Menendez and Booker in NJ are basically on auto-oppose, so we usually hit up PA since we have a property there. Bob Casey there is already on the ball, leaving Toomey.

Toomey's a complete (R) clown that's getting drilled on his Facebook re: DeVos and just posted that people outside PA are taking over his lines.

Will do. I need to get to more IRL protests, which is tough because of my current location. But it's good to see others in here fighting, we need to feed off of each other's energy and ideas to keep sustaining the effort.

It's been much longer than 20 years for even a meaningful city wide strike in the US and I don't think there's ever been a national one.

150-180 million people struck last year in India though.

Did it matter? Do I have to do any more than take a sick day and not shop to be a legit participant?

DeVos is such an easy one for Republicans to let go. There's some money involved in for profit education and all, but the issue is valuable to them as part of the culture war. Tiller$on is an entirely different matter.

Should have called him about not confirming Jeff Sessions imo

I think it obviously matters but it's essentially impossible to measure how. I looked a bit for specifics, but searching for the results in India is not super easy.

I did ask Shelby to not confirm Sessions.

That's the only date that gets mentioned, and it pops up somewhat regularly, but it only trended for an hour or two early last week on Twitter before fading. Women's March people need to just jump on board with that date imo. It would snowball pretty quickly from there, and based on how fast protests have come together lately it's plenty advance notice.

The long range protest planning is great, but we have a crapload of momentum going right now that needs to be taken advantage of.

I hope I come across one as I move about. Gonna be in Athens for 5 days. I think they'll be too busy protesting against the incompetence of their own government to worry about Trump though.

That should be enough I think. All we need to do is cause a noticeable decline in productivity and economic activity. It wouldn't need to be significant, just enough to get peoples' attention. In would be a huge win to simply demonstrate that a nationwide general strike is possible.

Why not make it May Day?

Oh those poor prosecutors. I assume those downtrodden souls are going before a magistrate, as there was no mention of a grand jury. I'd WAG as a non-lawyer there will be preliminary hearings late this month.

Ding ding. We have the winner.

May Day is in only 82 days away. Time to get busy !!!1!

Being bigoteer is easy, just slandering opponents who you disagree without the requirement to back it up

So please explain who is this white nationalist, and why so? No one is saying the legals are going to be exported.

Kyp,

It is clear that your only purpose in this thread is to troll. You are no longer welcome to post in this thread. If you wish to discuss the presidency of Trump, use the appropriate thread.

Why not both?

One day isn't enough for a general strike. It has to be more like the Seattle General Strike only longer.

I don't see a general strike as some ultimate grand finale protest. It's just another tool in the toolbox, and that's why I'd like to see it tried now. There can be more in the future. They can get bigger. There is no single action that is going to prevent the worst from a Trump presidency (unless he self destructs in a spectacular blunder). It's going to take constant pressure from every conceivable angle.

Prove that we can do a #GeneralStrike on #F17 for one day. Call it a warning, and a warm up for bigger things to come.

If you all want something to do, feel free to weigh in on DeVos (etc) on the following two Senators' Facebooks. Both are Republican seats very much up for grabs in 2018, and (like most) they're basically ignoring an overwhelming swarm of constituents urging them to vote no.

Even if DeVos gets through may as well fire up a few more locals.


Jeff Flake, Arizona

Dean Heller, Nevada

https://twitter.com/hashtag/PostcardsToBannon?src=hash



Thoughts?

Good call leaving off the return address and block letters too!

a custom postage stamp would really set that off

The Daily Kos is doing a project that overlays presidential and other statewide votes on top of state legislative districts. I went through Virginia and counted 19 seats in our House and 4 in our Senate that lean Dem but have Republican reps, enough to flip both houses to Democratic control. Some of the deviations are massive, too. Bob Marshall, the vanguard of the anti-LGBT movement, reps a district that went +15 for Clinton!

It's a little more urgent in Virginia than in other states because we have a lot of our major elections in odd-numbered years, but when it gets time to start knocking on doors and volunteering for local campaigns, this seems like a great tool to figure out where you can target to do the most good.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...gid=1838276900

I do think serious, organised protesting against gerrymandering and voter ID laws (which are basically disguised racism and more or less open rigging of elections) should be a priority. I think specific, targetted and highly organised action is generally a good thing.

But it can't descend into a general moan / protest against Trump, must focus on the issue itself.

The voter law stuff is one that is of paramount importance. It's basically third-world type stuff and is shocking that it is happening in USA.

I left them each a message and I'm going to go ahead and call them too.
Jeff Flake (202) 224-4521
Dean Heller (202) 224-6244
They're still going at it on the Senate floor. Warren gave a pretty great speech earlier.
https://www.c-span.org/networks/?channel=c-span-2