General STRIKE/ "Sick-out" / Full STOP.

[FirstLight]

I feel like the Lockdown for COVID taught us a little self-reliance... how long could we choke them out for?

By "them" I mean all the 1% and more who think they are in control... (and yeah, maybe MAGAs who won't ever see the light)

But really...how about a 3 day vacation? maybe a week? we just shut it down. Nobody show up for work. The doors stay closed, nothing happens...
No stores. No restaurants. No used car sowrooms. No Gas stations. No trucking. No plant/food processing. No manufacturing. Nothing.

So yeah, hospitals, powergrids, *some& services need to remain in place for safety... But what can we shut down?

Or do we find a union and pick a facet of the US economy and they all take a collective knee?

spitballing...

[bdamomma]

1. That

should be our next move. Good Trouble.

[Initech]

2. We need a national *BOYCOTT FOX* movement.

That wretched network is the lifeblood of the Trump administration. Turn that shit off everywhere. Shut it down. Don't like or share Fox or any Murdoch affiliated content. Don't login to any of their services. Don't watch or listen. Boycott every business that shows it until they get the message. Shut that fucking shit off.

[live love laugh]

3. If only it were just Faux. They've been cloned on the internet and other networks like OAN who are just as bad or worse.

[Melon]

10. Do you watch Fox now? Does the people you'll reach watch Fox?

No…..then what is the plan here? You don’t consume it anyway and neither does other democrats.

[Initech]

14. No but there's lots of businesses that do.

Doctors offices, gyms, businesses, restaurants... don't patronize any place that broadcasts that shit.

[William769]

4. I'm retired, how do I strike?

[FirstLight]

5. Pretend it's covid lockdown. No restaurants no takeout no grocery store no banking

Don't drive your car don't get gas.. just don't participate in the economy in any way. I'm sure if we did it for a week even 3 days would be a big hit

[William769]

6. That I can do.

[flamingdem]

7. There is one in the works

But I don't know the organizations involved.
LInk:
https://www.instagram.com/thegeneralstrikeus/?hl=en

[FirstLight]

8. This!!!!

Lets get this shared out!

Check out the website and sign up 💪🔥😎

[FirstLight]

9. They have like a whole manual..

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vTE8mLSsPYQvkZ_CPgVQYWZck2UEG0UdRi9-eJr3US4DLVX65PKWNhCbQKn9kI8yMh-vu4obQHTdhcj/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000&pli=1&slide=id.g273f200edff_0_0

They have a direct link on their website I don't know if this will work here

[LT Barclay]

11. I still believe another tool is targeted boycotts. But I'm up for anything at this point. We're at the cusp of the

world portrayed in Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower" and "Parable of the Talents". I think it is a divine mercy that she isn't here to see it come to pass.

[Parallax El]

12. We just don't organize like that, anymore. We organize organically.

Labor bosses are a thing of the past, and subject to corruption, besides. Most of us do work for megacorps, but lots of us don't. Lots of us work for small and mid-sized businesses in niche markets and just plain hustle the world.

Capitalism's grip is slipping.

We're in a chaotic stable-state transition.

Where we end up depends on the flapping of butterflies' wings, now.

Razor's edge.

[elocs]

13. I could do all the No's, but I'm so poor that it would be a normal day for me.

I realize that hindsight is 20/20, but had we been more vigilant before the '24 election, less complacent. and not underestimating the maga voters as just being stupid, turned out to vote for Harris in record numbers, then all of what is happening now would just be part of a bad alternate history novel.