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RE: https://todon.nl/@prolrage/117144573903516538
Speaking as a Canadian, it sure would be great if Americans would do this.
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A call has been launched to participate in large scale strikes at the beginning of september to fight against the further destruction of social security by the current government. On September 4th dock workers in #Rotterdam, #Amsterdam and #Zeeland will lay down the work throughout the day. The following Wednesday, September 9th, the whole country will be shut down by a public transport and railway strike. The strikes are a response to the government plans to impose cuts on unemployment benefits (WW), disability benefits (WIA) and to raise the retirement age.
Strikes going on the offensive
These #strike actions are more conflictive than before in a number of ways. Previously actions only took place in a part of the day: public transport stopped only in the morning rush hours and the ports only during the night shift. Now the dock #workers won’t work all day and the public transport and rail strike lasts a full 24 hours. The entire rail sector and transportation services will stop at the same time. Buses in both cities and country side will not run, trams and subways will stop and all trains will be stationary. But also technicians and other logistical and infrastructural support staff from ProRail and DB-cargo will lay down their work. The entire rail service and infrastructure will be shut down.
Such a coordinated action has not occurred in the #Netherlands in a long time. What has not happened in the past decade is that the trade unions are calling for strike as a form of protest against government policy. Strikes are usually mainly about sector Collective Labour Agreements and not about political decisions. A choice has now been made to intervene in political decisions, something that has been put forward above all by the members of the unions themselves. It shows that people start to realise their class position and power and use it as a form of in it as counter-power.
Austerity politics is war
The austerity politics of the Jetten government is directly linked to the rising #military expenditures. Former Prime Minister Rutte, now #NATO Chief, announced without shame that #Europe should #finance the increased military budgets with money from people's pensions and by cutting into social security. The Netherlands obliged immediately. These cuts are a further attack on the working class and an offensive in a war waged against us from above.
The strikes on September 4th and 9th are a first active move to fight back. Not only are workers in ports and railways indirectly protesting the increase in military expenditures, they also directly – be it or not knowingly, wanting or explicitly - shut down the weakest link in the military logistics of the war machine in the Netherlands. What activist groups have been trying for years to achieve the workers can do in less than 36 hours. The quality of the actions themselves demonstrates the importance of mobilised workers and the ability of workers' organisation to counter-power and subversion.
Spread, support, agitate!
Let’s actively support the strikes of September 4th and 9th! By joining and spreading the strike itself to other sectors and services. By organising agitation and disturbances in the daily life that will do its best to keep going out like nothing's wrong. By actively supporting the strikers politically and morally. By attacking the institutions of the war machine and capital. By organising ourselves not only to defend our WW, WIA and AOW, but above all to reverse the war waged from above. Let us transform the #war of the bosses and politicians into war against bosses and politicians!
Against (austerity)politics – against the war machine!
Class war now!
https://acties.todon.nl/event/4-and-9-september-steun-de-staking-dolacz-do-strajku-grevi-destekle-support-the-strike#GeneralStrikeNow #generalstrike #WorkersRights #ClassWar #AusterityIsClassWar #NoWarButCalssWar #eupol EU #austerityPolitics #neoliberalism #capitalism #EatTheRich #FuckTheMilitary #FuckWarmongers #warmongers #workingClass
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They leave us desperate and scrambling for stability as they put every basic human necessity behind paywalls.
We grow the food, sew the clothing, build the houses, care for one another, and connect with each other.
We build the tech that makes them rich.
They put a price tag on all of that and force us to sell our lives to them so they can control everything.
We can say no.
We need to start saying no.
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4 & 9 September: Steun De Staking! / Dołącz do strajku! / Grevi destekle! / Support The Strike!
Landelijk (nl), vrijdag 4 september om 00:00 CEST
[Polski, Türkçe and English below]
Er is opgeroepen om begin september grootschalig te gaan staken om te strijden tegen de verdere afbraak van sociale zekerheid door het huidige kabinet. 4 september leggen havenarbeiders in Rotterdam, Amsterdam en Zeeland het werk gedurende de hele dag neer. De woensdag daarna, 9 september, wordt het hele land platgelegd door een OV- en railstaking. De stakingen zijn een antwoord op de kabinetsplannen om de werkloosheidsuitkering (WW) en arbeidsongeschiktheiduitkering (WIA) flink uit te kleden en de pensioenleeftijd te verhogen.
