EFF to Close Friday in Solidarity with National Shutdown
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> national SHUTDOWN FRI JAN 30 NO WORK. NO SCHOOL. NO SHOPPING. - The people of the Twin Cities have shown the way for the whole country – to stop ICE’s reign of terror, we need to SHUT IT DOWN. On Friday, January 30, join a nationwide day of no school, no work and no shopping.
So servers will still be running and websites, but won't be any people in offices, school, factories, shops, and so on.
Servers perform work. For people. My oven (KitchenAid) is a machine, yet has a setting that makes it non-functional during certain religious events that require people not to work.
Similarly, B&H Photo's web site won't take orders on the Sabbath. They'd rather take the revenue hit than violate their principles.
A foreign notion to the tech industry.
So, how do you get around that? Constantly messing with the clock?
Seriously... If y'all want a general strike, we need:
* 2 weeks' notice to plan
* Conditions for when the strike ends
This almost feels like "corporate manipulation": Let the slaves "have a day" to cool off and feel like they've accomplished something, then get 'em back in the mines!
Here you have two more further in the future: https://www.fiftyfifty.one/
> February 17th: Impeach, Convict, Remove, Defund
> March 28th: No Kings
Out of those two, I'm guessing the "No Kings" one will be the larger.
> This almost feels like "corporate manipulation":
It is indeed! Manipulating the corporations by showing that people can actually decide to stop working, and it generally scares all the executives because they realize (yet again) that it's actually them who depend on the workers, not the other way around.
While I fully support this, this irony is a little amusing. By closing they are actually staying silent for a single day.
If they were just staying home, yes, but that's not what they're doing, so they're not "staying silent".
You can find out where everyone is going instead of working here: https://nationalshutdown.org/actions
On this webpage, I do not see a clear demand. What specific action or series of actions do they actually demand, and of whom?
Maybe it’s just people are Mad as Hell and they’re not going to take it anymore!
Put another way: should television and newspaper reporters not work, and avoid covering any of the protests?
If everybody does participate, then it amounts to burning down the whole city.
It's such a dumb idea that it's almost indistinguishable from an attempt at subversion by the actual parties/powers being protested. Announcing such an effort 3 days ahead of time while making no specific demands is just icing on the proverbial cake.