@inthehands@hachyderm.ioMore and more chatter showing up in my various spheres about the planned day of protest / shutdown / general strike this Friday in Minneapolis-St. Paul.
I remain skeptical of just how effective a general strike can be here in the US — folks just aren’t used to the idea, aren’t primed for it — but this one •might• actually jostle the needles on some of the local economic seismographs.
I hope so.
https://www.iceoutnowmn.com
@ingo@social.stuetzle.cc„One tactic of fascism is to shift the scales of political alignment: centrists become stalwarts of the radical left; moms become ‚domestic terrorists.‘ Everyone with a whistle becomes antifa. And actually, that last part is correct—or at least it should be. A general strike has been called for Friday, January 23. With luck, thousands of Minnesotans will join in on what many further left are already doing: stopping business as usual and withdrawing their consent from fascism. Among many thin…
@hex@kolektiva.socialEconomic pressure has always been the most powerful weapon in our arsenal. There's already a general strike being organized for this Friday.
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/01/20/18883119.php
(Original release https://minneapolisunions.org/system/files/2026-01/press_release_-_january_16_2026.pdf)
This has moved quickly, and it can keep moving quickly. The more people organizing, the faster the regime will back down and (I think quickly) collapse.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioMore and more people calling for a US General Strike (no work, no school, no shopping) on Friday, January 23rd.
Might want to put it in your calendar.
@cdarwin@c.imIn an interview with MS NOW’s Alex Witt over the weekend,
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland)
indicated that a nationwide
general strike might be the next thing needed in order to oppose
Donald Trump’s authoritarianism.
Raskin made clear to viewers of the program that he didn’t believe a general strike, on its own, could bring about huge changes,
but rather that it had to be done in conjunction with other actions.
“We’re not going to have one magic soluti…
@benb@osintua.euFlamingo missiles strike Kapustin Yar range used for Oreshnik launches, Ukraine’s General Staff says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/05/flamingo-missiles-strike-kapustin-yar.html
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.socialWhat a bunch of losers.
Toxic performative masculinity at its worst. They probably can't get laid even if willing to pay for it.
Women of the US - it's time for you to declare a GENERAL STRIKE. You're more than half the population - show some backbone and go on strike.
@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scotRE: https://syzito.xyz/@fkamiah17/115890146947677399
General strike.
@kctipton@mas.toMaybe a General Strike Isn’t So Impossible Now - In These Times
https://inthesetimes.com/article/alex-han-general-strike-trump-brandon-johnson-chicago-minnestora-shut-down
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
D.O.A.:
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#DOA
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@memeorandum@universeodon.comGeneral strike, rally, marches held in Minnesota Friday to protest ICE (CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/live-updates/general-strike-rally-planned-in-minnesota-friday-to-protest-ice/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p108#a260123p108
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaLinux is stateless, it governs by consensus, and every crash is a general strike.
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioI consider the Jan 23 general strike in Minnesota to be fairly successful. It didn’t happen overnight, and it didn’t just happen because people posted about it a lot. There was a •lot• of consensus-building via social networks new and old. Unions got on board, lead the charge. Local businesses goaded each other into participating until •not• participating became a sort of black eye.
4/
@cdarwin@c.imMAP:
Minneapolis General Strike Movement Spreads to
215 Cities on Friday
https://paydayreport.com/minneap/
@benb@osintua.eu🔥 Strike on Putin's army! Russian General Sarvarov eliminated: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/22/strike-on-putins-army-russian.html
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialI was wondering why I hadn't seen any announcement of today's local general strike. So I searched.
It's on Instagram, and I left ALL Meta services at the time of the Cambridge Analytical scandal.
Why are so many good youth activists still supporting Zuckerberg's empire? Supporting a business that cozies up to the tangerine tyrant?
Surely they can do better.
#QuitMetaNow
@paulwermer@sfba.socialI was wondering why I hadn't seen any announcement of today's local general strike. So I searched.
It's on Instagram, and I left ALL Meta services at the time of the Cambridge Analytical scandal.
Why are so many good youth activists still supporting Zuckerberg's empire? Supporting a business that cozies up to the tangerine tyrant?
Surely they can do better.
#QuitMetaNow
@memeorandum@universeodon.com"We'll All Go Down to Jail": Minnesotans Strike, Picket, Take Arrests to Stop ICE (Sarah Lazare/In These Times)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/minneapolis-minnesota-general-strike-trump-ice
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p75#a260123p75
@aredridel@kolektiva.socialOh hey, maybe Minneapolis has a high enough organization to actually pull off a local general strike that makes an impact. We'll see.
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialAlso: we're seeing what happens when white people are actually motivated en-masse (and the George Floyd response was actually another decent example of this).
