Month: September 2018
Guardian journalists react with outrage to Canary editor invite as Black History Month speaker | The SKWAWKBOX
Mostly-white journalists at the supposedly liberal Guardian newspaper have reacted with outrage at the invitation of The Canary’s Kerry-Anne Mendoza to deliver the National Union of Journalists’ Claudia Jones Memorial Lecture for Black History Month, an email disclosed by the Huffington Post’s Mark di Stefano has revealed. di Stefano included details of the email in…
— Read on skwawkbox.org/2018/09/27/guardian-journalists-react-with-outrage-to-canary-editor-invite-as-black-history-month-speaker/
Fast Food Shutdown 04/10 Reaction
The IWW Couriers Network has made a call out for food courier drivers to take action on 04 October in solidarity with McDonald’s, TGI Fridays and Wetherspoons workers going on strike:
Lauren McCourt, a Mcstriker and BFAWU gave a response on behalf of the McStrike:
words in the night
as i was leaning from my 9th floor balcony taking this picture i was aware of words being said over & over again in the street below
for a while i thought it was a rap or someone performing
but they were getting louder & i realised that the man who was walking below my balcony – i could hardly make out what he was like in the deep twilight, but seemed to be wearing a long coat (the temperature has just dropped dramatically) – was saying over & over again as he walked up the hill
in a rhythm which emphasised each word individually:
‘assume – nothing’
‘assume – nothing’
‘assume – nothing’
as if he was saying the word ‘assume’ individually & the word ‘nothing’ couldn’t be assumed to be following it
as if he was trying to drive the thought into his skull
call a priest
‘Hip Priest’ by The Fall comes on the shuffle as i change the bed-clothes – just want to have fresh after being ill & coughing so much gunk onto the old ones
trying the put a duvet cover on listening to ‘Hip Priest’ is like performing some strange new dance
wave the arms & shake
wave the arms & shake
Disaster Capitalists and no-deal Brexit – ducksoap
A disaster capitalist profits from abrupt and wide-ranging changes in a country. An example of such an abrupt change was the end of the Soviet Union. State control of public services in Russia ended when the Soviet Union ended. All the associated public infrastructure – buildings, land, vehicles and, crucially, all future income – was handed…
— Read on ducksoap.wordpress.com/2018/09/21/disaster-capitalists-and-no-deal-brexit/
Scarfolk
flakey pterodactyl
today i feel like a flakey pterodactyl with sleep on its wings
is it still prehistory ?
Poverty Crisis Worsened by Universal Credit.
” total number of people living in poverty is 14.2 million.”
Poverty, anybody could see with their own eyes, is growing.
I was struck, visiting my old homeland, Haringey, by this recently.
It was not so much that seeing the homeless people on the streets was a surprise – we have plenty in Ipswich. Though I must admit that, coming out of Wood Green Tube station, the sight of a geezer with a sleeping bag sprawled out in front of the ‘Spoons on Spouters’ Corner was unexpected.
It was that walking from there to Turnpike Lane most people looked, well, not well off.
Same pound shops, charity shops, though a Mall looked a bit more prosperous than ours.
This is the real London, not Made In Chelsea.
Bounds Green, where I grew up, is (wrote the Guardian in 2013 and it’s still true), is “ordinary north London, like wot even…
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Wetherspoons responds to Brighton workers strike ballot by bringing pay award forward. | Fast Food Rights
Last night, in a sign JD Wetherspoons is worried about the impact workers going on strike will have on their business, they told staff they are bringing forward their annual pay rise.
— Read on fastfoodrights.wordpress.com/2018/09/17/wetherspoons-responds-to-brighton-workers-strike-ballot-by-bringing-pay-award-forward/