Minnesota lawmakers are supporting a strike on Jan. 23, urging people to skip work, stay home from school and not go shopping for the day. More on why they support the strike here:
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.
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.
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.
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”
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.