Un appel très important publié par @acrimed.bsky.social sur l'urgence démocratique en matière de médias.

(Très fier d'en être un des signataires)

✊ When you read "Occupation: Organizer", from @haymarketbooks.org, you contribute to building antifascist capacity.

💸 Like last year, I donated all my 2025 royalties (around $1k) to two orgs keeping up the fight against fascism and for liberation: @ocadchicago.bsky.social and @transupfrontil.com 💜

Je viens de publier un truc à ce sujet sur LinkedIn. Plus de place pour le faire qu'ici...

For the French out there: this is an Abbé Pierre sort of moment for the US

I cover some of the CSO history in "Occupation: Organizer" from @haymarketbooks.org but the definitive account of Chavez and the UFW and its deep contradictions is Frank Bardacke's "Trampling out the Vintage" that @versobooks.bsky.social put out some years ago.

Yet, the dreadful revelations about Chavez's abuse should not be seen as something of an anomaly,.

They are the radicalization of charismatic, gourou-like logics where gender-based violence plays a crucial role.

(On this topic, "Le prophète rouge" by @juliepagis.bsky.social is a must-read)

Throughout the life of the UFW, Chavez developed his own organizing repertoire, adding labor organizing, grape boycotts, religious/cultish symbolism and criticism-self-criticism type sessions (check out the Synanon org), and communal living to the IAF palette.

But CSO chapters were also steeped in IAF-style organizing. There was a stark division of labor between paid organizers and volunteer community leaders, with (mostly male) organizers being trained into organizing techniques that were never far from manipulation, intimidation and verbal abuse.

CSO organizing departed from classical IAF work bc it was a direct-membership org whose main building block was house meetings--having meetings at people's houses because it was more convenient and safer for people. It mostly focused on social services and voter registration, not labor organizing.

A farmworker, Chavez was hired as a CSO organizer in 1953. He was one of Alinsky's "ace organizers".

But in 1959 he left the IAF to work as fulltime staff for the national CSO. 3 yrs later he went on to organize agricultural workers in California, which led to the creation of the UFW in 1966.

UFW organizing came out of Saul Alinsky's attempts to build local groups through the Industrial Areas Foundation, founded in 1940.

In 1947 Alinsky hired Fred Ross to organize in California, particularly Mexican Americans. Ross developed the Community Service Organization as a vehicle for that.

🧵 on Cesar Chavez, gender-based violence and charismatic domination (TW)

In trying to make sense of the recent revelations Cesar Chavez's history of sexual abuse of several women, including Dolores Huerta and at least two minors, it's important to also look at where he came from organizing-wise :

Sign at the International Women's Day demonstration in Paris reading "hope is a discipline, Mariame Kaba"

At the International Women's Day demonstration in Paris today:

"Hope is a discipline", @prisonculture.bsky.social

Scolaire genre primaire et secondaire ? Parce que si la fac marche aussi, il y a un chouette papier de 2019 de Perrin et Gillis sur la manière dont l'expérience de l'enseignement supérieur favorise la participation politique au sens large

SIGNEZ et faites changer d’avis la Commission européenne ! SIGNEZ la pétition pour convaincre la Commission européenne de changer d'avis. L'initiative « My Voice, My Choice » pour un avortement sûr et accessible a reçu de mauvaises nouvelles. Nous avons obte...

Signez la pétition pour convaincre la Commission européenne de changer d’avis sur My voice, My choice. Des infos non officielles disent que la décision pourrait être négative. Le 26 février : il est encore temps qu’ils changent d’avis ! Signe & partage: sign.myvoice-mychoice.org/forms/europe...

Un professeur d’université sanctionné pour propos racistes propulsé sur une liste RN | Mediapart Sanctionné fin 2024 par l’université de Rouen pour des propos racistes, Pierre-Antoine Sprimont est aujourd’hui candidat sur la liste du Rassemblement national à Rouen. D’anciens étudiants témoignent…

Un nouvel épisode de la série "Tous les universitaires ne sont pas des gauchistes, loin de là"

(Devinez sa discipline? - il ya un petit piège)

(TW racisme et suicide)


www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...

Jeff Bezos just destroyed the climate reporting at one of the biggest papers in the country. Makes you think he doesn't really care about addressing climate change, right?

So what is he getting for his massive donations to many large climate related NGOs?

He knows. Do you?

Fascinating. Thanks @derekberes.bsky.social!

"Yoga" pops up over 1,800x in the Epstein files. Most of it just "I'm taking this class" stuff, but my god, whoever writes "you've been fed misinformation" before explaining yoga's "benefits" is 🤯

Une fiche d'information de début de semestre en anglais dit "When I graduate I would like become a yoga teacher"

Et ça y est : "prof de yoga" fait officiellement partie des possibles professionnels énoncés comme étant désirables dans les fiches de présentation de début de semestre.

Poke @pierrebat.cpesr.fr

Note the shift after Kilmar Abrego Garcia was deported

The ICE shootings are a tipping point Donald Trump's approval on immigration has collapsed 17 points since taking office, and support for abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement has swung 50 points since Sept. 2024.

Public opinion has shifted dramatically against the White House's approach to immigration enforcement, as captured in the rising % of adults who want to abolish ICE (now +12 among independents, per YouGov). Dems have a lot of leverage to push for reforms rn. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-imm...

À Minneapolis, l’arrestation de deux journalistes amplifie les colères La « petite désescalade » promise en début de semaine par le président Trump n’a pas duré longtemps à Minneapolis. L’arrestation de deux journalistes et celle de plusieurs militants ayant manifesté i…

À Minneapolis, l’arrestation de deux journalistes amplifie les colères. La « petite désescalade » promise par Trump n’a pas duré longtemps, stoppée par l’arrestation de deux journalistes et celle de militants ayant manifesté dans une église. www.mediapart.fr/journal/inte...

Must-read piece by @stephluce.bsky.social on the general strike in Minnesota and how to replicate it elsewhere

Minneapolis Fight Back w/ Emilia González Avalos, Greg Nammacher, JaNaé Bates Imari Featuring Emilia González Avalos, Greg Nammacher, and JaNaé Bates Imari on how Minneapolis achieved its fight back against ICE/Border Patrol occupation. A decade building aligned mass movements has ma...

New Dig: interview w/ organizers Emilia González Avalos, Greg Nammacher, and JaNaé Bates Imari on the Minneapolis fight back against ICE/Border Patrol occupation. Critical lessons on the importance of structure-based orgs/mass base plus flexibility amid crisis www.thedigradio.com/podcast/minn...

J'ai répondu aux questions de
@basta.media sur les mobilisations à Minneapolis et ailleurs aux États-Unis 👇

C'est en accès libre. Et surtout Basta! fait partie de ces médias indépendants qu'il est urgent et nécessaire de renforcer face à l'extrême droite.

Alors faites un don après la lecture !

"Abolish ICE" was submitted 9,200 times for Chicago's snowplow naming contest, records show. blockclubchi.co/3ZAnDTZ

It’s amazing how public servants (teachers, police, electeds, etc) across the country are required by law to have not only their identity but also their salaries made part of the public record but we are subsidizing this exception.

Free Ebooks: Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice an...

In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition.

We’ve also added a list of additional recommended reading:

@mickacorreia.bsky.social