Feb 26 -
“The strike is a snow storm bringing in the winter that didn’t come. Long predicted but still disruptive, it will blow through the streets, battering the walls, finding the cracks where the roofs have been leaking. Once I was in Halifax when a snow storm stopped the whole city from functioning normally. The snow filled the streets so completely that businesses didn’t open, deliveries weren’t made, and the police could hardly patrol the slippery streets. For a moment capitalism, in effect, was interrupted. If a snow storm could be strategic about its targets, if it could choose the best places to circulate and the best places to bring to a standstill—in short, if it could be a strike—then things would begin to change in earnest. If a strike could be like that storm in Halifax, it would not only freeze tuition but move in minus degrees, subtracting from the costs we are already asked to pay, toward free education. And, finally, toward anti-capitalist alternatives.” (Carl Willat, over the edge writing from the upcoming Midnight Kitchen newsletter)
anti-capitalist weather tactics, february feelings as political depression, <3 this
