Godfrey Moase
@godfreymoase.bsky.social
All content I post here are very much my own views and not that of my employer. Reposts are not agreement. Check out my newsletter: https://open.substack.com/pub/godfreymoase
Our Summer Program concludes today with MASSIVE GLACIER COLLAPSE COMPILATION VOL 9, a brilliant new poem by Lach Valentine. Generously supported by our friends at @copower.bsky.social.
Massive glacier collapse compilation vol 9 - Overland literary journal
we are pointing at anything / that flickers, flowers, and beats / our hearts, the trees, and the stars / all set to be slaughtered / in the Anthropocene™ we have set / as revenge for the exile
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Bluesky says it suspended author Sarah Kendzior because she was "expressing a desire to shoot the author of an article." But there's more to the story:
Bluesky Is Clearly Not a Johnny Cash Fan
A user was banned for making a Johnny Cash reference. Where's the dividing line between serious threat and jokey pop culture reference?
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Today is the last day of Overland Subscriberthon. This is the sort of independent media we need to keep alive in Australia. Please subscribe!
Overland Journal@overlandjournal.bsky.social · 9mo agoFor the last day of our Subscriberthon we have set aside something *very* special: a gallery of stunning portraits of Palestinian activists by Tia Kasambalis, with an introduction by Tasnim Mahmoud Sammak. Here’s PORTRAITS OF RESISTANCE.
The need for more cooperatives has never been more urgent. Great write up by @godfreymoase.bsky.social on @graceblakeley.substack.com
When the World is on Fire, Cooperate
Why worker cooperatives matter, what Piketty got wrong, and how economic democracy can still be born amid crisis.
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@graceblakeley.substack.com is just one of life’s good comrades. It’s a real privilege writing a piece on cooperatives for her newsletter. open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...
When the World is on Fire, Cooperate
Why worker cooperatives matter, what Piketty got wrong, and how economic democracy can still be born amid crisis.
open.substack.com
Capitalism is a system which exhausts people and planet. If you feel exhausted, you feel capitalism.
So proud of what the Grill’d workers have started here. This is just the beginning. www.weareunion.org.au/after_paying...
After paying its staff less than minimum rate for years, Grill’d buckles under union pressure
We are a movement of people, workers, union members, standing together for a just and equitable Victoria. A Victoria where all people are respected and valued, and all working people are organised, ...
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Latest post up on the newsletter. Here’s a bit of a discussion about worker power and strategy. open.substack.com/pub/godfreym...
Chapter 2: The Solidarity Wedge
Part I. Understanding worker power.
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Latest newsletter post. Australia’s definition of freedom of association has it all wrong and it impeded the cause of human freedom. open.substack.com/pub/godfreym...
Freedom and Unions
Chapter 1: Humanity and its Horrors Part III
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Of course, this opens up a new form of protected industrial action where workers vote up a ban on compliance with social media policies and basically @ the dictatorship.
Godfrey Moase@godfreymoase.bsky.social · 11mo agoAustralian workers are getting warnings from Australian-owned corporations for expressing opinions on US politics.
Australian workers are getting warnings from Australian-owned corporations for expressing opinions on US politics.
Next post up in the newsletter with a little bit of hope. open.substack.com/pub/godfreym...
The potential for daily life beyond capitalism
Chapter 1: Humanity and its Horrors Part II
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This is a political attack on the free expression of writers and artists.
Crikey@crikey.com.au · 11mo agoExclusive: Australia’s second-oldest literary journal, Meanjin, is being shut down today for "financial" reasons, Crikey can reveal.
By her own definition, with apologies to Douglas Adams, she should now have her office funding cut and disappear in a puff of logic
Jo Dyer@instanterudite.bsky.social · 11mo agoOne could be forgiven for being confused about current definitions of anti-semitism.
NEW: Australia's Future Fund increased its holdings in Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems by 469% in 2024, deepening Australia's financial ties with companies profiting from the Gaza genocide. www.deepcutnews.com/p/exclusive-...
Exclusive – Future Fund’s investment in Israeli arms firm skyrockets
Calls grow for Australia's sovereign wealth fund to divest from companies linked to Israeli atrocities
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It's not a 'clash' if it's neo-Nazis storming a group of people - it is an attack. Also, it's always ok to punch a Nazi. Hope that helps.
Elon’s ongoing breakdown is quite the case study in why the capitalists themselves need liberation from capitalism.
This is the last post for the Introduction where I outline the solidarity wedge itself which rests on organising at work, organising for ownership and political organising. open.substack.com/pub/godfreym...
Introduction Part V
Introducing the solidarity wedge
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Whenever I hear any labour movement leader making it about themselves or any other single leader, I think of these words from The Internationale: “No saviour from on high delivers No faith have we in prince or peer Our own right hand the chains must shiver”
For the first time today, I broke workers up into small groups to talk about a company offer and how they are feeling at a mass meeting. It was a mass meeting where every worker got to have their say and connect with co-workers.
Personally all the first drafts for my newsletter are hand written. Can’t recommend the old school approach of hand writing first as a way to clarify thinking free of digital distraction.
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 11mo agoSo far, the main businesses that have been financially benefited from AI have been the producers of blue books www.wsj.com/business/cha...
