safe environment. However, she's still unable to work due to her injuries. Currently all her money is going towards staying housed, and there's not enough left for food and medicine.

In her own words from her January 12th update:

I’m truly in a difficult situation right now. All the money I managed to raise went toward paying my rent so I can make it through the rest of this month. At the moment, I still need to buy my medications and continue my treatment—on top of the healthy food I’m supposed to eat to support my healing. The amount I urgently need is around €500. I swear I currently have only €3 left, and I honestly don’t know how I’m going to get through the rest of the month. Please help me if you can. I’m in desperate need of support. If you’re not able to donate, sharing my fundraiser would mean a lot to me. Thank you so much.

Please everyone. She hasn't received a single donation in over 2 weeks.

Everything feels small until it all hits at once. If I save for treatment, I can’t afford food. If I save for food, rent is waiting—700 euros by the end of the month. And behind that is 1,200 euros for the operation that could finally ease this pain. It feels unreal—like a dream I can’t reach—to somehow find 2,000 euros in one month and cover it all.

She's really struggling here guys. But if everyone pitches in and pushes real hard, maybe we can get her out of this hole she's in! Please donate if you can, and share as much as possible!

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Whistleblower on Reddit rage-blogs about how the food delivery company he worked for as a developer is ripping customers AND drivers off.

Main post screenshotted here in case it gets yanked; the whole thread is worth a read.

He should perhaps have remembered that Aragorn is named for Fingolfin. Fingolfin’s mother-name, Arakáno, would properly be translated to Sindarin as “Aragorn”. Most people would not show up to an enemy fortress with an army they knew was far too small, and start a battle they knew they would lose. But Fingolfin famously did exactly that.

"It is clear that after everything we have endured, we – like other displaced Palestinians – cannot survive a third winter in these harsh conditions. We survived two winters in displacement, living in tents that protected neither from cold nor rain, waiting with exhausted patience for a ceasefire that would end our suffering. The ceasefire finally came, but relief did not. We remain in the same place, with bodies drained by malnutrition and illness, under tents worn out by the sun and wind."

Israel has breached the terms of the ceasefire hundreds of times, killing nearly 400 people.

Israel has continued to block the delivery of aid. The Gaza Government Media Office recorded that no more than 234 trucks per day have entered Gaza since the ceasefire began.

Storm Byron hit Gaza. Strong winds destroyed over 27,000 tents and 11 people were killed by collapsed buildings.

People cannot stay warm without shelter or sources of heat. The first deaths from hypothermia were of a nine year old child, Hadeel al-Masri, and two little babies, Rahaf Abu Jazar and Taim al-Khawaja.

Please help my friend Fadel in Gaza. His family is trying to survive prolonged illness and repeated flooding while living out of a tent.

Today Fadel (@fadel-dani) told me that he was forced to spend money he had saved for his urgent surgery on a used tent. His family could not afford a new one, but their previous tent was torn apart so they needed to buy what they could afford.

They have been sick with the flu for weeks now, unable to get enough donations to afford adequate shelter, medicine, or food.

Please donate as soon as you can. They cannot endure these brutal conditions for much longer. Fadel is disabled and needs monthly medication, and he has also sustained extremely painful injuries, with shrapnel from the bombing of his home splintering his body.

Verso in the ending:

Noble - Save his sister, save his mother, stop the cycle.

Selfish - Wants his own death.

Maellicia in the ending:

Noble - Save the canvas residents and Gustave, save Verso’s only work of soul art.

Selfish - Have a playground to escape into without pain, where she is loved and no one challenges her.

You can even go into earlier decisions...

Maellicia gommaging Painted Alicia:

Noble - Give Alicia peace, honor her wishes.

Selfish - Erase the reminder of Maellicia's own pain and the life she rejects, maybe jealously since Verso only needs one Alicia to roleplay as his sister.

Verso letting Gustave die:

Noble - Best odds to get his mother out of the canvas and save her.

Selfish - Convenience, and maybe jealousy that Alicia was so close to a painted older brother.

Clair Obscur is packed with examples of narrative duality, the most dramatic of which are embodied by Verso and Maelle. Over and over again, they trace the same patterns as mirrors of each other. As protagonists they both selfish and self-sacrificing. How you calculate that ratio may differ depending on how sympathetically or critically you interpret their motivations. Yet what's incredible to me about the story is how it gives us the honorable and the dishonorable reasons for why characters make the choices they do.

The noble reason makes them sympathetic and admirable, but the selfish reason makes them feel human and realistic.

And importantly: both are true.

Recommend checking out an article by Kasey Keeler and Ryan Hellenbrand, published at Edge Effects in 2021.

