General strike everywhere is what I'm hoping to see. The real power of the working class. Let us wield it until the world is a better place for all.
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Super excited to see this, from out of state. It sounds real. If it gets coverage, it'll be inspirational across the country.
I know there were some walkouts "Free America" yesterday, but here (Atlanta), it was just a handful of schools and some sign-carriers. Not disruptive enough to push the weekend's snow forecast out of the news.
I have been begging the general strike communities on discord to just do it already. I think pulling the trigger will just inspire enough others to join in. The "we need 3% to pledge" is bullshit because you only lose momentum after the initial surge of sign-ups. They need to just time it right to start it, and right after Goods death would have been perfect.
Maybe going 80 years without a general strike is why ICE came?
Pretty sure they'll have no hesitation in snatching people out of their homes and thowing them in forced labour camps
I’m not skipping work, but when I put in the personal time off request and told my boss why it was such short notice he said to get out there and do the work, so that’s what’s happening.
I’ve been pretty nervous looking at the weather and how that may affect turnout. The forecast has a low of -23, which rivals some of the worst cold snaps I’ve seen up here factoring in windchill. But it turns out that’s just in the morning. By the time the march happens it’ll be closer to -10. That’s just adding sweatpants between my leggings and jeans and some thinner gloves under my inner glove layer.
I hope this makes a difference.
This is nothing, few years back we had -40° days with wind chill bringing it down to -70. Everything closed, yet everyone i knew still went out ice fishing
Yeah, I remember taking a walk through the polar vortex back in 2019 and feeling heat escape my clothing like air from a ripped astronaut suit, but that was a 20 minute walk and I anticipate being out in it for multiple hours this time. That means I need to prep differently.
Me and mine will be participating in solidarity, and I hop everyone angered by this insane govt overreach does whatever they can as well. A bunch of little adds up to a lot, and the powers that be hate that shit, so Friday the 23rd is the perfect time for all of us -- not just Minnesotans -- to do whatever we can.
I don't expect mainstream media to cover it fairly, though. Any more that's news by the rich, for the rich, and they hate this kind of thing. (Anyone else remember the air traffic controllers and how they got demonized for YEARS by the Reagan administration and the press? Yeah.) I'll wait for Minnesotans to tell us how they feel about it on the day.
This is what they want right? Texas has more immigration, but they want to spread fear and cause chaos on blue states.
Texas is undergoing plenty of anti-immigration enforcement, especially in border towns. But because there's no elected opposition and the media landscape in the state is fully captured by corporate interests, ICE gets to operate fully uninhibited and unreported on.
35 dead bodies showed up in the Houston Bayou in 2025, the bulk of them homeless, during a state sponsored purge of homeless encampments across the city. No suspects have been identified. All these cases go cold practically as soon as they're opened. The only thing the Houston DA's office seems able to say definitively is "it's not a serial killer, stop talking about it".
It's not just a Blue States problem. What Blue States appear to have are large activist communities congealing in self-defense. Red state communities continue to be fractured and alienated, unable to resist the iron grip of a fascist police force.
Texas has more immigration, but they want to spread fear and cause chaos on blue states.
This is all true, but this is a demonstration of power, not fear.
They are using fear to project power, so you are almost right. They are spread too far and wide to actually project power. They can't be everywhere but they are certainly trying.
Do it!
Good luck.
Maybe the pedonazi administration of their country will be the breaking point for Americans. Or maybe not.