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General Strike Substack Just Launched
General Strike US
The General Strike is a grassroots network of regular people committed to striking once we reach 3.5% of the population on board. Join the count at GeneralStrikeUS.com
Launched 4 hours ago
https://generalstrikeus.substack.com/
First entry:
Pulling Threads, Unraveling History
The story of workers rights in America is woven into my DNA.
By GreenWolf
Mar 21, 2025
https://substack.com/home/post/p-159529032
After Election Day 2024, I like many others sleepwalked through those first hours and days. My mind numb with a combination of fear, dread, heartache, and bewilderment, I sought solace among the social media outpouring of angst by people like me. While the echo chamber helped me not to feel alone, it did nothing to offer a way out and a way forward.
Then I found General Strike US. Its mission spoke to me. It amplified the principles instilled in me in childhood, and became a lifeline.
Fifty years after the defining moment in the modern labor rights movement, and in the shadow of the mill complexes where that action began, this granddaughter of a one-time bobbin girl was born in Lawrence General Hospital in Massachusetts.
Not even a mile away, the woolen mills whose names became synonymous with worker exploitation and the scourge of child labor and unsafe working conditions stood mostly empty, leaving the latest wave of immigrants to the city in search of work and dignity.
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Pulling Threads, Unraveling History
The story of workers rights in America is woven into my DNA.
By GreenWolf
Mar 21, 2025
https://substack.com/home/post/p-159529032
After Election Day 2024, I like many others sleepwalked through those first hours and days. My mind numb with a combination of fear, dread, heartache, and bewilderment, I sought solace among the social media outpouring of angst by people like me. While the echo chamber helped me not to feel alone, it did nothing to offer a way out and a way forward.
Then I found General Strike US. Its mission spoke to me. It amplified the principles instilled in me in childhood, and became a lifeline.
Fifty years after the defining moment in the modern labor rights movement, and in the shadow of the mill complexes where that action began, this granddaughter of a one-time bobbin girl was born in Lawrence General Hospital in Massachusetts.
Not even a mile away, the woolen mills whose names became synonymous with worker exploitation and the scourge of child labor and unsafe working conditions stood mostly empty, leaving the latest wave of immigrants to the city in search of work and dignity.
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