Aside from addressing the Ojibwe story about the Nanabozho fighting against logging (including an image of the encounter), they also describe Paul Bunyan’s entanglement with the transition from clear-cutting timber logging to the later advent of the US federal government’s “German-style” extraction and “sustained yield” management (an approach, like early twentieth-century “British forestry” style, which still pursues profit-oriented extraction). Basically, they recount/argue: Story-telling makes claims to landscapes. Nostalgia can be a powerful tool. Paul Bunyan stories became more widely known after 1914. A logging company which used Paul Bunyan in promotional marketing owned the land that would become Paul Bunyan State Forest and Chippewa National Forest (the first national forest established by act of Congress rather than presidential proclamation), which functioned as a “laboratory”.

All text (images and captions, too) below is excerpted from their article.

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Across the Northwoods, a geography that spans the U.S.-Canada border, stories are used to make and claim space. […] Throughout northern Minnesota, legends of Paul Bunyan, the fictional giant lumberjack, have been used to claim space. […] Bunyan has been credited with creating Minnesota’s 10,000 lakes, the Mississippi River, and the Grand Canyon, while simultaneously logging millions of acres of forest. […] Together, we juxtapose the history of two forests - the Paul Bunyan State Forest and the Chippewa National Forest - to reveal how German settlement, logging, and forestry have contributed to placemaking narratives, and how […] nostalgia links past and present. Paul Bunyan’s literal and figurative imaginings advance American Indian erasure narratives, leading to the invisibility of these same communities today. […] The Northwoods have been popularized and imagined as America’s version of northern Europe. […] Across Minnesota, towns like New Ulm, New Munich, Heidelberg, and Luxemburg bear witness […]. More recently, Native scholars Michael Dockry and Christopher Caldwell have examined […] “the Menominee people’s profound sense of place and their intimate relationship with place.” […]

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Ojibwe dispossession, well underway by the late nineteenth century, is not told in any Paul Bunyan story. […] The “heroic labor” of logging formed a significant portion of Great Lakes region economies […] on the heels of, and entangled with, Ojibwe dispossession. […] Formally established in 1908, the 1.6-million-acre Chippewa National Forest (CNF) lies nearly contiguous with the Leech Lake Reservation. […] [T]he CNF was the first national forest created “for the benefit of [American] Indian people.” […] In 1902 came the Morris Act. Authored by [a] Duluth congressman […], the act “created the first forest reserve established by congressional action rather than presidential proclamation.” The act established the 225,000-acre Minnesota Forest Reserve as a “compromise,” a way to tackle the “Indian problem” while allowing for timber harvest. Here, Ojibwe homelands became “a laboratory for the first comprehensive forest management plans undertaken by a federal agency.” In 1928, the forest was renamed the Chippewa National Forest, as it remains today.

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While the Chippewa National Forest forces us to consider the many ways logging and forestry has usurped American Indian peoples’ access to land, the nearby Paul Bunyan State Forest encapsulates the material legacy of symbolic myth. […]

Officially recognized in 1935, the Paul Bunyan State Forest evolved from the site of the Red River Lumber Company sawmill. Founded in 1884, the Red River Lumber Company (RRLC) directly participated in and contributed to Ojibwe dispossession. By the end of the nineteenth century, he RRLC had purchased most of the land that comprises the present-day Pual Bunyan State Forest, milling millions of board feet of lumber at the company town of Akeley. […]

The expansion of RRLC to California precipitated another key move: using Paul Bunyan in their marketing. William B. Laughead (pronounced Log-head), advertising manager in 1914 and a logger himself, spun another Paul Bunyan tale for the promotional booklet “Introducing Mr. Paul Bunyan of Westwood, Cal,” which included Bunyan’s first pictorial representation. This marketing campaign relied on the new and growing nostalgia for the grand logging days in the Great Lakes to keep the transcontinental corporation rooted in place.

With logging long established throughout the Great Lakes region, the ecological damage was clear. To remedy this, in the mid-1930s (German) forestry was introduced to manage timber on a sustained yield base. This, then, is the irony of the Paul Bunyan State Forest: named for an American legends who is said to have literally cleared the path for settlement, forest management now proposes to maintain the integrity of the forest. […]

Though Paul Bunyan narratives dominate the landscape of the Northwoods, if we look closely we can see the ways Native people resist the legendary exploits. Indeed, a lesser-known Ojibwe oral story reminds us that the Anishinaabe people, their culture, and their histories will always prevail over dispossession and logging. In the story, Nanabozho, an Ojibwe trickster or cultural figure, confronts Paul Bunyan, who had already logged off most of the northeastern states before making his way to Minnesota. Nanabozho tells Paul to leave, to not log any more timber. A fight ensues, and […] Nanabozho swings a Red Lake walleye at Paul, knocking him off his feet. As Paul stumbles, Nanabozho pulls at Paul’s whiskers, making him promise to leave the area. This is why, today, Paul Bunyan does not have a beard and why he is facing west at the statue on Lake Bemidji, as he prepares to leave the region. This is also why we have the Chippewa National Forest, because Nanabozho and his Ojibwe kinsmen saved it from being logged. It is this contemporary narrative that highlights the complexity of Ojibwe storytelling […].

