A strike has been called for January 20th, 2017 (Inauguration Day) there will be a General Strike against the the trump presidency.
“A general strike (or mass strike) is a strike action in which a substantial proportion of the total labor force in a city, region, or country participates. General strikes are characterized by the participation of workers in a multitude of workplaces, and tend to involve entire communities.” -Wikipedia
That means:
no work
no school
no buying anything
Spread this to everyone you know!!
Family, friends, local organizations, newspapers, ANYONE!!
This is a way of protesting and saying FUCK YOU to the trump, fascism, capitalism, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia and everything that donald trump stands for.
via a friend of mine:
Hey folks, I just called Mayor Libby Schaaf to demand her support of undocumented immigrants in the city of Oakland.
Yesterday, Mayor Murray of Seattle made a statement saying that the city will be a sanctuary for undocumented immigrants, even if it means losing federal funding. Please call your Mayor’s office and demand similar actions of support. Deetz below.
PORTLAND
Mayor Charlie Hales
phone: (503) 823-4120
message: https://www.portlandoregon.gov/mayor/60975 (email in link)
**hey guess what, there’s also a form ^^^ to request an appointment with the mayor
Yesterday: reblog ACLU’s press release/declaration of war/opening punch in the imminent constitutional bar fight, as a reminder that we are not helpless and there’s plenty of effective ways to push back. Watch slack-jawed as the post proceeds to rack up 10,000+ notes in a night.
Today: receive an even more dramatic reminder that not only are we not helpless, WE ARE LEGION AND WE’RE MAD AS HELL. Even the friggin’ ACLU drastically underestimated how eager the American public is to fight back against Trump, and they’re the ones who smashed a metaphorical wine bottle on their barstool and told him to say that again to their face.
This, this is what you tell any Trump voters who insist that they’re worried about being judged for the choice they made to elect this man.
You will be judged. The outcome is not upsetting people based on some philosophical difference. It’s upsetting people because it will have a death toll. This is the disconnect, the divide, that the “well-intentioned Trump voter” fundamentally does not seem to grasp.
Don’t ask people to be pleasant towards you after what you’ve condemned millions of Americans to suffer for the next four years. If the worst that has happened to you is being called a bigot, a racist, a misogynist, understand that you have nothing on the rest of your fellow American minorities who experience more verbal and physical backlash every day of their lives for existing, and will now experience even more. They don’t owe you a handshake, a smile, a “let’s agree to disagree”. They don’t owe you anything.
I try not to get political on my art blog, but I am gonna share this sentiment from my twitter.
It’s nice to hear “Fuck Trump” but piling all hate on him is misguided, Trump is not the only person who should be factored into protests, impeachment and human rights lawsuits: his team DEFENDED him and ENABLED him.
There are a lot of people who either played down, ignored or supported his conduct
Fact is, if Trumps impeached, all the people who helped his campaign will flip and agree and chastise him, cuz it’ll make them look noble, which they would LOVE, they get to sweep house and senate, have Pence be president, and pretend they’re on our side. “We hate Trump too, friends! We agree, he’s a bad man, let us fix his mess for you.”
Think about it, anyone on his team right now looks really good by comparison to him. People who’re just as bigoted and heartless.
Do not forget that Vice President Pence is poised and ready to help anti-women and anti-LGBT legislation roll out and take away 50~ years of human rights progress. [source] And he just sat back and watched Trump be Trump, cuz all he cares about is getting his foot in the door – and we all just held it open for him and welcomed him inside. Slam it on his stupid foot, friends. Fact is, Pence is a hateful bigot, but he looks really good superficially next to Trump.
If we’re gonna support lawsuits for human rights violations, impeachments, etc, we can’t fixate on Trump alone. A lot of people made Trump happen via complacency and lies, with smiles on their faces.
Not My President… Not My Vice President.
Note: I genuinely don’t have time for debates or arguments on Tumblr even on my good days, so sorry if you wanted to engage me about this, even if you agree with me. I’m not ignoring people (unless, you know, insults), I just can’t give this more time. I have to get back to work and stuff.
Mike pence said literally that “cigarettes do not cause death.” He wants to fund gay conversion therapy. He is the literal embodiment of Satan.
Mike Pence caused an HIV crisis in 2015. In an age of STD tests and anti-retrovirals, Mike Pence’s attack on Planned Parenthood (meaning that in rural areas, there very often weren’t any places to get STD tests- the HIV wasn’t actually spread through sexual contact as much as it was injecting drugs- but no PP access meant no testing that could pick up on HIV) caused an actual HIV crisis.
And his response? “I’ll pray for them.”
Later, he did authorize a needle exchange, but his first response wasn’t “I’ll take actual legislative action because holy shit, people are dying,” but “I’ll pray for them.”
Pence and Trump are two very different kinds of dangers. I want to stop the political posting and just go back to my regular blogging, but I grew up in Indiana. I’ve seen what Pence’s terrible decisions have done to my friends and family, and as bad as a Trump presidency’s going to be, a Pence presidency might actually be worse.
For those of you who don’t know, the Electoral College has the final say in December. It’s only happened once or twice, but sometimes they vote against a candidate who’s already “won”. Candidates can win the popular election and still lose the electoral college’s election. THIS IS OUR LAST SLIVER OF A CHANCE TO KEEP BUTT TRUMPET OUT OF OFFICE!
There’s been multitudes of posts going around, talking about fighting back, never giving up, doing what’s right.
OVER 600,000 SUPPORTERS ALREADY. IT’S DAY 2. BOOOOOOOST.
this is the tiniest sliver of a chance, but it doesn’t hurt to throw your name in there
2,278,746 as of this reblog. I don’t care if it’s a longshot. Please sign this even if you don’t think it will do any good. You don’t want to look back and say you didn’t try everything you could to stop this man.
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