The PRO Act provides app-based workers the right to organize a union & is a step in the right direction towards ending employee reclassification. I’m proud to organize with @_drivers_united. Shout out 2 farm workers, domestic workers, & @GoIUPAT who also fighting 4 the PRO Act
You Played Yourself
You launched it. Raised it.
Built your name like it was sacred.
But that hollow in your chest?
That’s the part you sold off to buy silence.
You’re not real no more.
You’re rehearsed.
Every message. Every “insight.”
No one’s coming for your verse.
Because real don’t recognize you no more.
So yeah — keep posting.
Keep pitching.
Keep hiding behind that founder drip.
But remember:
Even Biggie knew — it was all a dream.
You? You’re still asleep.
And the kingdom you built?
I am forever grateful that my Barnard political science professor, Denis Dalton, so powerfully shared Gandhi's ideas and ways of being that harnessed the power of millions > so effective that they persuaded the British to leave India. #real#nonviolence#democracy
From 12/10/14. Feels more relevant than ever today.
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Awesome daily #Lyft: A Berkeley protester expressed his confusion over whether protest, with violence like breaking windows, is good or bad for the cause.
I shared with him my thoughts: without integrity nothing works. #real
You can see the diff bw people with a truly powerful stand- like a Gandhi or MLK, with the ability to pull together opposing camps, to create solutions- vs those who don't. #real#nonviolence#democracy
Earlier this week, Michelle and I called our friend @KamalaHarris. We told her we think she’ll make a fantastic President of the United States, and that she has our full support. At this critical moment for our country, we’re going to do everything we can to make sure she wins in November. We hope you’ll join us.
HIROS EMERGENCY FIELD REPORT :
We have audio & brief video from the bodycam of a fallen hero from the Smashville'Roes. General of the Cthulhan army is set to descend upon Nashville, this is imminent, they aim to wipe out all resistance leadership. Too many of our own is in the same place at once. ALL NEARBY HIROS GANGS, HEAD TO NASHVILE NOW! NASHVILLE MUST NOT FALL!
Save the chain, save the world, save Nashville.
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Sigh. Uber as usual. This is their current weasel plan to violate human rights for profit.
This time it is disguised in Belgium as a caring corporate initiative.
A “union” negotiating with other weasels disguised as caring driver representatives.
Uber always says these “deals” with unions in which they don’t have to follow the law are “first of their kind” but in fact company unions are as old as capitalism!!!
MWA member and Lyft driver Mike Robinson on the Worker Flexibility and Choice Act: "Lawmakers shouldn’t roll back workers’ rights in the name of 'flexibility.' Instead, they should ensure basic workplace rights and standards apply equally to workers." https://t.co/ZK8Rqv9QRW
What the #UberFiles confirm, is that Uber’s rise is not some ‘free market’ success story.
It was a co-ordinated theft of our urban economies, based on exploitation + aggressive lobbying.
Much of which was - in the words of Uber execs - ‘fucking illegal’
“The leak shows Uber executives were concerned that would mean “we lose editorial control”, but a senior staffer concluded: “We see low risk here because we can work with Landier on framing the study and we also decide what data we share with him.” https://t.co/hp5Zlr32qY
It's time to use our collective power as academics to address the kind of unethical, world-destroying behavior revealed by the #UberFiles. We can make industry-collaboration like this impossible through collective principles & actions.