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Nearly 1,000 'Workers Over Billionaires' Protests Planned Across US for Labor Day
(www.commondreams.org)
this post was submitted on 30 Aug 2025
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Right wing politicians are in power, and they won't pay any attention to protests like this. They don't need the fair votes anymore so popular opinion is irrelevant to them. Strikes need to be actually blocking commerce and for months if needed. Shut down the country or it's meaningless.
They only organize protests like this when Republicans are in power but the Republicans are less likely to give a shit, and Dems are only 5% better for the working class - if that. By some metrics they're worse. We need to have these protests regardless of who is in power, I don't think the Dems really understand that the people no longer see them as the party of the working class, but they need to hear that message.
Yeah, they are scared like the last time with Occupy Wall Street. That's why they propped up the Tea Party movement and hijacked it leading to where we are now.
The Tea Party Movement was propped up and hijacked before Occupy Wall Street ever started though. Hell the Tea Party had dominated the midterm elections before Occupy Wall Street started.