Yes, May Day. (Why do Americans have to put Labor Day in September anyway?!)
Well, I won’t be participating, because I’m a lawyer and there’s just too much to get done around the office right now to take an arbitrary day off . . . How about you?
If I could take a political stand and go see “The Avengers” at the same time I might consider it. As it is, though…
I plan to go to work and earn my paycheck, which I see as economic justice for both me and my boss.
Good thing they aren’t waiting until anyone gives a tin shit before declaring victory.
I wonder how the unemployed go on strike. Do they stop looking for jobs? Stop collecting unemployment?
Well, good luck to them with their strike. Hope their feelings aren’t hurt if people say, “What strike?”
Regards,
Shodan
Somebody always calls for a general strike every May 1 in Berkeley. :bored smiley: usually while sitting around a coffee place staffed by people who cannot afford to take the day off.
SOLIDARITY!!!
I will not be at work on May Day!
Of course, I’ve already schedule that week off for vacation, but it’s the principle of the thing.
Working 7-5.
I will be going to work that day as a political statement. F*** OWS.
Not exactly manning the barricades at Les Halles, but I do expect to be fucking off while reading the Dope as much as possible that day.
March?
I was really skeptical of the original OWS strategy, but it worked. People became aware of the general political message, and many people ended up sympathizing to some extent with people that they’d rather not sit next to on the bus.
But a general strike? Give me a break. This is a terrible suggestion. It is like a Trotskyist and a French labor leader got together and decided that Americans love to strike… While totally ignoring that Americans tend to have very little interest or sympathy for strikers.
I predict fail.
Occupy this.
i will join the droves of people that will be showing support by going to work as usual and totally forgetting about this.
I may be off that day, but it won’t be because I agree with OWS. My sister is scheduled to have her baby that day.
Course it looks like she’s in labor now, so who knows.
My natural sympathies would be to join the strike, however:
[ol]
[li]I’m on call for jury duty next week; if I get called up, I’d have to miss work at least one day. If that day happens to be Tuesday, I will go to jury duty – they can arrest you for not going, whereas if I don’t show up at work, I still get paid.[/li][li]I’m scheduled for heart surgery on May 14, which will take me out of the office for at least three weeks.[/li][li]I’m pretty much out of vacation time anyway, having taken it all back in March.[/li][/ol]
It did? Maybe it’s just me, but I have not noticed one iota of difference from last year. Certainly *I *don’t give more of a fuck about shit than I used to.
I agree. The demonstrations were getting public attention so they were working in that sense. But this call for a general strike is going to fail massively and will make the movement look out of touch. And there’s probably some truth in that - the fact that some leaders in the movement apparently thought they had the level of public support that would support a general strike does show signs of being out of touch with what the general public thinks. It makes me wonder whose idea this was.
I think it’s because May Day was associated with theHaymarket Massacre here. Labor groups in the US wanted to distance themselves from anarchists after they were blamed for the incident.
The Washington Post didn’t even mention the recent Occupy the Justice Department rally. The movement is a spent force.
+1