tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49028067551082514562024-03-13T07:34:51.839-06:00precarious life & times...confronting precarity in all its social, labor and economic manifestationsVanessa Vailehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647639725252430851noreply@blogger.comBlogger784125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4902806755108251456.post-3386130409922431992018-05-22T12:18:00.002-06:002018-05-22T12:18:28.796-06:00Clocking In A daily look at the #workplace of the #future…MIT @TechReview<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv0595448409wrapper" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; color: black; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.2em; min-width: 640px; outline: none; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 20px; width: 640px;"><tbody style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;">
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A <a href="https://technologyreview.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=47c1a9cec9749a8f8cbc83e78&id=bf9fec4fd6&e=421abe7ea8" rel="nofollow" style="color: #be8480; line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;" target="_blank">new paper</a> in the <span style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;">American Business Law Journal</span> has found that software used for tracking employees’ work hours is keeping them from getting the pay they deserve.<br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;" /><span style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;">The sources of theft: </span>University of Oregon associate professor Elizabeth Tippet found three ways time tracking programs can be used to steal from workers:</div>
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<strong id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1526134320684_5692"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1526134320684_5691" style="font-size: small;">3 Pro-ICE Sheriffs Defeated in N.C. - GOP Moves to Cut Teachers' Raise - Tennessean Follows Payday's Lead on Nashville Construction Safety Crisis</span></strong></h1>
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<em style="font-size: 16px;">by Mike Elk with help from Max Zahn & Professor Karina Moreno</em></div>
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Greetings from 'da Burgh, where Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk is getting ready to ship out to North Carolina for his 4th D-Day of the Teacher's Spring.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">The big news this week comes out of North Carolina, where cooperation with ICE in detaining immigrants played a big role in the defeat of three incumbent sheriffs. The sheriffs were defeated in the counties hosting Asheville, Charlotte, and Durham.</span></div>
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"I thank my immigrant community, my Latino community," <a href="https://paydayreport.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=bfb9ba2904c04d04f7ecac8fe&id=71129642ad&e=fda60171d8" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Clarence Birkhead, the incoming sheriff for Durham told supporters </a>on Tuesday. "We have to do everything we can possibly do to keep our families together [and] not cooperate with ICE."</div>
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The Sheriffs had all participated in various cooperation jailing programs with ICE, such as 287(g) and Secure Communities. </div>
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These initiatives are data sharing programs in place since September 11th that automatically report biometric arrest data from local law enforcement to federal agencies, mainly ICE. ICE cross-checks this data with multiple databases andare able to identify cases in which an immigrant's legal status is not confirmed. If there's reason to believe a person might be undocumented, ICE can easily assume custody directly from local county jails by asking county jails to honor their detainer requests. </div>
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<strong>Sheriff's Defeat Result of Years of Deep Organizing</strong></div>
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In Charlotte-area Mecklenburg County, African American police officer Gary McFadden defeated incumbent Sheriff Irwin Carmichael by a margin of 20%. The win was the result of years of organizing by immigrant rights activists in the Charlotte area.</div>
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On February 16, 2017, organizers with Comunidad Colectiva and other organizations organized a massive 8,000 person a Day Without Immigrant march. Over 86 businesses shut down in solidarity with the march.</div>
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"These weren't just allies, but the majority of the people who were directly affected," says Stefani Arteaga,</div>
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"We had people drive in construction vans, who decided not to go to work, but instead the march - it was incredible"</div>
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Organizers began to examine the 287g program and decided that with an upcoming Sheriff's election that they could funnel that energy into defeating the program.</div>
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Stefani Arteaga began live streaming steering committees of the 287g coordination meetings and members of the community were shocked by what they saw. Many activists began to show up to the publicly held steering committee to demand answers about how and why immigrants were being detained and deported with the cooperation of local law enforcement in the Charlotte area.<br />
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<strong>Black-Brown Alliance Key to Defeating the Proposal </strong></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">Organizers were able to form crucial ties with the black community after the Mecklenburg County Sheriff instituted a program, where loved ones could only speak to the incarcerated by </span><a href="https://paydayreport.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=bfb9ba2904c04d04f7ecac8fe&id=fbf57d6052&e=fda60171d8" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2baadf; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">paying to speak to them through a Skype-like computer system. </a><span style="font-size: 16px;">Additionally, organizers worked closely with Charlotte's large Southeast Asian community, who have been mobilizing against police brutality in their communities.</span></div>
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While on the campaign trail, African American sheriff candidate Gary McFadden frequently linked the struggles of immigrants rights and African American communities problems with the prison system.</div>
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"I think what we are seeing is a coalition of black and brown folks that understand the intersectionality of our common issues of the mass incarceration system and how it affects a different community and how black and brown bodies are profited off of," says Artega.</div>
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"We had so much intersectionality and respect and support for each other that is really what helped this campaign so much," says Artega.</div>
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<strong>Despite Victory, ICE May Still Be Able To Maintain Program</strong></div>
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For a variety of legal reasons, withdrawing completely from jailing programs instituted for national security purposes like 287(g) and Secure Communities established and mandated by the federal government is not fully possible. Mandatory security measures in place automatically report county-level data to ICE and the Department of Homeland Security.</div>
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However, sheriffs do hold an important administrative power on whether to comply with ICE's detainer requests and hold immigrants until ICE arrives. Certain county jurisdictions have deviated from the tone of the Trump administration by not holding immigrants longer and facilitating a direct transfer of custody.</div>
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By not holding undocumented immigrants in jail, many are able to seek legal representation necessary to fight deportation rather than being sent to an immigration detention facility where they can be held indefinitely with the average stay lasting 13 months while awaiting an immigration court hearing<br /> <br /> (Often many legal residents who are racially profiled are illegally held in jail - <a href="https://paydayreport.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=bfb9ba2904c04d04f7ecac8fe&id=6938b798b1&e=fda60171d8" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">see the LA Time's recent profile of a US Citizen</a> held in immigration detention for 1,273 days)</div>
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Less than 10% of immigrants are able to secure legal representation once in detention, and having a lawyer plays a significant role in the outcome of deportation proceedings. Most immigrants end up representing themselves with far worse outcomes than if they had lawyers able to navigate the system.</div>
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<strong>ICE Could Retaliate Against Communities for Pushing Out Pro-ICE Sheriffs</strong></div>
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Additional concern remains among activists that ICE may take retaliatory action against the local community for failing to fully cooperate.</div>
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"ICE has come out with statements saying if 287g is removed that they are going to increase ICE activity," says Stefani Artega an immigrant rights activists with Comunidad Colectiva.</div>
