This is exactly the groundwork we need to be laying right now, and I’m delighted to hear it coming from a US Senator (!):

[melioristicmarie@tech.lgbt]

@inthehands i think enough people across the country could be ready by the call for action on friday, may 1 (may day) for an indefinite general strike.

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may day it might be tight, the next meaningful day would be juneteenth... then independence day weekend then... labor day. four excellent culturally significant days between may and september that leaders can lean on, i believe in us and our broad tent rainbow coalition of neighbors being neighborly.

the line has been crossed (for me long ago) for many. in san diego,the otay mesa concentration camp actions are getting stronger. you all in minneapolis are pushing back hard. the epstein files advocates are pushing, and bad bunny's recent big push... i expect the 3.5% ('rule' population threshold for nonviolent regime change) to be ready to punch up long and hard, long before november.

(edits for clarity and typos that hurt my soul, apologies for cluttering up your notifications and remaining i will hold as my humble human errors).

[europlus@social.europlus.zone]

@inthehands @jwz yeah, “economic stability trumps (no pun – he can’t achieve this himself) every other consideration” feels really stale to me after COVID.

[gimulnautti@mastodon.green]

@inthehands Finally

[nanobri@woof.group]

@inthehands So to the point about local businesses... Part of me thinks that those *shouldn't* shut down in a strike because if people use those businesses that's money not going to the billionaires.

I'm interested to know how other folks think about it though because I honestly don't know what strategies make the most sense toward the objective of pressuring folks with their hands on the levers of power to take action.

[tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org]

@inthehands

Now, no if/when.

[miss_rodent@girlcock.club]

@inthehands There have been murmurings of one for may 1st ( https://paydayreport.com/labor-leaders-warm-to-general-strike-nationwide-on-may-1st/ ),
The timing is a bit slower, but, to organize a national general strike at scale, it's going to be a bit of a pain to put together.
Pressuring union/labour leaders, and other community members//leaders - your church, friends, coven, polycule, D&D group, whatever - to participate, and to pressure their people to participate, increases the odds of it happening, ofc.

[decapitae@mastodon.social]

@inthehands If the billionaires complain - remind them how hungry people can get... this strike is preferrable to alternatives that are not completely off the table yet

[edwilk@mstdn.social]

@inthehands

It seems like only yesterday that I was screaming at Sen. Gallego for voting for Trump cabinet nominees.

[els@sfba.social]

@inthehands I’d rather that we find a better solution to this and that it happens BEFORE the election.

[inthehands@hachyderm.io]

@edwilk
That’s the wild thing here: not that someone is taking about it, but that a once-centrist-ish Dem is taking about it. This idea is becoming mainstream.

[inthehands@hachyderm.io]

@ELS
That’s the point. See downthread.

[revpuddudley@mas.to]

@inthehands ONE good day for it would be
JUNE 14 - the unPresident's B-day, Flag Day, the day that the White House is to be further defiled with a WWE fight

#ResisT
#RESISTANCE

[els@sfba.social]

@nanobri @inthehands I agree that local businesses should be exempt - but they should be truly local, not just some fake local owned by hedge fnd.

[inthehands@hachyderm.io]

@nanobri

You may be thinking of a boycott instead of a strike.

Here in Minneapolis, local businesses helped lead the charge — and I’d venture that they benefitted from it, from the community seeing them support the cause and feeling a sense of connection with the people behind them.

[jezebelkat@famichiki.jp]

@miss_rodent @inthehands

This is the first time I have seen Payday Report pop up on the Masto circle!

[bamfic@autonomous.zone]

@nanobri @inthehands The whole idea of business *owners* deciding whether to strike is really weird to me, very American, and just feels wrong. The *workers* should decide, and the business *owner* should have no choice but to close because he has no workers that day; they have all called in sick.

[vallerry@mstdn.social]

@inthehands Here in Brasil Bolsonaro tried to use (I don't know how to translate that) a federal police that work in roads(?!). Anyway... They were trying to stop people to vote. Here in Brazil os mandatory. "We hate, but we like that". THAT IS Just ONE of The causes why Bolsonaro still in jail until today. I don't know how You gonna sava Your ellectins.

[amorpheus@kind.social]

@inthehands Love your proposal.

The only way to win an argument with capitalism is through its denial.

Some say, if the remaining democratic states would sell all their U.S. state bonds, Trumps show would be over instantly.

In a consumer producer cycle, all the power lies with the consumer/investor.

The powerful know that. The real problem is not to convince capitalism that we can bring it down, but convincing the majority of ourselves that we have that ability.

[htpcnz@mastodon.social]

@inthehands cuck Shumer & co will send a strongly worded letter to pedo in chief how naughty it was to stop elections, instead they will reserve all their energy to oppose any meaningful actions like a general strike.

[gillinger@mas.to]

@inthehands @bobjmsn
It has always seemed to me that if you can organise an air traffic controller's strike everything else will grind to a halt.