Stakingsacties beginnen offensiever te worden
Deze stakingsacties zijn op verschillende manieren strijdbaarder dan voorheen. Eerdere acties namen maar een deel van de dag in: OV staakte alleen in de ochtendspits en de havens alleen in de nachtdienst. Nu gaan de havenarbeiders heel de dag niet werken en duurt de OV en rail staking een volle 24 uur. De hele railsector en OV diensten staken tegelijk. Bussen in zowel steden als daarbuiten rijden niet, trams en metro's liggen stil en alle treinen staan stil. Maar ook technici en ander ondersteunend personeel van ProRail en DB-cargo leggen het werk neer. De hele rail dienst en infrastructuur wordt platgelegd.
Zo een geco-ordineerde actie is in lange tijd niet voorgekomen in Nederland. Wat ook al een decennium niet is voorgekomen is dat de vakbonden oproepen om te staken als protest tegen kabinetsbeleid. Stakingen gaan normaal voornamelijk over sector COA's en niet over politieke beslissingen. Er is nu een keuze gemaakt om dat wel te doen, iets dat vooral naar voren is geschoven door de leden van de bonden zelf. Het laat zien dat mensen hun klassepositie en macht daarin beginnen als tegenmacht.
Afbraakpolitiek is oorlog
Het afbraakbeleid van het kabinet-Jetten is direct gekoppeld aan de stijgende militaire uitgaves. Voormalig premier Rutte, nu NAVO-chef, kondigde zonder schaamte aan dat Europa de verhoogde militaire budgetten moet bekostigen met geld uit mensen hun pensioenen en door in de sociale zekerheid te snijden. Nederland gaf direct gehoor. Deze bezuinigingen zijn een verdere aanval op de arbeidersklasse en een offensief in een oorlog die van bovenaf tegen ons wordt gevoerd.
De stakingen op 4 en 9 september zijn een eerste actieve zet om terug te vechten. Niet alleen protesteren arbeiders in de havens en rail indirect tegen de verhoging van militaire uitgaves, ook leggen ze direct - dan wel of niet wetend, willend of expliciet - de zwakste schakel van de militaire logistiek van de oorlogsmachine in Nederland stil. Wat activistische groepen al jaren proberen kunnen de arbeiders in een kleine 36 uur bereiken. De kwaliteit van de acties zelf toont het belang aan van gemobiliseerde arbeiders en de mogelijkheid die arbeidersorganisatie heeft voor tegenmacht en subversie.
Verspreid, steun, agiteer!
Laten we de stakingen van 4 en 9 september actief ondersteunen! Door ons aan te sluiten en de staking zelf te verspreiden naar andere sectoren en diensten. Door agitatie en verstoringen te organiseren in de dagelijkse wereld die zijn best zal doen om door te draaien alsof er niks aan de hand is. Door de stakers actief politiek en moreel te steunen. Door de instellingen van de oorlogsmachine en het kapitaal aan te vallen. Door ons niet alleen te organiseren ter verdediging van onze WW, WIA en AOW, maar vooral om de oorlog die van bovenaf wordt gevoerd van tij te laten keren. Laten we de oorlog van de bazen en politici omvormen in oorlog tegen bazen en politici!
Tegen (afbraak)politiek - Tegen de oorlogsmachine
Klassenstrijd nu!
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[POLSKI]
Dołącz do strajku!
Na początku września ogłoszono apel o udział w strajkach na wielką skalę, które mają na celu walkę z dalszą destrukcją systemu zabezpieczenia społecznego przez obecny rząd. 4 września pracownicy doków w Rotterdamie, Amsterdamie i Zelandii przestaną pracować przez cały dzień. W najbliższą środę, 9 września, cały kraj zostanie sparaliżowany strajkiem transportu publicznego i kolei. Strajki są odpowiedzią na rządowe plany cięć zasiłków dla bezrobotnych (WW) i rent inwalidzkich (WIA) oraz podniesienia wieku emerytalnego.
