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Holy shit please do not do this. This is the most disorganised disaster I’ve ever seen and all they’re going to do is get vulnerable people fired. Do not go on strike as an individual. Do not do not do not. The point of a strike is collective action to show the collective power of workers.
It is not enough to say that the NLRB has made vague gestures at showing that a non-union strike is theoretically possible. If you get fired illegally and you’re not part of a union, who’s going to pay for your employment tribunal? You? Unless you’re aware of how expensive tribunals can be and have that money set to the side, you’re opening yourself up to a world of hurt.
This is genuinely the most dangerous, nonsensical thing I’ve seen on this website in a long, long time. Do not do this. Do not mistake masturbatory individualistic action for a collective movement.
If you would like to find a way to seriously stick it to your bosses, speak to your coworkers, organise an actual union in your workplace (if you need pointers on this, don’t be afraid to reach out — I’ve done it before and would be happy to share pointers!). If you want public healthcare, get involved in any of the myriad campaigns for single payer going on. But do not, do not welcome unnecessary risk into your life like this.
Seriously, this is so incredibly sus. You do not just organize a general strike on a national scale by sending out a tweet and slapping together a website with no relevant information. At best, this is a well-intentioned but dangerously misguided social media activism move. At worst, this is an intentional disinformation campaign to undermine the labor movement. Do your research and learn your history before getting involved in stuff like this- the consequences are very real
I’m not passing around blame but this feels like a consequence of social media activism misunderstood as organizing. It rarely if ever is. Social media can be introductory, informative, and discursive, but you can’t organize workers by announcing what they should be doing
Color revolutions and other CIA op shit like the “protests” currently taking place in Cuba are tailor made for naive young progressives on sites like Tumblr especially. Like, no offence but this shit was designed in a goddamn lab to get swallowed up and reproduced through the infographics/What’s Happening In X-industrial complex that constitutes “activism” on social media sites like Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, etc. Most people’s “progressive” politics on here are entirely based on aesthetics and appeals to emotion and standpoint epistemology, not a materialist and principled anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist understanding of the world. Your average fandom blogger will take the most naive, surface-level view of things and assume all protests that want “freedom” and “democracy” are inherently good and woke and heckin valid. Understanding the actual class makeup and consciousness of protest movements, what their actual goals are, how they are produced by the material conditions and histories of the countries they are located in, how they fit in to the global scheme of imperialism and unipolar American world order and therefore whether they deserve to be supported or not is far too much to ask of most people on here when they have fucking MCU headcanons and queer discourse to argue about 90% of the time.
I want to write a deeper analysis of this but everytime I start I don’t even know where to begin because it just breaks my heart. I mean people in the west, do you even understand what your state is doing to the rest of the world?
The reason they try to manufacture consent through media everytime they commit a heinous act is because they know the power still lies with the masses. You given them consent by buying into their propaganda and your inaction. You can take it back.
