Minnesota appears to be in gear for a mass uprising. Unions, community organizations, faith leaders, and small businesses there are calling for a statewide day of “no work (except for emergency services), no school, and no shopping” on January 23. Festering grievances swelled into a national outcry on January 7, after ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed poet and mother of three Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis while she and her wife were observing federal agents swarming her neighborhood. A week later, another federal agent shot a Latino immigrant from Venezuela in the leg.

Minnesota appears to be in gear for a mass uprising. Unions, community organizations, faith leaders, and small businesses there are calling for a statewide day of “no work (except for emergency services), no school, and no shopping” on January 23. Festering grievances swelled into a national outcry on January 7, after ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed poet and mother of

  • AliasAKA@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    1 day ago

    One day is a start. If they actually manage to get a general strike for a single day with 75% adherence across the city, that would create such a panic in the billionaire class and create so much momentum that it has serious potential to effect change. Billionaires would not want that catching on or sticking around, and once we have one day. Well why not two days? Or three days?

    • Whostosay@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      1 day ago

      That idea is why strikes exist. Putting an expiry date on your own threat is the same as not making it, possibly worse.

      We need to spread the word, right fucking now, that contingencies are in effect and that if they don’t cave within that 24hr, we escalate.