Posted on 02/02/2017 11:07:53 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Concerned that protests might be too easy to ignore, activists are now calling for a nationwide strike in order to demonstrate just how many people disapprove of President Donald Trump.
First proposed in a column for The Guardian on Monday, American writer Francine Prose called for a "nonviolent national general strike" that can't be "easily ignored and forgotten by those who wish to ignore and forget them."
"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.
Since then, many appear to have put the wheels in motion to make the national strike a reality, with activists agreeing it should take place on Feb. 17, the Friday before President's Day. The Independent reports that so far, much of the planning appears to be taking place on social media, without the official involvement of any unions.
"At this dangerous point in our history, we must confront a bitter truth: any political system that can allow Donald Trump to come to power is not a system worth keeping," one Facebook page dedicated to the strike reads. "We walk out of our homes, our places of work, and our schools, and we join our fellow citizens in the streets and online in a peaceful display of resistance and solidarity. We refuse to shop or otherwise participate in the rigged economy that Trump presides over and is beholden to. In this way, we defy the establishment and create an opening for reconstitution."
As Mic explains, general strikes are meant to bring together "a large number of employees across a broad spectrum of industries" and essentially halt the mechanics of a country enough to "advance a political or economic goal." The source adds that they tend to be more common in Europe than in the United States.
At this time, most people have been voicing their plans to participate using the hashtag #NationalStrike.
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If ALL of the college profs, from these now completely USELESS colleges and universities go on strike, it’s one less day that they can brainwash kids’ minds. :-)
What I think they really mean is:
“At this dangerous point in our history, we must confront a bitter truth: any portion of the public that could actually vote for Donald Trump is not a people worth giving any rights of free speech, or peace too,”
These idiots talk about “revolution”. What are they going to morph into?
Pick a nation... that has recently had a “revolution”. Pick one that is not muslim buzz they are always in a state of “revolution” and never able to find a meaningful existence.... hmnnnn lets see....
lets pick Liberia, West Africa.
The fools were able to kill over a tenth of their population, destroy all their infrastructure; power , running water, sanitary systems, phones and government.
Now, their government are the last warlords sucking up all the resources of the country... and development dollars gifted to the country....
Yup, revolution is a good thing to the idiots who have never lived it nor seen it.
Flippin morons.
The neat thing about these ‘nationwide strikes’:
Assuming that they even have jobs, their employers discover how very little they need their special snowflake employees.
We’re all to be reassured of our quiet but steadfast alliance that will inevitably crush any obstacle in our way.
How does one quit doing nothing?
For too many of these anarchists, too much of their world has come from the video game and texts on social media. With it their understanding is as thin as the flat screen monitor and their minds are as narrow as the video on their smart phone. They think a riot is another calorie burning rave with lots of fun and a plump munchkin to spend the night with.
“any political system that can allow Donald Trump to come to power is not a system worth keeping,” -— Sounds like sedition to me.
Vowing not to work? Doesn’t that make them slacktivists?
May their strike be as successful as their boycott of Chick-Fil-A.
one of the other things they do not understand is they and the BLM will be the most vulnerable, cuzz when America stands up, they will clean things up in short order.
Sorry...the people with jobs will be working that day....
They seem to believe that it is only a threat to democracy if conservatives refuse to accept election results. Liberals are free to riot and destroy.
Translation: Burn down anything you can't steal
“a day on which no one (that is, anyone who can do so without being fired) goes to work”
If they’re not willing to make a sacrifice, i.e., the possibility of being fired, then their hearts aren’t in it. What’s the point?
“... a day when no one shops or spends money, a day on which we truly make our economic and political power felt...”
Sounds like Feb. 17 would be a good day for patriots to do extreme shopping.
Quote “Sorry...the people with jobs will be working that day....”
And any identified, protesting, (rioting), students should have their student loans pulled ...... immediately!
Sounds like a good day to drift into Cabellas or some other big sporting goods store and buy a gun in protest of these fools.
How could I forget the French? Every day a new strike.
Americans like to work, that is the difference.
Didn’t they already do that by being in these “protests”?
I will be sure to go to work that day.
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