Notices by Alice Dubiel 🔬💉🦠😷🌬☮️ (odaraia@mastodon.green)

We can adapt models from Serbian struggle, test them in our own environments and see what can effectively challenge our oppressors. Impressive student and educators organizing for near general strike against corruption of government infrastructure programs. Labor is power.
#Serbia #NoviSad

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/2/23/the-protests-in-serbia-are-historic-the-world-shouldnt-ignore-them

More criminalizing of protest, this time against a corporate critic who identified power seizures against democracy.
#oped
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/13/elon-musk-tesla-takedown-protest

Here is a recording of an interview and audience questions of my Congressional Representative Pramila Jayapal with Mehdi Hasan on Zeteo. I'm not sure whether you can access it (I'm a subscriber), but if you can, you get why we appreciate her. She is thoughtful, progressive, strategic and energetic.
#DNCFail #Progressives #Jayapal #Seattle #CivilDisobedience
https://zeteo.com/p/i-think-we-are-leaderless-democratic?r=ct3l&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

@MatWright I’m sorry. It’s no better in Seattle.

@rodhilton from what we hear from car and rocket workers, they’re ignoring him and the units receive federal funding to keep going. The intent of killing/maiming the bird site, in my opinion, has been to destroy/subvert on the ground protest organizing, namely #BLM #Palestinesolidarity #ImmigrantRights #ClimateAction #WomensRights #GenderRights It’s no accident that Mr Apartheid’s major motives are #misogyny #AntiIntellectualism and #racism.

Great example of how monopolistic capitalism is not about making people’s lives, or anyone else’s, better. Also closing warehouses in Quebec contradicts the lie that oligarchs are job creators. Amazon’s model is about siphoning community health and wealth through supply control, the plantation. Self-determination through worker control is the path to liberation.
#Quebec #Amazon #shipping #union #monopoly #capitalism

https://c.im/@msbellows/113872987704711658

https://globalnews.ca/news/10971767/amazon-canada-closes-warehouses-quebec/

Fascinating analysis. Another group of workers appearing ripe for organizing. Haven’t read even half the comments, but thoughtful responses, making the article a window into a world that is a potential force in Seattle.
#RTOmandates #RTOfiring #RTOlayoff #managementfailures #organizing #DemocracyInTheWorkplace #union
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/12/companies-issuing-rto-mandates-lose-their-best-talent-study/

@glynmoody George W Bush used to call this a “do-over” in some kind of infantilised vision of the privilege owed him.

@TarkabarkaHolgy Thanks for the advice. Mutual aid and clever humorous projects help with pacing. Liberation is a process of multiple approaches. Despite sadistic pleasures of the oppressors, they wouldn’t be trying so hard if #BLM hadn’t been so in their faces. Remember, plumbing and sewers require maintenance.
#avoidburnout

Slideshow of process work in my studio, Planet Art. The installation is The Lay of the Land: Glacial Biocenosis, Museum of Northwest Art, 2018-2019, Surge exhibition. Scrolls are acrylic mixed media on digitized historic topographic maps of North Cascades glaciers. There are 3 posts in my blog; the first from 2018: https://www.planetart.space/the-lay-of-the-land-glacial-biocenosis-update/
#climatechange #landscape #SkagitRiver #NorthCascades #NationalPark #glacialmelts #glacialtill #glaciers #MuseumofNorthwestArt #SCSC #Surge #installation

More hospital woes in US healthcare system as private equity firms siphon fiscal resources, leaving hospital infrastructure to rot. These firms hate the ACA because it thwarts the acceleration of their profiteering. IMO time to socialize hospitals instead of only the losses.
#healthcase #hospitals #privateequity #SenatorMarkey
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/10/17/private-equity-steward-hospital-bankruptcy/

Citibank now dictates police in NYC to arrest artists. Fascists operate in broad daylight. https://www.democracynow.org/2024/8/9/headlines/climate_activist_arrested_as_he_was_performing_bach_piece_in_nyc_public_plaza
#censorship #musicforprotest #defundthepolice #ClimateCrisis ##BachForClimateAction #EricAdams

Two organizers on Palestinian rights and the uncommitted movement advocate for platform basics at the Democratic National Convention. Demand for ceasefire is mainstream. Harris should support permanent ceasefire and weapons embargo. Other Biden residue to go include leftovers from Trump admin: Abraham accords (Israel and Saudi Arabia), settlement products trade labels and blocking UN representation.

https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/kamala-harris-gaza-policy-pressure/

Mayor #Harrell and the new City Council are attempting a massive expansion of surveillance technologies in #Seattle These reckless opponents of #privacy and community safety want
Closed Circuit Television Cameras (#CCTV), Acoustic Gunshot Location System (#AGLS) aka ShotSpotter and Real Time Crime Center (#RTCC). Seattle residents have until the end of February to say: No to Surveillance City. The link below includes links to council and mayor, more information.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TE6Ucbc3Y_ntqfhlQ0hGmvDlmjLP-GDTIlKcONbE6Bo/edit?usp=sharing

Amazing . Protestors blocked traffic with their cars on #GoldenGateBridge may have thrown their keys into the bay. #ceasefire #Gaza #Netanyahu is a war criminal.

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-francisco/protesters-block-the-golden-gate-bridge/3453856/