Strajki w ofensywie
Te akcje strajkowe są pod wieloma względami bardziej konfliktowe niż wcześniej. Poprzednie akcje odbywały się tylko przez część dnia: transport publiczny wstrzymywany był tylko w porannych godzinach szczytu, a porty stawały tylko na noc. Tym razem, pracownicy doków wstrzymają pracę przez cały dzień, a strajk transportu publicznego i kolei potrwa całą dobę. Jednocześnie zatrzymany zostanie cały sektor kolejowy i transport. Autobusy w miastach i poza miastami nie będą kursować, tramwaje, metro i wszystkie pociągi staną. Technicy i pracownicy logistyczni, oraz pracownicy wsparcia infrastrukturalnego z ProRail i DB-Cargo również zaprzestaną swoją pracę. Cała sieć kolejowa i infrastruktura zostaną zamknięte.
Tak skoordynowanej akcji nie było w Holandii od dawna. W ciągu ostatniej dekady nie zdarzyło się, aby związki zawodowe wzywały do strajku jako formy protestu przeciwko polityce rządu. Strajki zazwyczaj dotyczą głównie układów zbiorowych pracy, a nie decyzji politycznych. Teraz podjęto decyzję o ingerencji w decyzje polityczne, co zostało zaproponowane przede wszystkim przez samych członków związków zawodowych. Pokazuje to, że ludzie zaczynają dostrzegać swoją siłę i pozycję klasową, rozumiejąc, że mogą to wykorzystać jako formę kontrwładzy.
Polityka oszczędności to wojna
Polityka oszczędności rządu Jettena jest bezpośrednio związana z rosnącymi wydatkami na wojsko. Były premier Rutte, obecnie szef NATO, bez wstydu ogłosił, że Europa powinna finansować zwiększone budżety wojskowe z pieniędzy z emerytur i cięć w zasiłkach. Holandia natychmiast się do tego przyłączyła. Te cięcia to kolejny atak na klasę robotniczą i ofensywa w wojnie prowadzonej przeciwko nam z góry.
Strajki 4 i 9 września to pierwszy aktywny krok w obronie. Pracownicy portów i kolei nie tylko pośrednio protestują przeciwko wzrostowi wydatków na wojsko, ale także bezpośrednio – świadomie, z własnej woli lub nie – likwidują najsłabsze ogniwo w logistyce wojskowej machiny wojennej w Holandii. To, o co grupy aktywistów starały się od lat, robotnicy mogą osiągnąć w mniej niż 36 godzin. Jakość samych działań pokazuje siłę zmobilizowanych pracowników i ich zdolność do organizacji w celu przeciwdziałania władzy i działalności wywrotowej.
Rozpowszechniaj, wspieraj, agituj!
Aktywnie wspierajmy strajki 4 i 9 września! Przyłączajmy się do strajku i rozprzestrzeniajmy go na inne sektory i usługi! Organizujmy agitację i wprowadzajmy zakłócenia w życiu codziennym, które będzie się starało trwać dalej tak, jak gdyby nic się nie działo. Aktywnie wspierajmy strajkujących politycznie i moralnie. Atakujmy instytucje machiny wojennej i kapitału. Organizujmy się nie tylko w obronie naszego WW, WIA i AOW, ale przede wszystkim po to, żeby odwrócić kierunek ataku wojny prowadzonej z góry - zmieńmy wojnę szefów i polityków w wojnę przeciwko szefom i politykom!
Przeciwko polityce (oszczędnościowej) – przeciwko machinie wojennej!
Wojna klasowa teraz!
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[Türkçe]
Grevi destekle!
Hükümetin sosyal güvenlik sistemini daha da tahrip etmesine karşı mücadele etmek için Eylül ayı başında büyük çaplı grevlere katılım çağrısı yapıldı. 4 Eylül'de Rotterdam, Amsterdam ve Zeeland'daki liman işçileri tüm gün boyunca iş bırakacak. 9 Eylül Çarşamba günü ise tüm ülkede hayat toplu taşıma ve demiryolu greviyle duracak. Grevler, hükümetin işsizlik ödeneklerinde (WW) ve engellilik ödeneklerinde (WIA) kesintiler yapma ve emeklilik yaşını yükseltme planlarına bir yanıt niteliği taşıyor.
Grevler atağa kalkıyor!
