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relayerbob

(6,544 posts) Wed Aug 12, 2020, 10:06 PM Aug 2020

How can we arrange a nationwide across-the-board strike [View all]

Seriously. I have no idea on where to start or who to talk to.

This is what brought Solidarnosc into power in Poland. Strikes work.

I'd suggest a time frame like the dates of the GOP convention, but clearly way too soon.

We need to hurt the money backers of the GOP to feel some real pain. We partially shut down the economy for Coronavirus. Let's do it for real.

Who can help?

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How can we arrange a nationwide across-the-board strike [View all] relayerbob Aug 2020 OP

Get the unions to start walk outs. progressive nobody Aug 2020 #1

Agreed relayerbob Aug 2020 #6

We can't. TreasonousBastard Aug 2020 #2

Not 1877 any more relayerbob Aug 2020 #5

But not ours. Unions have far less power than they had in the past and we can't even get... TreasonousBastard Aug 2020 #8

That's pretty defeatist relayerbob Aug 2020 #9

It's not defeatist-- it's realistic. We can get things done, we just have to find out how... TreasonousBastard Aug 2020 #11

Maybe we should work to GOTV soothsayer Aug 2020 #3

Already am relayerbob Aug 2020 #4

So maybe make good trouble to get businesses to decry the postal shenanigans? soothsayer Aug 2020 #7

Yes, that's the point of a general strike relayerbob Aug 2020 #10

We aren't the French. It's not in our political DNA. GulfCoast66 Aug 2020 #12

It won't start with one internet rando Codeine Aug 2020 #13

Sorry, this is not a country in which a general strike can happen. PoindexterOglethorpe Aug 2020 #14

I'm a 71 year old Senior who's lucky to still have a job to go to, and an affordable place to live NBachers Aug 2020 #15

Apparently September 1 is the date MoonlitKnight Aug 2020 #16

Thank you relayerbob Aug 2020 #18

I'm seeing some others for that date relayerbob Aug 2020 #19

Also find out who donates to Trump and boycott McCamy Taylor Aug 2020 #17