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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

1 year

this is why we say cops aren't workers, cops are strike breakers

Grad Employees' Org UMich

@geo3550

1 year

BREAKING: @UMich president docks pay, sends cops on picketing grad workers (Full press release below 📣)

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Steven Lazarov

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6 months

self-immolation, like a riot, is an experience of exhaustion & beyond judgement—it isn’t a tactic or strategy to be evaluated in the same way a tornado isn’t We don’t judge a tornado but we do study the development of pressure which lead to it’s emergence

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Steven Lazarov

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1 year

8.5% of France's working age adults are on general strike US equivalent would be 18,000,000 on strike largest US strike to date was 400,000 workers in the United Mine Workers of America Strike in 1946 those 400k striking workers represented .02% of the 141 million population

More Perfect Union

@MorePerfectUS

1 year

French unions called for a general strike today. And the people responded. Over 200 demos were held in the country, with upwards of 3.5 million on strike across the country. In Paris alone unions estimate that 800,000 people turned out. 🧵

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

2 years

How are DSAers not completely embarrassed to support this guy, oof

Rep. Jamaal Bowman Ed.D.

@JamaalBowmanNY

2 years

Had to use my principal voice to tell @POTUS how much I enjoyed his State of the Union 😊

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

1 year

University of Michigan is the first major university to put its accreditation & reputation at risk by issuing false grades in order to break a strike & continue to pay poverty wages to graduate workers

Santa Ono

@SantaJOno

1 year

University of Michigan will be the first major university to offer a custom AI platform for its entire community. Just in time for the start of the fall semester, ITS is releasing a suite of custom GenAI tools unlike anything currently offered in higher education, providing our

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

1 year

would a cop union not cross a picket line? refuse to arrest workers? of course not bc cops are a weapon of the state & capital, breaking strikes is their job

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

5 years

a poem from @ilya_poet for Memorial Day & every other day

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

1 year

uhh not being able to pay one's individual bills is a lot a lot a lot a lot different than going from city to city to city absolutely destroying public education

Gregory Royal Pratt

@royalpratt

1 year

Brandon Johnson spent weeks accusing Paul Vallas of financial mismanagement. Now Johnson is facing questions about his failure to pay water bills on time, a late-breaking embarrassment. Here’s our story

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

3 years

arguing against Defund or Abolition bc it doesn't poll well is hilarious & also pathetic: it asks us to reflect the backwards politics of ppl we need to convince as if abolitionists in the 1850s should've dropped their work bc abolishing slavery was deeply unpopular

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

2 years

We’ll need to do this occupation & disabling everywhere all of the time w this level of commitment if we are going to confront already-ongoing, not-forthcoming climate collapse

Ill Will

@illwilleditions

2 years

Yesterday 200 people invaded and disabled the Lafarge cement plant of La Malle in Bouc-Bel-Air in the Bouches-du-Rhône.

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@stevenlazarov

2 years

huh so weird they'd close libraries when UC jus invested $2 billion in real estate why would an institution of higher learning be more interested in developing real estate than developing libraries?

Berkeleyside

@berkeleyside

2 years

UC Berkeley will close 3 libraries amid shrinking budget

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

2 years

It’s shocking to see the UC bargaining team justify bargaining against itself based on the idea that “UC said they’ll never move on ___” as if the employer bargains in good faith and tells the truth abt their motivations and breaking points

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

1 year

Now there is a fuckin headline University of Michigan is fabricating grades for students of striking instructors, emails show Whether it will matter to anyone is another story, the uni is arrogant & operates in broad daylight & depends on a docile disconnected distracted ppl

Andrea Cristina 🇵🇷

@AndreaCr1stina

1 year

I'll never get over how the university can just flat out lie, claiming that they aren't doing this. They're claiming not to have set a house on fire while holding the throwing the match in front of your face, and expect everyone to go with it.

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

4 years

@jorie_graham @Vanessa_ABee I don’t think it’s BS to say Joe Biden is completely inadequate to the demands of the political moment (race health care climate economy). Task forces are the new “we’re changing the platform” to try to make you feel seen, while protecting capitalism & never actually do anything

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

1 year

A fairly condescending & infantalizing pov on rank & file ability to think & discuss their own living & working conditions a ton of work here to make implication there is some force or manipulation but the arg crumbles under the weight: this is ppl engaging in open discussion

Sean Orr

@SeanOrrMKE

1 year

Nobody has the right to tell our coworkers “Hey, I know better about your conditions than you do. Do what I say.” Groups like this don’t believe in workers figuring out this world for themselves. They see us as pieces for them to play with.

