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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWe have 3 things to effect change
until the Mid-Terms and the hope that we aren't derailed in the election. Those 3 things will impact now if we organize nationally. The first is our voices in protest. The second is withholding our bodies/minds that supply labor to the economy. The third is withholding our money in targeted ways.
We cannot wait a year for more Dems to take the Congress. They will ignore Congressional acts as we see in the Epstein files. We must organize, organize, organize. We must do work slowdowns, sickouts, stay homes and general strikes. Even if those start small and grow they will be better than not at all. Don't wait for some perfect huge participation. Do it and grow it. It can start as simple as organizing some people to refuse to attend community events, local shows, concerts etc. and make it known publicly over and over why you are not attending. When others see that people are doing it and that it is as simple as staying away your movement will grow. People don't have to do anything other than not attend.
We know the media companies that are supporting the fascists and we know their advertisers. Develop a form letter and organize some people to send the letters to Netflix, Paramount, Disney etc. and then cancel subscriptions. Do the same with cell phone service. There is no reason to not use the services that are super cheap because they still use the Verizon, AT&T etc. networks it's just you don't have to pay the high rates and give those telecom companies the big profits. I pay less than $20.00 per month for two lines with unlimited calls, texts and big chunk of premium data and regular data after my allotment. They use Verizon and AT&T, you can have your choice and change as you wish, and Verizon was charging me almost $200.00 per month for the same thing. Stop letting them rip you off. Check out these other services. When you switch do it in an organized way with letters sent telling the big guys you are leaving because of their support for the fascists and also make that publicly known.
Organize work actions, stay home actions, sickout actions. Start and it will grow. Make it publicly known why you are doing what you're doing. Always demand change, work to register voters, work to get them to the polls.
While we are doing that we must organize and attack their money any way legally possible. Attack. Don't just go along spending with companies that support the fascists. Consumers made these companies and consumers can hurt these companies. Their money is all they care about so attack their money by changing spending and slowing productivity.
Organize, organize, attack , attack, always make it known why and always demand change. Disney buckled over the push-back consumers gave over Jimmy Kimmel and that should be proof enough that action works.
WhiskeyGrinder
(26,386 posts)This is a public google doc that you can access and then download or copy for yourself.
moniss
(8,756 posts)bucolic_frolic
(54,076 posts)As is always pointed out to me when I suggested strikes in the past, good people could lose their jobs, health care, and have benefits impacted by a sick out or strikes.
But realize the economy is slowing, and this action will pull another pile of Americans into the I-ain't-spending-a-dime camp.
Organizational psychology teaches that employees will behave in rational ways. So they might slow down. Productivity might fall. They could find ways to be more generous to customers while profitability is a secondary consideration.
Expect a slump in the economy now. The stock market is breaking in 4 different directions by segment: AI, US markets, International markets, and small to mid caps. AI is rolling over, has been for 2 months, and topping is a long process. This could drag on to next October with some scary fakes in between. International will be hit less than the rest except for emerging markets. There is risk in global credit and banking. US Treasuries are vulnerable because of the $Trillions in US debt. We will not pay it off with oil money. Oil is on life support globally, though not here in the US. Alt energy is generally cheaper now, and that will continue.
Kid Berwyn
(23,031 posts)RESIST!!!! Never miss a chance to state why they are wrong, un-American, and in service of Putin.