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It's always been the case that "buying" an ebook from amazon was only actually a loan they could rescind at any point, but lately Amazon have gone harder on this, and it is 100% so that they can wipe banned books from your libraries without your consent.

Buy direct from authors. Get your files.

A photo with text describing Phase 1 of the General Strike. This phase is all about building a connected groundswell of people who are committed to The General Strike. We are reaching out to organizations and influential individuals who are already taking action (such as planning strikes or boycotts; providing homeless services or advocating for healthcare reform) and plugging them into The General Strike network. We are building an organizational structure with the capacity to explode into independent and interconnected regional chapters, and laying the groundwork for exponential growth.

Picture describing Phase 2 of the General Strike. With a powerful, diverse base of 6M signed strike cards we will be well on our way to meeting our final goal of 11M strikers. Now it'll be time to bring our demands into focus, and to map out what Strike Days) will really look like. Organizing and outreach efforts will continue as normal, and a series of Strike Day meetings will commence. The goal of these meetings will be to draft a limited list of highly specific demands to specific controlling entities, to pick a strike date(s), and to plan the events of Strike Days). Emphasis will be on having many voices heard and building consensus, using modern crowdsourcing technology to uplift all voices. Specific demands will come from the leaders and experts of our various existing fights for racial, economic, gender and environmental justice that have the on the ground experience in their unique areas.

Picture describing Phase 3 of the General Strike. As we near our critical goal of 11M strikers we will finalize our demands and prepare for Strike Day. Accumulated strike funds and partners in mutual aid will help distribute support to all registered strikers as needed, and Strike Day events will be in their final planning stages. A team of legal aids will formulate the official language for the strike, and communications specialist will hone in on messaging. If employees so choose, strike notices will be distributed to employers per their request, with a legal framework outlining their right to strike and constitutional protections against retaliation. Now all that's left to do is STRIKE!

What is the 3.5% rule. THE 3.5% RULE REFERS TO THE IDEA THAT NONVIOLENT MOVEMENTS CAN ACHIEVE SIGNIFICANT SOCIAL OR POLITICAL CHANGE WHEN JUST 3.5% OF THE POPULATION ACTIVELY PARTICIPATES. THIS CONCEPT IS BASED ON RESEARCH BY POLITICAL SCIENTIST ERICA CHENOWETH, WHO STUDIED HUNDREDS OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL MOVEMENTS AND FOUND THAT NO NONVIOLENT MOVEMENT THAT REACHED AT LEAST 3.5% PARTICIPATION EVER FAILED TO ACHIEVE ITS GOALS.

You have questions. We get it. Here’s some information on the structure of this movement, WHY we need a General Strike, and WHY we need 3.5% of the population to commit.

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Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...

This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.

The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

Elon Musk was mocked after raging against "unelected bureaucrats" in an Oval Office rant oblivious to the fact that he was describing himself.

Yes he is.

What the actual *?! The White House has designated Mr. Musk’s office, the United States DOGE Service, as an entity protected from public records requests and most judicial intervention until at least 2034, by classifying its documents as presidential records.

A tweet from user "karaswisher". The tweet reads: "Board member of Meta asks the right question. Maybe explain it to Mark." Below this, there is a quote tweet from user "John Arnold", The quote tweet reads: "So what happens when the executive branch just ignores a judicial injunction, because that's the inevitable endgame here. US Marshalls are supposed to enforce contempt of court orders but they're under the executive branch. How is this going to play out?"

If the White House decides it can defy the will of the courts, then the people must defy the will of the White House.

More of this, America.

Operation ICE Ride-Along isn’t going as planned. 🔥

Fox News tagged along with ICE, hoping for an exclusive look at “dangerous criminals.” Instead, they got a whole lot of nothing. No threats, no big arrests—just a community that wasn’t having it. The narrative is falling apart.

Notably, many of the targets are Black employees working at health agencies. This disturbing attempt to intimidate and undermine public servants comes from AAF, a small right-wing nonprofit founded in 2020. Enough is enough.

The group claims these workers, included in their “D.E.I. bureaucrat watch list,” supported diversity initiatives, criticized Trump on social media, or made donations to Democrats.

The American Accountability Foundation (AAF) has published a list with the names and photos of over 50 people—many involved in programs focused on improving the health of people of color.

Okay, pardon us, but F this. America, you’ve got to stand up.

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Who’s gonna staff Mar-a-Lago again this summer?

New via NYT — The CIA sent the White House an unclassified email listing all employees hired by the spy agency over the last two years to comply with an executive order to shrink the federal work force. One former agency officer called the reporting of names a “counterintelligence disaster.”

Jersey.

Democratic senators will hold the Senate floor all night long in opposition to the nomination of Russ Vought, an organizer of Project 2025, to head the OMB.

This.

Mood.

The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they resisted turning over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s staffers. America, please stand with us—we are fighting to defend this country!

Two non-fiction books are displayed on a light beige table. On the left, Timothy Snyder’s “On Tyranny”: Twenty Lessons From The Twentieth Century. On the right, “After Work”: A History Of The Home And The Fight For Free Time by Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek.

Q: “What can I do before the strike to prepare? I feel helpless or I’m not sure where to start.”

There is a role for everyone in the Resistance. One way is to empower yourself through reading, then sharing what you’ve learned with others interested.

Knowledge IS Power
Education NOT Deportation

1,100 EPA employees have been notified of imminent termination.

And the internet is being censured.

50 states and 50 protests!!

#resist #bluecrew #DEM_action #protest #50states50protests #feb5th

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I wonder what the rest of the world is saying about us now. Berlin newspaper.