From Shut It Down:
It seems that our pleas for an end to the Iraq war, universal health care, and trying to stop the permitting of Mexican truckers free reign of our nations highways has fallen on deaf ears. So what can we do? We can organize and start a nationwide work stoppage. It seems to work in other countries of the "free" world. It would require first the support of the Longshoremen's union and the Teamsters union and any other unions that would want to give support. Any others would be more than welcome to join the protest. No riots in the street. No civil disobedience. Just don't go to work. Call in sick if you must, but just don't be there.Because I've had it up to here. How about you?
We don't need to go anywhere. We don't need to spend anything. Just stay home. We believe that October 17th would be a great day. The 25th Anniversary of The Solidarity Movement protests and strikes that shut down Poland, and brought down Communist/Soviet rule. We all need a day off... why not take it off together?
4 comments:
I'm in! Will see that bf does the same.
siri@legitgov.org
"No riots in the street. No civil disobedience."
WTF not? I think it's past time for both of those, but I'm not gonna do it alone.
It's actually all as simple as just VOTING for progressive/liberal candidates, but getting people MOTIVATED to do that is the problem... and they just don't seem to respond to marches, strikes, protests, or similar things, which seldom are effective against 40% of a populace that want's to be 'TV informed' (by millionaires hired by billionaires) and 25% that want to be ruled by greed and/or fundamental religion -- they're not really affected by much other then economic or direct safety considerations. Once they lose their jobs, homes, cars, sons & daughters in a war or health-care snafu, they MIGHT start thinking about the politics, but even then it's not a given that they'll support a progressive solution -- they could just as well swing towards a Hitler.
Good idea - is it possible to do it w/o the unions who are almost useless in this regard?
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