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“Δώδεκα παιδιά στους δρόμους, δώδεκα σπαθιά, πήραν τη βροχή στους ωμούς, δώδεκα παιδιά, χάραξαν στη γη τους νόμους, άνοιξαν στη νύχτα δρόμους κι έγινε η αγάπη πιο βαθιά.“

[Twelve kids in the streets, twelve swords, took the rain on their shoulders, twelve kids, carved laws on the Earth, opened roads in the night, and love became deeper.]

“Δώδεκα παιδιά“, Μάνος Λοΐζος, Γ. Κακίτση Choir

Workers and activists in more than 20 countries are expected to protest as part of a campaign led by “Make Amazon Pay,” a coalition of 70 trade unions and organizations including Greenpeace, Oxfam, and Amazon Workers International.

Individuals everywhere “from oil refineries, to factories, to warehouses, to data centers, to corporate offices” are expected to participate in the November 26 event, according to the campaign.  

“The pandemic has exposed how Amazon places profits ahead of workers, society, and our planet,” Make Amazon Pay wrote in a list of demands shared on its website. “Amazon takes too much and gives back too little. It is time to Make Amazon Pay.”

The protests come amid growing dissent from Amazon employees over working conditions, including long hours, low pay, and complex performance review systems. Make Amazon Pay’s demands include increased salaries, better job security, and “suspending the harsh productivity and surveillance regime Amazon has used to squeeze workers.”

The coalition also calls for a “pay back to society” that includes enhanced sustainability efforts, increased transparency over data and privacy, and ending partnerships with police forces and immigration authorities that are “institutionally racist.”

“Amazon is not alone in these bad practices but it sits at the heart of a failed system that drives the inequality, climate breakdown, and democratic decay that scar our age,” Make Amazon Pay wrote in its demands.

In a statement, Amazon spokesperson Kelly Nantel told Insider that the company is “inventing and investing significantly” in several of the categories the campaign addresses, including climate efforts, like a commitment to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040 and pushes to improve competitive wages and benefits.

“These groups represent a variety of interests, and while we are not perfect in any area, if you objectively look at what Amazon is doing in each one of these areas you’ll see that we do take our role and our impact very seriously,” Nantel said.

If you read their site, nowhere do they call for consumers to boycott Amazon, on Friday or any other day.

The reason they chose to protest on Amazon’s busiest day is because Amazon will be getting so much business. Lots of orders + workers not filling those orders = an inconvenience for Amazon that they’re more likely to pay attention to.

So if you were planning to do your shopping on Black Friday, you’re not crossing any picket lines. This protest’s call to action is for Amazon workers and activists, not Amazon customers.

If you read their site, nowhere do they call for consumers to boycott Amazon, on Friday or any other day.

The reason they chose to protest on Amazon’s busiest day is because Amazon will be getting so much business. Lots of orders + workers not filling those orders = an inconvenience for Amazon that they’re more likely to pay attention to.

So if you were planning to do your shopping on Black Friday, you’re not crossing any picket lines. This protest’s call to action is for Amazon workers and activists, not Amazon customers.

If you want to find ways to help out, their website lists events and ways you can spread info.

Well, turns out they are.

For two months, I will draw/write anything related to les mis, moulin rouge! (musical and movie), the great gatsby and hadestown- all you have to do is ask nicely. Eventually, I guess I will do it. NSFW, gore (except very light) and of course hateful prompts are out of question, ships are welcomed. I also do collage art if anyone is interested.

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You think your company pays you out of the goodness of their hearts? Or even out of “market pressure?” The “job market” is a myth perpetuated by the capitalists. Corporations would pay you nothing if they could get away with it. And you argue “oh, but if they paid me nothing I’d just go to another one.” Wrong. Because to maximize profits, they all want to pay you nothing. Corporations exist to maximize profits while reducing risk for investors. It’s part of their entire function to find ways to cut costs as much as possible, and that includes finding ways to pay you nothing.

Unions are your defense against that. You think all a union does is strike? If you pay union dues, a lot of that is spent on lobbyists in various governments reminding your lawmakers that you have rights as a living human being that a corporation should not be able to stomp all over. Unions hire lawyers so that if you’re fired for bullshit reasons, the union can stand up for you against your boss. They’re called unions because workers are uniting to pool resources so that they can stand up to these corporate overlords with more money than God. Unions exist because you might not have the words, resources, or time to fight workplace injustices all by yourself. That’s the whole fucking point.

Workers: *Go on strike*

Here we are back again for a 48 hour log off protest of the current version of Post+.

WHEN?

