At least 120 cities plan to hold actions in solidarity with the Minneapolis General Strike.
Dang I’m just finding out I have a Dr appointment but nothing else
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Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947 (over Truman’s veto) to make general strikes so incredibly difficult to organize that there hasn’t been one since.That there is a general strike happening in a major US city on such short notice is nothing short of a miracle.
16:28 · 22 Jan 2026I looked it up. These were anti-union laws. I think about how quickly the French can strike, but remember that it’s four to five giant labor unions that always call for them to happen. We’re in dire straits here in the U.S!
Sign a strike card??? https://www.generalstrikeus.com/
I think that the elites in France learned that it was much better to let the people strike than the alternative.
How would the act effect how strikes are organized? The government is not involved no?
Honestly I didn’t get this memo that we were striking in my city.
The Europeans have it right. Americans only strike when it’s convenient.
Honestly I didn’t get this memo that we were striking in my city.
You’ve got it now, and the day isn’t over yet.
They also tried to organize it with like 12 minutes of notice.
I get that it’s urgent, but if you don’t give people time to even get groceries ahead of time, you can’t really have a large-scale strike lasting longer than an afternoon.
You all are missing the point. The Govt has systematically dismantled our labor unions, and labor unions typically call for strikes. It’s not about convenience: It’s about the ability to organize and the guarantee of a number of people participating.
Do it!
Good luck.
my wife is a teacher. she’s going to work because not everyone can afford to take off and a lot of folk use school as day care (and y’all shouldn’t really be taking your 5 and 6 year olds picketing against ICE when the feds are liable to use chemical weapons against you) but like, it’d be nice to just piss off and let the littles fend for themselves.
Although the beauty of General strikes, you don’t have to go anywhere. You can stay home, you can smoke weed all day and play video games.
Most schools are canceled today for the cold around me. South Wisconsin >-30°F windchill.
Rihht across the lake it is only -5, the lake warms the cold snaps like 30 degrees in these polar masses. I read -36 in wi somewhere too.
I know this is completely inaignificant but Im a math teacher and your less than sign pointing the wrong way is triggering me.
It was greater than -30 in some places…
The alligator eats Wisconsin
-30F doesn’t exist here, but we get hella strong winds. A dozen MPH shy of Wyoming wind (I am blessed with excellent weather). I do not envy you that wind chill. Last time I remember the district canceling school it was flooding. Maybe fire. IDK I was shoveling sandbags or fleeing the fire, one of the two.
Really it’s people in key positions that need to do it that’ll affect the common apathetic person in the USA. What’s that, the local food places are closed? Where are they going to eat for lunch sorta thing.
Make the protest into a field trip?
I wish, but we take the hatch act seriously even if the turds in the top tank don’t
Is it okay to get food from a taco truck?
All resistance is good.
Shut down the economy.
The regime needs our obedenence, do not give it to them willingly.
And keep it going! Dont buy anything unless it’s a 100% essential. Cancel all your media subscriptions. Reduce your food intake to a healthy amount. Stop going to shows and on trips. This needs to go longer than one day. It’s say three more years but we’re so materialistic it’s discouraging.
Lying flat is what I hear it’s called in China. There’s a lot we don’t need on a daily that we purchase because of consumerism. It’s finding what’s needed. Wear old clothes until they fall apart, eat less and less processed food, don’t just stop media consumption but pirate it if you can and show if for those who can’t. We need multiple pain points here that are sustained. The other part is look out for each other. Your neighbor can barely eat while working? Buy some extra non-perishables for them. Have extra clothing? Give it right to people who need it. Collectivism is how we get rid of capitalism.
As a Canadian, I’ve already boycott most American products
As an American, I can barely afford American products.
My Dad tells me some American products are cheaper and better quality than Canadian ones at the stores here in Canada. Strawberries was the example he used
Strawberries are luxury goods in Canada. Usually $6-8/pint here now
Nobody is buying them and the stores have to drop the prices or watch them rot on the shelf.
As an American, I mostly buy Canadian or European, except for food.
All of western society needs a major re adjustment. So yes boycotting American everything is good, but we need to look inward. Our lives of excess without tangible positive impact on all life in this planet cannot continue.
Can the powers that be just please stop insisting it just be for a “DAY” of resistance… thats not what a general strike is, so either call it something else or commit to the actual thing you’re pretending to promote.
Its a good step in the right direction, but lets stop pretending these performative one weekend day a month protests are making any difference at all.
FYI - you don’t need permission from anyone or confirmation that others will join you to call in sick tomorrow. This is literally one of the easiest things you could do to show your support. It’s not enough on its own but if we can’t even do this much we won’t do more either.
I’m clocking into work but like hell you’ll find me doing anything.
If people are too worried about losing their jobs and can’t just not turn up, would an economic shutdown work instead? - like nobody spend any money. No restaurants, groceries, don’t go to the mall or buy anything on line, etc.
That’s already what this is.
I don’t know if people can stop buying food indefinitely but maybe they can all stop buying any non-essentials
I’m ashamed to not see Miami in the map … we did great with no kings … I’ll poke around and see if anyone is organizing anything and needs help
YO WASSUP ORLANDO!
Good! Now keep that energy indefinitely!
Unless you get, literally, tens of millions in the streets the Nazis will just wait it out. Then it will intensify.
Yeah everyone should do nothing…
We should do something big instead of spending 20 minutes haphazardly throwing together an afternoon with posters and calling it a general strike.
We need to plan a real, actual shutdown a few weeks out so we can make sure individuals can prepare to survive the strike while we wreck the economy.
The biggest problem we are facing with a general strike is that there aren’t enough people that can easily put their life on hold without sacrificing everything they have. People keep screaming “general strike!” to a bunch of people that live paycheck to paycheck. The best we can do is get the ball rolling right now for those that can’t.
Personally I’m just sick of apathy at this point. Of course this general strike will not be enough. Doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be done.
Appeasement of the establishment is what got Americans to this point. The only way out it to do something that they haven’t done before. From what many Americans post, their lives are already on perma hold.
This is the easiest thing in the world for someone to say, but it’s totally different if you wouldn’t have money for rent, or medication or food if you lose your job. If you have kids to care for who might suffer for your actions.
I have a medication that prevents me from dying a painful slow death. Any damage I take while waiting for medicaid to kick in is permanent. My daughter has autism and adhd. I’m hours away from family.
Let’s say I wasn’t the lucky one who has savings, that’s a hell of a situation to gamble with. I’m willing to not spend and my kid has already been pulled for homeschooling for her safety since we’re not white. I’m not even sure what an invalid and a kid are gonna do at a protest
You must have never seen these dickheads recoil over stock fluctuations day after day. They care about their pockets and they care about your pockets. You think stupid doesn’t react first. You think the sleepy right won’t have something to cry about immediately? They cry over words and ideas, actions really scare them, that’s why they cry about weaponry in their culture void.
Yeah tomorrow is not exactly the best day to go out in the streets. There’s a massive winter storm rolling in that’ll shutdown most of the country. Minneapolis, St. Paul and the rest of the Midwest will be seeing temperatures plunge down into the negative 40s. That’s mild frostbite in minutes in you are well bundled up, if your not you will get severe frostbite in minutes. Severe frostbite is no joke either, that will easily cost you a limb if you are lucky, your life if you’re unlucky. We are gonna happily stay the fuck inside tomorrow.
This one may not do anything but it’s a start. This is the first general strike we’ve had in decades.
Right, if you just buy double the day after, it meant nothing. My idea is to coordinate one big entity at a time. Target can survive one day, but not one whole quarter if we cancel them hard. Then we move on to the next shithead company.
