Womens March Organizers Just Announced A Date For The Next Huge Protest

[Stellar]

The organizers behind the wildly successful Women’s March have just announced a date for their next big protest.

On March 8, Women’s March organizers will be spearheading what they’ve named a “Day Without A Woman.”

This protest is designed after the model of a general strike, something that has apparently never in American history picked up enough traction to make a dent on national politics. However, with the January 21st Women’s March under these organizers’ belts, they have a lot to go on in actually making their plans become something huge.

General strikes are, simply, strikes that transcend boundaries of company and industry. Participants in general strikes throughout recent history in Europe, where they are relatively common, have come from an array of companies and industries and have united to protest such broad issues as a horrendously low minimum wage or overall unsafe standards for working conditions. General strikes have also been employed as protest tools against leaders who are hated and/or distrusted by large segments of society. (Think, Donald Trump.)

The Women’s March organizers have not yet announced what the specific actions are that will define participating in the “day without a woman,” but they did post a mission statement of sorts to the official Women’s March Twitter page.

That statement reads, in part:

More : BipartisanReport

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1. Should be quite interesting.

“As a first step, we propose to help build an international strike against male violence and in defense of reproductive rights on 8 March.

In this, we join with feminist groups from around 30 countries who have called for such a strike.
The idea is to mobilize women, including trans women, and all who support them, in an international day of struggle—a day of striking, marching, blocking roads, bridges, and squares, abstaining from domestic, care and sex work, boycotting, calling out misogynistic politicians and companies, striking in educational institutions,” reads their op-ed in The Guardian.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/06/women-strike-trump-resistance-power

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