All resistance is good.
Shut down the economy.
The regime needs our obedenence, go not give it to them willingly.
this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2026
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And keep it going! Dont buy anything unless it's a 100% essential. Cancel all your media subscriptions. Reduce your food intake to a healthy amount. Stop going to shows and on trips. This needs to go longer than one day. I'd say three more years but we're so materialistic it's discouraging.
As a Canadian, I've already boycott most American products
As an American, I mostly buy Canadian or European, except for food.
Edit: also I also buy Japanese
All of western society needs a major re adjustment. So yes boycotting American everything is good, but we need to look inward. Our lives of excess without tangible positive impact on all life in this planet cannot continue.
Lying flat is what I hear it's called in China. There's a lot we don't need on a daily that we purchase because of consumerism. It's finding what's needed. Wear old clothes until they fall apart, eat less and less processed food, don't just stop media consumption but pirate it if you can and show if for those who can't. We need multiple pain points here that are sustained. The other part is look out for each other. Your neighbor can barely eat while working? Buy some extra non-perishables for them. Have extra clothing? Give it right to people who need it. Collectivism is how we get rid of capitalism.
FYI - you don't need permission from anyone or confirmation that others will join you to call in sick tomorrow. This is literally one of the easiest things you could do to show your support. It's not enough on its own but if we can't even do this much we won't do more either.
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Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947 (over Truman's veto) to make general strikes so incredibly difficult to organize that there hasn't been one since.That there is a general strike happening in a major US city on such short notice is nothing short of a miracle.
16:28 · 22 Jan 2026
I looked it up. These were anti-union laws. I think about how quickly the French can strike, but remember that it's four to five giant labor unions that always call for them to happen. We're in dire straits here in the U.S!
Sign a strike card??? https://www.generalstrikeus.com/
I think that the elites in France learned that it was much better to let the people strike than the alternative.
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Not only that but keep getting more people active!! Also keep using Session, XMPP, Signal/Molly, Matrix/Element, Stoat, and Piefed to get coordinated and organize people!! Getting people to mobilize and organize other people as well. The more of us doing the stronger we all are!!
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I'm clocking into work but like hell you'll find me doing anything.
If people are too worried about losing their jobs and can't just not turn up, would an economic shutdown work instead? - like nobody spend any money. No restaurants, groceries, don't go to the mall or buy anything on line, etc.
That's already what this is.
I don't know if people can stop buying food indefinitely but maybe they can all stop buying any non-essentials. Just doing this on certain days would be stupid because people would just stock up the day before
Can the powers that be just please stop insisting it just be for a "DAY" of resistance... thats not what a general strike is, so either call it something else or commit to the actual thing you're pretending to promote.
Its a good step in the right direction, but lets stop pretending these performative one weekend day a month protests are making any difference at all.
I'm ashamed to not see Miami in the map ... we did great with no kings ... I'll poke around and see if anyone is organizing anything and needs help
Honestly I didn't get this memo that we were striking in my city.
The Europeans have it right. Americans only strike when it's convenient.
Honestly I didn't get this memo that we were striking in my city.
You've got it now, and the day isn't over yet.
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They also tried to organize it with like 12 minutes of notice.
I get that it's urgent, but if you don't give people time to even get groceries ahead of time, you can't really have a large-scale strike lasting longer than an afternoon.
You all are missing the point. The Govt has systematically dismantled our labor unions, and labor unions typically call for strikes. It's not about convenience: It's about the ability to organize and the guarantee of a number of people participating.
Edit: sorry chillidog, i meant this as a response to the person above you.
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Dang I’m just finding out I have a Dr appointment but nothing else
I also have a doctors appointment! Solidarity! Haha
my wife is a teacher. she's going to work because not everyone can afford to take off and a lot of folk use school as day care (and y'all shouldn't really be taking your 5 and 6 year olds picketing against ICE when the feds are liable to use chemical weapons against you) but like, it'd be nice to just piss off and let the littles fend for themselves.
Although the beauty of General strikes, you don't have to go anywhere. You can stay home, you can smoke weed all day and play video games.
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Most schools are canceled today for the cold around me. South Wisconsin <-30°F windchill.
Edit: symbols
I know this is completely insignificant but Im a math teacher and your less than sign pointing the wrong way is triggering me.
The alligator eats Wisconsin
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Really it's people in key positions that need to do it that'll affect the common apathetic person in the USA. What's that, the local food places are closed? Where are they going to eat for lunch sorta thing.
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Do it!
Good luck.
YO WASSUP ORLANDO!
My area isn't doing shit, but that doesn't mean I'm not.
Isn't doing shit the opposite goal here? /s
But good job, hope you can convince some others to not participate in any economic activity.
Good! Now keep that energy indefinitely!
Yes, strike!
Don't just protest and then go back to work for the same people buying these politicians.
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