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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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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 are being paid by George Soros to act like they disapprove of Trump....
The liberals are having a cow because they lost. Get over it. As Obama said elections have consequences. The democraps have lost seats all over the country because they are unable to properly govern without all of their corruption.
They were voted out and can’t stand it.
Our political system is not worth keeping? What exactly do they mean by that? Very interesting...
The left, and everyone that comprises it, is not worth keeping.
Prose appears to be a Muzzie sympathizer as well
I too protested Obama but quietly... buying guns and getting a lifetime NRA membership.... Every bullet I shot for training and calibrating my stuff was done minding that, and they can pound sand trying to say the NRA made me not spend my money at liberal Target, Starbucks or progressist green sht
“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,”
Out of control progressives like yourself gave us the gift of Donald Trump. Without you, Mr. Trump would still be content to keep running his businesses and spoil his grandchildren.
So, progressivism must be destroyed!
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Could be a GREAT day to go shopping, out to eat, etc... If this has any effect at all, maybe normal lines will be a little lighter than normal...
General Strikes are veddy British, not American style at all. Can’t wait to see this bomb, big time.
This is ironic because I have been hoping for another government shutdown showdown moment. Let’s see who blinks first.
They want to get rid of the Electoral College.
Pick a Friday before a national holiday, when people like to take off the day to have a four day weekend? Yeah, they’re just trying to pad the participation numbers.
Uhhh ... Few of these “activists” have jobs. Typical Libs, they want others to strike for them.
LOL, like they work.
It will be on Friday, a workday. Oh right, those people don’t work.
These useful idiots are digging a hole so deep, they will soon end up in China. Then, they will find out what a real Communist country is about. Problem is, the American people are ready to fill in the hole before they even get to China.
How can they go on strike, they don’t have jobs.......
The French yoots and IIRCX some unions, and of course, the COMMIES, pulled one of these in ‘68. It did exactly ZERO, nada, bupkis, nothing, in the general scheme of things...except to inconvenience others and destroy some stuff.
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