Nationwide General Strike Planned for May 1: No Kings Organizer

No, Labor Day is the American version of May Day. It didn’t start in the US.

And the 2006 Day Without an Immigrant strikes revitalized Mayday into what it is today. Immingrants across several industries forced the Bush admin to walk back discriminatory laws he wanted to pass. The unions were (similar to Minnesota) not prepared at first and forced into action by the masses of people demanding change  Sounds like this year it's time to expand that, bringing out demands and into the conversation, connecting where we spend all out time with the desire to end ICE and the forever wars

I mean GenghisConnieChung is a beauty too. Well done.

The Canadians where I live know its MAGA not all of America. We have our own version of that hear too so we are aware of how insidious that ideology can be. Where we get frustrated is the apathy among the large majority of Americans- the non voters or the ones so consumed by their phones they don't even know there is a war. However, seeing the No Kings crowd is inspiring beyond words.

I actually run two of Canada's largest job seeker sublistnooks and would be happy to pass the word along that our friends to the south are taking action and won't back down until we all see the change that is needed. That is if you can promise me I won't be lying. If you can, then I promise to get the word out and ask as many Canadians as I can to cheer you all on! I think the challenge for many is that we understand that not everyone in America voted Trump and his corrupt administration in, **but it is up to** **all of you to fix what is broken**. Sustained, mass, unignorable, peaceful action is THE step needed toward that goal. We understand people have jobs and commitments, but if this administration keeps going the way it is, the economy and millions of jobs around the world will go down with it. Only loud, unwavering, relentless, and united action are going to fix what is currently very broken and create the world we need. That's what the world wants to see. Your president has repeatedly threatened our country with annexation (a la Greenland) and his administration has been [fomenting division in Canada](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/canadian-separatists-alberta-meetings-trump-officials-rcna258230) in other ways. The entire world economy is entangled with the U.S. and is being obliterated by its leader through this ridiculous, senseless, and cruel war (civilian and armed services causalities all in service of the corrupt). I promise we can still be friends and can have a good laugh together over a plate of poutine after this whole thing blows over. But it is up to each and every U.S. citizen who opposes what is happening in our world to take the action necessary to ensure this whole thing DOES blow over. Stand up to those corrupt hosers with everything you've got. The ones in the Whitehouse, DOJ, House, Senate, Homeland, etc. and to the corrupt pedoligarchy (as well as/including those techno-weenies at Palantir, Meta, OpenAI, Alphabet, Tesla/SpaceX, Amazon, and the like while you're at it). Deal?

I've been to Canada 4x over the past 3 years and have absolutely loved it every time. Especially Nova Scotia.

We're HUGE Minnesota fans up here. Not your hockey team (rivals gotta rival on the ice, ya know), but of your Canadian-like kindness, loyalty, and sense of community. We loved watching you all kick ICE's ass and brave the frigid weather and fascist goons without wavering . You showed up and took care of each other. Bravo! Minnesota is the beacon the rest of your country needs to follow until the change needed becomes reality. I believe history will remember Minnesotans as heroes in this timeline. That's how I see you, for what it's worth. PS - I think Minnesota and Canada must be close cousins, based on what I've seen and heard.

That Kash Patel episode after the gold medal game truly ruined it for me. And I’d been waiting my entire life for that moment. I’ll never forgive that little stunt as long as I live. Makes me want to just see if we can send independent Minnesota men’s and women’s hockey teams to the Olympics from now on. F*** it - we could do the same with Curling. I know the rules prevent this, but that’s how I feel about it.

My company recently revised their absent policy to state that they are "monitoring abuse of sick time" because they got mad that too many people were calling out on Fridays and Mondays to extend their weekends or vacations. So annoying.

I guess that's a good day to go on an overnight backpacking trip, then. My favorite places to go are very remote and have no cell signal.

Shop Local, so to speak.

Bandsintown I’ve basically been to two Ticketmaster events in the last decade

I mean they sure got scared for a little bit after the United CEO got shot.

When my country decided to join the US in the Iraq war, the entire country was paralysed by weekly strikes, blocking cities, blockades on roads, until the next year election had the ruling party losing power in a landslide and the new government pulling out from the war. So I read these and I'm like. Glad to read it. I guess.

The last general strike in the US, happened in the 40s. In Oakland. Don't think we've ever had a national one. Lots of smaller national actions, but no general strikes. That needs to change. I hope this happens.

