I’ve been thinking about these 1 day strikes and no shopping days we’ve been having. The economic blackouts seem to not have much effect, I’ve seen it compared to a day of bad weather like we recently had with the snow and ice. Likewise, the 1 day strikes aren’t achieving an actual loss of revenue that is enough to lead to change. Most Americans can’t go on strike long-term as we live paycheck to paycheck, we don’t have savings and we don’t have mutual aid networks in place. Perhaps doing a nationwide slowdown would be more effective as we would actually be decreasing profits for the rich. It is something that could pick up steam instead of fizzle out. We can combine this with very clear demands instead of a general I don’t like this admin vibe
I agree that forming unions is super important. A slowdown might even indicate which of our coworkers would be willing to unionize. This is important because ppl working for union busting companies don’t know who at work they can trust.
It would be great if there could be coordination with the big unions going on strike while the rest of us do a slowdown. My industry (IT) is not unionized, but if we slowed down it would have a huge economic impact that would actually impact the oligarchs. It would also impede their ability to track immigrants. We could also start a slowdown next week and then the unions could join us.
I think that the demands we should have are to free every person in ICE/CBP detention and to completely disband ICE and CBP. Freeing the people in detention is one of the reasons I think we should do a slowdown ASAP. Waiting for the unions to schedule a strike means that more people are suffering, being abused/raped & being killed by ICE/CBP