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St. Jerome's Letters to Paula and Eustochium (ca. 380s CE), paraphrased
The trickster nature of the fox, a tale as old as time…
you want the sound, trust me on this one
I may have reblogged this already but I DO NOT CARE
I have reblogged this before but damn the laughter and delight of this fox!!!!
I don’t know what she was going to record, but I can guarantee that what she ended up capturing was 100000000x better
Don’t announce boycotts if you aren’t the workers involved, or if they haven’t explicitly called for it. Every group that’s on strike has their own individual wishes, and it’s best if you honor those instead of making up your own thing. Otherwise, you could end up harming their efforts.
It’s one thing if you don’t feel comfortable buying Kelloggs while the workers negotiate. Or if you want to cancel Netflix. But if you aren’t seeing any calls from the people at the heart of it? Don’t start trying to rally up a boycott online.
[ID: Tweet thread by user afiregender, posted October 7, 2021]
*taps mic* Consumer boycotts are not actually the default solidarity action with striking workers, donating to their strike fund is. Unless there is a sanctioned boycott, consumers cannot “cross a picket line” or be a scab. Those terms have specific meanings in labor organizing
All the union organizers I’ve known wanted consumer demand to stay the same when they were striking specifically because their employer would feel the strain of not having workers. Scabs who crossed the picket line were workers who were relieving this pressure on their employer
In this scenario, a successful consumer boycott would *hurt* the striking workers, because it would also relieve pressure on the employer the same way scab workers would. If the strikers felt a consumer boycott would help, they would call for one. They have not.
