Keep in mind a general strike is successful if 3.5 % join in.
The 3.5% is a concept and not a truth. I don’t remember where it started to spread, probably reddit, even if the idea has been around for a while. It’s stuck in the online psyche now. I’m all for protests, but thinking 3.5% is some magic button isn’t right.
Edit: I went digging to find a source of some of the idea. Here it is. A paper that discusses tbe original concept. There are some key points that people are missing when online throws the “rule” out there, and one of them is this:
The movements on which it was based were maximalist ones, i.e. overthrowing a government or achieving territorial independence. They were not reformist in nature,…
So any protest would probably need to accept violence as a possibility, I don’t think Trump and his goons are going to leave peacefully.
Also, the linked paper suggests that the majority of peaceful protests that succeeded had to surpass 3.5%.
As in all of these cities have work places on strike or said they will?
Each one of these cities it going to have a protest for a day and only eat a drink what they bought the day before to have something for Friday.
In what way is that a general strike? For a second there was hope, sigh, because a general strike is exactly what they need.
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American protests for you. They go on a shopping spree a day before the boycott protest so they don’t miss a beat.
