In a perfect timeline, increased cooperation would lead to Russia backing off the social reactionary trend they’re diving into. God I hope so.
China is rather hesitant about exerting influence in their partners affairs though, for good and for ill, so I’m unsure if it will. That said stronger economic conditions will hopefully help that front on its own.
Very cool, the UC has already created a letter calling the strike illegal and very unsubtly threatening people who participate. This is going to get spicy.
There also is a legal justification for the strike too, even within the bounds of the union contract.
Strike against the University of California is on! 79% voted yes, with 19,780 voting!
This is structured as a "Stand Up Strike", in the vein as what was done with the recent auto strikes. Basically that means segments of the worker base are going to be called up to strike, with not everyone starting at once. In practical terms, that means one campuses are like, strike-ready, in terms of mobilizng people, they're getting activated. Likely UCLA and UCSD are going to be first, and rather fast to start. They experienced the big violence, and have the most momentum in strike organizing at the moment. But others are pretty ready too! Just doing some planning on the more like mundane part of planning, like local day to day stuff. Hopefully I'll get a chance to strike very soon.
There's around 50k workers in total, so a decent chunk didn't vote. To a degree that's expected though, as this was a fast turnaround event, and you're going to miss people either by not getting a chance to reach them, or them lacking interest. This was actually a very high turnout union election. And the bright side, the 'No' votes are probably all the dedicated Zionists and anti-labor types with enough energy to actually participate, with the larger population more like, open to being reached as things progress and it becomes more obvious that something is happening.
Sitting around in a department town hall, waiting for the strike vote to close. I wanna striiiiike.
Oh yeah I certainly agree. It definitely matters a lot. I just don't the west has the industrial capacity currently to match that rate. Most of the arms were from deep, old, stockpiles, not fresh production. There'd need to be a pretty big reindustrialization push to get anywhere close.
While you might not agree with everything on our instance, the weekly news threads are pretty good at collating news and sources as things happen. It’s a decent thing to browse at least.
A bigger reason is that their manpower is depleted from so many dead. Not to mention various defensive lines not getting built.
No, I'm saying it because the front line is collapsing as we speak. I'm not a Putin-stan lol. I'd be persecuted in Russia.
The war in Ukraine is lost.
Damn. Didn't realize Hamas had training camps in Ireland. 
I mean yeah, obviously, that's the biggest part of this, I agree. I was just thinking about a side aspect.