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Still, the new sheriff could use the opportunity to use local administrative discretion to protect immigrants rather than immediately jailing them and empowering ICE is a victory and a step in the right direction towards the Latino community. </div>
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<strong>53,000 University of California Workers Hold Strike</strong></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">From Monday to Wednesday, 24,000 medical and service workers with AFSCME Local 3299 were on strike at the University of California. Over the final two days, 29,000 nurses and medical technicians from other unions joined them in solidarity. </span></div>
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AFSCME Local 3299 demanded a six-percent yearly raise, a freeze on healthcare premiums and an end to the outsourcing of jobs for which its members are trained.</div>
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"We need the University of California to stop the outsourcing of our jobs to low wage contract workers, which contributes to widening inequality for workers who are women, immigrants and people of color." Kathryn Lybarger, lead gardener at UC Berkeley and president of AFSCME Local 3299, told Payday Report.</div>
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<strong>Teachers Strike in Pueblo, Colorado the State's First in 24 Years</strong></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">Teachers in Pueblo, Colorado have been on strike for five days, as they carry out the first teachers strike in the state in nearly a quarter-century. Instructors in the city, located about 100 miles south of Denver, called on the school district to grant them a 2-percent raise and a better benefits package.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">Most of the 30 schools in the district are closed, though a majority of preschools and some online courses have been reopened.</span></div>
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"Our district has disrespected us for too long," East High School teacher Julie Cain told <a href="https://paydayreport.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=bfb9ba2904c04d04f7ecac8fe&id=0bccbaad4d&e=fda60171d8" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">the Denver Post</a>. "We are having a really hard time getting and keeping good teachers."</div>
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Pueblo teachers made an average of $47,617 in the 2017-18 school year, which is 10.7 percent less than the state average of $52,728. The district has 998 teachers, and a turnover rate of over 18 percent, according to the <a href="https://paydayreport.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=bfb9ba2904c04d04f7ecac8fe&id=7f0285bbf4&e=fda60171d8" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Colorado Department of Education</a>.</div>
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The Pueblo Education Association, which represents the teachers, <a href="https://paydayreport.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=bfb9ba2904c04d04f7ecac8fe&id=e04f5eb184&e=fda60171d8" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">said</a> on Thursday it had "made progress in negotiations" but instructors will keep "hitting the streets at and around their schools."</div>
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<strong>Richmond Teachers Win Victory Against Teacher Evaluations</strong></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">School Board members, teachers and education advocates in Richmond, Virginia succeeded in their effort to prevent new Richmond school superintendent Jason Kamras from implementing a controversial teacher evaluation system.</span></div>
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The evaluation method, which Kamras developed in Washington, D.C., directly tied teacher effectiveness to student achievement. It has been linked to a pattern of corner-cutting among teachers in Washington's public schools, according to an investigation that found 1 in 3 graduates in 2017 had not met requirements.</div>
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"It created a culture of fear," David Tansey, a high school math teacher in Washington, told the <a href="https://paydayreport.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=bfb9ba2904c04d04f7ecac8fe&id=ded3230d04&e=fda60171d8" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Richmond Times-Dispatch</a>. "Because it was paired with a top-down culture of getting results quickly, it became abused."</div>
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Kamras, the highest paid superintendent to serve in the district, said student achievement should not factor as centrally in teacher evaluation as he once believed.</div>
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"My thinking on this has evolved," <a href="https://paydayreport.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=bfb9ba2904c04d04f7ecac8fe&id=dfe444212b&e=fda60171d8" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Kamras reportedly told a crowd at the Richmond Police Training Academy.</a> "I was much more student learning as, sort of, everything, and I still think it's important, but I've evolved to a place where there are a lot of other things to consider when you're talking about teacher evaluation."</div>
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<strong>Tucson Teachers Will Not Receive 9% Raise Promised by Governor</strong></div>
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Teachers in Tucson, the largest school district in Arizona, will not receive the 9 percent raise guaranteed by the governor and allocated in a law passed earlier this month.</div>
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The law allows each individual district to decide whether additional school funding will, in fact, go to teacher raises. Gabriel Trujillo, the superintendent of the Tucson Unified School District, said he will provide the money to al school support staff, not just teachers.</div>
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"I see us supporting the educators as defined by this movement, those that are touching the lives of kids and working directly with kids. It's about the monitors, it's about teachers, it's about the counselors, it's about the custodians, it's about the secretaries at our schools, it's about the office assistants," <a href="https://paydayreport.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=bfb9ba2904c04d04f7ecac8fe&id=76932b45b1&e=fda60171d8" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Trujillo told the Arizona Daily Star.</a></div>
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Jason Freed, president of the Tucson Education Association, said he agreed with Trujillo's approach, and called 9 percent raise for teachers a "fallacy that the governor is pushing."</div>
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An anti-tax organization in Oklahoma filed paperwork last week to put a referendum on the November ballot that would veto the new taxes passed this year to fund teacher pay raises.</div>
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The group, Oklahoma Taxpayers Unite, needs to collect about 41,000 signatures by July 18 according to <a href="https://paydayreport.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=bfb9ba2904c04d04f7ecac8fe&id=17285f40be&e=fda60171d8" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">local NBC affiliate KFOR.</a></div>
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<strong>-- Last May, Payday was the only outlet to cover <a href="https://paydayreport.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=bfb9ba2904c04d04f7ecac8fe&id=a457afc65b&e=fda60171d8" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">the tragic electrocution death of Sergio Gutierrez on a construction site</a>. The reporting went viral in the Nashville and <a href="https://paydayreport.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=bfb9ba2904c04d04f7ecac8fe&id=2245a141e8&e=fda60171d8" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">our ensuing series helped start a broader conversation. </a></strong></div>
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Now, <a href="https://paydayreport.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=bfb9ba2904c04d04f7ecac8fe&id=b8500e6a60&e=fda60171d8" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">the Tennessean has caught up to our lead </a>with a deep investigation that shows more construction workers died in 2016-2017 than in any previous two year period in Nashville in the last three decades:</div>
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The <a href="https://paydayreport.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=bfb9ba2904c04d04f7ecac8fe&id=7720a69f5d&e=fda60171d8" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">death of Alfonso Dominguez</a>, who fell off the roof of a North Nashville home under construction, shows how some construction companies can evade liability for accidents, especially in a booming city like Nashville.</div>
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A <a href="https://paydayreport.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=bfb9ba2904c04d04f7ecac8fe&id=8a5233a24d&e=fda60171d8" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">labor shortage has led to a fracturing of work sites</a>, where subcontractors can't complete projects with their normal crews, so they hire small "subs of subs" below them. Workers at the bottom are sent onto scaffolding and roofs without safety equipment or training, or the assurance their families will be taken care of if they fall.</div>
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Dominguez was one of <a href="https://paydayreport.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=bfb9ba2904c04d04f7ecac8fe&id=c6d35a6b64&e=fda60171d8" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">16 construction workers who died in the Nashville metropolitan area during 2016 and 2017</a> — the deadliest two-year stretch in more than three decades, according to a Tennessean analysis of state and federal OSHA data.</div>
