I appear on stage, arising from my strike, to point to an exceedingly important feminist post and to introduce a new blog, 49 percent.
Of course, the idea of 49% means to me 49% time, no benefits, and makes me want to burst into song (to the tune of “Joy To the World”):
Joy to UC,
the world has come
Clark Kerr has called us reds!
If you are forty-nine percent
You can’t work for the government
The University
Turns out more GNP
Without your subversion
On its property.
That, of course, was a strike song. It is from before my time, but I learned it.
Axé.
P.S. Full context: I think the 49% in the song actually refers to Kerr’s saying 49% of the demonstrators were not university people but “outside agitators.” Still the 49% as I feel it also works / adds a layer, I say.