INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC BLACKOUT DAY!28th Feb 2025 ✊
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/18476518
The day to buy nothing, to make the corporations and governments experience our power. ☮️
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28th FEB 2025
Read more here ➡️ https://jointhepeoplesunion.com/
I’m seeing far too many variations of national strike/don’t buy anything/everyone local protest memes that are scattered throughout February. I can hear someone argue that they might want a month filled with protest, and that’s fine, but if you’re looking at this from the outside all you see is disorganized shifting dates and objectives. Shit needs to get organized. It’s head-shakingly liberal; everyone has their own agenda, all are legit and should be heard, but they all can’t pull together to succeed with the overwhelming show of force to be effective.
Yeah, just like during the campaign the left can't even agree on what we're supposed to be doing.
It looks like cringe amateur stuff from the inside too, don't worry
Blackout Friday.
Fuck Black Friday. We need Blackout friday.
That sounds great too
Alright, let's do it then?
Blackout Friday
Maybe they can dismiss a total boycott that as a hollow, reactionary promise that will pass, but saying "I will shop with you much less" feels much more real and they can see it being enough to reverse their endless growth line. They care about one thing.
Who wants to post and get this started?
This came up in another thread and I am surprised it is not as well known: General strikes are illegal in the United States since 1947's Taft-Hartley Act.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taft%E2%80%93Hartley_Act
Attempts to organize and exert political and economic influence have to do so under the parameters of that act. Unions can't support these things openly or officially without violating the act. So these things have to be called something other than a general strike to avoid persecution. They're essentislly stripped of major legitimizing and organizing organ: labor unions, by default.
Not a lawyer but I wonder how much teeth that law has. The GOP/Trump has put on a clinic on how to legally gum up the wheels of justice, it seems like unions could try the same. Delay, argue technicalities, appeal, rise, repeat...
For example: if you spend 2 months in court arguing about who organized what and what they're technically striking for, damage could still be done even with the strike broken up. Multiply that by a few major unions and it adds up.
You can already see a similar plan coming together with UAWs 2028 contact expiration plan. Its not a general strike, there's just coincidentally a lot of strikes at once.
Of course there's a stricter set of laws and leeway when you're not a corrupt oligarch so it wouldn't work. But it's fun to think about...
Its not a general strike, there's just coincidentally a lot of strikes at once.
Exactly. These are the hoops organized labor has to jump through to get even a footing.
Meanwhile compare what the billionaire class is able to use for their signaling.
That means I have to preorder monster hunter if I want to play it on release though
Must.... Consoooooom
Yeah I was being sarcastic because I instantly thought of the release when I saw the date. I can wait 1 day though
Until people start taking protest seriously nothing will change. A single day for a few hours event will do nothing to sway them. It needs to be a prolonged event that hurts them
Yes but to reach the big we need to start small.
People have been going small for 75 years, that method isn't working.
Luigi already did that, now it's time for the next step, or at least continue his legacy. With Musk on top of the list.
Join us then
How does "no school" fit into this exactly?
I dint think these general "buy nothing" days are the right way to go. Whatever people don't buy on the day will just be bought the next day.
I think it would be difficult to achieve anything more than a standard deviation in daily sales, as in its not really noticeable.
Yep. It's 1/365th of their business. That's a single day stock dip of -0.O2%
What you're asking is for single moms not to work and have enough money to feed kids and pay rent. You're asking people to miss rent payments and be homeless. Some people can't afford to do this, full stop.
Well then I suppose we better just call the whole thing off since single mothers can't participate. That's just an excuse to try and justify actions that accomplish nothing. If people used those same protest techniques 100 years ago, we would still be fighting for things like 40-hour, work week, paid holiday, sick time, etc. We would still be fighting civil rights movements from the '60s.
You can't afford to not do this. Change requires sacrifice. You can't keep following their rules and expect anything to change.