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More workers <a href="https://paydayreport.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=bfb9ba2904c04d04f7ecac8fe&id=9d299e4b03&e=fda60171d8" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">died in Nashville in 2016 than in Austin, Texas; Orlando, Florida; Memphis</a>; and other areas with rapid growth or a similarly sized workforce, according to the most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics figures.</div>
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<a href="https://paydayreport.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=bfb9ba2904c04d04f7ecac8fe&id=2f0233eee5&e=fda60171d8" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Go to the Tennessean to read the full story. </a></div>
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<strong>-- ProPublica did a deeply reported <a href="https://paydayreport.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=bfb9ba2904c04d04f7ecac8fe&id=63d6c4023e&e=fda60171d8" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">story</a> that chronicles the death of Mouctar Diallo, a second-generation Guinean-American who was run over by a garbage truck while helping a driver with the trash collection company Sanitation Salvage:</strong></div>
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"A Department of Labor investigation found that the company had failed to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in wages and that workers pulled 18-hour days. Drivers are so overtaxed that they hire additional helpers — often young men off the street — to try and complete their routes on time,".</div>
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<a href="https://paydayreport.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=bfb9ba2904c04d04f7ecac8fe&id=cbf02152f9&e=fda60171d8" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Go to ProPublica to read the whole story. </a><br />
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<strong>-- Finally, Obama Deputy OSHA Director Jordan Barab writing at <a href="https://paydayreport.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=bfb9ba2904c04d04f7ecac8fe&id=73c1368bf7&e=fda60171d8" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">his newsletter Confined Spaces</a> has a deep dive looking at Trump's spring regulatory agenda to rollback the regulatory agenda at OSHA.</strong></div>
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Still languishing on the <a href="https://paydayreport.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=bfb9ba2904c04d04f7ecac8fe&id=c083981d35&e=fda60171d8" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">long-term agenda</a> are OSHA standards dealing with infectious disease and Process Safety Management which covers safety in chemical plants. Both of these had SBREFA panels during the Obama administration They're both fairly major rules which means a) they involve quite a bit of work to get to the proposal stage, b) OSHA budget cuts will slow the process further, and c) given their likely cost, this administration will undoubtedly be reluctant to move forward on them and hard-pressed to find protections of equal cost to remove. Slow movement on the infectious disease standard is especially disappointing considering news of <a href="https://paydayreport.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=bfb9ba2904c04d04f7ecac8fe&id=d58b54ac4e&e=fda60171d8" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">another Ebola outbreak</a> in the Democratic Republic of the Congo., a recent severe flu season and the coming of mosquito season as the weather warms</div>
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The bad news, of course, is that the most significant regulatory movement by OSHA continues to be in reverse with a proposal undermining beryllium protections for construction and maritime workers, delay in full implementation of the beryllium standard for general industry employees and a proposal to roll back some provisions of the electronic record keeping standard, which OSHA is predicting for sometime in July.</div>
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Where to start? Inventorying and organizing existing resources. Defining, identifying and describing. I could use a few more hands.</div>
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This updated <a href="https://www.thoughtco.com/goddess-durga-1770363" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Durga</a> represents the ultimate precarious worker. She is not just multitasking but doing it while riding a tiger and shooting arrows at a malevolent demon -- just another day at the Precarity Office.<br />
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Instead of narrowing my focus, I have expanded it from precarious faculty to precarious workers across a range of categories from temp work and migrant labor to academic labor and creative culture work. In between extremes lie contract labor, low wage work, work in the service economy, unpaid interns, tech and other knowledge workers. All are insecure, without benefits and usually lower paid than equally (and sometimes less) qualified full time workers for the same employers or working in the same field. Precarious workers, whatever their area or presumed status, are insecure, fungible, disposable, voiceless -- and often invisible or might as well be.<br />
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Why? Because categories overlap, working conditions and causes are not unrelated.<br />
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<br />Vanessa Vailehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647639725252430851noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4902806755108251456.post-64001385212542559142018-02-01T11:42:00.001-07:002018-02-01T11:58:23.151-07:00speaking of names and other changesYesterday I renamed both this blog and its companion Facebook page <i>Precarious life and times. </i>Not to worry though -- visitor won't end up in strange places like some did with the domain shift. This change does not affect either url. The Facebook iteration has already been moving away from primarily adjunct issues toward a broader focus on the workplace, economic and social changes accompanying the spread of precarity. Until very recently, this one hasn't been moving at all.<br />
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What will change? Content. Adjuncts, casuals and other insecure academic labor will still have a prominent place. There more widgets, posts and collections on related topics, and a "What we can do" category coping and resisting.<br />
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What is precarity and who's precarious? The category includes more than academic precariat. Is insecure employment the primary or even sole marker of precarious populations? Is it the only benchmark? The connection with the economy and economic inequality is obvious. Disposable and marginalized groups are particularly vulnerable. Their initial precariousness, whatever the cause -- disability, age, race, gender, social and legal status, etc., inevitably pushes them further down in the workforce and decreases mobility options, often drastically.<br />
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Could all precarious people together already <b>be</b> the majority? That would bring us full naming circle to the ❝<i>new precarious majority</i>❞...<br />
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Vanessa Vailehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647639725252430851noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4902806755108251456.post-27474821398726630702018-01-19T23:20:00.000-07:002018-04-12T13:35:35.668-06:00It's Movie Time! Grace Lee Boggs, An American Revolutionary<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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… is back, free to <a href="http://www.pbs.org/pov/americanrevolutionary/">watch on PBS</a> through January, a special P.O.V 30th Anniversary treat.<br />
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❝<i>Grace Lee Boggs, 98, is a Chinese American philosopher, writer, and activist in Detroit with a thick FBI file and a surprising vision of what an American revolution can be. Rooted for 75 years in the labor, civil rights and Black Power movements, she challenges a new generation to throw off old assumptions, think creatively and redefine revolution for our times. Winner, Audience Award, Best Documentary Feature, 2013 Los Angeles Film Festival. A co-presentation with the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM).</i>❞<br />
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Vanessa Vailehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647639725252430851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4902806755108251456.post-8000201596350653292018-01-16T20:04:00.002-07:002018-01-16T20:04:28.352-07:00from the blog archives: #adjunct Links & Commentary from #KeithHoeller<span style="font-family: inherit;">…originally published <span style="background-color: white;">Sunday, April 20, 2014. This trial post for a series that never materialized has been among the blog's most popular posts, 2,300 visits and climbing. The post was so labor intensive and time consuming to edit that I never got around to another. Shorter posts would have been a better choice too. Rather than the promised shorter posts, I have not been posting at all. How much shorter can a post get? A</span></span><span style="background-color: white;">lthough not always clearly indicated, commentary accompanying links is, unless otherwise noted, either Keith's commentary originally posted to the adj-l list and republished here with Keith's permission or quoting him directly</span><span style="background-color: white;"> from the original article</span><span style="background-color: white;">. Should the series resume, I'll make that clearer when I revise the format.</span><br />
