cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/59378754
The calls for a nationwide (US) shutdown this Friday (Jan 30) are growing louder
So how did the general strike go?
Ysk, this isn’t a general strike. It’s a protest, at best.
It’s not a general strike if it doesn’t come from the Generél region of France. Otherwise it’s just sparkling absenteeism.
Let’s get it boys and girls. I’m ready
I have a doctor’s appointment on Friday. But I can avoid going out for dinner or groceries.
Thank you for this. Sucks the local chapters are primarily organized on discord. Seems pretty risky that they could all be shut down in one fell swoop.
I don’t think it’s a good idea to put any of your information in a “protest” form…
One day “general strike”, or as we in Germany call it: “Regular Sunday”
Should also add to not use any social media platforms at all too.
I’ll check here to see if everyone is off…
Last I checked lemmy isnt a corporate shithole, yet.
Would like updates on a platform like Lemmy tho! A pic of folks in the streets can go a long way
Yeah, not going to be effective. Make it a week, and you might turn some heads a tad.
I roll my eyes that these all are on Fridays 🙄
I mean, it’s fine. Go ahead, it will help, but it’s not really a general strike. It’s a day of protest. Come on America, you don’t really get how this works. You can’t use your PTO to challenge authority. It’s the same as protesting a company by buying their product to destroy like MAGA does.
Consider it practice.
Just saw a thing yesterday about what china calls the “kill line” it’s basically how most people are paycheck to paycheck and one expense can topple people into poverty and homeless. I’m thinking the tariffs goal was to move that line so less people can take action.
Then make it a week. It starts with someone. It could start with you.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s a Pretti Good idea/start. But, there needs to be more, like a definded list of demands. Otherwise, it’s just an ignorable protest.
Even if the unions aren’t involved, this is a walkout/boycott, not a general strike.
There need to be actual demands before life returns to normal for the government to feel actual pressure.
Finally it’s on a day I actually don’t have to be at work. I can do this one.
There is no union in my industry.
I am in the pot industry. None of those will help me.
AFL-CIO is the umbrella = every industry falls under it
On the eve of government shutdown
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someone said: You can’t just pick a random day in the week to start a nationwide strike on.
Why not? And since when is friday the middle of the week?
I am in the EU. There’s no reason why I should know this. Keep the US in the US-related communities, thanks.
lol, no.
or you could have some common decency and join the strike in solidarity instead of being a whiner
Tell me how I could do it from here (that is not sofa activism like “like and share”) and put THAT in a YSK.
if you’re not in a Union join one, ask around your national unions what it would take to organize a solidarity strike. international strikes are pretty common around the globe
Strikes are organized against one’s own government on topics for which the government has skin in the game.
That’s why Italy, Germany and France see protests against the genocide of the Palestinian people: because those countries sell weapons and buy security systems from Israel.
Now tell me what exactly you think any of those governments could do against the decades long fall into fascism and plutocracy that the US is experiencing, while the same billionaires fund our own local nazi parties.
The only thing that we should keep saying is don’t touch the sick corpse.
