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it is frustrating to see calls for a general strike when people having no understanding that there isn’t a lot of power in that if people don’t belong to some sort of organizing home. you need a way for people to have collective power for more than a day.

ashley fairbanks

@ziibiing.com

20 June

i am fine with people who don’t see voting as a path to change. but you can’t just say that we can do a general strike and get out of the work of organizing people for more than a day. 1% of the workforce is unionized. fewer people than ever belong to churches or fellowship groups.

ashley fairbanks

@ziibiing.com

you need people to belong to something. you need places where you can build a collective identity, shared values, educate people, and activate them. getting millions of people to show up for a day or two doesn’t do that.

20/6/26, 1:36 pm7 reposts96 likes

ashley fairbanks

@ziibiing.com

20 June

there is no easy way out. there is no social change without work. revolutions took effort.

NotGoingBack

@nooneletgo.bsky.social

20 June

You mean, posting on social media doesn't count as work? 🙄 Calls for a general strike, etc, are just performative garbage that make people feel like they're doing something when in fact they aren't.

ashley fairbanks

@ziibiing.com

20 June

how we can actually build power: -getting people to join something -unionizing your workplace -building connections between affinity groups -joining something. doing actual stuff with other people. -joining a union. -working to end anti-union policies -joining a political org. -doing pop ed