Bu grevler, birçok açıdan öncekinden daha çatışmacı bir nitelik taşıyor. Daha önce eylemler sadece günün belli bir bölümünde gerçekleşiyordu: toplu taşıma sadece sabah yoğun saatlerde, limanlar ise sadece gece vardiyasında duruyordu. Şimdi liman işçileri tüm gün iş bırakacak, toplu taşıma ve demiryolu grevi ise tam 24 saat sürecek. Tüm demiryolu sektörü ve ulaşım hizmetleri aynı anda duracak. Hem şehirlerde hem de kırsal kesimde otobüsler çalışmayacak, tramvaylar, metrolar ve tüm trenler duracak. Ayrıca ProRail ve DB-cargo'dan teknisyenler ve diğer lojistik ve altyapı destek personeli de iş bırakacak. Tüm demiryolu hizmeti ve altyapısı kapatılacak.
Hollanda'da uzun zamandır böyle koordineli bir eylem gerçekleşmemişti. Son on yıldır sendikalar hükümet politikasına karşı bir eylem biçimi olarak grev çağrısında bulunmamıştı. Grevler genellikle siyasi kararlarla değil, sektörel Toplu İş Sözleşmeleriyle ilgiliydi. Önümüzdeki grevlerin farkı, siyasi kararlara da müdahale etme kararının alınması ve bunun her şeyden önce bizzat sendika üyelerinin kendi talebi olmasıydı. Bu durum, işçilerin sınıf konumlarının ve güçlerinin farkına varmaya ve bunu bir karşı güç olarak kullanmaya başladıklarını gösteriyor.
Kemer sıkma politikası savaştır
Jetten hükümetinin kemer sıkma politikası, artan askeri harcamalarla doğrudan bağlantılıdır. Eski Başbakan ve şu anki NATO Genel Sekreteri Rutte, yüzü kızarmadan, Avrupa'nın artan askeri bütçelerinin, emekli maaşlarından ve sosyal güvenlikten kesintiler yaparak finanse edilmesi gerektiğini savundu. Hollanda derhal bu yükümlülüğü yerine getirdi. Bu kesintiler, işçi sınıfına yönelik bir başka saldırı ve yukarıdan bize karşı yürütülen bir savaşın parçası niteliğindedir.
4 ve 9 Eylül grevleri ise buna karşı koymak için atılan ilk aktif adımdir. Liman ve demiryollarındaki işçiler sadece askeri harcamalardaki artışı dolaylı olarak protesto etmekle kalmıyor, aynı zamanda, Hollanda'daki savaş makinesinin askeri lojistiğindeki en zayıf halkayı doğrudan kapatıyorlar. Aktivist grupların yıllardır başarmaya çalıştığı şeyi işçiler 36 saatten kısa bir sürede başarabiliyor. Eylemlerin niteliği, seferber olmuş işçilerin önemini ve işçi örgütlenmesinin iktidara ve yıkıcılığa karşı koyma yeteneğini göstermektedir.
Yay, destekle, harekete geç!
4 ve 9 Eylül grevlerine destek olalım! Greve katılarak ve grevi diğer sektörlere ve hizmetlere yayarak; Gündelik hayatın akışını durduracak eylemlilikler düzenleyerek; Grevcileri siyasi ve ahlaki olarak aktif bir şekilde destekleyerek. Savaş makinesinin ve sermayenin kurumlarına saldırarak. Sadece WW, WIA ve AOW hakkımızı savunmak için değil, her şeyden önce yukarıdan yürütülen savaşı tersine çevirmek için örgütlenerek. Patronların ve politikacıların savaşını, patronlara ve politikacılara karşı savaşa dönüştürelim!
(Kemer sıkma) politikalarına karşı, savaş makinesine karşı!
Sınıf savaşı şimdi!
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[ENGLISH]
Support the strike!
A call has been launched to participate in large scale strikes at the beginning of september to fight against the further destruction of social security by the current government. On September 4th dock workers in Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Zeeland will lay down the work throughout the day. The following Wednesday, September 9th, the whole country will be shut down by a public transport and railway strike. The strikes are a response to the government plans to impose cuts on unemployment benefits (WW), disability benefits (WIA) and to raise the retirement age.
