As an American it's illegal for me to encourage you to participate in one of these, so consider this as just an FYI.

[zephyrxero@layer8.space]

As an American it's illegal for me to encourage you to participate in one of these, so consider this as just an FYI. Do with this information what you will

[update: looks like it's only illegal for unions to promote one, not necessarily individuals]

Date announced for national strike aimed at crippling Trump: 'No work, no school'

Ezra Levin, co-founder of Indivisible, said on Saturday that a nationwide general strike is being planned for May 1 that will be modeled on the day of action residents of Minnesota organized in January against the brutality carried out by federal immigration enforcement officials.Appearing at the fl...

Raw Story (www.rawstory.com)

#strike #usPol #may1 #mayDay #laborPower #shutdown

[voxofgod@beige.party]

@zephyrxero ️ #generalStruke is just a tick that happens with me

(And also happens to be the fastest fix to ev.ery.thinc)

[psychuan@plush.city]

@zephyrxero oh, first of may, eh?

[gorfram@beige.party]

@zephyrxero Encouraging a general strike is illegal?

[zephyrxero@layer8.space]

@Gorfram It looks like it was introduced with the Taft-Hartley act in 1947. BUT upon fact checking, it sounds like it's illegal for a union to promote one, not necessarily individuals

[aadmaa2@mathstodon.xyz]

@zephyrxero It's constitutionally protected speech for an American to encourage people to participate, and it is illegal (a felony in fact) for anyone to conspire to deny you that right. And yet. Individual results may vary.

[kevinrns@mstdn.social]

@zephyrxero

AFL-CIO is "expecting" a general strike.

[mr_teatime@social.tchncs.de]

@zephyrxero

As they say around here:

Strength!

[riley@toot.cat]

@zephyrxero What if instead of encouraging to participate, you'd perform a religious therapy to convert people into participants?