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  • The resources our unions control are vast. Teachers’ unions could use their databases to identify families in need of support.

    Idk if this makes sense? What do these databases contain? Can any teacher just query familial immigration status? Sounds like something that should be disallowed by the software if the info exists at all. This kind of database search would not make sense as a union activity, more an individual misuse of computer systems.

    Transit unions could refuse to transport detainees.

    Absolutely agree. Are union workers involved in this? It would have been good journalism to look into this. Actually, given the oodles of people who have already written more or less identical articles to this one, it would have been a better use of time to investigate this single question.

    Healthcare unions could organize free clinics.

    Likely this author has no idea what “healthcare” or “clinics” entail. A lot more than people is needed to provide modern healthcare. It requires substantial capital and material inputs at any level.

    The infrastructure of union halls could serve as coordination centers.

    Churches already beat us and there are way more of them.

    Union funds could go towards supporting workers striking or sheltering in place as well as these extensive mutual aid operations.

    Sure.

    The organizational capacity built over decades, of phone banks, steward networks, meeting spaces, and communication systems, could all be deployed to this fight against ICE and Trump’s attacks.

    Sure, to whatever extent they exist. If they haven’t yet been, then there is likely some ideological reason, not barbecue the thought hasn’t occurred to anybody.



  • What is “all this information”?

    You are asking a question so they need at least 1 way to contact you. Phone and email is pretty normal.

    You dont need to provide as full name, you can give a fake name or just initials.

    Location makes sense because you might get passed on to local people. That way they dont have to have 1 person answering every message from all over.

    How do you think this should have been done?

    To join any organization, you will have to put your name on a list. If you think not putting your name on a list will protect you, then you are paralyzed and incorrect.

    If you dont want to fill this form, you can always do it the old fashioned way: go up to them at a public event.



  • I really struggled to read the ebook (stalled arouncd Ch1). I got through it but failed had nothing to say on it. So I ordered a physical book. Which will hopefully arrive eventually. Then learned I could access it via audiobook. So today I put it on while I was fixing some lamps. A quiet activity requiring a minimum of brainpower, so can give enough focus to a book requiring it. I got through to Chapter 8, almost done.

    I’m not waiting til Chapter 8 to post, sorry. I will forget. Instead, posting it now, in a 2 week old post.

    Basically this book is making a point I already agree with. I do not feel my mind has been changed about anything. Perhaps reaffirmed.

    So I can’t tell if I am

    • too stupid to understand the book
    • not noticing when I am learning
    • not the target audience

    Sorry I know it sounds arrogant. But I am not accustomed to reading at all these days, and I don’t know what I’m supposed to get from this. When the book gets here I can try again in a format amenable to note taking, in case it’s just going write over my head.