October 2, 2021

12 am Eastern Daylight Time/Atlantic Standard Time

1 am Chile Standard Time/Brazil Time/Argentina Time

4 am UTC

5 am BST/London/West Africa Time/West European Summer Time

6 am Central Europe Time/Central Africa Time

7 am Moscow Standard Time/East Africa Time/Eastern European Summer Time/Arabian Standard Time

8 am Gulf Standard Time

9:30 am Indian Standard Time

11 am Indochina Time

12 pm (Noon) Hong Kong Time/Australian Western Standard Time

1 pm Japan Standard Time/Korean Standard Time

1:30 pm Australian Central Time

2 pm Australian Eastern Standard Time

5 pm New Zealand Standard Time

October 1, 2021

11 pm Central Time

10 pm Mountain Time

9 pm Pacific Time

8 Alaska Daylight Time

6 pm Hawaii Standard Time

If you don’t see your time zone, or unsure which to use, click HERE for the checker!

We’ll be running countdown posts leading up to the main event!

We’re logging off for 48 hours! So, for example, if you log out on October 2, 2021 at 1pm JST you’ll log back on October 4, 2021 at 1 pm JST!

Also! Our Australian friends, take note that daylight savings/summer time ends in certain territories on October 3rd!

WHY?

Exhibits A, B, C, D, E, F

Tumblr recently announced a new feature called Post+ meant to help content creators make money while keeping a cut to help maintain the site. Not a bad idea, right?

The problem is that tumblr actively encouraged the use of Post+ in conjunction with fan works. Which is, despite the way they continue to side step it, highly illegal. Not enough people are aware of that fact.

Our mission is to force tumblr to either rebrand the Post+ feature as something for original content ONLY and/or offer a means to help the site survive outside of monetizing fan work. We want the see tumblr thrive but Post+ has the potential for ruining everything. Give us a better option, @staff ! In fact, HERE are some options!

WHAT ELSE CAN I DO?

Optional avatar and banner to use!

Banner credit to @adairctedgibbgirl ! Thank you!

You can also spread the word on ALL social media (Twitter/TikTok/Facebook/Reddit etc) and reblog this post. Another option, if you’re using the mobile app, is to leave an honest review (be polite, be concise, don’t spam) on the App Store of your choice! The best and easiest way to protest is DON’T USE POST+!

WILL THIS WORK?

We got tumblr to temporarily hide the original Post+ posts and possibly made wip a thing. So who knows?

ANYTHING ELSE?

Keep checking @postplus-protest for updates and further info, especially updates to this post! Thank you, all of you, for participating or boosting!

like, Benisnatch Cumberque played the same character he’s always plays as an asshole genius and we were all supposed to be okay with it, but it’s basically character slander

at different parts of the movie Turing is described as ‘arrogant, “inhuman,” “narcissistic,” and even “a monster,” in the film he goes against those around him and is shown to periodically ignore and belittle his colleagues

And. I. Am. So. Angry.

Alan Turing was described by his friends and people that knew him as “intensely shy and kindly”, he was said to “inspire loyalty and affection among those who appreciated his unusual gifts” and was “unfailingly generous with his time and expertise, especially toward younger recruits”

He was kind, he was kind, HE WAS KIND, he was kind

he was kind and geeky and awkward and gay, I don’t care if the whole of society doesn’t find that compelling, I don’t care if we don’t value kindness as an attribute in men, he deserved to be loved and respected as he was, not as we wish he was

I am so sorry Alan Turing, I am so sorry your story was not told with care and thoughtfulness, I am so sorry you didn’t get to be shown to be deeply in love with the men you loved, I am sorry your great and terrible tragedy was never unfolded as a kind and brilliant man abused by a horrible homophobic system

Yes to everything said here. I’d like to add, too, that when the movie came out some LGBT+ groups complained that one of the reasons the Secret Forces used to argue against having gay people in the army was that their secret was a liability that could be used against them as blackmail:  which is something that happens in the movie. It is also something that never, ever happened in real life.

But there is someone that gets slandered even more than Turing in that film, it’s Joan Clarke. The person Keira Knightley portrayed, you remember? The woman who works as a soundboard and an emotional clutch for Turing, who gets “recruited” by him by means of a crossword puzzle on a newspaper because she finishes before all the men? The woman who he sends his work to because she can’t work with him and she has to do it in the shadows? The woman who he gets engaged to and who gets very upset when he breaks their engagement because he’s too gay for it?

Well, the real Joan Clarke studied Mathematics in Cambridge (she technically had a “double first degree” because women couldn’t get the full degree), with top marks. She was recruited to the Enigma program before Turing, by recommendation by people who knew her academic achievements. She was a full participant in all but pay (she was payed as a Linguist in spite of only speaking English, because “female cryptographer” was not a possibility). She became Deputy Head of Hut 8 (where the Enigma machine was) in 1944. Turing did ask her in marriage and try to pull out because he was too gay for it, but she didn’t get upset: she said she suspected it and she proposed to keep the marriage and to be his beard.

ough look at me doing traditional again