Notices by Rebecca Brückmann (historleans@historians.social)

“#Amazon spent more than $3 million on anti-union consultants last year in its continuing effort to keep organized labor out of its delivery network, according to disclosures filed Saturday with the Labor Department.
The retail giant has been ringing up a large tab hiring “persuaders” who try to convince workers not to form unions. It doled out more than $14 million on such consultants last year as well”: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/amazon-anti-union-spending-2023_n_6606cd7ce4b07b59d64d0a42

WTF. https://bbc.com/news/business-68534703

And the people who are, truly, fed up with the status quo (which is a much larger and more diverse group than commonly acknowledged in NYT Midwest Diner stories): why is your first impulse to take a sharp right turn, then? Because, historically, that has worked out so well for laborers? You're not voting against your own interests, though, if your primary interest is white supremacy. That is an entirely rational decision if your priority is to keep "those people" further down than your.

Frankly, I am so done with media "explaining" the electoral successes of right-wing and fascist parties/candidates in many parts of this world as "people" being "fed up" with "the usual" politics. Really? Then how come, e.g., Black voters don't provide right-wing majorities, if it's all just about class related status quo? Could it actually mean that large sections of our societies harbor racist, homophobic, and antisemitic hate and really support authoritarianism? It's all so mysterious, innit.

Sometimes I wish that some people acknowledged the difference between "No one has worked on this really" and "I haven't read much about it." Especially when they try to lecture you on your own or someeone else's area of expertise and act as if it were an untouched wonderland when they're essentially columbusing. Le Sigh.

#InternationalWomensDay

Happy #BlackFriday with the magnificent Ida B. Wells-Barnett (and this quote is from "The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader").

@aral: I am sorry. The racism inherent in Western border regimes is nauseating.