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It’s a good day to pay reparations. Natives may reblog with your own payment links.

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anyways, tl;dr: what defines anarchism and how does it work?

thanks in advance! have a cookie 🍪

"Anarchism asserts the possibility of an organization without discipline, fear, or punishment, and without the pressure of poverty: a new social organism which will make an end to the terrible struggle for the means of existence,—the savage struggle which undermines the finest qualities in man, and ever widens the social abyss. In short, Anarchism strives towards a social organization which will establish well-being for all."

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Restaurant Worker Manifesto

Posted on September 18, 2025September 18, 2025 by IU640 Members of SE Michigan

(Demand Sick Days. By Jefferson Pierce.)

Introduction

The restaurant industry stands at the frontlines of a new labor movement. A recent report reveals that the highest concentration of strikes in recent years has come from the food service sector. From fast food counters to fine dining kitchens, workers are rising up. These struggles are not isolated incidents but signs of a broader transformation — a wave of unionism sweeping through the food service sector.

Why Organize Restaurants?

Most restaurants are small shops, a structure that presents unique opportunities for dynamic and decentralized organizing. Within a framework of solidarity unionism — where workers take collective action independently of formal recognition or contracts — restaurant workers can take swift and effective action on their own terms.

The labor movement doesn’t just need a revival; it needs more and better organizers. The food sector is rich soil for growing new leaders. Many workers enter food service at young ages and often transition to other industries over time, spreading the skills and experiences gained through organizing. This makes restaurants training grounds for a new generation of militant, thoughtful, and strategic unionists.

Building a Diverse and Powerful Coalition

Restaurant work is disproportionately held by marginalized communities — immigrants, LGBTQ+ individuals, BIPOC workers, women, and others. This makes the food industry a vital terrain for building a multiracial, gender-inclusive, and intersectional labor movement. Organizing here can empower communities that have long borne the brunt of exploitation, exclusion, and precarity.

Restaurants as Sites of Resistance

Restaurants have also become battlegrounds in the fight for immigrant rights. ICE raids target these workplaces more frequently than many other sectors, threatening workers and communities. Organizing in these spaces is a form of resistance against the criminalization of immigrants.

Moreover, airports — where food service workers are often employed — are sites of deportation. Organizing airport food workers opens a strategic front in the struggle against immigrant deportation and state violence. Workers can use their power on the job to disrupt these operations and stand in solidarity with those targeted by the state.

Restaurants as Revolutionary Social Spaces

Restaurants, cafes, pubs, and similar establishments are not just workplaces — they are social hubs where people come together to share meals, ideas, and experiences. These spaces play a vital role in the cultural and political fabric of our communities. When we organize these workplaces, we aren’t just building a revolutionary movement among workers; we are also claiming and transforming these spaces into centers of social and political life.

By holding space for others to gather, converse, and organize, food service workers extend the reach of our movements beyond the shop floor. We turn everyday places into sites of resistance, mutual aid, and collective imagination.

(Assh**e Chef. By Jefferson Pierce.)

A History of Resistance

The food service industry has long been a flashpoint in broader social and political struggles. Historic job actions in restaurants have helped reshape society:

Sit-downs at segregated lunch counters during the Civil Rights Movement played a pivotal role in dismantling racial segregation.

The Stonewall Rebellion, often cited as a turning point in the fight for LGBTQ+ rights, erupted at a pub where workers and patrons resisted police violence.

Hiring halls were used as a tool to desegregate waitstaff in Detroit restaurants.

Boycotts and pickets were leveraged to desegregate workplaces and build equitable employment systems.

Restaurant workers have engaged in direct action by refusing service to police officers as a protest against police brutality.

Workers have fought for and won the right to express their religious beliefs on the job, asserting their dignity and autonomy in the workplace.

These examples show that food service jobs are not just sites of economic struggle — they are arenas for broader social transformation.

Conclusion

The food service sector is not just ripe for organizing — it is essential. It holds the potential to revitalize the labor movement, diversify its leadership, and root it in communities that face intersecting oppressions. It is time for restaurant workers to take the lead in shaping a new era of labor power.

Militant and democratic shopfloor committees are the building blocks for a new social and economic order. Organize with your co-workers. Link your struggle to others. And together, let’s lay the foundation for revolutionary industrial unions that can transform the food service industry — and society as a whole.