GLOBAL GENERAL STRIKE
Occupy Oakland Calls for Participation in a May 1, 2012 Global General Strike
On 01, Feb 2012 | No Comments | In COMMUNIQUE | By strikeeverywhere.net
Occupy Oakland Calls for Participation in a May 1, 2012 Global General Strike
The General Strike is back, retooled for an era of deep budget cuts, extreme anti-immigrant racism, and massive predatory financial speculation. In 2011, the number of unionized workers in the US stood at 11.8%, or approximately 14.8 million people.
Occupy Los Angeles Call for General Strike on May 1st
On 01, Feb 2012 | No Comments | In COMMUNIQUE | By strikeeverywhere.net
In most European countries, May 1st is traditionally a ‘Workers’ day – a day of Labor Solidarity, and a public holiday. In Los Angeles, it’s a day to celebrate and march in support of im/migrant rights. In protest against the corruption of the worldwide marketplace, which has led to illegal foreclosures, mass unemployment, low wages, high taxes and a penalization of all those who do not own the ‘1%’ of the world’s resources, and in solidarity with the im/migrant movements of May 1st, OLA decided to declare May 1st, 2012 a People’s General Strike. Instead of calling upon unionized Labor to make a specific demand (illegal under Taft-Hartley), OLA is calling upon the people of Los Angeles and the United States of America to take this day away from school and the workplace, so that their absence makes their displeasure with this corrupt system be known.
Occupy Boston Calls for a General Strike
On 01, Feb 2012 | No Comments | In COMMUNIQUE | By strikeeverywhere.net
The following proposal was passed by the General Assembly on Jan 7, 2012:
“Occupy Boston supports the call for an international General Strike on May 1, 2012, for immigrant rights, environmental sustainability, a moratorium on foreclosures, an end to the wars, and jobs for all. We recognize housing, education, health care, LGBT rights and racial equality as human rights; and thus call for the building of a broad coalition that will ensure and promote a democratic standard of living for all peoples.”
Occupy Pasadena Calls for a General Strike
On 01, Feb 2012 | No Comments | In COMMUNIQUE | By strikeeverywhere.net
Occupy Pasadena calls for a General Strike to be held on May 1st, 2012. We encourage people to with-hold their labor power for the day by not going to work, not going to school, and joining a demonstration during the day at Occupy Los Angeles’ Solidarity Park.
Twelve arrested, bottles thrown at cops during Oakland solidarity demo — New York City, NY
On 31, Jan 2012 | One Comment | In ACTIONS | By strikeeverywhere.net
Twelve protesters were arrested Sunday night on a march through Lower Manhattan to show support for Occupy protesters in Oakland, where a violent confrontation erupted on Saturday night between the police and demonstrators who tried to take over an empty convention center.
Efforts of the General Strike Public Redcoration Committee