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

2 years

The single most important narrative we need to interrupt: the university is a virtuous site of knowledge production The university is a lie: it’s a credential factory that runs on exploitation & oppression, poverty & debt There is no such thing as good faith bargaining w them

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

@KeeangaYamahtta

2 years

For any of you that thought the academy was some sacrosanct space to idle about & contemplate the meaning of life, pls wake the fuck up. It is a workplace with bosses and workers. This flex is about power and their efforts to break the will of the workers on campus.

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@stevenlazarov

1 year

alt text added!

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

1 year

this cant be real brad pitt as jean fuckin paul fuckin sartre???? of all ppl

Giovanni Rolla

@halterofilosofo

1 year

First pics of Brad Pritt as Jean Paul Sartre and Eva Green as Simone Beauvoir in upcoming biopic

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

8 months

1-5 100% wrong 1. Colonialism is a form of fascism 2. American imperialism forms a vast network of functional colonies 3. Palestine lives in an apartheid produced by US proxy state Israel 4. Authoritarianism is always fascism 5. Biden is an authoritarian, every US president is

Will Stancil

@whstancil

8 months

1. Colonialism isn’t fascism 2. America doesn’t have a large network of colonies 3. Palestine DEFINITELY isn’t an American colony 4. Authoritarianism also isn’t usually fascism 5. Biden isn’t any kind of authoritarian 6. This entire discourse is indefensibly absurd

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

4 years

seems like a gross mischaracterization given @CTULocal1 's democratic process where the rank & file still have to review & assess, it also allows the mayor to then blame teachers for "blowing it up" when it was never secured in the first place

Gregory Royal Pratt

@royalpratt

4 years

A smiling Mayor Lori Lightfoot announces that in-person learning will return to Chicago Public Schools this week

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

2 years

Maybe the problem is not purity but trying to inhabit a place thats our class enemies home & is antagonistic to socialism Maybe the problem is the corrosive idea we need for building opportunistic coalitions that “prove” we don’t actually care about building socialism

DSA North Star ✴️🌹

@DSANorthStar

2 years

Nevada DSA took over the Dems, but didn't run it successfully, and decided it was a waste of time. Perhaps we should figure this bit out first before starting our own small, pure, workers party? At least convince people we can build coalitions?

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

3 years

Apparently Miss Universe contestants from Greece, Morocco, Barbados, Laos, Malaysia & Indonesia know what Bowman & much of DSA do not: you don't fight an apartheid state by engaging, supporting, validating its existence -- this is the currency of settlerism

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

2 years

This is one of the most uncomradely things I’ve ever read by a supposed union organizer, astonishing somehow the ppl who say “we can’t wait, we need relief now, we have the power now” are the ppl depicted as privileged silver spoon trust funders who don’t need immediate relief

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

11 months

from Leftists to fascists, the concept of violence most universally circulates today to signify "power I don't like" the work is to get past the signifier & get into the ways in which "'violence" circulates to naturalize, justify & explain other violences in advance

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

@OlufemiOTaiwo

11 months

the world would be better off if it had more actual, committed, principled pacifists. but I suspect that what we have instead are mostly people who believe that violence is only the legitimate province of some people, and what is morally required of everyone else is submission

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

2 years

yr personal situation is not actually a good justification for how you vote on a union contract, it shows that there’s something p crucial you’ve missed abt being in a union This is a toxic vestige of individualism & a major barrier to making solidarity & collective action

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

1 year

No louder expression that UM & the uni today is in fact a credential factory whose main purpose, despite facades constructed to the contrary, is 1) pumping out grades & diplomas, not producing knowledge or justice 2) in the process, producing new gen of fearful debtors

Grad Employees' Org UMich

@geo3550

1 year

Some dpts are planning to submit straight As for students of striking GSIs. They justify this strike-breaking move by saying it's fair for students. Not only does this violate GSIs' academic freedom, it's also WORSE for students, as it makes a Fall strike more necessary & likely

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

2 years

It’s absurd that anyone out there thinks that universities don’t have the $$ to end the graduate worker poverty that they create

Caroline Luce

@LuceCaroline

2 years

48,000 of your academic workers just went on strike because of their deep rent burden and you turn around and do this @UCPrezDrake ? The contempt @UofCalifornia shows for its students, it’s workforce, and the communities where it’s campuses are located is shameful

