Tag: communication
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We Need More Space for Pedagogy in Our Movements
Originally written and published by Nerd Teacher on their own site Union trainings, for whatever reason, are spectacularly dull. I can’t be the only person who no longer wants to attend workshops, seminars, or trainings where people just rattle off a lecture to participants and tell them what to do and how to do it. I’m tired…
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What is emotional labour – and how do we get it wrong?
Michael James Walsh, University of Canberra and Stephanie Alice Baker, City, University of London The term “emotional labour” is applied to an array of home-based activities — from keeping mental to-do lists, to remembering to call your in-laws on their birthdays. Some advocate the need to teach boys emotional labour, or identify it as the…
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An Introduction on Why and How to Agitate
“Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be…
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Building Trust, Building Power
This text was originally written by members of the Workers Defense Alliance of the Twin Cities. How Do We Organize? A lot of people talk about organizing. You can ask any union, nonprofit, or political party, and they’ll all say they’re organizing- and even that they are grassroots organizing, or organizing the rank and file. …
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