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<i>…Issue #1 blogging materials and words from and on behalf of legendary (but social media averse) adjunct activist, Keith Hoeller. This project is still in Beta, so expect changes. I edited the auto-blogged Diigo bookmarks to tidy up format, added the vintage image of a 1907 classroom, and rearranged the order to lead with the NY Times OpEd, related links and commentary, including a copy of Keith's unpublished letter to the editor, plus a link to the published response letters. </i>Vanessa Vailehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647639725252430851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4902806755108251456.post-14294904656742655932018-01-15T21:42:00.000-07:002018-01-15T23:33:10.354-07:00What's in our name?<i>Identifier, first impression, signage, brand, arbitrary label...just remember, not what they call you but what you answer to</i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>v</i><i>ia "<a href="http://www.bresslergroup.com/blog/user-research-and-interaction-design/" target="_blank">From Human Factors to User Experience: What’s In A Name?</a>" By Keith S. Karn, PhD. March 6, 2014</i></td><td class="tr-caption"><div style="text-align: center;">
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In case you haven't noticed the change of URL (and why should you, what with running silent for so long), an explanation might be in order. The name is the same, so is the basic url, but the domain name redirect url is gone. That url matched the blog name. I bought domain name to be diplomatic knowing a metaphoric kick in the shins is all it would get me. When time came to renew I didn't because money is too tight to spend on empty diplomacy.<br />
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What difference will it make? Depends. None, I hope. Any reader, whether angry, upset, confused or just curious, are welcome to come over here and comment or ask questions.<br />
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<a name='more'></a>Over at the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/precariousfacultynetwork/" target="_blank">Precarious Faculty</a> Facebook page, blog posts from here will still say "Precarious Faculty" in the title hotlink. The address underneath will read something else. I may need edit links on other platforms. Small potatoes. Besides, as far as the tubz are concerned, the numeric IP (Internet Protocol) address is all that matters no matter what we call a page, how often we change domain or page name. I'm also letting a multiple page website I've run since 2002 and its domain go dark rather than continue paying the monthly. That's behind me, this isn't.<br />
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But what difference will the change make for the blog? Maybe it will mark a new beginning, the fresh start blogging I hoped from the blog name and then the domain name change but didn't get. The disjunction is part of its history. Quite frankly, I'm still not sure what I want to do, just that I want my voice to ring true and don't want the blog to be the same as it was.<br />
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All blogging challenges include a commenting requirement, usually a minimum of three. The additional commenting load was from volunteer to welcome and support a group of new participants because I knew the extra commitment would stay me from dropping out. It worked and was also a lesson about blogging that I had forgotten: the conversation matters as much as content. Authentic exchanges, the sifting of opinion and information, as Jacques Barzun defined conversation, what makes the content matter. Along with regular posts, I want to bring that back to my blogging.</div>
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Am I ready? I think so. I know I can but will I?<br />
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<li>I am changing and so is the network: less adjunct more other precarity. Not just higher ed either. I'm retired, not an adjunct anymore and in a place very different from the basement of the Ivory Silo™. I also read, research and curate widely outside traditional adjunct resources. </li>
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Until then, get your movement news fixes at these links for adjunct, higher ed, academic labor and labor news. Precarious Faculty and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/NationalMobilization4Equity/" target="_blank">National Mobilization for Equity</a> (both on Facebook), Twitter streams, and Precarity Network Tumblrs, <a href="http://precariousfaculty.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">here</a> and here. Nor should I neglect the original <a href="http://www.scoop.it/t/a-is-for-adjunct" target="_blank">A is for Adjunct</a> or, now reminded, put off updating the <a href="http://www.precariousfacultyblog.com/p/pfr-network.html" target="_blank">Precarity Network page</a>.<br />
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When I created and developed social media accounts for NFM, adjunct social media was thin. Now it abounds, especially on the Facebook landscape. Some groups and pages cast a wide net; others have a more local focus. An overview/review of Facebook as an adjunct resource is in order -- Twitter too.</div>
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I spend more time curating, organizing and archiving than blogging or chasing social media. All that content is public: distribution, the next stage, takes precedence over blogging. This turn to informationist was how #<a href="http://www.precariousfacultyblog.com/p/reading-room.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NAWD</a> aka <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/03/05/unnamed-adjunct-behind-national-walkout-day-isnt-hiding-her-identity-anymore" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">National Adjunct Walkout Day</a> (digital archive <a href="http://www.inoreader.com/stream/user/1005957380/tag/NAWD/view/html" target="_blank">here</a>) changed me. That turn may have contributed the stalled blogging. At least I stuck around and kept on in my own way. Today I sent my last post to the NAWD Tumblr via Scoop.it (another post-NAWD media story) and cut that cord, changing it out for G+. Scoop.it sharing on free accounts is limited to just two social media accounts, not a problem until rss went south not long ago.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="152383218-18082006">Chancellor of the University of California at Berkley who maintains that free speech requires civility</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/sep/7/uc-berkley-chancellor-free-speech-requires-civilit/" rel="nofollow" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/sep/7/uc-berkley-chancellor-free-speech-requires-civilit/#</span></span></a></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">! </span>by </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/staff/jessica-chasmar/" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;">Jessica Chasmar</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> - The Washington Times, Sunday, September 7, 2014</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">In “</span>Civility Does not Justify Censorship<span style="font-weight: normal;">” </span></span></span><a href="https://mail.qcc.cuny.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=e113d9818bb44dc1826b6f383d89072a&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.benningtonbanner.com%2fcolumnists%2fci_17153474" rel="nofollow" style="color: blue;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;">http://www.benningtonbanner.com/columnists/ci_17153474</span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Civility is seen as a device for censorship at the Northern Illinois University which is restricting students' access to certain websites.<b> Orwellian University Blocks Students' Access to Harmful Sites, For 'Civility'</b> - </span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><i style="font-size: medium;">It's one thing to encourage civil conduct and reasoned discourse, quite another to regulate expression in the name of such encouragement. But that is precisely what too many college and university administrators and trustees are threatening to do. The threat to free speech rights is real. </i><span style="font-size: small;"><i>As </i></span></span><i style="color: blue;"><a href="http://online.wsj.com/articles/greg-lukianoff-free-speech-at-berkeleyso-long-as-its-civil-1410218613" rel="nofollow" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;">Greg Lukianoff of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education noted</span></span></a></i><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>, in his experience, </i></span><i style="font-size: medium;">"campus administrators are most likely to deem as 'uncivil' speech that criticizes them or the university’s sacred cows." </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">Incivility is a difficult problem for Americans, because its </span></i></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/15/technology/web-trolls-winning-as-incivility-increases.html?_r=1" rel="nofollow" style="color: blue;"><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">underlying issues are social</span></i></a><i style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">. But restrictive gate keeping just serves to dampen the generative value of diverse voices engaging. The impulse to silence can be just as uncivil as the trolling that inspired it.