Actions warrant general strike
Francine Prose
Monday 30 January 2017 07.06 EST
... these protests are too easily ignored and forgotten by those who wish to ignore and forget them. The barriers go up, the march takes place, the barriers come down. Everyone goes home happier.
One reason that Saturday’s protests were so effective was that, while peaceful, they were disruptive. Terminal Four was closed, incoming flights were delayed. One traveller wrote, on Twitter, that his fellow passengers applauded when their pilot announced the reason why their plane would be landing an hour behind schedule ...
... what we need is a nonviolent national general strike of the kind that has been more common in Europe than here. Let’s designate a day on which no one (that is, anyone who can do so without being fired) goes to work, a day when no one shops or spends money, a day on which we truly make our economic and political power felt, a day when we make it clear: how many of us there are, how strong and committed we are, how much we can accomplish ...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/30/travel-ban-airport-protests-disruption
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I'm embarrassed that I didn't know that as much Russian history as I've studied. I don't have a real affinity for dates though. The only reason I remember the date of the Bolshevik revolution is because it's my birthday.
And Trotsky's birthday too.
