Day 121.

Another very busy day, but some thoughts on yesterday’s strike that are best said by Kelly Hayes. No, not everyone could take yesterday off to strike. But to criticize everyone that does as privileged – how does that help?

I wonder if these people would have condemned the strikes and boycotts of the last century — actions that are well celebrated in the history books and in movement spaces today, despite the fact that they centered the participation of those who could enact a particular tactic. I wonder if these people have even read such histories, including the history of International Women’s Day. Do the people launching angry think pieces about the strike understand that this day is rooted in a labor strike?…

Can we spend more time exploring and learning than we do critiquing? Because the left is the only land I know of where people actually think that picking apart every emerging project will somehow lead to the emergence of an adequate project.

Ask yourself, what are you building? What are you healing? The vast majority of the time, if you can’t answer that question, you are misdirecting your energies.

Let’s join together. Let’s find common ground with people we don’t agree 100% with, here on the left. Let’s abandon purity tests and meet people where they are and forge common cause.

So much is in the balance.