I am. In solidarity with my home state of MN. Feels small, but it’s what I’ve got to give.

There are multiple solidarity marches near me, one in SF and 1 in Oakland.

I'm on a 9/80 schedule now and Friday is my off day. I'm already not working that day.

Baby steps.

This mutually demonstrates to each other that we are all fed up and ready to take action.

Fair question, but you have to start somewhere. Most early strikes and protests aren't about succeeding on the first attempt with anything, but more conditioning people to see this as a new norm, and get used to the idea of a strike.

It's also a great way (protesting specifically), to meet others of a like mind and exchange contact details and get organized.

What needs to happen next is another folowup general strike if nothing changes that lasts for 3 days.

Then one that lasts for a week.

Then 2 weeks.

Then a month.

Then in perpetuity until demands are met.

Countries and people who are not used to striking or protesting need baby steps to get there. The US is not used to this sort of civil disobedience and need time to ramp up to this being the new norm for everyone until the fascist in chief is chased out of the office.

A full day off is an effective show of force and basis for future organization. You can use it to gauge how many people are willing to actually put their money where their mouth is. If it stops here, it's bad. But it's a good start

To make national news all it needs to do is shut down the airport. Prolonged shutdown of airports does far more damage to the politicians and wealthy than it does to average people which is why republicans are so afraid of it.

A one day strike will absolutely test what kind of power is being weilded by the public.

Strikes don’t end until demands are met.

Yes. This is undoubtedly a good thing, but it's not a strike.

Strikes don’t end until demands are met.

They usually end when Democrats fold, like the rail strike of 2022 or the more recent government shutdown. The demands don't get met.

A general strike should be national, not just state wide. Especially when it's the federal government causing the problems and not the state government.

just like protests, it was mostly ineffective and just made ICE more bold, because they know there wont be rioting or retaliation coming their way. no need to issue violence, but rioting should be enough to scare them as well.

For real, if you are actually on the ground in MN, you need to be doing every single thing you can to switch the verbage to "we're doing this until demands are met" none of this "we promise we'll stop in a bit, please don't go have drinks with your buddies all weekend and forget this was even planned"

Also, not you, collective you

A Friday 2 days from now.

I'm all for a general strike, but I do need to do little things like make sure there's food in the pantry first.

I get there's urgency, but a half-hearted shrug of a strike that we can't maintain for more than a day is just gonna embolden them.

Right, we should never even start anything until any suggested plan meets with your full approval first, and only then if it is 100% guaranteed to hit the goal in one shot.

Fuck that. Shitting on a small start is just another way of saying you hate that anyone is trying to do anything. Like how the very same people who bothered to go to peaceful protests over the summer -- "that's not good enough! that'll never do anything!" -- are the ones now organizing direct action in their communities: I bet you think that's coincidence.

Yeah, no. But thanks for letting us know what side you're on.

Me, I stand with MN. If this is where they wanna start, I'll start there too. There will always be plenty like you to judge helplessly from the sidelines.