Forum Post: General strike monday after tday
Posted 13 years ago on Nov. 1, 2011, 1:17 a.m. EST by otonzer
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When is the general strike for everyone comming? Oakland's a Great start and all. But i dont live there. How about a dont come back after tday strike?
Strikes and Boycotts are the most effective things folks can do. Money is all they understand. There needs to be more and more of them.
Get rid of the Federal Reserve! Take the power from the banks!
Andrew Jackson
I think a strike should be in the form of taking your money out of the banks, investment firms, anything financial that is not going to be a threat to you and your family, stop buying certain products that don't sustain your good health. Stop supporting companies who do not employ Americans or create American made Jobs, or pay their Taxes. As a collective, we Americans decided this is what we were going to do, this would have a much greater effect than not going to work. Hit the Wall Street where they hit us! In the Wallet!
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
You want prosperity and you want to help others. How about an experiment?
Try and compare:
You may find that #1 isn't as cool and trendy, but has a surprisingly positive effect both for you and for others.
Occupy Oakland Calls For City-Wide General Strike, Nov 2
http://occupywallst.org/forum/occupy-oakland-calls-city-wide-general-strike-nov-/
Wednesday
Great way to comfirm the OWS' image to the US public as anti-business, anti-work, free money for nothing, entitled kids.
Lay off the insults.
Lay off harming the businesses that are the foundation of our country and pay for your existence. You advocate actual material harm to the US; not just 'insults'.
a strike is material harm? lol its monetary harm dont you mean? its the only thing they understand. there is no harm. there is the businesses loosing money. nothing else. and so they should. they could just hire more people but no thats expensive. so they can lose it this way instead.. how is that harm? its either them.. or the people they dont hire i choose them.
When the both of you come back from civics class, you'll learn that people prosper when they perform services for people. That's what businesses do: serve others. And the most successful businesses serve the most people, with the greatest value.
"the others" do not have jobs anymore. they cant buy your service. everybody loses when you get back from econ101 you will know that
unfortunately, soc. security, disability, food stamps, unemployment.. there's plenty of handouts so yes, iphones, macs, things will still be bought. to many free handouts for those who don't need them, though some do i agree.
soc security is a hand out? did they stop taking it out of your check?
soc security is a plan where when you get old you dont live on the street cause you cant physically work due to old age. it is not a hand out. you pay out of your paycheck every paycheck for this. before soc security, there were old people that could barely get around living in tents and not cause they didnt want to work.. cause who is going to hire you when you cant walk a flight of stairs anymore, cant see without (expensive) glasses and your brain has slowed down? so not a hand out. paid for in advance
The lesson is to vote for what works, not Hope and Change. Fortunately the OWS shows that message is starting to get through.
About 14 million don't. About 140 million do.
The only foundation of a country is its people. Now don't make me repeat myself.
i kind of like my job and have no interest in striking... they pay me to do my job too so it's a good deal all around
Come back to where?