General strike -> capitalist class goes "oh shit we need to deescalate" -> temporary reprieve.
White people actually putting their bodies on the line (or at least near enough to it that ICE killed them) got results. This is direct evidence of just how much oppression depends on the social fragmentation it invests immense energy into creating in order to not get its ass kicked both ideologically and literally.
Also for those white people like me who are scared to participate: I don't have the numbers, but there were something like 50,000 people who stood up (even if we just want to count observers and joiners-of-whistle-crowds I'd guess at least 5,000-10,000). Two in that category died (more like 30 have died in the direct-targets-of-ICE category). So don't look at Pretti and think "protesting is so risky." Consider that both the odds of being the one or two killed are low, and that if you don't stand up quickly and strongly enough against this shit, the body count will grow much higher.
This isn't over, and continued escalation and resistance is super critical now. Rather than hoping the twin cities story is a story of heroes elsewhere who solved the problem, make it a story of an inspiring example that gets replicated in LA, Chicago, and all around the nation where ICE is trying to metastasize into an unaccountable secret police.
@hex@kolektiva.socialThe only way out of this mess is to exit this system. Economic pressure can lead to small adjustments. That can absolutely help. It can make things marginally better. Economic strikes have, thus far, proved to be some of the most effective in US history.
A general strike is the ultimate blow, but organizing something like that is hard. Don't wait for it. Do something now. And there are a *lot* of options between here and there.
@cdarwin@c.imIn the black of the winter of nineteen-nine
When we froze & bled on the picket line,
We showed the world that women could fight
& we rose & won with women's might.
https://kolektiva.social/@MikeDunnAuthor/115594417199677371
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.socialToday, in solidarity with the General Strike being held by the people of Minneapolis, I stayed in bed all day.
(Note that this had absolutely *nothing to do* with the torrential rain, buffeting wind and near-total lack of light where I live)
@CubitOom@social.linux.pizzaPhiladelphia protests in solidarity with the Minnesota general strike against tyranny (01/23/26)
Source:
#politics
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioWhat’s everybody’s read on the attempt at a second general strike this Friday?
From where I sit, it feels much more like a social media action than the on the 23rd; I don’t see the unions or same kind of organizing infrastructure behind it.
On the other hand, apparently it •is• getting a lot of social media traction in some circles? “All I see posts about,” said one student.
What’s the read from where you sit? Does this one have legs? Or is it a day to keep our powder dry?
@cdarwin@c.imIsrael’s killing of two young Palestinian boys in Gaza
for supposedly crossing the Israeli military’s ever-shifting yellow line last week
is “horrific” and must be investigated, the UN has said.
“It’s hard to see how two boys,
eight and 10,
can be considered a threat.
And there needs to be an investigation and accountability into what happened,”
said Stéphane Dujarric, spokesperson for UN Secretary-General António Guterres.
Dujarric said the kil…
@cdarwin@c.imThere are also reports that American aircraft carried out a strike on the mausoleum where the remains of former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez are stored.
https://sfba.social/@skykiss/115830180787492093
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioNews about Friday’s march / rally / general strike in Minneapolis is coming at me from every direction. Temperature right now is -18F / -28C and this thing is still going to be massive. People here are ready to punch a hole through the fabric of the space-time continuum if they have to. Going to be bed. Tomorrow’s going to be a hell of a day.
@CubitOom@social.linux.pizzaThousands of protesters marching in New York and shutting down Manhattan in solidarity with the general strike in Minnesota (01/23/26)
Source:
#politics…
@cdarwin@c.imDavid Brooks calling for a general strike or nonviolent civil disobedience
was not on my bingo card.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/opinion/trump-harvard-law-firms.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
@CubitOom@social.linux.pizzaDrone footage showing the sprawling sea of people that came out to protest during the Ice Out General Strike (Minnesota | 01/23/26 | -10°F)
Source:
#politics
@cdarwin@c.imMinnesota’s coalition is demanding:
1: ICE must leave Minnesota now.
2: Renee Good’s killer, Jonathan Ross, must be held legally accountable.
3: No additional federal funding for ICE in the upcoming budget.
“These are moral common sense for a state that values truth, freedom, and life.”
https://
@cdarwin@c.imDay of Truth and Freedom
https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:a4wzpl7hpxvvntj6hatvuhlw/post/3mczfkmy5ec2v
@cdarwin@c.imNews about Friday’s march / rally / general strike
in Minneapolis
is coming from every direction.
Temperature right now is
-18F / -28C
and this thing is still going to be massive.
People here are ready to punch a hole through the fabric of the space-time continuum if they have to.
Going to be bed.
Tomorrow’s going to be a hell of a day.
