Global General Strike

[Warren Stupidity]

This is what has to be done. If we want change, real change, we need to shake the system to its very foundation. The unrest tipping over North Africa, the unrest filling the capital of Wisconsin, they are all connected. We need to join hands with Chinese slave-laborers at FoxConn in Shenzhen and with Teachers in Madison. We need to be conscious that the Plutocrats are dividing the planet's labor force one against another and squeezing all of us into poverty, and along the way tipping the planet towards long term catastrophe, all in the service of unfettered Greed.

It isn't about which half of the Business Party wins the next election, it is about how to effect real change.

[socialist_n_TN]

1. I agree. Capitalism has ALWAYS been international.........

it's time for the workers to go international too. Worldwide workers ALWAYS have more in common with each other than with their "masters" regardless of nationality or race.

In the past, it wasn't possible to put together an effective world wide worker's movement. With the Internet and the other social media, it has become possible and, with the way the capitalists have fucked things up, it's become NECESSARY.

[CommonSensePLZ]

7. Oooh! You realize what you're suggesting might just be...

The largest union EVER assembled? :o

[socialist_n_TN]

8. Maybe so. Maybe so........

It's what the Communist Party had a CHANCE to become and fucked it up.

[jacquelope]

2. I'm with you on this.

How do we make it happen?

[Warren Stupidity]

3. Pick a day. Spread the word.

It need only be one day to start. Imagine. The. Upset.

[jacquelope]

4. Problem is getting liberals to listen

Forget rousing all the workers. The problem is getting LIBERALS to move. Look how hard it was to get them to fight back in November 2010. They stayed home and let the Republicans steamroll America.

Fox Noise can reach what, 50 million Americans, with a single call to action?

What media can we use to rouse the Left? The Left doesn't march in lock step like that, they're not lemmings. That's a good thing overall but it also makes it hard to unite them against a clear threat... well, except in Wisconsin. :D

[Kurovski]

5. There were also protests all over the nation in solidarity.

So that's a good sign.

K&R

Welcome to DU, jacquelope.

[jacquelope]

6. Things are looking up!

Thanks for the welcome. Now that protests are popping up, all we need to do is force the mainstream media to recognize these events.

Or maybe we need to do something more drastic (although legal).