Are you now, or have you ever been, precarious? Are you working temp or part-time, contingent or “subcontracted”, flexploited labor? Are you an “assistant manager” on salary in a chain store, unlimited hours and no benefits? Is your neighborhood in the sights of a real estate developer? Is your company shifting work overseas? Are they hiring undocumented workers at ridiculously low wages? If so, then you’re precarious. (More below on the fact that the undocumented worker is the most precarious of all.)
Are contemporary neoliberal government policies of social disinvestment gutting your schools, filling privatized jails with your pot-smoking neighbors and relatives, leaving your levees to burst? How high do gas prices have to go before it doesn’t even make sense to commute to your job anymore? What happens to you and your family if you get sick? Are you like the Little Mermaid, minding your own business, struggling but getting by, and then in a split second…
You’re suddenly PINK?!?!
