#GeneralStrike

Shut it down.

While it can still be shut down.

generalstrike2025.org

https://twvme.substack.com/p/when-we-refuse-to-work-the-machine

That's all we've ever been allowed to teach. And the repression started well before Trump was elected.

Good luck teaching anything even remotely supportive of the Arab or Muslim experience. Forget anything that even mentions the word Palestine. And that's in the "liberal" San Francisco Bay Area.

There are already other places in the U.S., like Florida, where you can be fired simply for saying the word "Gay."

And who remembers hearing anything in school about Marx, socialism, anarchism, that wasn't completely negative? Anything about MLK's support of labor unions and opposition to the Vietnam War? General Strikes? The Tulsa pogrom? The Battle of Blair Mountain or the Great Train Strike of 1877 (the 2 largest insurrections and 2 largest labor uprisings in the U.S. since the Civil War)???

Dozens of books banned from school libraries and from the curriculum.

80 years ago today the people of Milan and Turin helped liberate themselves and crush the fascist Mussolini with a spontaneous General Strike. They shut it down, and liberation was declared. Strikes WORK when we DON'T WORK.

We do not #GeneralStrike to win back "business as usual".
Our costs will be high. We general strike to fix all that is broken, for the people.

Why are we putting up with all the BS happening in #America ? Let’s shut it all down. #USA #NationalStrike #GeneralStrike #Politics #Strike #Fukital #Boycott #Consumer #Labor #Organize #Activism fook a #WatchList

I think we should be very suspicious of the #memes and posts calling for #blackfolks to "rest" to not showup and showout at #protests. We know that #divideandconquer is the oldest trick in the #oppressor playbook. #blacklivesmatter #BlackMastodon #TrumpLiesMatter #GeneralStrike

On 23 April 1918 a general strike took place throughout Ireland against the British government’s attempts to introduce conscription. Work was stopped in railways, docks, factories, mills, theatres, cinemas, trams, public services, shipyards, newspapers, shops and even government munitions factories.

#MayDay #GeneralStrike #BeThere!

Immigrant rights groups, labor unions plan May Day march to demand end to Trump's mass deportations

By Beth Godvik, April 17, 2025

"Activists for immigrant rights gathered at Federal Plaza in #Chicago on Thursday morning to prepare for a protest rally and march next month to demand the Trump administration halt mass deportation efforts.

"The Chicago Coalition Against the #Trump Agenda – a group of labor unions and community organizations – said they plan a massive march on May Day, the annual May 1 holiday celebrating workers and their rights.

" 'The very constitutional pillars of First Amendment protections are under attack,' said Chicago Teachers Union vice president Jackson Potter.

"This year, many marches have been planned to focus on immigrants, including at Union Park in Chicago.

"The May Day march in Union Park will urge the Trump administration to end mass deportations of immigrants immediately.

" 'That is why we will be marching in the thousands in broad coalition on #May1 to ensure we are rising up and protecting the rights of immigrants and migrants,' said Nazek Sankari, co-chair of the U.S. Palestinian Community Network Chicago.

"Organizers plan to begin the march at 11 a.m. on May 1 as part of an effort to mark #InternationalWorkersDay with events all across the country.

" 'This May 1 participation by our unions will be a representation of our stepping forward further into this fight, along with every other worker across the world,' said Loreen Targos, executive vice president of the American Federation of Government Employees Local 704."

cc: @MikeDunnAuthor

https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/may-day-protest-rally-immigrant-rights-march-trump-administration-deportations/

“Justice Dept. agrees to let DOGE access sensitive immigration case data.”

#Resist #Fascism #DOGE #Immigrants #Deportations #GeneralStrike #USPol https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/04/21/doge-ecas-justice-immigration-courts-trump/

"Manufacturing employs 11M, tourism 12M."
-S Galloway

"Trump tariffs lead to surge of cos. parking imports in tax-free ‘foreign trade zones.’

Foreign trade zones & bonded warehouses are specially designated, secured storage or MANU sites approved by US Customs that allow for the temp avoidance of #Tariffs.

More cos. started looking to FTZs b/w the pres election & start of Trump’s new trade war, & membership has surged to an all-time high."

This workaround is likely temp, & onlyavail to large cos.

#GeneralStrike #USPol https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/21/trump-tariffs-import-surge-tax-free-foreign-trade-zones.html

"R Congress allows the pres to seize the power of the purse & does nothing... There “won’t be trumpets or bolts of fire,” heralding that we've arrived at this moment. Trump's undertaken anautocratic #COUP, dropping the pretense *bound by law or obligated to act in the country’s best in.

We need every: person, officeholder +facet of society to tell Trump: “NO.”

Let’s stop arguing about when the crisis begins & start marshaling the will to end it."
#GeneralStrike #USPol https://contrarian.substack.com/p/stop-waiting-for-a-formal-declaration

“US $to 3-yr low as Trump’s Powell threats further dent investor CONF.

We’re seeing a clear signal from the mkt -it doesn’t like even the idea that the pres might try to remove the Fed CHM. There's been some loss of CONF in US economic policy making in recent wks. We’ve seen that in this very odd comb of upward pressure at times on longer-term bond yields combined with a weaker$ -suggests global investors pulling capital out of the US."

#GeneralStrike

#USPol #Tariffs https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/21/us-dollar-falls-to-three-year-low-as-trumps-powell-threats-further-dent-investor-confidence.html

"These aren't legislators. They're JUNIOR STREET THUGS trying to get noticed in a protection racket."
-Rep Sean Casten

Trump has always been a mob boss. Craven GOP MOC refuse to rebuke him. They're responsible for the destroying Biden's economy.

A #GeneralStrike may be the only way to stop the carnage.