No pics bc I cant blur faces on the go but it was beautiful and a little sketch. Holding a street with the numbers we had is hard, this is los angeles and we're in an area thats very opposed to student organizing, so I kept clutching my heart as enraged drivers were revving and honking right at the security ppl, but nonetheless peoples university was held out in the street, everyone fed, got a bunch of people out of their classes by marching through the buildings, and hopefully we have a new batch of ppl to come picket delivery docks tomorrow morning.
Anyway thats enough for me. 12 hours of solid walking and yelling. Time to do some power mapping for some targeted TA labor withholding recruitment tmrw and then go to slep
I am like so full of thoughts about how the official organizing channels of our union are failing but rank and file is stepping in, but I feel like I need to hold onto them until this is over and write them all down at once.
Bottom line is like very few people are showing up to "official" strike duties because there is nothing for them to do, and as usual they have made no means of how to be involved - no "here are the 5 committees you can join and contribute to" but "do this sort of pointless thing we planned with no input".
Meanwhile rank and file has made a very participatory do-ocracy where everyone is finding and inventing their role on their own, with mutual encouragement for autonomous action all around. Main leadership repeatedly is trying to claim or clamp down on rank and file stuff and then wondering why there is animosity/ppl dont want to collaborate with them - like the entire reason this secondary organizing group exists is bc everyone feels shut out of a barely functional system, so maybe theres a reason we arent falling in line.
The admin declaring the strike isnt the strike, we are the strike.
@tobychev
There is a way through, but it aint gonna be pretty