</span></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><i><a href="http://www.historynet.com/salt-of-the-earth-the-movie-hollywood-could-not-stop.htm" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Salt of the Earth</a></i> (1954) is an American drama film written by MichaelWilson, directed by Herbert J. Biberman, and produced by Paul Jarrico. All had been blacklisted by the Hollywood establishment due to their alleged involvement in communist politics. (<i>Image: Library of Congress. March 14, 1954 premier at the only theater in the the city that would show it</i>)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br />The film is one of the first pictures to advance the feminist social and political point of view. Its plot centers on a long and difficult strike, based on the 1951 strike against the Empire Zinc Company in Grant County, New Mexico. In the film, the company is identified as "Delaware Zinc," and the setting is "Zinctown, New Mexico." The film shows how the miners, the company, and the police react during the strike. In neorealist style, the producers and director used actual miners and their families as actors in the film. The film was called subversive and blacklisted because the <a href="http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/archives/collections/MinersArchive.htm" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers</a> sponsored it and many <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_blacklist" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">blacklisted Hollywood professionals</a> helped produce it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #000018; line-height: 25px; white-space: pre-line;">…but the hat, red trench coat and high boots are snazzy. As for the blog, w</span>ith 4 posts in January, missed all of February and today being March 25, even I ask if there is one. There's a <i>tunc et nunquam</i> feel about it all and with it, temptation to throw caution to the winds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So here I am ~ less about throwing anything to the winds just yet: just clearing more space while I consider directions. Just don't expect a blog post day for the rest of the month. Although not much of a blog these days, the network is alive and well. I've even been thinking how to bypass the blog and post directly to the network or some rss manifestation of it. So let's talk about the <a href="http://www.precariousfacultyblog.com/p/pfr-network.html" target="_blank">network</a>, turning informationist and other (in my opinion) adjunct-appropriate interests. My latest PF Network page update covers those: </span><br />
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><b>Now</b>, collections from the above are transformed/remixed from folders and tags into feeds, html clips and bundles on InoReader. Bundles include <a href="http://www.inoreader.com/stream/user/1005957380/tag/social%20justice/view/html" target="_blank">social justice</a>, <a href="http://www.inoreader.com/stream/user/1005957380/tag/immigration" target="_blank">immigration</a> (special project for Adjunct Justice), <a href="http://www.inoreader.com/stream/user/1005957380/tag/labor/view/html" target="_blank">labor</a>, <a href="http://www.inoreader.com/folder/highered" target="_blank">higher education</a>, adjunct/ contingent faculty, education, academic labor, <a href="http://www.inoreader.com/stream/user/1005957380/tag/BDS/view/html" target="_blank">BDS/Palestine Advocacy</a> (special project for Sean Kennedy), <a href="http://www.inoreader.com/stream/user/1005957380/tag/Ayotzinapa/view/html" target="_blank">Ayotzinapa Matters</a> (special project for <a href="http://adjunct-justice.blogspot.com/2016/02/introducing-ayotzinapa-matters.html" target="_blank">Adjunct Justice</a>). These are less networks than news/information/resource collections.</span></i></blockquote>
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Online databases and their feeds aren't like hard copy: they update constantly. Parameters and tags can be revised without a new press run or edition. They evolve. Here's the <a href="http://www.precariousfacultyblog.com/2014/01/pfr-network-blog-socialmedia-directions.html" target="_blank">2014 post</a> accompanying a previous update. Then I dropped the R for rising. Just "Precarity Network" + <a href="http://www.inoreader.com/stream/user/1005957380/tag/Precarity%20Network%20Collections/view/html" target="_blank">collections</a> is the next step -- out not down. Check out the <a href="http://www.precariousfacultyblog.com/p/adjunct-and-contingent-faculty-news.html" target="_blank">Adjunct News</a> too and the stand-alone html <a href="http://www.inoreader.com/stream/user/1005957380/tag/adjunct/view/html" target="_blank">clip</a> -- not the most elegant page layout but an in-depth, information one-stop for adjunct and contingent faculty: local to global news, higher education and mainstream media coverage, images, videos, collections, magazine articles, book reviews, adjunct blog posts and more. Clips and bundles can be customized geographically or by topic. I'm working on a an open, public Cal-ed online collection with rss feed for <a href="http://cpfa.org/" target="_blank">CPFA</a>.<br />
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All precarity, social justice and human rights issues should matter to contingent faculty. Some will be more interested in -- committed to -- particular areas than others. BDS/Palestine Advocacy, Ayotzinapa, and immigration are cases in point. Education, like social justice, is huge -- overwhelming, too relevant to ignore and the contained topics too interrelated to separate in silos. Both would benefit from looking at aspects (topic areas) as parts of complex ecosystems that include yet more topics -- arts, humanities, social sciences, law, technology, media, natural resources, climate, and more.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>Vanessa Vailehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647639725252430851noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4902806755108251456.post-51461602698381536902016-01-25T14:50:00.002-07:002016-01-25T14:53:03.015-07:00#adjunct/ion series & other #PFNetwork collections + to #NAWD2 or not<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #000018; line-height: 25px; white-space: pre-line;">…that's t</span>he short version for readers in a hurry. There's more but that hits the main points. I bolded them for your skimming convenience.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">For #<b>adjunction</b> series and other (but not all) "informationist" projects, I collect adjunct links that I bundle as an #adjunction series. Each bundle has a web page with a permalink. Here's the most recent link bundle page in the series: </span><a href="http://www.one-tab.com/page/Y5VnJrCnSzy2cwok2lwa5g" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;">#</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #000018; font-family: inherit; line-height: 25px; white-space: pre-line;">adjunction Jan2016 #4, 17 links</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Informationist</b> projects: throughout 2015 I've been referring to this blog and the associated network as an independent information network. That is my focus...among other intentions.</span><br />
<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">In addition to adjunct issues, this informationist #NetWorker will cover education, learning, teaching, media, edtech, online courses, virtual connecting for conferences and workshops, labor, precarious labor, the economy, other social movements and social justice topics ~ plus whatever else interests me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Adjunct organizing and organizations will get covered but not exclusively or as much. Most groups now have strong, well supported media presences, strong signals less in need of amplifying. Adjunct digital presence has grown impressively since 2009 when I started all this. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Here are a few more <a href="http://www.precariousfacultyblog.com/p/pfr-network.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PrecariousFacultyNetwork</a> <b>collections</b>:</span><br />
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<li><a href="http://www.one-tab.com/page/1znGhN1iSM-u1RJPQHzlQg" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">#academic labor, #1 Jan 1-20, 2016, 12 links</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></li>
<li><a href="http://www.one-tab.com/page/TNEIzZ6NQsuyYdFs1CE7rQ" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 25px; white-space: pre-line;" target="_blank">#highered Jan2016 #2, 14 links</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.one-tab.com/page/yjOePvySSyuhnv4vExdoBA" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 25px; white-space: pre-line;" target="_blank">Adjunct Union @LoyolaChicago, 10 links</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.one-tab.com/page/up5CueQ8TRKFqTBxZb9xiw" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 25px; white-space: pre-line;" target="_blank">#labor/work/organizing Jan2016, 18 links</a></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Next I bookmark the links to Diigo and subscribe the feed to InoReader. That was how I created online public archives for National Adjunct Walkout Day, COCAL Updates and Campus Equity Week (CEW). One 2016 intention is to do and share more information </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">projects</b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> with Diigo, InoReader and other apps.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I've got a year in review post in drafts and may get to that before the end of the month. Getting to a 2016 intentions post would be a plus. Don't make book on it though. The post does touch on a few briefly</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Considering <b>blogging</b>, a post a week is not bad considering how thin on the ground this blog was last year. I felt bad about that but obviously not enough to blog more. Then I counted all the other posts. Posts on just my adjunct related blogs on Blogger, WP and Tumblr ~ no social media ~ came to 700+. And I just wrote about what else</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/National-Adjunct-Walkout-Day-340019999501000/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">National Adjunct Walkout Day</a> and events tagged #<b>NAWD</b> counted for more blog and social media posts than any other topic in 2015. As for this year, there are some posts, mostly queries, on social media. <a href="http://cpfa.