summer’s end: yummy music and labor action ⚒

it’s September already how?

howdy, friends 🤠

hope this newsletter finds you well and rested. here are some offerings as we close out the summertime and receive the next season of fall (or if you live in South Florida, summer 2.0).

Hot Labor Summer
Happy Labor Day to all the workers who make our world go round 😊  Some local and national news to inspire us to keep on pushing:

• Hotel workers of the Diplomat, one of miami beach’s biggest resorts, vote by 99% to strike. The workers are represented by UNITE HERE Local 355, who represents nearly 7,000 workers at hotels, airports, casinos, and stadiums in South Florida

• Amazon Labor Union and Starbucks Workers United are marching for recognition this Labor Day. The workers won the union – it’s time for the bosses to recognize and bargain. Workers will be marching in NYC from Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz’s penthouse to Jeff Bezo’s $100M penthouse.

• Last week, after workers organize strikes at over 350 restaurants across the state, California State Senate passed bill AB257, sending it to the governor’s desk for signature. The bill would create a Fast Food Council that would give over half a million workers a seat at the table on issues like wages, health & safety, the right to be free from discrimination & harassment & more. Read more details about how workers won this legislation here.

Bad Bunny as El Muerto inspires Miles Morales x Un Verano Sin Ti illustration 😻

It’s no doubt that Puerto Rico’s culture has found itself in the mainstream in recent years… while in the background the people on the island are enduring the realities of disaster capitalism, privatization, and all the repression that comes with being a colony of the U.S.

In the past few weeks, the island has seen demonstrations against LUMA Energy, a U.S and Canadian energy corporation that has increased fees on families while refusing to improve PR’s electrical grid. Read more here.

budpuertorico @budpuertoricoII

🚨 Puerto Ricans are again on the streets of Old San Juan, in front of the Governor's Mansion, protesting against the incompetence and corruption of the private electric utility @lumaenergypr, a U.S. and Canadian company, that hasn't been able to improve the electric grid of PR.

22 songs for summer ‘22

End of summer playlist curated by yours truly ~ vibes are best when played in order ❤️‍🔥

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