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emplate the bigger problems is always to follow the money we ve all heard that money and power corrupt and while of course that s not true of everyone i m becoming more and more convinced that the greed for money and power is the root of most of the bigger problems one of the things i always go back to is a line from michael douglas speech at the end of aaron sorkin s the american president regarding some politicians interests making you afraid of it and telling you who s to blame for it using that tactic has allowed them to continue to profit either financially or politically most likely both off of fear and anger unions are once again in the news starbucks uc grad students the railway workers etc i ve said it before unions are the area in which i stray most from the democratic party and the progressives here are a few reasons why lack of accountability for union leaders i first wrote about this during the grocery store worker strike of the early aughts the workers had been paying into a union fund to subsidize health care costs but the union leaders ended up spending that money elsewhere leaving the workers with no support when health insurance costs continued to rise the workers had to strike during the holidays as i recall and live off even less in order to make up for the union leadership s bad acts while i understand that the leadership is elected by their members many members have enough information to vote in their own best interest lack of accountability for workers poor performance it was very clear to me that in sylvia s middle school they placed all their best teachers in the eighth grade and all their worst teachers that they couldn t fire in the sixth grade that did not get her off to the best start in middle school of course i don t believe that teachers should be fired for saying gay or encouraging critical thinking but i also know that there are some that are simply not good at their job and the effects on their students is too severe to keep them in that position unions create more hierarchy in my acting days there were a lot of auditions that were union only but of course the only way to get a union card at that time was to get a union gig but how would you get that without the opportunity to audition it was a catch 22 that created a those who have and those who haven t to divide the acting community i know some employees that have to belong to a union but that union isn t supporting them see first bullet above and there are also millions of workers in jobs that aren t covered by a union and therefore do not get some protections that others enjoy it s pitting workers against workers divides instead of unites if we want to protect the labor force then we should protect the entire labor force all workers should have a modicum of control over their schedules everyone should get some paid sick time the problem with unionizing one starbucks at a time is the that the baristas at peet s are not protected it might help some but not all workers get a fair deal making them wholly unfair corporations do not change their stripes some corporations end up using independent contractors or close down stores to avoid unions lyft managed to get a proposition passed in california excluding them from ca s attempt at stopping the former or they use the increased wages at the bottom as an excuse to raise prices and yet somehow the c suite can always afford bonuses and raises unions were a critical step in creating some of the federal laws that we have today to protect labor like criminalizing child labor and mandating work breaks but let s think about where we were at that time we didn t have the internet or the ability to spread the word beyond our own communities keeping it local was the only way workers stood a chance but times have indeed changed why are we limiting ourselves to one starbucks one industry or even one country don t all workers everywhere deserve protection why are we continuing to be so small minded about how to change the world we re not thinking big enough posted by april at 12 00 am 0 comments labels capitalism series friday june 24 2022 my abortion saved me and my girls i woke up the morning after what i d thought was a really productive conversation with x he acknowledged the mistakes he d made vowed to do better and we were going to try and put our family back together again i went to the place where d i d hid the grocery money x had already emptied my bank account so i d resorted to hiding cash around the house to cover child care groceries and other expenses this time i d put it in a shoe but there was no money in there after our so called productive conversation x had found it and spent it on drugs and or alcohol don t know and at that moment i no longer cared after years two daughters and one miscarriage a wedding several moves in a total of 4 states i d simply fallen out of love with x i d even warned him a few weeks prior that i thought this could happen my love had been the only thing holding us together and now it was gone i don t remember the exact timeline here but it wasn t long after that when i discovered i was pregnant my girls were about 2 1 2 and 5 1 2 at the time i already knew i was going to leave x and i couldn t imagine trying to explain divorce and adoption at the same time i had no idea how i was going to manage i was living across the country from my family at the time working in the field i loved but with a boss who threw a chair at an employee and would yell at us during staff meetings now i m fully aware that i played a role in this that i had responsibilities the responsible thing to do was not bring another human into the chaos that was our lives at that moment thankfully at the time we lived about a block away from a planned parenthood the idea was that i d go home after but my nightmare boss made me come into work and then later questioned my loyalty which is when i decided to leave that job too the procedure was simple enough that i could work afterwards there was very little pain frankly a lot less painful than childbirth and a lot less expensive than raising kids my daughters are now 21 and 24 they re both working in fields they love which happen to be with children they re both on birth control even though only 1 has a serous relationship right now i m incredibly proud of them i m also proud of me i raised them i got myself a job in a department with really good people who supported me and cheered me on