General Strike US

We ready for a general strike yet?

Join the General Strike US and prepare your community to strike back!
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@generalstrikeus.bsky.social

HOW TO GET INVOLVED VOLUNTEERS NEEDED 1. JOIN OUR DISCORD-CONNECT WITH THE COMMUNITY AND STAY UPDATED. 2. SELECT ROLES- CHOOSE YOUR STATE, LOCAL, OR TEAM ROLES. ONBOARDING AND VETTING REQUIRED FOR EXPANDED ACCESS. 3. JOIN A TEAM /PROJEC CHANNEL- PLUG INTO THE WORK THAT MATCHES YOUR SKILLS AND INTERESTS. 4.START CONTRIBUTING - PARTICIPATE IN PROJECTS, CAMPAIGNS, OR INITIATIVES TO HELP BUILD COLLECTIVEPOWER. LINKTR.EE/GENERALSTRIKEUS

HOW TO GET
INVOLVED

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

1. JOIN OUR DISCORD-CONNECT WITH THE COMMUNITY AND STAY UPDATED.

Soft. Americans are soft. Do you think when a unionized group goes on strike, there's no hardship? People strike because it's for the COLLECTIVE good. The end justifies the means.
It just takes one person to lead the charge.

@generalstrikeus.bsky.social @gsus-illinois.bsky.social Hope everyone is staying safe. We’ll be letting people know…

So I guess the comment is: hypocrites.

No comment, beyond the fact that in 2022 an avg. of 7 children a DAY died from gun violence in the USA.

No comment, except that gun violence disproportionately impacts children of color.

No comment, but gun deaths are the leading cause of death in children, ahead of car crashes and cancer.

In my state with just a first and last name you can view someone’s home address and entire voting history. THIS IS A GOVERNMENT WEBSITE. So was the candidate bad or do women with a stalker or abusive partner not feel safe registering go vote?

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

The biggest scandal in US public life *ought* to be that we are the richest country in history & yet our infrastructure sucks, our transportation choices suck, our cities suck, our healthcare sucks, our public administration sucks, & in dozens of little ways, our daily lives suck.

If you want capitalism, fascism, state sanctioned violence, etc. to wither away, you have to build collective power, rooted in community, that decreases your reliance on exploitative systems and challenges their supremacy.

Learn some ways to do this from the folks at Interrupting Criminalization.

Build mutual aid, dig the well. #GeneralStrike

“Reconstruction was fundamentally about who got to be an American citizen. It was in that period that the Constitution was amended to establish birthright citizenship through the 14th Amendment, which also guaranteed equality before the law regardless of race.”

—Henry Louis Gates Jr., TIME, 2019

This worksheet includes content adapted from our Mapping Community Ecosystems of Collective Care toolkit, and also incorporates lessons and ideas from activists and organizers from around the country, including LA and DC.

You can check out the toolkit on our website here:

Oh you want to address health disparities, decrease chronic illness, alleviate mental health problems, decrease maternal and infant mortality, and prevent diabetes/cancer/dementia/heart disease??????

UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE.

Thanks for coming to my TedTalk.

I spoke about @generalstrikeus.bsky.social at the Workers Over Billionaires Labor Day Rally. I was nervous, but I did it! We must come together during this time. We have the power to shut everything down and make them listen to us. ✊

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Good job taking care of yourself!!

Happy Labor Day.

Don’t forget the history of the labor movement in the U.S. People coming together against those who wish to exploit us is a part of our shared history. We can do it again.

This Labor Day weekend as we enjoy barbecues and picnics, let's remember the farm workers who labor so hard to put food on our tables.
#WeFeedYou #LaborDay

Dark green background. Stems of yellow dandelions, clovers, and smaller purple flowers fill the image. A lady bug sits on a leaf. In white text reads we must refuse to cooperate with injustice.

Noncooperation is a powerful tool. It’s time we used it.

Extend your Labor Day weekend with a one-day sick out on Sept. 2nd. We will build this into a movement, we will get justice.

Art by Chi Nwosu

Black and white graphic flyer announcing a “Sick-Out” on September 2nd. Large bold text reads “SICK-OUT – Turn the Heat Up on Late Stage Capitalism.” The flyer urges workers to “Call out of Work!” and instead focus on “Community Care & Mutual Aid.” It includes a thermometer emoji, a sad sick face icon, and a clenched fist inside a black circle with the label “General Strike U.S. 3.5%.” Background features abstract network node graphics. A URL is provided for more information: linktr.ee/generalstrikeus.

Instead of phoning it in, just call out!

Reject extractive labor on Labor Day weekend by extending it. Join the nationwide Sick-Out to resist late-stage capitalism and center community, care, and collective refusal. Info at linktr.ee/generalstrikeus.

Criminalization is the fuel of fascism.

Welcome to the many, many people who have found this campaign in the last week.

My name is Graham Platner and I’m running for US Senate to defeat Susan Collins and topple the oligarchy that’s destroying our country.

2,900 volunteers. $1 million raised. In just over a week.

Join us.

YouTube video by Parkrose Permaculture We know how to stop this. So why aren't we yet?

I got about 3 hrs of sleep. The insomnia lately is brutal. RFK jr destroying our public health had me up all night.

Since I was up, I wanted to respond to questions about why we don't have a general strike organized yet. What do y'all think? What do we need to do/prep/build before we can strike?

I want a politics that widens the circle to include everyone, not one that shrinks the circle by throwing *undesirables* under the bus. I think this is basic. I am interested in a politics that is rooted at the sources of people's suffering. I am interested in a politics that attends to basic needs.

What? I’m so confused. The post is about protecting AND empowering them to stand up for themselves. And not just caring about our own kids, but all of them (which the religious right don’t do - i.e. they hate public schools, whereas we should be heavily supporting them to benefit everyone)

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And, we need to teach children that their voice matters. How to advocate for themselves and others. They are strong, and we must cultivate their strengths while we fight for a better future. They deserve a seat at the table alongside us - it’s their future, after all.

They are all our children. You don’t just fight for your kid, you fight for all of them. They don’t get to make the laws, they don’t get a voice.

Comrades with kids fight hard. Comrades without kids do too. Because we know what solidarity is.

So, they are all our children. We better act like it.