Solidarity Club

Brainstorming a Guide to ‘How To Be Poor (But NOT Powerless)’ — a very messy WIP

July 4, 2021July 1, 2021 by CedricTai

From just the things that came on the news today, Los Angeles will be voting ASAP on a ‘humane’ way to remove homeless people from nearby parks, beneath underpasses, and on many sidewalks, (perhaps inspired by the expulsion of homeless neighbors from Echo Park), FEMA is all ‘no comment’ on an NPR investigation showing their … Read moreBrainstorming a Guide to ‘How To Be Poor (But NOT Powerless)’ — a very messy WIP

Some Snarky Posters I mocked up while thinking about indirectly promoting neurodiversity

March 18, 2021March 18, 2021 by CedricTai

“WE RISE” I’m here if you need me! It was lovely to have been recommended by Jennifer Moon to work on a collectively made poster that deals with neurodiversity. These came to me when I was thinking about what would be amazing to stumble upon out in public.

Responding to Emaline’s article in Mad in America

December 12, 2020December 5, 2020 by CedricTai

This sounds like Emaline isn’t describing a problem with data or the science as much as there’s a false promise of care, where people are getting their “medical facts” second hand without scrutiny if it is proportionately corrected in mainstream media, as there’s already an incentivize for being research to turn into good click-bait; putting … Read moreResponding to Emaline’s article in Mad in America

Cedric Tai asks Judith Butler a question and it started an interest in Marxism…

October 9, 2020October 9, 2020 by CedricTai

Cedric: My question is about the way we talk about the right to a job…specifically the idea you were talking about ‘how we get create the right and access to meaningful work’, In politics each party generally promises to ‘the freedom to pursue any job’ and ‘the right to work’ which are all just ideas, … Read moreCedric Tai asks Judith Butler a question and it started an interest in Marxism…

What is my hangup with work? (An exercise)

September 19, 2020September 19, 2020 by CedricTai

I’ll also be attending this online today! (can report back on it): This was forwarded to me from a friend, and it JUST so happened that I’ve read her long treatise on nothing which was much earlier than when I wrote about nothing. But I actually made a TLDR version of her writing! Jenny Odell: … Read moreWhat is my hangup with work? (An exercise)

Works on Work

September 13, 2020September 13, 2020 by bene

“An independent initiative born at The Glasgow School of Art and University of Glasgow…We want to examine the future of work, post-work, workism, concepts and philosophies behind work, power relations between employees and employers, automation, technological opportunities and threats, work performance and its aesthetics.” https://worksonwork.com/ One of the first works is a podcast starting with … Read moreWorks on Work

Ainu song for UBI

September 13, 2020September 13, 2020 by bene

Sung by Yoko Kawakami in Sapporo, Hokkaido in the language of indigenous Ainu – from videos by Enno Schmidt talking to people around the world about universal unconditional basic income.

Fund New Models!

September 13, 2020September 13, 2020 by bene

Check out these projects on (the recently unionized) Kickstarter in the next few days… The Brick House Cooperative – A media cooperative from journalists from Awl, Splinter, Gawker, Deadspin and more. Cory Doctorow is hoping to lead an exodus away from Amazon’s 90% monopoly of DRM mandated audio books (Audible) while retaining rights and revenue … Read moreFund New Models!