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America Needs a Mass Movement—Now | Without one, America may sink into autocracy for decades.
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I think we are past the point of protests and need to start a general strike. I don't care if we have to plan it around a certain date like the protests, it needs to be done. Hit them where it hurts, their wallets. And I know some of y'all are gonna say shit like "we're so docile that we have to plan it and we're not just out in the streets all day everyday so it'll never work," and you are absolutely right and it's by design. Unfortunately we are still human and would rather keep ourselves and our families fed and housed and that's exactly what they are taking advantage of here. But instead of complaining online that everyone else isn't doing enough, we need to just work with what we have. And if we need to pick a date so people can get shit together, so be it.
Bitching about how things are and who's at fault is never going to work when we need everyone. I don't care if you are a regretful republican, non voter, or a democrat and I don't care if it's technically your fault, we need everyone. We are all fucked right now. And laughing at your fellow passengers on this sinking ship isn't going to save you, we are all going down.
I think now is the time for No Kings to start floating the idea for fundraising a general strike fund and signing the general strike cards.
I work for a pretty small company with only 15 employees so I'm not sure how big my impact will be, but we do have a lot of clients that are much larger companies and corporations. I will absolutely inquire within.
That’s the thing, everyone is essential except the losers at the top. You stop doing your job and there’s a huge problem no matter how big or small.
We need the Teamsters and truck drivers and train operators on our strike. And every grocery store worker all at once for at least a week.
There's always making employee owned businesses....
Even if you are employee-owned that doesn’t mean you need to do labour for large corporations during a general strike.
Yeah I'm thinking more long term. You want the owning class to tremble, then start making employee owned businesses. Socialize the economy.