Forum Post: OWS Needs to Call for a General Strike
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 17, 2011, 10:59 p.m. EST by gagablogger
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The 1% thinks their financial services are so important. Let's see how they like doing without the services of the 99% for awhile. Garbage collectors, janitors, maids, cooks, drivers, police, fire, construction workers come one come all. Some of us can demonstrate, the rest of us can strike. The whole corrupt system only works as long as we all obediently cooperate. So don't.
Start the war against Injustice by starting our own banks to double the income of the Bottom 90% of Workers, for many more people will come to your side when you are proactive (for “new” Business & Government solutions), instead of reactive (against “old” Business & Government solutions), which is why what we most immediately need is a comprehensive “new” strategy that implements all our various socioeconomic demands at the same time, regardless of party, and although I'm all in favor of taking down today's ineffective and inefficient Top 1% Management System of Business & Government, there's only one way to do it – by fighting bankers as bankers ourselves, and thus doubling our income from Bank Profits which are 40% of all Corporate Profits; that is, using a Focused Direct Democracy organized according to our current Occupations & Generations. Consequently, I have posted a 1-page Summary of the Strategically Weighted Policies, Organizational Operating Structures, and Tactical Investment Procedures necessary to do this at:
http://getsatisfaction.com/americanselect/topics/on_strategically_weighted_policies_organizational_operating_structures_tactical_investment_procedures
Join
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/StrategicInternationalSystems/
because we need 100,000 “support clicks” at AmericansElect.org in support of the above bank-focused platform.
Most importantly, remember, as cited in the first link, that as Bank Owner-Voters in your 1 of 48 "new" Business Investment Groups (or "new" Congressional Committees) you become the "new" Congress, and related “new” Businesses, replacing the "old" Congress, and related “old” Businesses, according to your current Occupations & Generations, called a Focused Direct Democracy.
Therefore, any Candidate (or Leader) therein, regardless of party, is a straw man, a puppet, a political opportunist; what's important is the STRATEGY – the sequence of steps – that the people organize themselves under in Military Internet Formation of their Individual Purchasing Power & Group Investment Power. In this, sequence is key, and if the correct mathematical sequence is followed then it results in doubling the income of the Bottom 90% of Workers from today's Bank Profits, which are 40% of all Corporate Profits.
Why? Because there are Natural Social Laws – in mathematical sequence – that are just like Natural Physical Laws, such as the Law of Gravity. You must follow those Natural Social Laws or the result will be Injustice, War, etc.
The FIRST step in Natural Social Law is to CONTROL the Banks as Bank Owner-Voters. If you do not, you will inevitably be UNJUSTLY EXPLOITED by the Top 1% Management System of Business & Government who have a Legitimate Profit Motive, just like you, to do so.
Consequently, you have no choice but to become Candidates (or Leaders) yourselves as Bank Owner-Voters according to your current Occupations & Generations.
So please JOIN the 2nd link, and spread the word to as many as possible, so we can make 100,000 support clicks at AmericansElect.org when called for, at exactly the right time, by an e-mail from that group, in support of the above the bank-focused platform. If so, then you will see and feel how your goals can be accomplished within the above strategy as a “new” Candidate (or Leader) of your current Occupation & Generation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_economics
gagablogger,
You obviously fail to grasp the basic concepts surrounding your argument. The labor market works in a simple supply-demand relationship. If you (or your OWS pals) decide to strike, the reduced supply of labor will drive up wages. When wages increase, it becomes attractive for the unemployed to seek employment. Because of the abundant supply of willing labor which will flock to any open employment opportunities (now, these are people who don't have the Luxury of sitting around and protesting the way things work), your theory is seriously flawed.
If you remain staunch and don't take the job, don't worry because someone else gladly will.
Also as an FYI: Garbage collector's average salary - $43,000 (higher in metropolitan areas) Custodial workers average $25,000 (part-time) Policemen and Firemen receive exceptional benefits as well as average salary of $41K and $38K respectively
Try raising a family and send kids to college these days and buy groceries at the prices they are now, make a car payment, etc and more, on $40k and see how well you do. $40k was a lot around 1980 but it is not now. You obviously fail to grasp how little your money goes now.
Yes it has to be everyone. Then there are no scabs. Or everyone's a scab!
I'm all for it. If all the workers strike than it will work, but it has to be all the workers otherwise scabs will take the jobs.
Cab drivers, rail workers, everyone. The rich are scared to death of a general strike.
This is an idea worth pursuing.
And this article by Nikolas Kozloff on the prospects of a strike in the US:
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/10/2011107135115719238.html
See the plan for a general strike in the UK (November 30th):
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/09/14-3
Yes!