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CPFA</a> and the San Diego adjunct faculty association are planning a single blowout <a href="http://adjunctcrisis.com/2016/01/20/national-adjunct-action-day-is-2242016-for-us/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">National Adjunct Action Day</a>. #NADA anyone? The hashtag at this point seems to be #nawd2, but that could change. The NAWD Facebook page posted a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=528913443944987&id=340019999501000" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">thread</a> for people to post about plans and there's already a <a href="http://www.one-tab.com/page/N5kK4MSmTpONjQd1UuA5Bw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NAWD2 link page</a> that includes a few 2015 overview links.</span>Vanessa Vailehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647639725252430851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4902806755108251456.post-42653819401547988132016-01-18T17:34:00.000-07:002016-01-18T23:13:43.699-07:00#MLKDay2016 Digital #SocialJustice Memorial<div style="text-align: left;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;"><i>One commitment is to resist the whitewashing of Martin Luther King Jr. as a <a href="https://radicalscholarship.wordpress.com/2013/12/08/mandela-dishonored-by-passive-radical-myth/" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">passive radical</a>. So here, I offer some readings, varied and important, but pathways to honoring the radical MLK and to resisting the lingering <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/175884" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">dream deferred</a>.</i></span></blockquote>
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<li>"<a href="https://medium.com/@thejlv/read-this-before-co-opting-mlk-jr-90723cf4d284#.rdlq691kz" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">Read this</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> before co-opting Martin Luther King" by Jose Vilson</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Carry the richness of social justice stories, ideas, strategies, quotes, images etc. forward locally, nationally and globally. As David Zirin </span><a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/dr-martin-luther-king-muhammad-ali-and-what-their-secret-friendship-teaches-us-today/" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">writes</a><br />
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<i><span style="color: #444444;">At a time when a new movement is finding its feet to stand against police violence and stand for the deceptively simple request for people to see that #BlackLivesMatter, we would do well to remember the hatred endured by both these men in the name of delivering truth.</span></i> </blockquote>
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<i><span style="color: #444444;">Their only moral compass was one that pointed toward standing with the powerless against the powerful. That was the basis of their friendship. That should be basis of our own solidarity as we move forward today.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #000018; line-height: 25px; white-space: pre-line;">… </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">just a short, preliminary post with suggestions </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #000018; font-family: inherit; line-height: 25px; white-space: pre-line;">for following from afar, mostly </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">to get one out before the academic boycott sessions #<a href="https://apps.mla.org/program_details?prog_id=119&year=2016" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">s119</a> ("</span>Boycotting Israeli Academic Institutions<span style="font-family: inherit;">") </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">and #</span><a href="https://apps.mla.org/program_details?prog_id=148&year=2016" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">s148</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> ("</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Academic Boycott: Taking Sides")</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> start. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Here's an <a href="http://www.one-tab.com/page/ITVeN4UfTbyaerBwP9NJkQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">online reading list</a> to fill in any academic boycott informarion gaps you may have. If you think academia, the MLA and professional associations should be actively support social justice and be involved in movements, then you should follow and speak up in this discussion. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Then I'll get back to TweetDeck ~ following and sharing <a href="https://www.mla.org/Convention" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">MLA Convention</a> and <a href="http://mlasubconference.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">MLA Subconference</a>, checking in on #<a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23aha16" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AHA16</a>. As you have may have noticed, the entire <i><a href="http://www.precariousfacultyblog.com/p/pfr-network.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">precarious faculty network</a></i> has taken a sharp turn beyond the Ivory Silo</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #000018; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Roboto, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; white-space: pre-line;">™</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> to a broader social justice mission ~ and with it, away from an "all adjunct all the time" editorial policy. Yes, posts on that will be forthcoming. Among other issues, I've been following #BDS and told Sean I would. That was before loosing track of schedule and then oversleeping. Oops. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">My first MLA-by-twitter was 2009. In 2011, <a href="http://www.precariousfacultyblog.com/2011/01/following-mla11-and-aha2011-from-afar.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">blogged</a> about how to follow online. It could do with updating ~ another post. Conferences have become more aware and accommodating of social media in their presence. The short version: follow the hashtag, check the programs for session tags and look for active streams/tweeps to follow. Later there may be some blog posts. Don't expect to catch everything or try too. </span>Vanessa Vailehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647639725252430851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4902806755108251456.post-48163480544908437402016-01-02T00:24:00.002-07:002016-01-02T13:13:15.473-07:002015 in Review: Beyond the Ivory Silo™<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #000018; line-height: 25px; white-space: pre-line;">…</span>in links and lists, leaning to education, social justice and technology but not exclusively so. If you have a 2015 list or year in review post to add, post your (non-spam) link plus brief description in comments. </span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">This post is not about adjunct issues per se. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Consider it context -- and a harbinger of posts beyond the Ivory Silo</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #000018; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Roboto, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; white-space: pre-line;">™</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mainstream media, although present, does not dominate. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">A 2016 trends and intentions post will follow, on this blog... or another</span></i><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #000018; line-height: 25px; white-space: pre-line;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Looking at the date on the last post this morning, I realized it's coming on two weeks between posts. October been a busy month, with </span></span>#<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cew2015" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CEW2015</a>, a month of social justice actions and a handful of conferences behind us.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">In drafts, I have three different <a href="http://campusequityweek.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Campus Equity Week</a> posts: two farewell posts (random observations and link bundles) and one about sausage making for the <a href="http://www.inoreader.com/stream/user/1005957380/tag/Campus-Equity-Week/view/html" target="_blank">CEW Archive Project</a> (2001-2015 ~ not limited to this year's event). My intention is to explain the process as clearly as possible: it's a fishing lesson too. The more of us collecting and sharing information the better. During CEW, I ran the archive feed here, at the top of the left sidebar, but recently changed it out for "adjunct" with the intention of rotating topics.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Also I started a post about the <a href="http://linkresearchlab.org/dlrn2015/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">2015 dLRN Conference</a>, hashtagged #<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/dlrn2015" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">dLRN15</a> and titled "<a href="http://linkresearchlab.org/dlrn2015/about/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Making Sense of Higher Education: Networks and Change</a>." Notably, the event welcomed digital participation and had at least three sessions on adjunctification -- including one Plenary and a Keynote. I bookmarked a number of outstanding blog posts.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><a href="https://twitter.com/veletsianos" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">George Veletsianos</a> neatly <a href="http://www.veletsianos.com/2015/10/20/making-sense-of-the-digital-learning-research-network-gathering-dlrn15/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">summarizes</a>:</span><br />
