✨blake✨
@radtransdude
IATSE labor rep, entertainment rigger, & scenic carpenter with a penchant for industrial unionism & the outdoors✌️❤️🇵🇸🏳️⚧️ they/he
"Gender is a performance" Well buddy, I'm a union stage tech, so it's gonna cost you extra to get my ass on stage
"Fernando Rocha’s ICE detainment despite pending asylum and clean record reveals conflicts between federal immigration actions and local school protections." visaverge.com/news/juanita-h… via @visaverge #FreeFernandoNow
Fernando paid taxes on those earnings. His family has shown proof that refutes claims he has a criminal background or pending charges in the USA or Brazil. He has a pending asylum case in the USA. He was detained at a compulsory immigration check-in. #FreeFernandoNow
NEW: Records show Juanita High School Theater Manager Fernando Alves-Rocha made more than $90K last year off the backs of taxpayers. ICE agents recently busted this illegal from Brazil. Leaders in the Lake Washington School District have a lot of explaining to do. 🧵👇🏽
IATSE Local 15 stands in unwavering solidarity with our union kin, Fernando Rocha, a dedicated Performing Arts Center Manager within the Lake Washington School District at Juanita High School, who was recently detained by ICE. #FreeFernandoNow
As a union member THIS! Y'all think I like ALL my coworkers? Hell no, but I'm gonna fight for their rights as workers until the day I die.
We need to return to the more expansive definition of community that does not end at friends Because actually there are people who you will not like, be annoyed by, even detest, in the community you live in and are part of. They are not disposable because of your discomfort
I just signed a @theactionnet petition: Stand with IATSE Local 15 Stagehands at Tacoma City Theaters! Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/stan…
Talking to my mom about the bureaucracy of adulthood (she works in academia). She mentioned at meetings people will say "I didn't read this but..." I have been making the excuse that maybe some of my coworkers can't read but college professors are doing the same shit! 😭😭😭
I was born to be a hater but forced to understand where you’re coming from in the name of "good faith bargaining" #unionstrong
Can someone who has lived here longer than me explain why so many Seattle drivers insist on parking the wrong way on the side of the street?
I gotta be honest, with all the shit going on in this world, I don't give a fuck what color suit Trump wore to a Pope's funeral. He is a fascist either way.
Idk how to break this to some employers, and sometimes fellow workers, but... The asshole employee and the nice employee have the same workers rights 🤷
The reason I don't go out to the bars much since moving to Seattle from Chicago has nothing to do with drinking less and everything to do with the lack of Tamale Guys here 😭
🎉 Historic win in Seattle! Stagehands at Showbox Market & Showbox SoDo just ratified their first union contract with IATSE Local 15 — becoming the first nightclub stage crew to unionize in the city's history! Better wages, benefits, and safety are on the way! ✊
I doubt it's because they're Jewish and more about the fact they're going to a lecture by a far-right politician with disgusting ideas and who is part of an "anti Arab" political party.
Jewish students being screamed at for attending a lecture at Yale
I am really saddened by the level of vitriol and hatred being directed toward the trans community. We are losing our common humanity. How hard is it to treat people with kindness and respect? Trans people are human beings — and they deserve to live in dignity.
"If life gives you lemons, make lemonade." Sorry I live in Seattle so that lemonade's gonna have a hefty tax on it, might want to stick with the fresh produce. It's "healthier".
New text scam where they pose as Amazon and tell me I'm getting a full refund with a link. Jokes on them I haven't utilized Amazon in years and neither should you.