labor day
when the workers get to spend
their only time
short one act plays pretending
everyone is free

#poem #poetry #tanka #bonsaiku
#laborDay #poetrycommunity #slaveEconomy
#wrdz

Nicholas Radburn— "If you think about locations transformed by the transatlantic slave trade, you’ll likely recall American plantations or former slaving forts on the coast of West Africa. You are less likely to think of the English countryside. Nowhere is this truer than Lakeland, a rural area of northwest England that has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site because of its cultural importance and natural beauty, which is seemingly unmarred by industry and commerce. [...] Lakeland thus captures the appealing essence of rural England: comforting, unchanging, and insulated from the outside world.

Despite its carefully cultivated appearance of timeless pastoralism, Lakeland was nonetheless intimately connected to the Atlantic World through the manufacturing of gunpowder for the slave trade. "

@histodons #histodons #SlaveEconomy #RuralEngland #HistoryOfTrade

https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2023/07/24/the-lake-district-and-atlantic-slavery/

Do you think that #covid is milder? This study shows no such thing for children - if 'cos unvaccinated then the "mildness" of #omicron in adults is likely down to #vaccination https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/children-infected-with-omicron-more-likely-to-have-repeat-er-visits-canadian-study-1.6311195
Meanwhile UK offers #boosters to ever-more restricted groups https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/07/covid-booster-vaccine-vulnerable-people-uk-to-be-offered-spring
& stops surveys of infection this month
Next they will insist being ill with covid is no reason to stay off work. Because it's "mild". Live with covid? - with #LongCovid, more like.
Welcome to the #slaveEconomy

... necks bowed
pulling on the oars ...

https://clover.serveblog.net/w0dz/trickle-down

#poetry #slaveEconomy #capitalism #smallpoems

@kityates @mikeday @ayarocks
But dont forget the advantages: Maintain stress on the #NHS.
When #SaveTheNHS fails, endemic (Long)#Covid will provide a huge platform of the slightly unwell who need to pay for treatment, and who dare not #strike. A huge upgrade for the #SlaveEconomy.
And someone will have to build the new #workhouses. A wet dream for #ToryDonors.

Things you might not know:
How Slavery Almost Didn't End in 1865
https://open.substack.com/pub/kevinmlevin/p/how-slavery-almost-didnt-end-in-1865?utm_source=direct&r=1dsqn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

#SlaveEconomy
#Emancipation
#USCivilWar
#KevinLevin

Things you might not know:
How Slavery Almost Didn't End in 1865
https://open.substack.com/pub/kevinmlevin/p/how-slavery-almost-didnt-end-in-1865?utm_source=direct&r=1dsqn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

#SlaveEconomy
#Emancipation
#USCivilWar
#KevinLevin