It’s been going around Bluesky for a while now. Here’s one: https://bsky.app/profile/anonymousprofitt.bsky.social/post/3lhti24dmwk2o
I can definitely do this. Works perfectly for my schedule
Even though I think a non critical mass of people will show up and participate in these events this should be used as an opportunity to start organizing now and building support/aid/action networks. Tell people about it and plant the seeds of resistance. At the least you’ll figure out who’s you can rely on and who’s going to roll over.
We also can’t give up early when/if these actions don’t yield the results we want either. Things are going to get VERY bad before they get better. We have to be more persistent than the fascists.
Who specifically is leading and organizing this?
Constantly spreading around leaderless calls to action is actively harmful to real progress.
Do public gatherings rustle your jimmies? It’s literally the 1st amendment. Don’t sweat it if you can’t
No they don’t but knowing who is organizing and in charge is an important part of striking.
Siiiiiigh strikes don’t get organized overnight, they take quite a lot of planning and logistics to pull it off successfully. People still need to eat and sleep and survive even while on a strike. Posting a canva flyer with dates on lemmy doesn’t tell us how the hell any kind of logistics or support is going to come to the people on strike.
Hi friends. You are starting with the end game if you are worrying about where support is going to come from, etc There will be no support until it arises organically, following buy-in of people who see something happening that they are down with If you don’t build it, they definitely won’t come
“no support until it arises organically” that is literally the point of unions and mutual aid groups and literally any kind of organizing. Support and logistics is foundational to any kind of political organizing.
…and people get connected to those groups by showing up to events like this. Sometimes you need to jump instead of worrying about the chicken or the egg coming first
Strikes are not the places to be meeting people to organize, strikes are the endgame, one of the last options to take when all other negotiations break down. Organizing and logistics and meeting people, that’s what union meetings and finding yourself a local mutual aid group are for, not the actual day of the strike.
Movements of all kinds live or die on logistics and organization.
If you want to do something you’ll find a way. If not you’ll find an excuse.
At least be honest with yourself…
I am honest and this is ineffective organizing at best, and most likely this level of non-planning for a global strike as the canva graphic says is a honeypot.
They need your planning skills then. Go help.
That would be great if a significant number of people did it. Unfortunately, I doubt enough will. I would help if I was an American, instead I can just wish you luck. You need it. (Not that the rest of the world isn’t affected too, of course)
I went to the last one of these. It was worryingly small. I’m still going to this one.
Speaking from the POV of someone inside the US: It is extremely likely that shit will get out of hand at some point, and it would be good to be at least somewhat plugged-in with the people who are against it. Alone, we’re fucked.
By the time it gets “out of hand” everyone will be too destitute to protest.
I am actually shocked people can do it now. If i were to take 3 days off from work with short notice, i would be left without without asthma meds and the ability to breathe.
