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Looks like Federal employees could participate since it was ordered that they can't be fired during the shutdown
They could protest by not showing up to work for a week or more as long as the shutdown was still in effect.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge in San Francisco on Tuesday indefinitely barred the Trump administration from firing federal employees during the government shutdown, saying that labor unions were likely to prevail on their claims that the cuts were arbitrary and politically motivated.
https://apnews.com/article/shutdown-layoffs-judge-trump-fdcb16f91c94d7bf73977e8968210b0e