Strikes going on the offensive
These strike actions are more conflictive than before in a number of ways. Previously actions only took place in a part of the day: public transport stopped only in the morning rush hours and the ports only during the night shift. Now the dock workers won’t work all day and the public transport and rail strike lasts a full 24 hours. The entire rail sector and transportation services will stop at the same time. Buses in both cities and country side will not run, trams and subways will stop and all trains will be stationary. But also technicians and other logistical and infrastructural support staff from ProRail and DB-cargo will lay down their work. The entire rail service and infrastructure will be shut down.
Such a coordinated action has not occurred in the Netherlands in a long time. What has not happened in the past decade is that the trade unions are calling for strike as a form of protest against government policy. Strikes are usually mainly about sector Collective Labour Agreements and not about political decisions. A choice has now been made to intervene in political decisions, something that has been put forward above all by the members of the unions themselves. It shows that people start to realise their class position and power and use it as a form of in it as counter-power.
Austerity politics is war
The austerity politics of the Jetten government is directly linked to the rising military expenditures. Former Prime Minister Rutte, now NATO Chief, announced without shame that Europe should finance the increased military budgets with money from people's pensions and by cutting into social security. The Netherlands obliged immediately. These cuts are a further attack on the working class and an offensive in a war waged against us from above.
The strikes on September 4th and 9th are a first active move to fight back. Not only are workers in ports and railways indirectly protesting the increase in military expenditures, they also directly – be it or not knowingly, wanting or explicitly - shut down the weakest link in the military logistics of the war machine in the Netherlands. What activist groups have been trying for years to achieve the workers can do in less than 36 hours. The quality of the actions themselves demonstrates the importance of mobilised workers and the ability of workers' organisation to counter-power and subversion.
Spread, support, agitate!
Let’s actively support the strikes of September 4th and 9th! By joining and spreading the strike itself to other sectors and services. By organising agitation and disturbances in the daily life that will do its best to keep going out like nothing's wrong. By actively supporting the strikers politically and morally. By attacking the institutions of the war machine and capital. By organising ourselves not only to defend our WW, WIA and AOW, but above all to reverse the war waged from above. Let us transform the war of the bosses and politicians into war against bosses and politicians!
Against (austerity)politics – against the war machine!
Class war now!
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They want left wing violence so bad, https://www.404media.co/heres-the-manual-for-ices-electric-shock-gloves/
I say we give it to them.
#generalstrike when
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Hey #Americans.
People want the train to stop, but won't get off.
#GeneralStrike, and #mutualAid
Everybody go home, and help your neighbors eat and stay warm/cool.
Everybody stays home, until shit starts changing.
Stop. All of us. No excuses.
Say when, I'll be there, I'll feed my neighbors too.
JUST SAY WHEN
I'm so tired of this shit.
"It'll never work because, X, Y, & Z!"
Don't make excuses for billionaires. You sound like someone who can't quit Meta. STFU.
Go feed your neighbors!
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General Strike San Diego has joined A Radical Guide's Financial Solidarity Project, alongside Dandelion Seeds, General Strike U.S. National, and General Strike Los Angeles. Started summer 2025, organizing toward 11 million strikers nationally. No overhead, every dollar goes to the chapter.
https://www.radical-guide.com/general-strike-san-diego-joins-the-financial-solidarity-project/
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@BenRiceM JK Rowling needs to be boycotted. I’m surprised how many just cannot do without technology or people who negatively affect so many.
#boycott is an old american resistance tactic that works!!
We won’t get anywhere until we can do a #generalstrike but americans can’t go one day without their comforts.
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In memory of Howard Sperry and Nick Bordoise,
who gave their lives on Bloody Thursday, July 5, 1934,
so that all working people
might enjoy a greater measure of dignity and security.Sperry and Bordoise were fatally shot by San Francisco police
at the intersection of Mission and Steuart Streets,
when longshore-men and seamen attempted to stop maritime employers from breaking their joint strike.Community outrage at these killings
sparked a general strike by all San Francisco unions.The maritime strike continued through the middle of summer,
concluding with a union victory which brought decent conditions to the shipping industry
and set the stage for the rebirth of a strong and democratic labor movement on the west coast."An Injury To One Is An Injury To All"
https://readtheplaque.com/plaque/bloody-thursday#gsc.tab=0
#cio #afl #industrialunions #generalstrike #sanfrancisco #Bordoise #Sperry
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Over the past few years the labor movement has taken a series of body blows which have sapped its strength and have put it on the defensive.