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Many colleagues wrote reflections about it: <a href="https://catherinecronin.wordpress.com/2015/10/26/dlrn/" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Catherine Cronin</a>, <a href="http://kristeneshleman.com/dlrn15-reflections-why-should-you-trust-us/" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Kristen Eshleman</a>, <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/technology-and-learning/trying-make-sense-dlrn-2015" style="border-image-outset: initial; 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font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tim Klapdor</a>, <a href="https://spokeandhub.wordpress.com/2015/10/20/chihuahuas-among-the-new-foundlands-the-need-for-communities-of-practice-2-0-dlrn15-2/" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Alyson Indrunas</a>, <a href="http://adamcroom.com/2015/10/a-dlrn-detox/" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; 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When was the last time you were at a small conference, other than the ones focusing on blogging, and this many people took time after the event to blog about it?</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #444444;">This incomplete post has an excuse of sorts: I've been waiting for the videos.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">On the road ahead, <a href="http://www.digitalwritingmonth.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Digital Writing Month</a>, the <a href="http://nanowrimo.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NaNoWriMo</a> for nerdy educators, started November 1. To call the format <a href="http://www.digitalwritingmonth.com/2015/10/31/lets-launch-digiwrimo-your-month-your-goals/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">flexible</a> would be an understatement. It's not too late to jump in or necessary to go at any pace but your own.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Then comes semester end for most, the holiday season for all, followed <a href="https://www.mla.org/Convention" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">MLA Convention</a>, <a href="http://mlasubconference.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">MLA Subconference</a> and other conferences. Back in donkey days, covering MLA was obligatory, a burden: no longer. Siegfried Sassoon on foxhunting comes to mind. I'm more partial to Subcon for its inherent subversiveness and even more so to <a href="http://evosessions.pbworks.com/w/page/10708587/What-is-EVO" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">EVO</a> or Electronic Village Online for sentimental and other reasons. Above all, I am interested in how conferences can become more accessible and less exclusive as they evolve. As Bryan Alexander writes about #Edu15:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">So many topics and potential posts tucked away between the lines ...</span>Vanessa Vailehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647639725252430851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4902806755108251456.post-82521970271392950152015-10-24T02:51:00.000-06:002015-10-24T03:08:02.368-06:00October Days of Action—from teachers to #adjunct faculty #CEW2015<span style="background-color: white; color: #000018; line-height: 25px; white-space: pre-line;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">…</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">and points/days between. Earlier this month, when I started getting ready for CEW and developing a <a href="http://www.inoreader.com/stream/user/1005957380/tag/Campus-Equity-Week/view/html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CEW Archives</a> project, I noticed there seemed to a lot of such days this month. So I made a list ~ with links, of course. That's what I do. What does the list below seeing all those social, environmental and economic justice movements and days of actions side by side, tell us?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">From <i>World Teachers Day</i> to <i>Campus Equity Week</i> (leaving Keith's <a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/10/23/isnt-it-time-for-campus-equality-week/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Equality question</a> aside for now) October is loaded with social justice days for speaking out. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">However important raising public and internal group awareness is, we damn well better do more than show up to table, hang banners, pass out flyers and wear buttons for a few days out of the year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><img src="http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=www.rt.com" style="height: 16px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;" /> <a href="https://www.rt.com/usa/318266-us-million-man-march/" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle;">20th Million Man March, Washington DC, October 10</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><img src="http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com" style="height: 16px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;" /> <a href="http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/10/11/truth-telling-american-history-groups-fight-indigenous-peoples-day-162033" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle;">Indigenous Peoples Day, October 12 </a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><img src="http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=www.october22.org" style="height: 16px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;" /> <a href="http://www.october22.org/" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle;">Stop Police Brutality Day, October 22</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><img src="http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=ecowatch.com" style="height: 16px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;" /> <a href="http://ecowatch.com/2015/09/21/national-day-of-action-oct-14/" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle;">National Day of Climate Action Oct. 14</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So many silenced, threatened, actively persecuted voices are at greater risk than precarious academic labor. I hesitated to blog about adjuncts</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #000018; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Roboto, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 25px; white-space: pre-line;">—powerless, fearful, </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">cautious, invisible </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">but am going with those who would speak but are silenced and made invisible by no being listened to ~ even when heard</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />Not listening is another kind of silencing ~ non-violent, less openly retaliatory ~ but all the same still silencing. Listening and keeping the conversation going without taking it over </span>helps the the silenced raise their voices. Be an ally, a<span style="font-family: inherit;"> bridge, a connector, an amplifier in the larger information ecosystem. Above all, listen, acknowledge and respond. Use your own voice to educate and inform others.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">social justice connection </span>—<span style="font-family: inherit;"> adjuncts, precarious workers, immigrants, refugees, marginalized communities </span>—<span style="font-family: inherit;"> is as clear as the human rights connection, inseparable from it. Blogging and in digital media, I focus on mostly on adjuncts </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">(insecure, casual faculty), branching out into </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">precarious labor, neocolonialism, systematic exploitation of marginalized population </span>—<span style="font-family: inherit;"> and trying to understand the systems of control. Retired, I cannot be fired or non-renewed for speaking. That lays a geas on me to speak out for those still vulnerable</span><br />
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Vanessa Vailehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647639725252430851noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4902806755108251456.post-17354047446129568962015-10-15T07:43:00.002-06:002015-10-15T08:15:59.772-06:00#adjunct/ion Oct2015 #2, 13 links<div class="diigo-link" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> ~ Adjunction = adjunct collection. Collected on OneTab through October 13, 2015: <a _fcksavedurl="http://www.one-tab.com/page/VJeDi3tuRBaCfFWpjUq1jg" href="http://www.one-tab.com/page/VJeDi3tuRBaCfFWpjUq1jg">adjunction Oct2015 #2, 13 links</a>, saved to Diigo and rss reader, posted to the <a _fcksavedurl="http://www.precariousfacultyblog.com" href="http://www.precariousfacultyblog.com/">Precarious Faculty</a> online <a _fcksavedurl="http://www.precariousfacultyblog.com/p/reading-room.html" href="http://www.precariousfacultyblog.com/p/reading-room.html">Reading Room</a>. Focus includes academic labor, workplace, media, actions, adjunct stories.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This is an experiment </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">to fill PF blogging gap </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">using </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Diigo's "send to blog" tool -- not the first one. Although the last was well received, I didn't keep up with it but don't remember why. Anything bookmarked with the #PFR also goes to the <a href="http://www.precariousfacultyblog.com/p/reading-room.html" target="_blank">Reading Room</a> page, which updates automatically but does not syndicate to social media. I bundle other topics on OneTab for bookmarking likely to appear here if this works out: labor, higher ed, precarity, adjunct stories, education, conferences, working -- and more. </span></blockquote>
