A national day of strike; when no one goes to work, no one purchases anything ain’t gonna happen. Reminds me of the old email boycotts “Dont buy gas on April 23! Let’s show the gas companies we mean business. blah blah” Companies are still gonna make their money whether the day before or the day after. You would either buy extra at the grocery store the day before or after because of that day. And let’s be realistic, who the hell is not gonna go to Starbucks for one day?! -PB/TK
Is America Ready for a General Strike? – BY ALEXANDRIA NEASON FEBRUARY 15, 2017 AT 10:30 A.M
The beginning of Donald Trump’s presidency will be remembered not just for his provocations, but for the powerful responses they inspired. A day after Trump took the oath of office, millions of people gathered in Washington, D.C., and across the world for a Women’s March. Thousands more mobilized at airports to assail Trump’s Muslim ban. Yemeni business owners, their shops shuttered, knelt in prayerful protest in front of Brooklyn’s Borough Hall
And it’s not just Trump and his enabling cast of Republicans who are feeling the heat. Earlier this month, thousands of people showed up at Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s home in Park Slope, demanding to know why he had voted for three of Trump’s cabinet picks. More than 200,000 people deleted their Uber accounts after the rideshare app turned off surge pricing in an apparent effort to break a taxi workers’ strike protesting the Muslim ban, forcing the company’s CEO to resign from Trump’s economic advisory council. New York City students walked out of their public school classrooms to protest the confirmation of a billionaire Michigan lobbyist as education secretary. These demonstrations have been mighty, but even if they continue, are they enough?
Renowned novelist and critic Francine Prose, writing in the Guardian last week, proposed a national general strike: a collective withholding of labor and purchasing power in opposition to Trump.
“Let’s designate a day on which no one (that is, anyone who can do so without being fired) goes to work, a day when no one shops or spends money, a day on which we truly make our economic and political power felt, a day when we make it clear: how many of us there are, how strong and committed we are, how much we can accomplish,” she wrote.
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