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Resist: It's Time
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We are still in this together, but "this" is going to be real different in the very near future. This demands a different kind of "we."
The French Resistance during Nazi occupation played important roles delivering downed Allied airmen back to safety, supplying military intelligence, and acts of sabotage.
The Underground Railroad is estimated to have brought 100,000 freedom seekers to safety between 1810 and 1850.
It's time.
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A general strike would absolutely be warranted in the US right now, so this is reasonable.
However, there is something decidedly US-like to having a "general strike" be a website looking for viral popularity instead of... you know, a general strike.
General strikes are typically called by nationwide unions, not a "if this post gets 11 million likes" thing.
Taft-Hartley made general strikes illegal. Organized labor isn't going to openly participate in this.
Holy crap, I didn't actually know that. Striking is a constitutional right where I'm from. Fascism is obvious, but it's easy to forget that place was an anarchocapitalist hellhole way earlier than that.
Not that legality seems to matter much at this point, but still. I presume that'd affect this initiative as much as a union-driven strike, though, right?
If not framed as a general strike I suppose it'd have to be general mobilization and disobedience. In any case real action rather than... signature gathering.
Preface: None of this represents my opinion on whether these realities are just, only that they are realities.
I only learned very recently that general strikes are illegal in the US because someone pointed it out to me.
Striking itself isn't illegal (usually, some jurisdictions have made it illegal for "certain industries" to strike), but labor unions are not allowed to strike in solidarity with another union.
Anyway, I brought this up as an explanation of why established labor unions aren't involved in any general strike, and why they will never be.