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

2 years

Increases were won in the short term but what internal damage has UAW done to longer term health of these unions, to the possibility of making solidarity when so many are left behind & clearly hurting by the undemocratic process An injury to one is an injury to all

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

1 year

How you continue to call yrself a socialist is shocking to me This is not democratic behavior, zero respect for the rank & file

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

1 year

It is indeed “negative” 90% of PhDs go into alt-ac work but that outcome is a structural failure & a symptom we should pay attention to Structurally, the PhD was made for tenure track jobs, but turned into a place where uni’s got a ton of cheap labor

Kate Cooper

@kateantiquity

1 year

Part of what is broken in the humanities is that we see it as *negative* that 90% of PhDs go out into the world beyond the academy to contribute game-changing insights. These innovators are not ‘failures’ of the system; they are, by far, its most valuable contribution to society.

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

1 year

What a deceitful message, hard to believe anyone takes them seriously.. Love to see 3550 stay firm at $38k, refusing to buy into “good faith bargaining” which means how can the employer make us bargain against ourself We need to be confident abt our power & what we deserve

Grad Employees' Org UMich

@geo3550

1 year

Despite the grade strike, this email from the Provost was so poorly written & researched that our GSIs had to give feedback. It makes many blatantly untrue claims. To improve, McCauley must understand how HR's low-ball offers & bad faith bargaining have forced grads to strike.

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

2 years

jus tuned in and brandon johnson is absolutely annihilating vallas who has generally come across as evasive & slimy

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

1 year

How callous & cruel is @PaulVallas ? look no further than his "homelessness plank" "we must recognize that chronic homelessness is almost never simply an issue of housing. It is more often a consequence of the confluence of personal behavioral and environmental factor"

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

1 year

Wow this is shocking & foolish To go back to work & suspend a strike w/o TAs & hasn’t even gone to membership for ratification Exactly the kind of business unionism we need root out to make the bigger changes we need to make

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

4 years

don’t typically like normalize ______ posts but we need to normalize openly fucking hating terrible people neutralizing anger as a revolutionary weapon is one of the most significant violences we need to struggle against—it’s not a virtue to show compassion to a fascist

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

2 years

i detest the idea of this thought but finding a quiet place to be as the world ends is prob a better investment of love & time & space than trying to save a world no one cares to save

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

4 years

🤯 imagine attacking an 80 year old man in a parka & mittens for privilege & not the ruling class decked out in outfits they’ll wear for a day & would pay multiple months of rent for most folks—identity politics at its most warped

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

2 years

The idea that a NO vote is anti union is bonkers—but these are the same ppl who think good faith bargaining is when you allow the employer to force you to bargain against yrself & trade the well being of some members for the continued danger of other members

solidarity.

@ucbsolidarity

2 years

rank and file organizers across the UC have written an open letter against an anti-union no-vote campaign. read it, sign on, and let's keep building solidarity to fight the boss.

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

2 years

“We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things.” Marx

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@stevenlazarov

1 year

just in case!!!

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

2 years

I haven't said anything here but I should: I have a chapbook coming out, acab yearning the final proofs before release on 12/6! Trying to do some readings over break & in the coming months: if you’d like to read together or know any bookstores/venues to approach around Midwest

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

10 months

the idea that direct actions are "individualistic" is... hilarious, as if a collective acting together is "individual" when it doesn't involve enough other groups? while an individual phone banking in rote reproduction of a campaign with no critical lens is "collective"

Anti Nate Silver

@AntiNateSilver

10 months

one of the first things i learned when moving from the disorganized left into DSA is that most of the flashier, individualistic ways of confronting power (eg, direct action) were always way less effective than mundane modes of action done in concert with others (eg, phonebanks)

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@stevenlazarov

1 year

I don’t want better Dems, I want socialism & so I work toward socialism

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@SocDoneLeft

1 year

Voting in general elections is the *bare minimum*. If you want better Dems, you have to beat centrists with progressive & leftist Dems. And if you wanna keep them honest, you need organized workers that can demand real progress. Organize and win power.