These attacks originate in the White House and trickle down to the lowest regional office of the National Labor Relations Board.They begin in corporate offices of companies like Louisiana-Pacific and Phelps Dodge [that was the enemy that month] and work their way down to even the smallest employers.
We are concerned about the future of our jobs, the industries in which we work, the world that our children will inherit.
We are therefore inclined more and more to look in the past for some sort of anchor to discover our roots.
We don't want just a few names and dates, but a living, ongoing story in which we can see ourselves as actors as well as spectators.
So as we celebrate the General Strike of 1934, it's time for a fresh look.Young workers in particular must look at 1934, and ask what relevance it has for them.
For the generation of west coast workers who went through the Depression the answers are self-evident.
The '34 Strike was the main event, their passage into first-class citizenship,
by establishing a solid union presence on the west coast waterfronts.
By doing away with the humiliation of the shape-up, the fink hall and the company union, the '34 Strike changed the face of the waterfront forever.The same might be said for the generation which came on during and after WWII.
They may not have participated in the actual events of the strike, but their fathers and uncles did.
As kids growing up in the 1930s they had seen the changes, whether it was the growing stability of their family life, the increased self-respect of the adults around them or a little more meat on the table.The generation of the '50s and '60s, the generation who put together the first pension and health and welfare programs, also understood that they were enjoying the payoff of the sacrifice of 1934.
The Big Strike remained a vivid memory and was clearly responsible for their being able to enjoy a degree of comfort and security undreamed of by their parents.But what are we to say to the young people of today,
people who are separated from the '30s by the tremendous changes which have taken place in those years?
For them, 1934 is a heroic dream, a golden age, when the labor movement was fresh and young,
when things were simpler, a matter of right and wrong.
What was so unique and so instructive about 1934 and in fact about the whole CIO experience, was that it was a creative response to change in society.Over the 50 years preceding the '34 strike, American industrial life had changed dramatically.
The village blacksmith became a steelworker in a huge plant, the assembly line diluted craft skills.
But we in the labor movement were still acting as if it were 1870 or thereabouts.
Our little craft unions, jealous about our own spheres of control, only about maintaining our jurisdiction, our burial societies, the world was passing us by.
So here we are again.The creative part of the CIO ideas expressed on the waterfront was the unity of all workers.
That meant the end of the competition between the skilled man and the casual.
It meant the hiring hall and equal work opportunity.
It meant a coast-wide contract so that ports couldn't be played off one against the other.
It meant unity with the sailors.
Industrial unionism on the west coast succeeded so well because it fitted the circumstances of corporate development so well."
-- Jim Herman, ILWU president in 1984
#cio #afl #industrialunions #generalstrike #sanfrancisco
#Bordoise #Sperryhttps://www.foundsf.org/50th_Anniversary_of_1934_General_Strike
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Of course, protests play a critical role in building community. But I don't think real change will come until there is an ongoing #GeneralStrike
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The billionaire oligarchs aren't the problem.
The bootlickers who serve them in the hope of becoming them are.
The oligarchs are nothing without the people who do the work for them.
We need to continue pushing for a culture that villainizes oligarchical perverts.
We do that first by killing the bootlicker in our own minds, then shunning anyone else with bootlicker tendencies.
To get rid of the oligarchs, you need to rot out the foundations they're built on.
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But we are fed horrific images of terrible, terrible things happening in places few of us have any experience with, actions caused by people claiming to be doing it in our name.
We support them with our taxes, with our attention, with our commerce, and with our very lives.
And all we get in return is more pain, more oppression, more fear.
Haven't you had enough?
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The struggle to be heard in Doug Ford's Ontario
OPSEU community service workers enter their 11th week of strike
Nora Loreto
Aug 06, 2026#Ontario #onpoli #DougFord #OPSEU #labour #labor #unions #strikes #generalstrike #workersrights
https://noraloreto.substack.com/p/the-struggle-to-be-heard-in-doug
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And I can not stress this enough: Senators from Ohio, Nebraska, Wyoming and Missouri need to shut the fuck up about California and focus on their own shit hole states.
Similarly... Senators from California need to shut the fuck up about other states on focus on their own shit hole.
Or - and this would be my preference - the entire lot of them can fuck right off into the ocean and let us have control of our lives back.
