Indivisible is planning a nationwide protest on Saturday, April 5. Put it on your calendar and attend one near you! Or, if you can, attend the protest in Washington, DC.
Indivisible is planning a nationwide protest on Saturday, April 5. Put it on your calendar and attend one near you! Or, if you can, attend the protest in Washington, DC.
Breizhfan, I am all in favor of Indivisible's protest. It cannot hurt. It gets people thinking. But there is no power in protest. Anyone who thinks there is, confuses power with influence. They are not the same thing. There are two sources of power in society:
1) government power which legitimately comes through the barrel of a gun.
2) the power of the 3% of Americans who own the institution of business and control wages. The remaining 97% of us are at their mercy.
The only power we working people have is to with-hold our labor. Refusing to submit to authority is the only way for ordinary people to grab power in any society. We must support organized labor. It is our only hope; short of a revolution.
Mr. Solomon, that's a good thought. I saw in the news that the "Big Three" auto dealers are already enraged over the Tesla advertisement which Trump and Musk delivered in front of the White House the other day. This ad. was paid for by the tax payers. More socialism for Musk, I would say. Perhaps these two out of touch psychos shall make bigger mistakes of this kind in the future.
I called out car dealers, the beef industry, local chambers of commerce, In my comments above. There are many others affected this way. My agency, DOL, regulated virtually all of them in some way. IMHO it doesn't take much to get the ball rolling.
I am banned on X and Facebook and I just got a warning from Bluesky...I wish others would spread the news. I was in an OSHER discussion group yesterday with many orthers -- all have war stories. All are retired... all get SS...all have kids and neighborfs and friends who have been "Musked."
I believe we can and should do both...protest in huge and undeniable numbers in every state AND support labor organizations AND barrage our members of Congress in opposition to Trump & DOGE's corrupt & illegal actions.
I understand your perspective, Gerald. And a protest will only have a chance of succeeding if it's massive. LBJ was moved by the masses of people in the streets protesting the Vietnam War. But we need millions of people to come out to make it effective.
I'm guessing that in the not too distant future, we'll have to contend with martial law and then all protests will be illegal.
So it might be worth a shot while we still have the chance.
Yes Breizhfan, the bigger the demonstration is, the better it is. When I was young I was teargassed while in a huge protest in D.C [200,000 of us]. It was broadcast all over the world on TV. Today, right now, there are protests going on in hundreds of locals in this country. But the Mass Media are refusing to cover them. Instead they are talking about how Musk's rocket returned the stranded astronauts from the IS Space Station. The people who will be talking about the protests are those like Amy Goodman, Rachel Madow and Rick Wolff.
Indivisible is planning a nationwide protest on Saturday, April 5. Put it on your calendar and attend one near you! Or, if you can, attend the protest in Washington, DC.
It's time to take to the streets!
More info here: https://handsoff2025.com/?SQF_SOURCE=indivisible
Breizhfan, I am all in favor of Indivisible's protest. It cannot hurt. It gets people thinking. But there is no power in protest. Anyone who thinks there is, confuses power with influence. They are not the same thing. There are two sources of power in society:
1) government power which legitimately comes through the barrel of a gun.
2) the power of the 3% of Americans who own the institution of business and control wages. The remaining 97% of us are at their mercy.
The only power we working people have is to with-hold our labor. Refusing to submit to authority is the only way for ordinary people to grab power in any society. We must support organized labor. It is our only hope; short of a revolution.
If businesses, with millions of employees threatened with bankrupcy protest, especially to Congressional Republicans, it will work.
Mr. Solomon, that's a good thought. I saw in the news that the "Big Three" auto dealers are already enraged over the Tesla advertisement which Trump and Musk delivered in front of the White House the other day. This ad. was paid for by the tax payers. More socialism for Musk, I would say. Perhaps these two out of touch psychos shall make bigger mistakes of this kind in the future.
I called out car dealers, the beef industry, local chambers of commerce, In my comments above. There are many others affected this way. My agency, DOL, regulated virtually all of them in some way. IMHO it doesn't take much to get the ball rolling.
I am banned on X and Facebook and I just got a warning from Bluesky...I wish others would spread the news. I was in an OSHER discussion group yesterday with many orthers -- all have war stories. All are retired... all get SS...all have kids and neighborfs and friends who have been "Musked."
I believe we can and should do both...protest in huge and undeniable numbers in every state AND support labor organizations AND barrage our members of Congress in opposition to Trump & DOGE's corrupt & illegal actions.
I understand your perspective, Gerald. And a protest will only have a chance of succeeding if it's massive. LBJ was moved by the masses of people in the streets protesting the Vietnam War. But we need millions of people to come out to make it effective.
I'm guessing that in the not too distant future, we'll have to contend with martial law and then all protests will be illegal.
So it might be worth a shot while we still have the chance.
Yes Breizhfan, the bigger the demonstration is, the better it is. When I was young I was teargassed while in a huge protest in D.C [200,000 of us]. It was broadcast all over the world on TV. Today, right now, there are protests going on in hundreds of locals in this country. But the Mass Media are refusing to cover them. Instead they are talking about how Musk's rocket returned the stranded astronauts from the IS Space Station. The people who will be talking about the protests are those like Amy Goodman, Rachel Madow and Rick Wolff.
Thank you,will do.