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

2 years

this is their idea of 'discipline' & 'commitment'.. being able to support someone who not only does not make socialism more possible, Bowmans of the world work actively against the socialist project & in fact makes socialism less possible

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@stevenlazarov

2 years

oh dear god the end days are truly upon us

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

3 years

"meeting people where they're at" does not mean accepting where they're at & tailing their reactionary beliefs -- that's not political leadership, that's opportunism, reformism, cowardice

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

1 year

comrade orcas on the hunt for bezos

Reuters

@Reuters

1 year

Killer whales wreck boat in latest attack off Spain

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

8 months

Oh you mean solidarity brain, an injury to one is an injury to all, sounds p cool

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@stevenlazarov

2 years

If you’re a Marxist that’s not an abolitionist you ain’t a Marxist

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

2 years

a major difficulty in union organizing is the same difficulty in broader political organizing: liberals

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@stevenlazarov

2 years

When your union hires a PR firm to shield your Bargaining Team from accountability, there might be a problem

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

1 year

1st Day of Bargaining @IllinoisStateU @ISU_GWU The cause of labor is the hope of the world ✊✊ #redbirds #ProfessionalsNotApprentices #ISUPaysPovertyWages

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

1 year

When are we going to start organizing mass solidarity trips to converge on Atlanta?

Lake Eater

@lakeeater

1 year

anyway, Stop Cop City. This is /the/ defining struggle over the legacy of the 2020 uprisings. That's what it's about. The state sees it that way and so should we. If you're anywhere left of the dems and plan to be politically active in the next decade, this concerns you directly

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

3 years

Heavy DSA mood amid the talk of expelling Jamaal Bowman for his betrayal of the Palestinian ppl—the failure of reformism is made even more stark by the Rittenhouse acquittal from Lukacs, The Actuality of Revolution from Lenin: A Study on the Unity of his Thought

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

1 year

when someone say you're hurting the union by criticizing leadership they are in fact the ones hurting the union

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

2 years

Imagine being against working folks coming together to make their lives better than they can by themselves if you need any evidence, this is a graph a third grade could understand but I guarantee these geniuses will find a way to miss the point

Eeners

@ReneeRecruit

2 years

@Cura_Ut_Valeas1 @CPD1617Scanner Explains it.

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@stevenlazarov

1 year

the @UMich Regents resort to demeaning the 60% increase without accting for the fact that 60% jus happens to be the amt of $$, ~$13000 if I remember right, @geo3550 is under the cost of living in AA 60% sounds big but 60% is justice to make up for UM’s poverty wages

FOX 2 Detroit

@FOX2News

1 year

Striking U-M grad student instructors sound off on alleged grade scandal to regents

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@stevenlazarov

1 year

so disgusting but expected from these admin ghouls they're paid, they're whole job is to make sure workers on campus get paid the least possible wages

Appodlachia

@appodlachia

1 year

The condescension in the WVU General Counsel’s voice after a faculty member asks a reasonable question about people losing their jobs is so gross.

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@stevenlazarov

1 year

Pres. Santo Ono graced my replies w his fresh burner acct

Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

1 year

University of Michigan is the first major university to put its accreditation & reputation at risk by issuing false grades in order to break a strike & continue to pay poverty wages to graduate workers

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@stevenlazarov

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White & white people, race at all, are a technology of settler colonialism & capitalism—not the other way around Definitional identitarian take: treats race as if it is a real thing not an inorganic creation that’s lead to actual material violence

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@whstancil

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It was white people. Really, across the economic spectrum, although often the most violent opposition to integration came from the white working class

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Idk seems p concessionary to drop a core demand 7 days in & then 22k off yr demands while the employer hardly moves & you have the largest university strike in us history going

Bodacious Bayes

@GraphicalModel

2 years

Proud of UC grad students. In the last couple years, organized 17k new people, lead a huge strike, won huge concessions from UC, built a participatory union where a majority of both ASE and GSR participated in contract votes. What a exemplary of the best of the labor movement ❤️

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@stevenlazarov

1 year

super exciting, most immediately eager for this one!! honestly the most exciting combination of letters i've looked at in a while "the relation of value judgments, production for value, and practical reason, which together compose the topic of a forthcoming book on communism"

Red May Seattle

@redmayseattle

1 year

Red May 2023 Full Schedule is now LIVE! Check out all our events and speakers on our website:

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@stevenlazarov

11 months

"Settlers always think they're defending themselves. It's why they build forts on other peoples' land" Fred Moten

Mohammed El-Kurd

@m7mdkurd

11 months

What is happening in occupied Palestine is a response to weeks and months and years of daily Israeli military invasions into Palestinian towns, killings of Palestinians, and the very fact that millions of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are besieged under Israeli blockade.

