A decentralized grassroots movement to organize a general strike in resistance to the federal government is taking shape online at generalstrikeus.com . (GSUS)
Their website states “We’ve voted, we’ve protested, and still, they ignore us. Our government refuses to meet our basic needs while the billionaire class hoards wealth and power.
“The General Strike is a decentralized network of people and organizations committed to striking once we reach 3.5% of the U.S. population, or 11 million people. We don’t have a traditional “leader” or hierarchical structure, and no one gets paid to do this work. Instead we have an ever shifting network of organizers, all building towards the General Strike in their own ways.”
At present, their efforts are focused on getting 11 million people to sign a Strike Card committing themselves to a general strike on some future date. So far, they have close to 350,000 committed signatures. A strike is expected to last from one day to a month.
GSUS has a list of partners and influencers and local state chapters on its website. Local chapters, including Washington, communicate with each other through Discord, which has an abundance of channels to share information and connect with others.
The toolkits channel is loaded with information from Guidelines for Bystanders, the Beautiful Trouble toolbox and A Troublemaker’s Guide:Principles for Racial Justice Activists in the face of State Repression to the Prairie Landowner Guide for Western Washington and the Food Recovery Initiative.
On the technology channel, you can find information about the best privacy tools. Team channels – from art, education and farms and gardens to networking, protest organizing and social media – connect people with similar interests. The inspiration channel includes everything from the 100 Best Protest Songs to videos of AOC and Bernie Sanders’ “Fighting Oligarchy” tour to fiction recommendations that help us visualize a future society based on mutual aid. (It’s called The Great Transition by Nick Fuller Googins) There’s also Substack writer William A. Finnegan, who writes The Long Memo(TLM). In his April 5 post, “It Only breaks If You Break It,” he defends the effectiveness and necessity of mass protest.
“Every protest, gathering, and viral moment that shows a new populism rising—one that isn’t built on submission to a strongman—forces the system to recalculate the risk.
Republican governors, state legislators, GOP donors, right-wing sheriffs—they all know Trump is a liar. But they’ve told themselves they can ride it out. You want to end that delusion? Show them the ride is ending.”
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