I just found The People's Union website. Join the "Economic Blackout" from midnight Feb 27 to midnight Feb 28.

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45. This looks good. That said, I'd like more info.

The "union"'s website includes a bio of the founder and a mission I like but that is only vaguely stated. Are there any officers or employees besides the founder? Is there a Board of Directors or other advisors? How has the organization been funded so far?

I do believe that work strikes and the like are probably one of the more effective strategies left to us; but don't we need more specific goals? Are there any specific demands associated with the proposed "blackout," or are its goals even vaguer than those of the 2011 Occupy Wall Street movement?

E.g., w.r.t. Wall St. regulation, I'd propose we should push to outlaw or much more severely restrict and police:

Leveraged Buy-Outs or LBO’s
Speculative credit derivatives (CDO’s, CLO’s, et al.) (i.e., derivatives purchased not to hedge against a substantive risk intrinsic to the purchaser's business but merely as speculative bets on someone else's business. Dodd-Frank tried to help here but I'm not sure how far it got.)
Depositary and speculative investment banking in the same institution (i.e., we need to restore Glass-Steagall for real).
High frequency trading
Stock buybacks
Executive compensation in the form of options exercisable within less than ten years
Manipulation of paper markets for metals and other commodities
The power of the Fed to buy securities of unsound companies
The various devices used by the Fed to indirectly set negative real interest rates
The elimination of the broker "fiduciary" rule
Revolving door between Wall St. and its regulators
And of course the self-dealing by Congress in securities of the companies they have inside knowledge of

--among other things.

Similar programmes of specific reforms in other areas (e.g., our health care system!) need to be formulated.

I realize the site calls for union members to choose agendas, but the procedures for that along with almost everything else seem vague.

I also wonder about coordinating efforts with other organizations with similar goals, such as Represent.Us.