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The existence of Boards of Regents, Boards of Trustees is wholly unacceptable & the epicenter of all suffering, poverty & debt on campus They decide how much $$ & where it goes They guard the $17,000,000,000 endowment that exists only to grow not support the ppl of UM

UM Public Affairs

@UMPublicAffairs

1 year

. @UMich 's #UMichRegents call GEO's unruly protest Thursday evening wholly unacceptable. Read the full statement here:

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

2 years

If true, this is precisely why 1) sustained strikes are necessary 2) undergrads possess incredible solidarity power 3) direct actions get the goods 4) you don't fall into trap of "good faith" that whittles away demands by making unions bargain against themselves

The New School

@TheNewSchool

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@mattyglesias @meaganmday Can you explain what you think these points of agreement are? & why they matter more than the disagreements?

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@stevenlazarov

3 years

a lot of teaching rn is simply avoiding marginal increases in trauma & potentially intervening to help make small pockets of possibility, solidarity, release, respite for folks in our guilt of not being able to be here or there & where we don't know & it's happening to all of us

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@stevenlazarov

2 years

this. is. not. politics.

Matt McDermott

@mattmfm

2 years

You win Katie Porter. You win.

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@stevenlazarov

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having a really tough chronic health life rn.. when i'm in a flare it's so hard for me to even leave the house bc i feel like i am a monster harming people by forcing them to have to look at me, the skin condition has a hypervisibility that my Crohn's disease does not

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@stevenlazarov

1 year

absolutely incredible stuff here folks gimme a whole book of gems like this

Adrien Ecoffet

@AdrienLE

1 year

Ah yes, capitalism, the economic system famously based on not paying for labor.

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@stevenlazarov

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“I was there” is such a pathetically desperate rhetorical maneuver expressing the accurate self perception of the Vallas campaign that ppl do not believe him bc he’s demonstrated over his lifetime that he does not deserve to be believed

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@stevenlazarov

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reminded too of Hartman, here re: a revolutionary mourning

fuck “latinidad” 🇵🇸

@ytnessisdeath

11 months

Benjamin reminds us of the power of mourning, of summoning our dead: the oppressed class appears “as the avenger that completes the task of liberation in the name of generations of the downtrodden.”

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@stevenlazarov

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we have more than enough food to feed every single person on earth they literally destroyed food during the pandemic rather than give it to millions of hungry people

More Perfect Union

@MorePerfectUS

1 year

Republicans in North Dakota have killed a bill to provide free school lunch to kids in low-income families. “I can understand kids going hungry, but is that really the problem of the school district? Is that the problem of the state of North Dakota?" said Sen. Mike Wobbema.

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@stevenlazarov

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i bet it takes an elephant dose of ambien to help you HR scumbags sleep at night "continues to raise issues that involve others outside their union" why don't you tell us what those issues are? oh you don't want to? bc @UMich is covering up a prof's sexual abuse

U-M Human Resources

@UMichHR

1 year

U-M negotiators focus on coming to tentative agreements for the GEO contract, while GEO continues to raise issues that involve others outside their union and cannot be bargained for by GEO.

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

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It’s painful, but not surprising, to watch union bureaucracy crush all the power & enthusiasm of a strike & turn a confident historic effort into a negotiation where the barg team bargained against itself, suckered into a good faith the employer will never live up to

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

1 year

I’m convinced there’s not a human being at the wheel The voice is devoid of any warmth, any fleshiness, anything that comes close to even being mistaken for a thought or feeling a human could have

UM Public Affairs

@UMPublicAffairs

1 year

. @UMich officials have informed graduate student instructors and graduate student staff assistants that employees who participate in a strike this fall will be subject to replacement for the entire semester. Read more here: #URecord

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

1 year

How abt you jus pay @geo3550 for the labor they do to produce yr incredibly wealthy university that’s sitting on $17,000,000,000+

U-M Human Resources

@UMichHR

1 year

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

2 years

Release day! acab yearning is out in the world ❤️ Purchase:

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

3 years

Comrades are so petrified to lose the meager electoral gains they exaggerate that they'll do anything, sacrifice any principle in order to "build power" thru top down elections

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

2 years

solidarity isn't transactional, it doesn't exist w/i a world of debits & credits; you can't go to a vending machine & make a rational choice to purchase solidarity; you can't go to Netflix & queue up some solidarity; I don't give you solidarity bc I owe it to you

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

1 year

reading a poem a student said is the “worst thing they’ve ever written” & it includes the incredible passage “Me and Gregg been smoking redge & mowing hedge since 5th Grade at St Bernadette’s” Ppl’re so used to thinkin writing in their voice is against the rules but it’s gold

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

4 years

There are love poems (all poems if they are poems) & then there are love-love poems

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

1 year

When you pay workers 60% below the standard of living, news flash you're gonna be the one doing all the moving

UM Public Affairs

@UMPublicAffairs

1 year

. @UMich is ready, willing and eager to bargain with GEO over a compensation plan, but it requires movement from both sides. Real bargaining requires real compromise.

