John Solak puts up more points in anti-corruption crusade against Broome County Sheriff Akshar
https://johnsolak.substack.com/p/two-badges-one-client-list-sheriff
Another thing that doesn't work against fascism - posting as political action. "Rick Glass" has made a career out of being an online "radical" influencer, but in real life every project they touch is plagued by disorganization, leftist infighting, and directionless-ness. I know because I've experienced it first hand. I think leftists need to come to terms with the fact that all leftist influencers are harmful to left movements the same way other influencers distort every other field they touch - they are hopelessly shaped by the dynamics of social media companies and the needs of the attention capital.
A festival celebrating May Day (International Workers Day) this weekend, Saturday and Sunday.
Book sellers, workshops, speakers and panels on anarchist organizing, workers power, and liberation for all. Activities and enjoyment for all ages, and all welcome.
Another show at the Bundy Annex
Saturday May 25th 5pm
I should just start posting the Bundy's events calender but we ball. Excited for this show in particular.
Anyone else feel its pretty BS that you have to exploit the surplus value of labor of other workers in order to get a chance to retire as a worker? Sad!
April 14th 10am - 2pm 138 Baldwin St Johnson City
Free Repairs of: Appliances Clothes Bikes
A discussion with Ralf Ruckus, author of several books on social conflict, labor, migrant and gender rights in China.
Thursday April 11th 6pm Riot Act Books, 127 Main St, Bing
Tuesday April 16th 6:30 doors, music at 7pm Bundy Annex 129 Main St $10
April 20th, 12 Noon Riot Act Books 127 Main St, Bing
One of Latin America's most dynamic radical thinker, Raúl Zibechi, and translator/popular educator George Ygarza Quispe are stopping by Riot Act books at noon on April 20th to discuss a new work, Constructing Worlds Otherwise: Societies in Movement and Anticolonial Paths in Latin America. The book surveys the most marginalized voices across Latin America—feminists, the Indigenous, people of African descent, and inhabitants of urban favelas and rural towns—Zibechi introduces the Anglo world to a range of critical perspectives and new forms of struggle in Peru, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, and Bolivia. Constructing Worlds Otherwise comes at a time when the global left—struggling to expand its vision in an era of climate chaos and rising authoritarianism—finds itself at an impasse, desperate to animate and renew its critical imaginary.
Convenient that these AI companies are self-advocating for a slow down (but we still gotta be faster than china!) at the same time profitability issues, energy price hikes, and hostile political sentiment are starting to say the bill is due. I think we should be skeptical of these companies reasoning and advocate for real regulations that address the real harms of the industry and not doom posting fears of an skynet agentic takeover.