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Anon-C

(3,430 posts)
Fri Jan 12, 2018, 01:23 AM Jan 2018

Non-violent Mass Civil Disobedience - General Strike - Government Shutdown - Boycotts

“Things do not change; we change.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.”

- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.



If not now, when?

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Anon-C

(3,430 posts)
5. I am losing faith in the process, the game is rigged and the last election was provably compromised.
Fri Jan 12, 2018, 11:35 AM
Jan 2018

But nothing comes of it. We are letting this happen.



NBachers

(17,099 posts)
4. I'm 68- I'll be working 'till I can't work anymore. I need a place to live, health care, and food.
Fri Jan 12, 2018, 04:11 AM
Jan 2018

I'm not walking off my job to join in any fool's wet-dream General Strike.

You can if you want to, though.

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