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Solid post from Drew, agree with everything there.

He mentions doing your best to join in your local communities with like minded folk. Here’s a good guide on how and where those folk might be to join up with.

And if you follow his advice to unionize, I highly recommend the IWW). They’ll help you form a grassroots union that’s directly controlled by you and your coworkers. And they’ll help you no matter what kind of job you have! Beefing it up is one of the best things we can do to resist.

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timewarp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I’ve been saying this for such a long time, the tech industry needs unions. It also needs crowd sourced legal assistance as well because it isn’t going to be easy. They’ll fire of course at first despite being illegal, then they’ll want migrants that they can threaten with deportation if they don’t comply. Even if Trump goes away, unions will be necessary to keep corporations accountable.

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- barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  It also needs crowd sourced legal assistance
  
  Basically any union in Germany has access to an army of lawyers, your dues double as legal insurance covering anything related to work and welfare.
  
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  - timewarp@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Yes, but even before you get to that point. Like I said they’ll fight dirty at first, so having assistance to even be able to get to that point requires community efforts.
    
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- MITM0@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  How about a tech cooperative ?
  
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  - ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
    Both are excellent :)
    
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- WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  I don’t support sabotage for the time being
  
  What a wild goddamn thing to say when US citizen children with cancer are being rounded up and deported to countries they’ve never lived in. Please, share. Where have you drawn the line?
  
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  - timewarp@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I didn’t say not to draw a line. I just said I was opposed to sabbatoge for the time being. There are lots of other things you can do right now to work towards restoring diplomacy.
    
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    WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Great, so I’m asking you. Where is your line, beyond which sabotage is suddenly morally justified?
    
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- fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  No one was talking about sabotage
  
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  - timewarp@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Maybe go actually read the article before you make it so obvious that you didn’t.
    
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