I’d do it. We need to stop making excuses of why these things would not work. It starts small.
Stop saying it wouldn’t work. It’s not about that. It’s about starting a movement that will. When people complain about wages, treatment, lack of opportunity etc point out we only over got those by rising up in solidarity, and it looks like this.
“Stop trying to change things to suit the system, Make the system change to suit you” - No idea.
Our modern anti-protest laws are, if anything, even more restrictive than the old Emergency Powers Act.
Nope. The country is too brainwashed by whatever propaganda is fed to us through their only window into the world these days (phone, TV, newspaper, but importantly not the world and people around us).
We no longer have any real grip on the reality around us, no grounding in our local community, no heads up looking at what we can actually see.
Everything we take in is fed to us through carefully crafted algorithms and long term propaganda campaigns designed to make us think what they want us to think (they being a wide range of actors none of whom have our best interests at heart - the government, the rich media owners, foreign powers looking to damage our society, etc).
Can a society (can we even call ourselves a society, if we’re now just a bunch of strangers who never look up from our phones to notice each other exists? Are we a society if we don’t even know our neighbour’s names? Or what’s happening in our community?)
…Can a society come together to take any sort of strong meaningful action after so much brainwashing, turning us is against each other, convincing us our rich ruling class masters know best, building so many anti-protest and anti-freedom laws that they can lock you up if they feel like it with no reproductions, for any made up reason they like?
And in the mean time, constantly spy on you, observing where you spend your money, what websites you visit, where you go, who you speak to, etc, every single day, in order to identify those who would be a threat to their power?
No. There won’t be another General Strike in the United Kingdom, and if there were some small, fractured last gasp attempt at one, it would quickly crumble under the boot of our capitalist overlords.
