- cross-posted to:
- usa@midwest.social
- cross-posted to:
- usa@midwest.social
leaders with the most prominent Trump-resistance group organizing “No Kings” answered that complaint Saturday when Indivisible’s Ezra Levin took to the stage in Minneapolis and announced that a nationwide general strike is planned for May 1, modeled after a successful local action that shut down much of that region in January
The Trump administration doesn’t care. They know they are unpopular but if you steal enough power, it doesn’t matter.
That’s the problem with these protests.
No authoritarian government cares to listens to protestors. Yet they all fear them. The point isn’t to make the government comply but to show everyone how many people are on your side. The more people show up the easier it is to motivate people to resist.
will you strike on May 1?
Now that is doing something and yes. But will every union join? We need enough people to do so. No work, no shopping.
Making a real change takes a number of things, including realizing that there are enough other people that feel the same way.
These protests will not directly lead to change, but they will help move us in the right direction. They are a necessary part.
I dunno, with the AI surveillance state “improving” the kill chain in US wars (you all can bomb school children super effectively now, since AI tells you to! Can’t hold AI accountable!), and the arrest chain of “terrorist” protestors, I imagine that the cell phone location data from these protests could lead directly to certain changes in the USA. Certain changes that will help to populate all those new concentration camps with cheap prisoner labour to replace all the immigrants on the farms etc.
That’s why a strike is needed. He doesn’t care about people walking around with signs but a stike will hurt their bank accounts.