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Find out how you can participate in the nationwide day of economic disruption on May 1 and learn more about the strategy behind economic noncooperation at the upcoming May Day training call.

mobilize.usNo Work, No School, No Shopping: May Day Training Call ยท IndivisibleThis May Day, weโ€™re calling for a day of No Work, No School, No Shopping. We're flexing our economic power as workers, students, and everyday people to send a clear message to Trump: we will not do...

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strike, that just added to the pain the Venezuelan people felt under the Chavez regime and prompted the people to reject the democracy movement. Other countries that haven't given in to the temptation of calls for general strikes have won back democracy. /3 www.vox.com/politics/479...

vox.comHow to stop a dictatorI spent months studying how authoritarians like Trump lose. The answer is shockingly simple.

In particular, the recent success of the pro-democracy opposition in Hungary was a success of local electoral organizing all over the country, including rural areas, just wha the United States needs more of, and didn't involve a general strike at all. /4 www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

theatlantic.comThe Quiet Way Authoritarianism Begins to CrumbleAmong the many reasons for Viktor Orbรกnโ€™s defeat was the rural clubs where citizens relearned democratic habits.

Sig union/labor (worker) buy-in has to be proceeded by building $support funds for striking workers, lotsa mutual aid structures, coordinating w/ contracts (to avoid/minimize layoffs), etc etc etc. No one is asking/expecting 5/1/26 to be martyr day On 5/1 do what you can, or want Or not

This is the first time I've heard about this since attending the No Kings rally in St Paul, Mn. If you really expect this to work, you should be doing a much better job getting the word out. I was wondering yesterday why it's been crickets on the May Day strike...