- cross-posted to:
- progressivepolitics@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- progressivepolitics@lemmy.world
We’ve voted, we’ve protested, and still, they ignore us. Our government refuses to meet our basic needs while the billionaire class hoards wealth and power. The General Strike is a grassroots network of regular people who know our greatest power is our labor and our right to refuse it. We aim to unite every person and organization fighting for racial, economic, and environmental justice so that together, we can see real change in our lifetimes.
For transparency, I’m Canadian, but I figured I’d share.
I would like to know more about their demands and leadership. A strike requires strong leadership to negotiate, and to keep the strikers from getting cold feet. A website with a form isn’t leadership.
I say this as someone who is building a cushion so my family and I can ride out a general strike. I want change, and I’m willing to strike for it.
They aren’t talking about demands until they’ve had 8 to 11 million commit to the strike. LOL - good luck with that…
Tell that to Seattle.
General strikes can be localized, too. They don’t need nationwide adoption.
I think I’ll take my activism advice from someone who doesn’t actively despise homeless people, but thanks, Jordan.
The CHAZ/CHOP didn’t really accomplish anything either. The #1 thing they wanted was cutting the police budget by 50%, how did that work out?
https://www.kuow.org/stories/did-seattle-defund-the-police
"While the police department lost a little over 10% of its budget between 2020 and 2021 (mostly because 911 dispatch and parking enforcement were moved), it has been closing that gap since.
Tellingly, not a single sworn officer has lost their job or pay due to budget constraints. In fact, the department has consistently received more funding for hiring than it can spend."
You’ve changed the subject immediately, none of this has anything to do with a general strike. Did you seriously think I was talking about 2020 when I brought up Seattle? But hey, if you want to change the topic to another thing I’m pretty knowledgeable about, that’s cool, too.
Oh right, I just remembered you also used to complain all the time about BLM because you had to briefly sit in traffic a couple times and now are on the side of the police state. Way to remind everyone of your petulant pettiness, too.
It sounds as though you’re advocating against any kind of protest now. Your sentiment seems to indicate that if you don’t get every single demand met permanently, then it was a total waste and you should’ve just stayed home and stayed silent, but that’s ridiculous. It’s worthwhile to stand up and fight against an unjust system simply for the sake of opposing evil in the world. Getting crushed under the boot of the police doesn’t make you wrong for that. You don’t protest with the expectation of winning any concessions, you protest to stand up for what’s right.
Besides, cops having a way outsized budget was the case before the protests, too, so what’s your point? It’s still just as worthy of protest now as it was then. The protesters won concessions, but they were almost immediately and undemocratically reneged on. For all the “defund the police” hysteria the media threw around, it never really happened anywhere (not even Minneapolis), despite many promises from officials in major cities all over the country. It’s like if the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was dangled to get marches to stop and then it was thrown out as soon as they did. You make it sound like it was the fault of protesters that city councils nationwide voted to increase their police budgets after promising they’d decrease them.
I bring up CHAZ/CHOP because that’s the most notable protest in Seattle, all the others have been EVEN LESS effective. At least Seattle got a permanent mural out of that one.
Yeah, everyone should just give up to the fascist dictator, amiright?
This is such a blind, defeatist attitude to take. Every protest, every strike started with a small group of strong-willed people and grew into something capable of tearing down empires. Don’t join it if you’re so pessimistic, but leave those willing to fight alone. At the end, they’ll have done more than you ever did.
No, people should organize to take back the House and Senate in '26.
He’s ignoring Congress now and the Republicans control both chambers. That isn’t going to change if the Democrats win.
If the Democrats control both the House and the Senate they can shut his shit down.
If they wont share the demands then its because they are DNC centrists/zionists trying to get people to sign up for an atsroturfed protest to get their donor-only representation scheme going again.
They claim to follow a decentralized (“starfish”) model for organizing. The Learn More button in their About Us section links to a “GSUS Welcome Packet” hosted on Google Slides with more information:
The presentation doesn’t have too much information. A lot of their organization seems to occur over regular Discord meetings, and partnering with other grassroots movements & groups.
So there’s clearly lots to be improved, but I respect that it’s something. Best of luck to you and your family. I also want change!