Posted on 03/05/2017 6:03:48 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
President Donald Trump has faced protests on a nearly constant basis since before he was even officially sworn in. Protests in Washington, D.C., and other cities across America and around the globe started generating headlines in the days leading up to his inauguration on Friday, January 20. The day after his inauguration, the anti-Trump Women’s March on Washington drew hundreds of thousands of participants in D.C., with solidarity marches in other cities attracting hundreds of thousands more protesters.
Since then, Trump’s executive order that temporarily banned travel to the U.S. for people from seven predominately Muslim nations inspired mass protests at airports and other locations, and the “Day Without An Immigrant” strike shut down hundreds of businesses on February 16 in response to other executive orders issued by Trump that critics view as anti-immigrant.
Now labor and women’s rights groups are organizing a “Day Without A Woman” general strike for Wednesday, March 8. The strike falls on International Women’s Day.
The Day Without A Woman event, which is actually a one-day strike and other actions, is being organized and supported by several prominent labor and women’s organizations, including the organizers of the Women’s March on Washington. The Day Without A Woman strike is part of a larger action called The International Women’s Strike.
“The International Women’s Strike on March 8th, 2017 is an international day of action, planned and organized by women in more than 30 different countries,” reads a post on the organization’s website. “In the spirit of solidarity and internationalism, in the United States March 8th will be a day of action organized by and for women who have been marginalized and silenced by decades of neoliberalism directed towards working women, women of color, Native women, disabled women, immigrant women, Muslim women, lesbian, queer and trans women.”
(TWEET-AT-LINK)
While the International Women’s Strike is focused on Donald Trump and his policies, the organizers make clear that they are also concerned with broader issues.
“March 8th will be the beginning of a new international feminist movement that organizes resistance not just against Trump and his misogynist policies, but also against the conditions that produced Trump, namely the decades-long economic inequality, racial and sexual violence, and imperial wars abroad,” the post on the International Women’s Strike website continues. “We celebrate the diversity of the many social groups that have come together for the International Women’s Strike. We come from many political traditions but are united [by] common principles.”
Those common principles, according to the International Women’s Strike website, include putting an end to gender violence, promoting reproductive justice for all, supporting labor rights, striving for full social provisioning (such as social services and other public safety nets), fighting for an anti-racist and anti-imperialist feminism, and endeavoring for environmental justice for all.
The website lists 10 different ways that people can participate in the strike.
“ “1. Wherever it is possible, help the creation of a large women’s strike social coalition. Check for information about local organizing on our website. If there is no meeting yet for your town, help call one!
2. Organize or participate in local marches, demonstrations and walkouts.
3. Organize or participate in picket lines and direct actions of civil disobedience. This can also be organized in support of already existing campaigns or labor negotiations or controversies, especially if involving working women.
4. Organize a strike in your workplace. If you have a union, get your union on board; if you don’t, discuss with your coworkers what risks you are able to take and organize accordingly.
5. Organize a boycott of companies using sexism in their advertisements or approach to workers.
6. Organize a boycott of chosen local misogynists.
7. If you can, leave care and housework for the day and join your local demonstrations.
8. In case you can’t stop work, get your friends together who support the strike and wear or use the color red that day, for example, red clothes, or a red ribbon.
9. Strike from gender roles.
10. Contact us for more information and organizing help.”
Additionally, if you intend to strike, please fill out this survey which will help us calculate the impact of the strike!
(TWEET-AT-LINK)
It’s difficult to predict how successful the Day Without A Women strike will be compared to the Women’s March on Washington and other protests, but the group has been endorsed by dozens of prominent liberal and progressive organizations.
In February several organizers of the International Women’s Strike collectively wrote an op-ed for The Guardian in which they argued that the current political climate is perfect for another mass anti-Trump action led by women.
“The massive women’s marches of 21 January may mark the beginning of a new wave of militant feminist struggle,” the op-ed begins. “But what exactly will be its focus? In our view, it is not enough to oppose Trump and his aggressively misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic and racist policies. We also need to target the ongoing neoliberal attack on social provision and labor rights.”
Think any of these pampered brats know anything about hard times? Yeah, me neither. I’ve had crap jobs(a lot of them) and ended up with an awesome job and a 36 year career at the last one. Even at the awesome job we sometimes worked 7 days, 12-14 hours for months on end. But it paid off in the end. Good on you GailA for being tough.
This will be as “successful” as the day without illegals was. Which is to say not at all.
Employer will take careful note of which women quit work that day.
So the protest will act against women in the longer run. Women who wear pink hats will not be loyal employees.
Is this the “strike” being set up by the Muzzie terrorist who murdered the two Israeli students by blowing them up?
I hope companies fire anyone they identify as a participant in this crap.
Maybe someone should drop-ship a couple hundred ‘refugees’ into the mix and see what happens.
Chances are by the end of the day they’ll have a different perspective.
I can tell you this - my wife, a partner in a CPA firm, employing 65% women to men, will terminate any person - male or female - who chooses to be absent on March 8th without prior management approval or a Physician’s medical excuse of absence - will be terminated (as a voluntary quit).
The event serves the purpose of the Control-LEFT media and their need for fresh footage.
Leni Riefenstahl revisited.
Why all of these international protests over America’s rejection of socialist dystopia? Is there some sort of belief that America must fall for socialism to survive elsewhere? Is it just that there must be no examples of a successful free society in order to better oppress people under Socialism (since people do not miss what they do not know)?
Pass this info along to the Islamic terrorist forces lurking in America, thanks to BO. Let them know these are total whores in need of being taught a Muslim lesson.
“The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the Revolution.”
“Oh, and go look at the alpha male who wrote this.”
Women on Strike, eh? Does that mean they’ll STFU?
Knowing women, probably not!
I could go a lifetime without these Womyn.
Get their names and addresses. Then assign a male immigrant muzzie to live with them.
Welcome to the Isle of Lesbos, gentlemen.
I’ve already been on strike for years ... from the yard work, fixing most things, crawling in the attic to see what vermin are there, computer troubleshooting, changing out the a/c filters, taking out the trash, keeping track of when the car needs servicing and registering etc.
Hey, I guess I’m ‘progressive’ and ahead of my time.
I’ve already been on strike for years ... from the yard work, fixing most things, crawling in the attic to see what vermin are there, computer troubleshooting, changing out the a/c filters, taking out the trash, keeping track of when the car needs servicing and registering etc.
Hey, I guess I’m ‘progressive’ and ahead of my time.
Lol
He’s a fruitcake former bartender and wannabe leftist fighting in the streets sort
Kook
Things go hot wouldn’t want to be him
Hot women live in the state of perpetual potential coochie strikes
Any man knows that’s their big weapon
Worse than nagging and pouting
You want sex then do what I want
This is a constant of the human condition except in cultures where it’s ok to simply take sex from women without their consent
Strike nullification
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.