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Vanessa Vailehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647639725252430851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4902806755108251456.post-22915842445106914092015-10-11T01:29:00.001-06:002017-07-19T02:13:25.416-06:00checking in/catching up…<span style="font-family: inherit;">but not a return of that the prodigal blogger <i>redux</i> post. Still, this is the longest MIA stretch yet -- from just past mid July to almost mid October -- and 2015 likely to be its thinnest blogging year. Reports, however, of its death have been grossly exaggerated. A modicum of explanatory catching up is in order. Short version: the ripple effect of major life changes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Mid June I moved from Mountainair, New Mexico, to Yuma, Colorado -- sight unseen. Both are small, rural communities, very different despite commonalities. Just like a comparison / contrast essay prompt: that's another post for another time, another blog. I posted about moving on <i><a href="http://vcvaile.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Work and Life</a></i> (another blog) and G+ (#<a href="https://plus.google.com/communities/111619469354411254407" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">clmooc Community</a>)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Here as elsewhere, that ripple effect pushed changes, changed intentions and shifted focus. I'm also looking for more intersections with the rest of my life and other interests. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Going informationist, I've been concentrating on ReadingRoom content and information management. I've been using <a href="http://www.one-tab.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">OneTab</a> with <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/vcvaile" target="_blank">Diigo</a> and <a href="https://www.inoreader.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">InoReader</a> to aggregate, organize and syndicate. Except for feed gadgets and <a href="http://www.precariousfacultyblog.com/p/reading-room.html" target="_blank">Reading Room</a>, curation is off site on Tumblr, WordPress and others. The configuration is like a <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/video/archive/2012/03/rube-goldberg-explains-the-impossibility-of-perpetual-motion/254859/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rube Goldberg</a> contraption. Aggregation is not the same as curation. Explaining that is another post. '</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So if I aggregate and curate off-site and by widget and, as an unaffiliated independent, am not PR hustling for any adjunct faction, what do I do here? Been there, done that and don't even have a t-shirt to show for it. I can write about what's going on (or not) with the adjunct movement, in education and precarity. I can write about books, poetry, art, education, economics, labor, sustainability, growing old, surviving on a minimal fixed income, etc. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Precarity is not exclusively adjunct. Nor should adjuncts and adjunct issues co-opt other precarities. It's not just about us. That's the other direction. I've been headed that way for a while. OneTab bundles saved as web pages show that. For example, take <span style="color: #0072d6; display: inline; line-height: 26px; margin-right: 40px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-break: break-all;"><span style="line-height: 26px; margin-right: 40px; word-break: break-all;"><a class="readed" href="http://www.one-tab.com/page/SMZCahjBSuafWq8DYRdvKA" rel="nofollow" style="color: #0072d6; display: inline !important; line-height: 26px; margin-right: 40px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-break: break-all;" target="_blank">colonialism redux</a></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Open Sans'; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Too many depressing things are happening at the moment.... </span>Attacks on organised labour, on healthcare, on public service broadcasting, on education… It's like the Tories, with a majority of 12, bought a copy of <i><a href="http://www.precariousfacultyblog.com/2014/11/strike-shock-doctrine-enough-labor.html" target="_blank">The Shock Doctrine</a></i> and are using it as a guidebook. If you haven't read it, it traces how the CIA-supported 1973 fascist coup in Chile gave American monetarist economists (known as the Chicago Boys) the opportunity to try out all their ideas in one go, untrammelled by democracy, debate, human rights, concern for the people or any of those outdated ideas. </blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">....So that's what's happening in the UK (and Greece, obviously). A government is using a tiny mandate to rush through the privatisation of public services and the abolition of the very concept of the public good (here's the </span><a href="http://www.criticalinstitute.org/nocompetition/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #0b5394; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" target="_blank">excellent open letter on the marketisation of Higher Education</a><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">).</span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span lang="CY" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Infuriating though it often is, the BBC represents the very best of British culture (despite it being Establishment, Unionist, a capitalist shill and all the other things about it I hate). It believes in equality of representation, universality, and that very old-fashioned concept, ‘public service’. Without a broadcaster committed to serving us all uninfluenced by the profit motive or chasing ratings, we are all poorer.</span></span> </blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">* Image credit: <a href="http://finishyourthesis.com/academic-blogging/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">academic blogging meme</a> via<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"> <a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/DoraFarkasPhD" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 12.7272720336914px; text-decoration: none !important;" target="_blank"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 12.7272720336914px;">@</span><span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 12.7272720336914px; text-decoration: none !important;">DoraFarkasPhD</span></a> </span></span></i>Vanessa Vailehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647639725252430851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4902806755108251456.post-17499824658059853082015-07-08T00:25:00.000-06:002015-07-08T11:34:08.752-06:00oh noes not more #COCAL_Updates, #archives & #adjunct ppl who just don't get it<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Time to move on. That's why I did (please read my <a href="http://www.precariousfacultyblog.com/2013/12/on-recent-socialmedia-changes.html" target="_blank">December 2013 statement</a>). The collected <i>Precarious Faculty </i>pages, blogs, collections (manually curated, aggregated by algorithm or a combination thereof), and social media streams/platforms — not just this blog — are an <b>independent information network</b>. Obviously, that mean unaffiliated with any organization or group and working independently. Nor are areas of interest narrowly limited to adjunct advocacy. The "information" part comes from a firm conviction that being well informed -- and informing well -- are the best defenses in our mental arsenal.</div>
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Vanessa Vailehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647639725252430851noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4902806755108251456.post-46474890674761893902015-07-05T12:18:00.002-06:002015-07-25T11:46:03.902-06:00A call for public #adjunct discussion of #COCAL_Updates + Sunday Matinee<span style="font-family: inherit;">…because reactions to "adios Updates" post are not landing in comments on blog post or social media. Although about making resources public and open, comments and discussion have not been. Likewise, the <a href="https://extraordinaryfacultynfm.wordpress.com/2015/06/26/majority-rule-rises/" target="_blank">original notice</a> ("...<span style="background-color: #ffff99; color: #111111; line-height: 26.2437496185303px; text-decoration: inherit;"><i>in addition to Joe Berry’s regular COCAL updates</i><span style="font-style: inherit;">"</span></span>)</span>, posted publicly<span style="font-family: inherit;"> went without comment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On Facebook, discussion appears to be 100% backchannel via pm and closed group -- or groups. Elsewhere, I have no idea, but transparency and open discussion would be more productive. So I'm working on an "Updates Update" <i><a href="http://precaritydispatches.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Precarity Dispatches</a></i> post to clarify and (I hope) encourage open discussion, even volunteers for a collaborative Updates Archive Project</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">-- there not here because PD is the news branch of the PF Network (independent, unaffiliated and not an organization). This is the reflection, topic development (as opposed to curation), movies, and sometimes even occasional whimsy branch. More fun and exploration, less duty/obligation. For my personal <i>precarious faculty</i> blogging, <a href="https://extraordinaryfacultynfm.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><i>Majority Rising</i> </a>= liberation</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Now, what sounds good for a movie...or two? Free of course. How ur-adjunct does Depression Era comedy <i><a href="https://archive.org/details/my_man_godfrey" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">My Man Godfrey</a></i> (1936) from the Internet Archives sound? Roger Ebert <a href="http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-my-man-godfrey-1936" target="_blank">reviews</a> <i>My Man Godfrey</i></span><br />
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