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and thinkers who are working both to challenge the Trump administration and the circumstances that created it.to really create the sense that ‘We are actually the majority here and we are in solidarity with each other and we will be there to support each other as we take these braver steps to create a society where our values are reflected.

There is no structure to deal with the expectation that as an oppressed person I have to teach you about my oppression while also trying to deal with it.I think right now we need to be putting resources into structures and ideas that actually do that [organizing] work.SJ: One of the things that I think about a lot in terms of people getting comfortable with taking risks is the steps that people have to go through before they are willing to chain themselves to a barricade at Donald Trumps inauguration.

I have no idea how the larger marches are planning on engaging people and bringing people to a clearer sense of how we could actually design a system that actually reflects our values.BJ: I immediately thought of the James Baldwin quote about needing to put our bodies on the line to make sure the gears dont work.

I think the way that they were able to hold the space [at the inauguration] was really indicative of that.

Folks who are close to the agree with us part/indifferent part—that is what I thought the march really was geared to.the easier it is for workers rights to be eroded in the economy of clicks.

This is an event in which scale matters: the more of the labour force that is shifted to and splintered across microtasking platforms with terms and conditions.  Jones ends on a hopeful note as microworkers begin to organise.

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