Man it’s going to be great when all 50 of us get fired from our jobs.
Wake me up when normies are on board. I’m not fucking up my life for nothing.
I feel. This is a great way to destabilize individuals and weaken them.
How would you organize?
Poorly because I have a family to take care of, and bills to pay.
I think someone set one of these up for Feb 28 already, might be better to join up rather than have a bunch of them?
Why not do both?
In general, people will not be able to keep their jobs after “protesting” twice in 2 weeks. Let’s focus everyone’s attention on just one event so the impact is greater.
Can we stop making random calls like this on social media? We need actual organization and leadership to be directing this stuff.
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.
Every journey begins with the first step, put your shoes on.
So my family already lives in poverty. My wife can’t work but we get no replacement for the loss over her paycheck even though she is in fact disabled. We have one wage and it isn’t all that and I’m working 40 and actually committing like 70 due to a long commute. We are making barely enough to eat, pay bills, pay rent. If I stop going to work for 30 days I’m going to be in danger of eviction process starting. In 90 I will be in danger of being actually out in the street. My health is poorish. Her’s is much worse. If we had to go live with the hobos her health and our marriage would absolutely go to shit sleeping on cardboard. Our life would probably never recover. It would make more sense for me to just commit suicide one of the normal ways.
I don’t say this because I think my life is so much harder than a lot of folks. Half the country is 90 days from tragedy. How can you actually expect people to actually do this? If your answer is a stupid quip like “put your shoes on” then you can expect you and the few hundred other folks who actually go through with this to just be fired out of hand whilst all the rest of us keep going to work so we don’t starve or have to sleep on cardboard.
So, no one can protest for better living conditions, because you can’t? Sorry about your situation, but that is exactly why we are organizing. If you are not able to participate, that’s fine. You may be resigned to defeatism, but please don’t discourage others from wanting to improve the conditions in which we all live. If you have a better plan to resist, I’m sure others would like to hear it.
50% of people can’t 25% could but wont because they are pro trump 20% could but view their role as vital so wont 4.99% could but don’t care or wont do it unless everyone else is
Your protest won’t work AT ALL.
You would need your state to forbid evictions like during covid and find a way to do community support enough to keep everyone in food, warmth, and medicine beforehand. You also need a plan to keep essential stuff like food flowing.
You need to figure out who in the Republican party is vulnerable in 2026 and work them to break their consensus.
If you want some sort of strike what you might think about in the shorter term how about austerity. No non-essential purchases. None at all Friday-Sunday. This will also cause businesses to cut hours which will further reduce consumption by those who aren’t interested in participating. You can amp it up by forcibly arranging sick outs for non essential workers carefully organizing it per company so they can’t just fire a few people. Ooops starting next month all assembly lines only work 60% of the time have fun trying to make quota.
This is probably sustainable for a long time especially if as can be easily predicted Trump responds by threatening, arresting, and punishing the people and it hurts the economy a lot. The more it hurts the easier it is to talk to Republicans in purple states/districts that are vulnerable.
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
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.
Then contact them and help them organize.
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.
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.
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.
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.
That looks like a lot more practical approach.
I signed up and asked about 20 people to sign it. ✊🏻
I’ll Post It.
What are they protesting? Its completely vague about why.
If you have a business account on these apps, consider moving that to another platform like Bluesky, which is becoming very popular.
“Shun the corporations (except this one).” 🙄
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.
Protection and permanent guarantee of civil rights for all
What’s your proposal to make things permanent? What rules can you establish that opponents won’t just undo later?
Total government reform
Holy vague statements and unrealistic expectations batman.
Publicly funded health care
Honestly, this one works.
Adequate and accessible disability support and services
Define adequate. Define accessible. Hell, define disability, cause even that can get squishy.
A permanent solution to Homelessness, hunger and the housing crisis
Just three social holy grails, nbd.
Respect and support for tribal Sovereignty and involvement with indigenous leadership for environmental action
What does that look like? Is support “give them money” or “treat them as a separate nation”? Which environmental actions?
Enhanced enforcement of constitutional rights
By what mechanism?
More power to american voters
What does that mean?
Your aims, as stated, are vague and unactionable. This is a really good spot to start: with things that can actually happen. You will never get people behind “total government reform”, but a concrete goal like “overturn citizens united” or “ban political donations and create a fund to handle political campaigns” is actually a thing that can happen.
Criticism is useful. If you can’t get Lemmy on board, you’ll never get normal people. Instead of taking it as an attack (and being fair, my response is pretty abrasive) see what you can do to make actual progress.
I’m in no way affiliated with #Shutdown 315. I’m just spreading awareness. The organization is on Bluesky, Reddit and substack if you’d like to get involved. The more input they get, the better they will be able to organize.
Whoops, missed the user change. I stand by my statement. I would hazard that valid criticisms don’t merit the bucket crabs (though I suppose my second comment could go with the first and be cleaner and more palatable), but I’m also not about to start backseat modding.
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.
Then join the organization and help them. Liberals are so damn feckless, they can’t get out of their own way.
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.
Trump is dissolving the Dept. of Education, and you’re worried about changes to government? /s
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.
