Akane Takahashi

For me that’s America and what drives me to learn American history. If I didn’t see the radical hope in it I wouldn’t have spent my life doing this 🙂

Ahhh! I wish I could be there!

Exactly! I live super close to Dodger Stadium and I have to budget for about $150 a game (ticket, parking/transportation, maybe a drink?). That’s why I can’t go often.

My first baseball game was a Rockies game, back when Tulo was there. I remember going there so frequently which feels nostalgic.

🔊 Listen Now: Win or lose, Colorado Rockies fans love their struggling team. That may be a problem In The NOCO from KUNC on NPR One | 9:14

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I love this “idk why but we suck but people love us sorry 🥺” podcast. Because their baseball is still what it should be - just a good, affordable night out with families and friends.

Stay safe! Our area of northern Japan had about 2 ft of tsunami this time, which doesn’t seem much, but even 1 ft of moving water can make people panic, fall and drown…

I’m at the other side of the pacific and my fam, my folks and I are all safe. With the tsunami warning still in effect I encourage everyone to remain calm and alert

This Day in Labor History: July 27, 1989. Workers at the Nissan plant in Smyrna, Tennessee, rejected United Auto Workers representation by a 2-1 margin. This is one of the many overwhelming defeats the UAW has suffered in organizing the South, a problem that still plagues it to the present!

Now I realize this is a common Asian and Asian American experience, just with different condiments and spices

I say this as an LA transplant whose first memories as a toddler were made in Kansas then later in rural Japan

I don’t think “America isn’t just NYC or LA” and “cities too are America” are necessarily contradictory, but, oh well

💡!!

My hot take is Nathan should be paid for all the resources he’s put together but nonetheless he continues to volunteer for the community 🥺

It’s crazy that we hear the news of bear attacks almost everyday and local people are getting hurt. In many areas humans and bears have coexisted with strong boundaries, however, recent decrease in summer plants in the mountain (due to large scale developments) forces them to come to villages.

A waterfall between a crevice

Shallow mountain stream almost covered with moss and rocks. Over the stream there is a Japanese / Shinto style bridge

View from the bridge

Short hike with my best friend. Serene and rejuvenating. This waterfall has been considered as a representation of deity among local residents. We didn’t go too far since there are many bears in this area lately, and obviously, they were here first before us and should be respected.

A bell pepper in the fetal position

Same, little pepper, same

Unlike my grandpa I am not expert on the Buddhist teachings that are associated with the flower.

But the idea that something this beautiful emerges from a quagmire gives me hope. Because with all that is going on that feels like a bottomless swamp, we still have humanity and beauty within us 🪷

Three sacred lotus flowers emerging and blooming

Some timeline cleanse. This sacred lotus was propagated from the seeds harvested in an ancient temple in our area that is now a world heritage site. Reminds me of what my grandpa used to say. Lotus blooms out of muddy swamp and even if the water is bad they thrive beautifully.

Matt Garcia’s review of The Strikers of Coachella: A Rank-and-File History of the UFW Movement (@uncpress.bsky.social) by Christian Paiz

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Erik Loomis’ (@erikloomis.bsky.social) review of Union Booms and Busts: The Ongoing Fight over the U.S. Labor Movement (Oxford University Press) by Judith Stepan-Norris and Jasmine Kerrissey

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Shelton Stromquist’s review of The World in a City: Multiethnic Radicalism in Early Twentieth-Century Los Angeles (@illinoispress.bsky.social) by David M. Struthers

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I need to share this fact with my Japanese American aunties who do reparation work woth African American community members

ありがとうございます！気候も厳しく、選挙も近く、お仕事も何かと大変かと思いますが、西口さんもどうぞご自愛ください☺️

We now have siblings in Korea!!

おもしろく読みましたのでシェア．

8時間を睡眠に，8時間を余暇に，そして残りの8時間を労働に，と訴えた労働運動は実はけっこう昔のもの．8時間が当たり前と思いがちだけど，昔は12時間，11時間，10時間のために戦った人たちがそれぞれいたわけです．

と，定時がない仕事(裁量労働‼︎)の身で言いますが，なんで労働史研究者なのにいつもオーバーワーク気味なの？という質問だけはご勘弁を…

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きのう久々にテレビをみたら，「日本人は自分たちのことしか考えなくなっている」と問題視する演説が映って，なるほど共助を訴えるのかなとおもったら「日本人ファースト」といいはじめて，わたしが日本を離れている間に日本語というのはもっともっと難しくなっていたのだなと思いました

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Big news: The NYC Central Labor Council - AFL-CIO just announced that it is endorsing Zohran

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