Adam Smith pointed out the reality: employees only hold power with massive coordination efforts and lots of bravery and risk. Employers are organized by default and face no consequences for doing it.

I mean it's most recently 38% and steadily dropping from what I can find. And "support" is a long way from "strong vocal support". Im seeing very little pro trump stuff out anymore. Seems like the support is back in the shadows for the most part.

It's still a "the logistics of them firing all of us hurts them more than it hurts us" situation. There's a reason they made it "illegal" after the fact, because the US govt can't handle the logistics of that happening again. > I'm in favor, but let's be clear-eyed about risks. That didn't stop labor protests in the 20th century. Imagine if the people fighting for things like 5-day workweeks and sick pay and PTO thought "but what if they fire me?". Americans today don't have half the resolve Americans a century ago had when it comes to actually fighting for systematic change

ATC staffing still hasn't fully recovered from that event to this day. Reagan firing the ATCs was monumentally stupid, an own goal much like Trump's tariffs. Even though it's now "illegal" for ATCs to strike, it probably wouldn't take long before their demands were met if they did because the US economy would collapse without air travel. That's not to say that there is no risk for participating in this general strike. I wouldn't judge anyone for doing whatever they need to ensure they can afford food & rent even if it means not participating, but it's worth keeping in mind that companies that fire people for participating are hurting themselves in the process. They need our labor. It's time to remind the oligarchs how much they depend on us.

There's an independent lumber yard in my town and they're great. Definitely more expensive than HD or Lowes, but they sell boards that are actually straight and not warped/twisted/split/damaged. I save so much time going there and not having to dig through a giant stack of warped lumber, then wait in line for 20 minutes to get checked out.

And Menards. But John Menard is a right wing nutjob too.

Also a good day to cancel any shit subscriptions you may have been putting off, or credit cards you've been meaning to cancel... or politicians you could call.

Dont use insta/facebook/google/amazon etc etc even with Adblocker

Well the algorithm just served me this listnook thread about A GENERAL STRIKE ON MAY FIRST LET’S GO!

Where do you think you are right now?

>Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. You don’t want to act, or even talk, alone; you don’t want to ‘go out of your way to make trouble.’ Why not?—Well, you are not in the habit of doing it. And it is not just fear, fear of standing alone, that restrains you; it is also genuine uncertainty. The way that strikes have been able to sustain themselves historically, particularly in Britain has been the strike union builds up an investment pool made of the employer's contributions, and then uses the pool to fund those in need while the strike is ongoing, otherwise they are left in the lurch and have to go back to work to get money.

I feel like No Kings and "one day strikes" posted by chronically online people (bots?) deliberately avoid talking about this. These movements that do nothing real are designed to be a bleeder valve for pent up energy, nothing more. If the No Kings / Indivisible organizers were serious people, they would have put out a statement about May Day 2028 as well, and would be fighting to unionize as many places as possible and encouraging May 2028 contract alignments. *These are fundamentally unserious people at best and controlled opposition at worst.* I say this having worked in political campaigns and nonprofit community/labor organizing for three years now. Of course, I'm just some guy on the internet to everyone reading this, but goddamn. F*** these bleeder valve ass movements. Time to do something real. I finally convinced a local Democratic club in a very rural/red area to get involved in mutual aid, and they're starting a community garden to do that with, as well as partnering with the local food bank. *That* was real and will have long term benefits for their community, though it took them a year of me talking to them to get off their ass and do it... But organizing should be focused on long term and sustainable movement building that has effects outside the ballot box and actually changes material conditions. Hell for all we know the ballot box may not exist for the midterms and beyond. We gotta do more than bleeder valve protests - unionize, participate in a community garden / mutual aid effort, work on making your communities more self-sustainable and less dependent on the corporations that financed fascism and fucked this country.

We’re a UAW family and will always support strikes, but there’s some really fishy financial reasons for the date the UAW president chose. I don’t trust him and it sucks. Yes they need major buy in and organization, but 2028 is way too late and will negatively affect Trump opposition with the election. It is also a beneficial date for the UAW because it conveniently means they won’t cross the reserves threshold where they are required to the percent of dues that go to the national.

There's a very small number of countries where people can afford to lose their jobs and be safe.

Why not blue sky? I hear they hate capitalism.

Well hopefully it’s been organized before the actual day. I don’t really go to Listnook for breaking news.