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Thousands in US to join ‘no school, no work, no shopping’ protest in economic blackout
(www.theguardian.com)
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How does no shopping part play out in these? Isn't everyone just going to end up buying a bit more over the following week and even things out?
Around here they are promoting May 2nd as a "buy local" day.
symbolic gesture.
and yes, the next day every grocery store will be slammed.
but it makes people FEEL like they did something important.
just like my neighbors FEEL like they are fighting injustice by putting up lawn signs, but when it comes to local city politics, they are NIMBY on everything. because it's not about actually improving anything, that would have real world impacts! it's about FEELING like you are so you can post about it on social media or brag about how 'activist' you are.
Meanwhile when a affording a housing project is proposed a few blocks away, you FIGHT LIKE HELL to prevent it from being built. Oh, they want to add bike lanes to your street to increase cycling and decrease car use? FIGHT LIKE HELL. etc etc.
And I live in one of the most progressive cities in the USA. We recently passed a city wide zoning reform and reqmoved parking minimums for development... the city council did it on a big margin too... and a huge chunk of the landed gentry citizenry who live in 2 million dollar homes... that won't be impacted by any of this... WENT INSANE. now every lawn is no longer BLM. it's CITIZENS FOR HOUSING AFFORDABILITY. and by affordability... they mean keep housing as expensive as possible so that only rich white people can afford to live here, and keep their taxes as low as possible, of course.
and in the dog park if the ask me my opinion on all this 'massive over development' and the 'loss of parking' i'm like 'yeah it's great' and they call me a capitalist pig, or a communist, depending on the day.