#reasons to have a dance party
the left will fail and keep failing as long as it doesn’t offer joy or a vision of the future. Like chris smalls and the union organizers didn’t win by writing scathing op-eds about Amazon and sending out long dry newsletters with donation links about Amazon’s unfair labor practices to employees, they won by literally meeting people where they were at, at the bus stop where the workers gathered to go home, and hosting cookouts and bonfires. He ate with people and smoked with them and talked to them about their lives and the job, about their rights as workers and how life could be better. He brought joy to them!!! And food and community!! And that’s how one of the biggest victories for labor in a century was won. If I can’t dance I don’t want to be in your revolution
It’s funny that you mention dancing because after my library’s vote to unionize passed, we actually had a dance party. Rented out a room, got a former employee who supported our organizing to DJ, and just…celebrated. At the end of the night he played “Solidarity Forever” and we all stood in a big circle with our arms around each other and danced. Still one of my favorite moments.
