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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2436414 > Fae's also Autistic, like me. > > Fae didn't know it was technically an American holiday till I told faer today for our therapy session. > > Fun fact: the wife of the person that was executed became a CPUSA member (the wife of one of the leaders of the group)! > > Her house was burned down and the FBI took all her papers from the wreckage, her burnt memoirs and all that, and whatever else she was writing. > > All that history... lost.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14381867 > The /c/unions community kept getting non union general labor interest posts and shockingly there are not really many general labor focused communities on Lemmy. So I've made one here. > > Friends: > - https://lemmy.ml/c/unions > - https://sh.itjust.works/c/unions > - https://lemmy.ml/c/coops > - https://lemmy.ml/c/antitrust
Hi all, I've got a few people who have been talking about starting a co-cooperatively run Lemmy instance where the main topic of the instance is co-ops and the co-op economy. Co-ops could create communities for their members to have discussions in, and individuals could join and create general co-operative related groups. If anyone wants to join us, we've been chatting on XMPP over at [lemmycoop@conference.samwhited.com](xmpp:lemmycoop@conference.samwhited.com?join), we'd love to get a few more interested people before we try to launch! Alternatively, does anyone know if such an instance already exists? If we're barking up the wrong tree and should be cooperating with others who are already doing this, we'd love to be pointed in the right direction!
So, just wondering why the symbol for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), a union, was used for this sublemmy (sorry, don't know what else to call it yet). I mean, I'm supportive of the IWW and am a dues paying wobbly myself. I also support cooperatives and hope to one day be a cofounder and worker/resident at one. However I'm not seeing a direct correlation between the IWW, a majority of whose members are not in a cooperative and cooperatives, a majority of which are not unionized with the IWW, if they are unionized in the first place.
