Awesome. We need a national general strike.
I’ve been thinking just how difficult it would be to coordinate a full national general strike, or even a statewide one. It seems like a possible way forward would be to target worker groups that would have a domino affect on other groups. For example, if you could get teachers, especially elementary level teachers, to strike, many of their parents would need to stay home due to lack of child care. I’m wondering if there are other union based groups that could have a similar effect.
Between Bus drivers and teamsters, could pretty much shut down the economy through knock on effect
I know I saw a post about a general strike for USA coming on January 30th. I’ll look to find it.
Here is the post in question:
https://vger.to/lemmy.ca/post/59378754
And a website:
There’s one planned for 2028 led by Shawn Fain and UAW https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/general-strike-2028-unions-labor-movement/
Wow. This leaves a lot of time to prepare to weather this strike together, we need to work on the framework of this immediately.
For anyone else like me triggered by 2028 when it’s still 2026, the significance of May 1, 2028 is explained in the article’s first few sentences.
I’ll put it on my calendar, thanks
Thank you Minnesota.
On Friday, tens of thousands of Minnesotans braved extreme cold to march en masse and shuttered a reported 700-plus businesses in a daylong general strike with the support of all major unions. They protested, transported, fed, and watched over each other, an outgrowth of weeks, months, and years of community care and abolitionist resistance. Their collective actions mark a breakthrough in the fight against the American authoritarianism of our time.
It is only a future with mass social strikes, or general strikes, involving large-scale disruption on the immediate horizon that has the chance of stopping Trump’s forces.
On January 23, the Twin Cities offered a small glimpse of the sorts of work stoppages, blockades, and shutdowns that aggregated practices of collective resistance make possible.
Minnesota organizers did not conjure the state’s largest day of labor action in nearly a century by simply announcing “general strike” online. Labor unions, religious and community institutions, and front-line activists were all key; so, too, was the fury of everyday people, in a city where community support is normalized, and militant anti-racist protest boasts a proud history.
You couldn’t go 60 seconds in that crowd without someone asking, “Do you need any hand warmers? Are those gloves warm enough? I have an extra pair.” When we reached the Target Center there were half a dozen Somali neighbors handing out free, hot sambusas.
One interesting thing is that the route for the march made several turns, so it was hard to gauge the size of the crowd without one long, continuous view. I was about 150 people from the front, and it wasn’t until I watched a timelapse that I realized how fucking massive the march was.
Wherever you are, I hope you have a chance to march this Friday. Don’t wait to find out if there’s “a lot of people” before you decide. You’re not attending the march - you are the march. We’re going to make it through this.
People are so nice! You’re right, it’s about the groups organizing together and taking care of one another. More and more, I feel like we’re going to see the other side of this. General Strike on Friday!
This gives me the feeling of American pride I’ve missed for so long.
Can someone remind me what was achieved? A life lost, ICE staying in MN, and Bovino replaced by Homan.
What is it you’ve achieved? A negative six downvote. Great job. Keep it up champ.
I’m trying to get myself out of that “karma/upvote” mindset of only saying what people want to hear. You should do the same.
I say what I wanna say. I’m just pointing out that ALL you have is a negative amount of meaningless internet points.
No, I also don’t have a single person naming me a single example of what positive was achieved. As they say, silence is golden.
