Many of us are taking a stand. It’s not enough. Research shows that strikes engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change. 3.5% is 11M people here in U.S. RESEARCH: www.bbc.com/future/artic... ADD YOUR NAME HERE ——→ generalstrikeus.com - ThreadSky

lindarey.bsky.social • 1 day ago

Many of us are taking a stand. It’s not enough.

Research shows that strikes engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.

3.5% is 11M people here in U.S.

RESEARCH: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world

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Comments

taitik.bsky.social•11 hours ago

This is the need for a massive demonstration and going hard.

lindarey.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Thank you @chrismurphyct.bsky.social and @blumenthal.senate.gov for all you do.

#HARTFORDCT

lindarey.bsky.social•1 day ago

📌 We need to publicize the protests more so than the news because they don't want to show the difference we're making.

lckwd.bsky.social•1 day ago

The size of our country is a lot larger than some of these countries getting massive numbers in one place...

lindarey.bsky.social•1 day ago

EXACTLY. we have no excuse.
I see you saw my 3.5% of the population post moments ago
with the link to: https://generalstrikeus.com/

lckwd.bsky.social•1 day ago

But what I mean is, it's hard to get people from all over the country to travel to DC for a strike. I'm in Boston and work full time. So I can go to an event a couple hours away from Boston, but I'm probably not going to go to DC. Do we need the 3.5% to be at one event?

taitik.bsky.social•11 hours ago

I don't think it could be nationwide I think.

lindarey.bsky.social•1 day ago

@lckwd.bsky.social
Check this out. Estimates suggest 275k - $325k
This is Serbia and they're getting a lot of press about it.
https://youtu.be/oPdEL2v_9us?si=XGF9s2vKjmmPchAv&t=25

taitik.bsky.social•11 hours ago

There are supposed to be 500 thousand people in Serbia, but it is also reported that there are up to a million people.

lindarey.bsky.social•1 day ago

I don't think that's possible. Let's do some math.
11 million➗by 50 state capitols = 2.2 million.

However, there are cities in a state besides the capitol that could draw a BIG crowd such as Manhattan & Albany or LA, San Fran & Sacramento.

So I don't think it's one place.
https://generalstrikeus.com/

beachy1.bsky.social•1 day ago

Has anyone floated a day / week to start the prolonged strike?

This needs to be very coordinated & folks need to understand it will be Days (or weeks, depending) long of being In the Streets.

Folks who can't go, resist in other ways, especially calling your Representatives office DAILY to yell

theedrsacheen.bsky.social•1 day ago

I would like to point out that all revolutions are small in the early days. One march here, another there, another, then another, etc. until a spark & the country is on fire. If you want 11 million or 50 million in the streets then you plan for the long play and get people ready to not give up.

lindarey.bsky.social•20 hours ago

OMG YES. I just posted this before reading your post. that's what I get for reading and reacting each notification. haha

https://bsky.app/profile/lindarey.bsky.social/post/3lknpx2q52s2u