I just found out about it today from twitter and tiktok and so far it seems incredibly unorganized. From my brief understanding I guess it’s supposed to be a nationwide strike against paying rent and bills. Some believe this strike is a psyop as one of the organizers is using odd and even coded language that may suggest they’re a conservative/right-wing in general. It also feels like it came out of nowhere, to me for a strike like this to work there must be months and months of planning and setting up mutual aid because without that the strikers will suffer immensely especially those with disabilities.
Anyway I just wanted to know your thoughts and if you’ve even heard about all this.
Edit: here is the website for the strike!
Honestly that website looks so trash that I don’t think it’s even related to this whole thing. At no point do they reference the 1st of September, and by looking at the archive they seem to have been around since January.
They also have no tangible demands and don’t clarify what kind of strike this is even supposed to be.
But on the tiktoks (God do those make me feel old), they also seem to not have any clear cut demands or strategy and to have only popped up recently. I doubt something like that on such a large scale could catch on in some 2 weeks, specially with no organisation support.
They also have some liquid nitrogen takes on striking (“this is not a political thing” or “use the strike to think about life”) that really reduces the credibility.
Doesn’t look like anything of value will immediately come out of this, but seems like yet another signal for the left parties (CPUSA, PSL, DSA) to start organising better general strike plans. A good place to start on demands would be just updating the BPP 10 point program to 21st century language, cuz I’m pretty sure a majority of Yankees agree with at least 7 of those 10, and not only just for black people.
Then set the date to a slightly further date like December. Christmas is always a great time to strike ;)
I linked the website because all the September 1st people are linking to it.
Oh yeah, I’m not blaming you. It just looks like they did a really bad website for something like this. No plan, no demands, just “strike now.” I can think of a myriad of reasons Stadians should be thinking of a general strike, but their reasons are just not tangible enough.
They have no solid foundation whatsoever. This “strike” will just put people in danger if they try to go through with it.