when i went back to school i work for a boss who recognizes that people come first and gave me promotions every time he could i own my own townhouse now i m raising two kitties now both rescues not once have i ever regretted my decision to have an abortion and no i don t even regret the intercourse that led to it because at the time i was committed to my marriage which he broke i just finally put myself and my girls back together no one deserves my story which is why i haven t shared it before i m sharing it now because this country still allows free speech i ve got to exercise any and all rights i have left posted by april at 5 43 pm labels single parenting x chronicles sunday january 9 2022 maybe we should embrace the trauma i m going to spoil the ending of the limited series dopesick so fair warning i m only semi serious of course since the end is still playing out in court but i m talking about the actual series here which i didn t know how they d end turns out they found the perfect ending and i can t stop thinking about it they offered the possibility that maybe we should stop trying to stop feeling pain i offer it here not just as an answer to the opioid epidemic but also in response to the pandemic the political divides the many divides that we re finding as a way to separate ourselves working mom vs stay at home mom mom versus childfree married versus single which are all relatively harmless especially when compared to some of the horrific dividers that have gotten people killed racism misogyny and the prejudices that have started wars i saw a headline of an opinion piece that school shutdowns are only hurting children which of course is problematic since shutdowns might also be saving lives but it s the prime example of what is happening it s someone else crying for us to pay attention to their pain their plight we re all in pain we re all suffering in one way or another because we re in a pandemic but even if we weren t each of us has suffered some sort of trauma some sort of longing some desire to connect with others what i find sad is that in this moment when we re all suffering instead of coming together there are so many that are trying to find someone to blame we re all to blame no one is to blame did i mention we re in a pandemic particularly us americans we mistake our right to pursue happiness as some sort of promise that no one should ever cause us unhappiness and that if they do someone will pay i work in the legal profession i understand and appreciate on a daily level our constitutional rights that include our day in court when someone has committed a crime causing us unhappiness is not in fact a crime and i confess i do it too i place blame on anti vaxxers for prolonging the pandemic but even if i do and even though i have wondered if there s a way for them to stand trial i know that s futile so i vent with my friends and then i go about my day we re allowed to feel our pain our anger and our sadness when we feel loss but we should also recognize that pain is part of life we have to stop denying that we have to stop fighting it we have to recognize our trauma our pain so that we can properly heal we don t heal by yelling in people s face to take off or put on a mask we don t heal by hiring bot farms to attack someone on social media we don t heal when we numb the pain with drugs alcohol or even retail therapy we can only start to heal when we face our pain our trauma when we reach out to friends or mental health professionals that we need help and it does help to get outside of ourselves and help someone else if we can posted by april at 7 43 am 0 comments saturday december 18 2021 a very female led xmas following up on my previous post about shopping female led companies i m so pleased to report how much more often i m able to shop with businesses that are female led or female owned some black woman owned and other small businesses not run by cis white men female in this context means anyone that self identifies as female i m hosting our family holiday celebration and we re going with a more mexican themed meal tamales refried beans etc i got my beans from primary beans a female led company that features beans grown by females when possible i ll be serving bloody marys made with square one vodka and bloody mary mix and bloody marias with 21seeds tequila jalapeno cucumber infused i m also serving avocado hummus which includes soom tahini some of the gifts have been wrapped with furoshiki style wraps from wrappr and the patterns are designed by female artists our dessert will be edible cookie dough from unbaked i ve gifted wine from maivino reusable plastic free containers from zip top i bought the zip top containers from ban sup refill a female owned zero waste refill store in pasadena i also picked up a gift from the nopo a female founded marketplace featuring items made by artisans world wide i have previously purchased jigsaw puzzles from jiggy a woman owned company that also features female artists in their puzzles i m now using hair products from ceremonia a latinx female founded company tooth tablets from bite branch basics for laundry and some cleaning and wearwell for sustainable clothing reel is a black owned company and kept me from having to worry about any toilet paper shortages they recently added recycled paper towels and they re excellent i get the woman owned wednesday newsletter to learn about new businesses and they also have a gift guide and also subscribe to buy from a black woman i also support the 19th an independent newsroom focusing on gender politics fidelity also has a women s leadership fund which is an index that includes companies that from their website at the time of initial purchase i include a woman as a member of the senior management team ii are governed by a board for which women represent at least one third of all directors or iii in the adviser s opinion have adopted policies designed to attract retain and promote women all my hours of research are starting to pay off i also have bookmarked several articles featuring women owned black owned native american owned lgbtq owned etc when i go into marketplaces that sell multiple brands i ask about female owned female led brands some online marketplaces are also starting to include links to narrow your search accordingly like the grommet happy female led shopping posted by april at 9 04 am 0 comments labels female led women owned businesses older posts 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