I actually don't think I've seen any significant, reasoned critiques of the General Strike 9/11/07 idea. It all seems to be defensive, mainstream liberals who are scared of being called "disrespectful," cynical naysayers who say it won't work and nobody will notice, and various other apathetic and nihilistic losers. Negativity is self-fulfilling. To the people the say it can't or won't work so don't even try, YOU'RE THE REASON WE ARE IN THIS PREDICAMENT. You should be ashamed.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/8/13/141748/568
A few relevant comments from the Daily Kos post:
"Are you fucking nuts? You would be play right into BushCult's hands and instantly be compared with bin Laden and al Qaeda as attacking America.
Talk about repellant and totally destructive of any attempt to persuade non-attentive Americans about our case against BushCult.
I cannot think of a worse idea. This is both Dumb....and Dumberer.
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national economic impact!!?? (1+ / 0-)
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stop! you're killing me :) -- in my years here, I've seen plenty of these "strike this, boycott that, no more Christmas shopping, don't buy gas on this day", etc., diaries, but what I've never seen is any follow-up reporting, you know, actual evidence of any bleeping 'national economic impact'; why? because it does not exist; because it does not happen.
perspective, folks, perspective :)
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It is ineffective (0 / 0)
it has no real accomplishable demand attached to it and no one will know it's even happening.
Clearly most people in the country don't even know about it and those that do for the most part don't support it. It divides energy and pulls people in a lot of different directions rather that organizing around a goal that can be accomplished and that will be noticed. I could go on but having dealt with the answer folks long before they were answer, SWP back in the day. they have been "calling general strikes since I have been an activist "early 70's". How many have you heard about before this one? It's ultra leftist crap that does nothing to move the progressive agenda forward and a lot to hold it back.
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men~~ Abraham Lincoln
One that doesn't setup a perfect Republican spin that the strikers are attacking the economy on the anniversary of terrorists attacking our economy, which not only kills any effectiveness of the protest, but also helps the noise machine equate striking and workers rights with terrorism in a perfect propaganda knot that wouldn't exist in Rove's wildest dreams. This is truly a disturbingly self-destructive and horrid idea; if there's one day NOT to do a general strike, 9/11 is it.