Sort of nullifies the effectiveness of a general strike if you agree ahead of time that its only for one day, a friday even. I’ll take whatever we can get at this point but calling this an actual “General strike” is a bit exaggerated.
Strikes don’t end until demands are met.
Fair question, but you have to start somewhere. Most early strikes and protests aren’t about succeeding on the first attempt with anything, but more conditioning people to see this as a new norm, and get used to the idea of a strike.
It’s also a great way (protesting specifically), to meet others of a like mind and exchange contact details and get organized.
What needs to happen next is another folowup general strike if nothing changes that lasts for 3 days.
Then one that lasts for a week.
Then 2 weeks.
Then a month.
Then in perpetuity until demands are met.
Countries and people who are not used to striking or protesting need baby steps to get there. The US is not used to this sort of civil disobedience and need time to ramp up to this being the new norm for everyone until the fascist in chief is chased out of the office.
To make national news all it needs to do is shut down the airport. Prolonged shutdown of airports does far more damage to the politicians and wealthy than it does to average people which is why republicans are so afraid of it.
A one day strike will absolutely test what kind of power is being weilded by the public.
A general strike should be national, not just state wide. Especially when it’s the federal government causing the problems and not the state government.
Baby steps.
This mutually demonstrates to each other that we are all fed up and ready to take action.
I think it’s a good test to help determine how much support it has from the public and how many people will actually participate.
I hope you are right, however this was said about the length of time between the protests about the obese imbecile. “It takes time” “baby steps” “we need to gain momentum”, etc etc, and look how that turned(fizzled) out.
Again, I hope so. Please, guys, do something.Exactly right. If it has some success it could light a match
A full day off is an effective show of force and basis for future organization. You can use it to gauge how many people are willing to actually put their money where their mouth is. If it stops here, it’s bad. But it’s a good start
For real, if you are actually on the ground in MN, you need to be doing every single thing you can to switch the verbage to “we’re doing this until demands are met” none of this “we promise we’ll stop in a bit, please don’t go have drinks with your buddies all weekend and forget this was even planned”
Also, not you, collective you
A Friday 2 days from now.
I’m all for a general strike, but I do need to do little things like make sure there’s food in the pantry first.
I get there’s urgency, but a half-hearted shrug of a strike that we can’t maintain for more than a day is just gonna embolden them.
This needs to be a national strike not just Minnesota.
You are welcome to join us from anywhere. Workers of the world unite.
I will doing my part too from my small northern Nevada town. We are all in this together. We have to be the ones who will save us.
The rest of the country should join
I am. In solidarity with my home state of MN. Feels small, but it’s what I’ve got to give.
I’m in from MT
Thank you buddy.
There are multiple solidarity marches near me, one in SF and 1 in Oakland.
I’m on a 9/80 schedule now and Friday is my off day. I’m already not working that day.
Same here but in solidarity with MN we’ve just decided to refuse to spend any money anywhere, whether locally or online. It’s what we can do, and we’re doing it.
If everyone in the US (or elsewhere and doing business with US companies, if you feel so inclined) who is pissed about this simply does what they can, Friday will be a great start.
For those of you who are from outside the US, this is a Fox affiliate, which is a pretty conservative news source, but less conservative than Fox News proper, since it’s for the MSP area specifically. Still an indicator that we’re likely to see very good participation.
KMSP is owned by Fox Television Stations, LLC.
So it is operated by Fox directly, as opposed to explicitly hard conservative groups like Sinclair or Nexstar.
Thanks!
this is a Fox affiliate, which is a pretty conservative news source, but less conservative than Fox News proper,
That’s not really how it works…
If it was an affiliate someone like Sinclair owns it and operates under Fox, like a franchise.
Fox still owns this one, so the Murdocha control it directly. But the level of influence exerted varies.
Feel free to elaborate further here; I was just going for a quick one-line summary. The finer points of American media ownership are truly Lovecraftian.
It’s one company masquerading as several. It’s an as close to an absolute monopoly as you could get. It might even beat out Nestle or Pepsi co
Feel free to elaborate further here
There’s not really anything else, or I’d probably have said it already…
Just weird to have someone ask me if they have any more questions. Like, if you want to learn about stuff, asking questions is a pretty important part of the proces
Just weird to have someone ask me if they have any more questions.
Oh noes! People trying to engage on a social network explicitly created to foster discussion!
What?
They didn’t ask any questions, they asked if there was anything else I should explain to them…
(And to explain why that doesn’t make sense, is I have zero clue what else they don’t know)
So I suggested they ask a question if they had any …
And I legitimately don’t understand why you’d respond to that with:
Oh noes! People trying to engage on a social network explicitly created to foster discussion!
I just don’t understand what you are doing
I have already asked you all the questions I have regarding the contours of the American media landscape. Thank you for offering your time and expertise.
Alright man, you’re welcome I guess
Good for the lawmakers here.
Thank you for the archive link, OP, I hate visiting fox links.
The one nice thing about reading fox is they take articles that are roughly center-left eu politics and write articles about them as if they are communist propaganda. The more centrist papers just… don’t mention them at all. If you can withstand the awful editorial voice, it’s actually a pretty reasonable source for news.
It’s the least they can do. And a one day strike is useless AF. General strike is no one works until demands are met.
Might be too cold for the march but cold enough for any excuse to not go outside for work or school
Yeah for sure. Probably the video call on Tuesday is more realistic.
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Is that the one for 2PM only for the 1 day on a Friday?
These one day strikes and protests do Jack shit. The whole point of a strike or protest is to stop economic progress until demands are met and that takes way longer than a day. Has the current administration ever bothered to listen to these weekend protesters even once? Step your game up.
Right, we should never even start anything until any suggested plan meets with your full approval first, and only then if it is 100% guaranteed to hit the goal in one shot.
Fuck that. Shitting on a small start is just another way of saying you hate that anyone is trying to do anything. Like how the very same people who bothered to go to peaceful protests over the summer – “that’s not good enough! that’ll never do anything!” – are the ones now organizing direct action in their communities: I bet you think that’s coincidence.
Yeah, no. But thanks for letting us know what side you’re on.
Me, I stand with MN. If this is where they wanna start, I’ll start there too. There will always be plenty like you to judge helplessly from the sidelines.