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

1 year

there is no such thing as community-based policing bc the police exist to break all forms of community & solidarity Safety for whom? Vallas wants to increase the police force as an active occupation force in everyday Chicago life

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

4 years

💯 it actually annihilates the possibility of becoming a better person

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

4 years

@oliviagatwood Is it from The Black Maria? There’s one in there called “& when it happens” buts it’s an untitled first line as title

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

1 year

Got another klee angel 😍 This one is “serving a small breakfast” (Adam Teken @ Family Tattoo, Chicago)

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

3 years

everything bows before the feet of the electoral patina, it must be shiny & inoffensive

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

2 years

What’s the UC barg teams argument for ending before a grade strike, leaving all that power on the table? Do they not think there is rank n file will?

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

2 years

i'm not abstentionist i jus think that if you engage the democratic party the beginning point is always affirming socialism, not how much of socialism do i need to hide so they let me in & i can build a coalition that does not have a socialist heart or arc

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

2 years

haha sure bud whatever you say

DSA North Star ✴️🌹

@DSANorthStar

2 years

If Marx were alive today he would be in DSA and a member of North Star.

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

1 year

wow thank you! so helpful for countering employer args abt our value & ofc fucked up it's gotta be written at all esp love this part, we saw in the UC strike how good faith concessions are not met & fn to make us bargain against self, there's no good faith with an employer

Eva Albalghiti, “civil” “engineer”

@shequestration

1 year

Finally worked up the nerve to post this deeply unhinged document I prepared for @UM_CEE as part of my @geo3550 communications. Now that my name is on my Twitter (part of my ongoing effort to be less Cowardly and more Based) there's no reason to hide. Please check my math!

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

1 year

Super embarrassing to shill for @UMich so they can continue to exploit @geo3550 grad workers & pay poverty wages when they have $17,000,000,000–that’s 17 billion dollars—jus sitting there You ppl should be ashamed of yourselves & what you do for a living

UM Public Affairs

@UMPublicAffairs

1 year

Answers to frequently asked questions about GEO's strike can be found here:

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

2 years

Grad workers are a waste product the body of the university extracts revenue & production for as cheap as possible & shits us out when it has done w us, w no concern for our situation except if it can still squeeze out a lil more value out of us as post docs or ntt

Erin Bartram

@erin_bartram

2 years

The system was broken when 20% of PhDs got jobs. It was broken when 30% did. No percentage will be too low because it ultimately doesn't matter to institutions what happens to their grad students after they finish. They have served most of their purpose already.

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

2 years

how the sausage of business unionism got made

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

1 year

so excited! I'll be on a panel Sunday Sept 3rd at Socialism Conference in Chicago (9/1-9/4) along with folks from Rutgers & UC Make plans to come out, so so many great talks & discussions—the line up is incredible w Angela Davis, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, among many many others!!

Socialism Conference

@socialismconf

1 year

The schedule for Socialism 2023 is now up on our website! Check it out and share it with your comrades, co-workers and friends:

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

2 years

actually *not* a great thing bet if we looked at the demo of these ppl who applied to Duke, one of the most elite universities in the world, it'd be largely composed of 1) PhD legacies 2) the economically privileged 3) ppl who have a iron clad idea of their purpose in undergrad

Pengpeng Xiao

@pengpeng_xiao

2 years

My jaws keep dropping as I go through 70 PhD applicant files. People w/ 2 coauthored papers & an interesting solo writing sample don’t even make it to the top 10 in my pile. The level of knowledge, research experience & passion these kids bring to the table is just remarkable! 🤩

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Steven Lazarov

@stevenlazarov

1 year

grad unionists... we have a mtg w the vp of finance who's gonna tell us abt the uni funding, how the $$ circulates (they want to show us they don't have $$) any good questions to ask? or docs to ask for? have been diggin for docs but the public-facing stuff has limits..

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