Have you ever read a poem that just makes you be like “gorl wtf”? Because bruh.

Ignore those who claim "there's nothing we can do to stop COVID because nobody cares"

People want:
free vaccines
free tests
free masks
free health care
clean indoor air
long covid treatments
paid sick leave
remote work

Public health gets better by making things accessible

The world’s richest 1% have more wealth than the bottom 95% put together, according to @Oxfam.

There is no moral justification for this extraordinary level of inequality.

It's distorting politics, rigging our markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people.

Today in Labor History March 14, 1954: Salt of the Earth premiered. The film depicted the 1951 strike of Mexican-American workers at the Empire Zinc mine, in New Mexico. The film was one of the first to portray a feminist political point of view, particularly through Actress Rosaura Revueltas’s role as Esperanza Quintero. When the Company uses the new Taft-Hartley Act (which also bans General Strikes) to impose an injunction preventing the men from picketing, their wives go walk the picket line in their places. LGBTQ and labor activist Will Geer also played in the film. Writer Michael Wilson, director Herbert Biberman and producer Paul Jarrico had all been blacklisted for their alleged communist ties. Only 13 of the 13,000 theaters in the U.S. showed the film.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #SaltOfTheEarth #strike #union #generalstrike #lgbtq #TaftHartley #communism #feminism #MexicanAmerican #chicano #film #blacklist

Today in Labor History August 4, 1942: U.S. and Mexico began the Bracero Program to provide cheap Mexican labor to replace U.S. workers who were being sent to fight in World War II, and to replace the 500,000 Mexican workers who were deported during the Great Depression in order to mollify xenophobic demands for “white jobs.” The Bracero program also gave farm-owners an alternative to hiring Anglo farm workers who hadn’t been drafted, many of whom were affiliated with the radical IWW. The Bracero program promised decent and sanitary housing and a minimum wage, but these were generally ignored by employers. Additionally, the workers were often subjected to racist attacks. The abuses contributed to the development of the Chicano Movement, the United Farm Workers and other forms of activism.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #bracero #chicano #ufw #union #unitedfarmworkers #racism #xenophobia #ww2 #IWW #minimumwage

I want to write a literacy narrative. I’ve never written one, I don’t think.

I was rejected for an internal promotion even though I was the most qualified.

I later learned that the person hired was a friend of the hiring manager.

I got tired of office politics and started applying to other jobs.

Within a month, I found a much better job.

Three months later, my old company asked me to come back.

I told them, "No thanks."

Stop telling yourself you're not qualified, good enough, or worthy.

There's nothing as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong.

Update: It’s 3:30am and I’m at my kitchen table rereading “China Rich Girlfriend” because my sleeping schedule is fucked due to all the medications I’m taking and I’m realizing that I have 0 idea what I’m doing for this semester and my life is a play but It’ll be okay because Im hopeful that I’ll be back to my regularly scheduled cuteness soon enough. (This is the optimism talking. Don’t ask what my inner pessimist is saying). Also, I have purchased vegan caramel candies md they’re delicious. 🍬

As I’m writing my paper on Marisela Norte’s “Peeping Tom Tom Girl,” I realize that she is way too phenomenal of a poet to have such little critical work written on her writings. I demand more. I demand a reprinting on her poetry book. I demand more people researching her work. This is no way to treat such an amazing poet. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

#ChicanaPoetry #MariselaNorte #PeepingTomTomGirl #Poetry #CaliforniaPoetry #Poeta #LiteraryCriticism #Literature #ChicanaLiterature

I’m going to be starting on finally putting together my poetry manuscript. I’m happy because everything seems to have come together in a way I never expected. It’s horrible timing, with my being sick and in grad school, but I can plug away at it slowly in between assignments. Haha

#Poetry #poetrycommunity #ChicanoPoet #Writing #CreativeWriting

@SecondStix I’m so sorry to hear that. I had a summer bout of the Rona and have not been healthy since. Thankfully my job has been understanding, but it’s still frustrating. I can only imagine how rough it is for you right now.
Sending good vibes and hopefully you find a good, helpful, and understanding workplace.

The reality that I’m understanding is that at some point between the ages of 12-16 someone or multiple someones irritated me with their annoying expectations and I just never stopped being irritated and now I’m here. 😂

Palestinian poet, scholar, and librarian Mosab Abu Toha was beaten up by the Israeli army, his passports (including the American one) and all his documents taken away.

Mosab is the founder of the Edward Said library in Gaza. He's a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist & Palestine Book Award Winner.

The army of thugs with access to billions of $ of Western money beat up a librarian.

I’m drinking tea and watching Murder, She Wrote. I’m officially 68 years old and in the 1990s.

@gigeglispiriti I’m having the same problem lol

A bit of old news, but I got a poem published in #AbandonJournal a few months ago! Give it a look!
https://abandonjournal.com/raul-meza/the-man/

#Poetry #ChicanoPoetry #Poet #Writer #Poem #Metaphor #WordsAndStuff

Instagram bullied me on Threads today, and I realized that I haven’t been posting on social media consistently in like years. 🤔 So, hi? 👋🏼 lol

Just in case you get tired of no good news anymore, Pat Robertson finally died.

Off the horse

A young rider came off his horse during a race at the Dingle Races last August. His horse continued on, but the unlucky rider had to get out of the way of other horses.

https://inphotos.org/2023/06/08/off-the-horse/

#Dingle #Kerry #Ireland #Photo #Photography #DinglePeninsula #HorseRaces #Horses

People locked up in Los Angeles are not getting toilet paper and instead have to wipe their asses with orange juice cartons.

This is according to the latest filings in this lawsuit against the LA jails.

I just… ????