Brewing Solidarity

What some are calling “the great resignation” is more like “the great upgrade”, a much needed adjustment that centers worker’s rights and wellbeing. Around the country, workers are rising up, getting organized and demanding more of their employers. And it’s working. We’re seeing some of the biggest pay hikes in years.

But we’ve got a long way to go. Corporate greed continues to hid behind inflation. Starbucks quarterly profits jumped 31% to $816 million. Google's parent company's profits jumped 36%. Exxon Mobil earned $8.9 billion in the 4th quarter of the year. G.M. reported a 55% jump to record annual earnings for 2021.

Profits aren't down. Corporate greed is just up.

Building a wellbeing that works for everyone means challenging the profits over people mandate that fuels capitalism…and challenging it where ever we are. Toxic capitalism isn’t just happening in corporate spaces, it’s happening in yoga studios, non-profits, foundations and small businesses. It’s happening everywhere.

We must practice what we want to become and create the conditions where everyone can thrive.

Kerri (she/her)

Art by @bemba.pr

1. No Attack on Voting Rights Is Too Racist for This Supreme Court. The court’s decision to let Alabama’s new redistricting map remain in place opens the door to a season of racist gerrymandering. [click to tweet]

2. If we are to accept degrowth in wealthy nations as the only sane and just response to the deterioration of the planetary biosphere, how should we reorganize care and reimagine health? A must read for the future we all deserve. [click to tweet]

3. Mass media and policy makers are pushing for a return to pre‐COVID times while trying to normalize a staggering death toll. There is nothing normal about one million people dead from COVID. [click to tweet]

4. The critics of affirmative action don’t care about equality — quite the opposite. If they did, they’d want to get rid of legacy advantages and racist standardized testing practices. End Affirmative Action for Rich White Students. [click to tweet]

5. Roxane Gay on consequence culture, writing in the age of the internet, and, of course, Joe Rogan. She explains to Jon why she’s been spending less time on Twitter and lays out exactly why she believes people are so awful online. [click to tweet]

Unions are more popular than they have been in decades because people recognize the power of collective action. Despite corporate efforts to hoard profits and resist unions, we know that we’re more powerful when we organize.

All of us—Black, white and brown—do better when we unite to have a say in what happens on the job and in our communities. When working people join together in a union, we gain power in numbers, a seat at the table and a real voice on the job. By standing together we can raise wages and have more money to invest in a more secure future for our kids.

If you want a country that works for all of us, not just the greedy few: Join our fight to win #UnionsForAll

Art by @adriennedanielle_arts

Capitalism doesn’t just exploit us. It blames us. It says that our failures are our fault. But we are burned out because the hustle created by this system is not for humans, it’s for machines. We have to move different if we want different. Resting is one way that we resist capitalism. In Octavia Raheem’s new book, Pause. Rest. Be. she says that our most powerful response to the chaos of the world is not to push through but to lean back and rest. Rest is the gateway to our imagination and the more beautiful future we all deserve. Rest is resistance.

Art by @subversive.thread

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