Can we stop making random calls like this on social media? We need actual organization and leadership to be directing this stuff.
Every journey begins with the first step, put your shoes on.
99% of people will never even know this is a thing. It’s going to have more negative impact on low wage earners who show up than anything else.
Maybe you should join the organization and let them know.
Take charge then.
Then contact your Democratic representatives and get the ball rolling.
As if Democrats actually do anything to stop Trump
Then try the DSA.
This kind of organization doesn’t really work, you cant just set a day without a strong organized backing
Then contact them and help them organize.
My first impulse on reading this stuff is “Who are you guys? I’ve never even heard of you before?”
Like, I definitely get the Think Big impulse but… this is reprint of a rallying cry from a lightly distributed Canadian Newspaper. Is this even directed at Americans? Idfk.
I might at least take this more seriously if I’d heard about it through my local DSA chapter rather than as a random graphic on the back corner of a small social media forum.
You can always contact the organizers and constructively offer help, I’m sure they would welcome it.
I wish you best of luck to fight against your authoritarian and early-fascist regime.
Nevertheless it’s also possible to let the US burn down and join the united states of Europe. We need more (left) minded people as well before it’s too late like in the US.
Banning Science and specific topics in education…that’s how it began here in Germany
Ya know eveytime I see these I wonder, “how did the Arabs do it?” They actually did something in Egypt. We can’t even agree to take the same day off.
materialist differences
Significant organizational differences, as well. Egypt has a much more nationalized economy. Also, a lot of these movements are managed at the grassroots level through networks of mosques.
Americans - particularly the terminally online liberals - hate religious organizations. They’re mostly corporate hacks or gig workers. And they think half the people in their social media channel are either cops or tankies or cops posing as tankies.
How do you organize on those grounds?
Really appreciate that. Thanks.
Fuck democracy. Let’s take this bitch by force.
— y’all
Troll comment, but I’ll bite. It’s a fun opportunity for inappropriate analogies!
Winning with just shy of 50% on the total vote does not grant you a mandate from heaven to assfuck the other 51% of constituents. Consent of the governed and all that.
The losers accept a certain degree of non-consensual edging for the sake of getting along. Not how they’d like things, but as long as the pants stay on they can put up with it until the next election. If you start acting like you won the entire continent and the asses of the peasantry belong to you, you’re probably gonna learn why the previous administrations didn’t push the system that far.
Good luck, he would probably win another election today. Cant save a democracy where the electorate is stupid.
How do you think fascism arose in Germany? Was it a complex process set forth by the treaty of Versailles, embarrassment after WWI, rapid technological advancement by Germany, instability from the great depression, instability in the Weimar republic, etc…
Or do you really think fascism just comes out of the aether when somehow millions of voters become “stupid” all of a sudden?
We should probably try though, because of the implications.
Might be better off signing up here. They’re trying to get commitments for a general strike.
They document working on narrowing their demands more specifically once they hit certain goals.
I signed up and asked about 20 people to sign it. ✊🏻
I’ll Post It.
What are they protesting? Its completely vague about why.
While the full list of demands is still being added to, discussed, edited and submitted to a legal expert, some of our basic demands are as follows:
Protection and permanent guarantee of civil rights for all
Total government reform
Publicly funded health care
Adequate and accessible disability support and services
A permanent solution to Homelessness, hunger and the housing crisis
Respect and support for tribal Sovereignty and involvement with indigenous leadership for environmental action
Enhanced enforcement of constitutional rights
More power to american voters
I hope they get their full demands sorted out. A protest without immediate actionable legal demands is pretty doomed from the start. Especially one that encourages it’s protestors to give something up. Unless we can have a moment where we can see a politician sign something into law the end of the protest will be vague and mired in “negotiations” until people have had enough and decide they need to start making money again without anything of consequence being accomplished.
I’m sorry, but that list is everything. Great, but literally everything. Not just protections for X and Y and Z, but literally “total government reform” as well. If your list of demands is so vague you’ll never send a clear message and will struggle to gain support. I’m reminded of the Newsroom episode about Occupy Wall Street. You need clear leadership and direction. Something more concise like “civilian oversight commities in all branches with authority to order investigations and court trials” would be a huge move in the right direction. You need a clear addressing of the problem with realistic end goals and a way to get there - not a laundry list of hopes.
So, they want a new country?
I’m all for each of these things, but trying to have them happen all at once is ignorant. Do they think that making all these changes will make people glad? People hate change, and that’s one of the main reasons Trump was elected.
This strike feels like the 2016 election all over again, where left/liberals try to push for too much change and the population recoils into voting for regressive bigots.
I think it’s pretty interesting actually.
The top critic I’d point to, it’s that for something so huge like that, it’s needed a food chain which connects rural to urban areas established. That’s the first thing.
After that other things can be looked up, like electricity, water supply, etc etc
Then a rupture with capitalist system can be created, but it needs to be understood that “nonviolent direct action” isn’t an option! At the first trial on labor strikes, capitalists will crush it with all their forces and repression skill
Well, that’s a Saturday so I won’t be doing anything anyway.
Why would they not be able to ignore this? They’re already beating their own country’s economy with a stick. Something I think a lot of foreigners don’t understand is that the US Federal Government doesn’t own the US Industry, they police it.
Whats going to happen? They’re going to lose like 0.25% tax revenue for the year and run out of funding for all the programs they run? OHWAIT, they’re already not funding those programs.
You have a better plan?
form an affinity group
Yeah, hold up a sign outside of a state capital, sign up to volunteer with the DNC or with Bernie Sanders’ organization, or print out some flyers for local Union organization steps and legal protections to put up at high traffic areas like rest stops and parks.
Sounds good. Let’s get the word out and organize this.
Everyone bickering in this thread needs to just repost this image somewhere and shut up. That’s how these things spread, via small communities. The only reason I saw it was this post, the only reason someone else might learn about it is my post. Unless you already have a better idea, and are organizing and trying to promote it, the least you can do is try and spread the word. The only way we win is together, so either bring a better solution to the table or get in line and help us fight.
Thank you.
A single day? And a weekend at that? Did Trump pick the date? Lol
That’s not gonna do shit.
A weekend means that lots and lots of people who would get fired if they missed work to protest will get to protest.
Maybe make better worker rights (or any at all) part of your demands
You can demand that and you should, but the reality right now is those workers do not have the right to take a day off of work to protest.
And there is a disturbing thread I have seen lately on Lemmy where people suggest those workers should lose their job to protest because they have to suffer if they want to end their suffering apparently.
Then help them organize better.
I just wanna jump in and say good job with “Yes and.” It’s inclusive to make sure we’re all on the same side and doing everything we can to impact, even if we disagree on how. You’re awesome.
I live abroad, and my resident country’s currency is weak compared to the dollar right now… but screw it. Where can I throw money that’s trustworthy?
I’m not affiliated with the group, just a supporter. You can help through the substack.
Terrible date. Make it a weekday.
We protested Wednesday, and people complained that it wasn’t a weekend. I’m beginning to think some people don’t think there’s ever a good time to protest.
If this is supposed to be a shutdown that gets attention then it needs to be on a day where it would be noticed. A significant percentage of people are already off work, at home, and not shopping on Saturday. It’s silly to pick that date just because it’s the Ides of March.
I get the whole Ides of March thing but please pick a weekday for a general strike. This is essentially forcing low-wage workers whose positions are more precarious to stop working while white-collar workers basically do nothing.
Low-wage workers work on weekdays too. And they will often get fired for missing work for any reason, not just protesting.
“You can’t pick a weekday, the poors can’t risk missing a day off from their second job!”
