Some of my neighbors have them and I hate walking down the street. I know it's a public sidewalk, but hearing all the little pings and "some one is at the front door" it creeps me out. I live in a single party consent state so there's not like anything I can do but now there's a database with a record of when I go to/come back from work. I don't like that. Thankfully, when signing the lease, my landlord forbid in the contact the installation on those. He also owns the houses on either side of mine... a little strip of privacy in a sea of surveillance.
"No, no, no, it's not a company town... it's a company tower... which is completely different. By the way, did you meet Brian? He's the new manager of the convenience store the company opened in the lobby. It's right next to the company elementary school. You can use the company issued script to buy stuff there, it's great!"
We don't really have evidence of Jesus' historicity. I mean absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence but, all in all, there's pretty much zero direct evidence of his existence. Almost nothing that would point to historicity in the gospels is corroborated by archeology... like was Pilot a person who existed? Yes, very likely he was. Is there biographies of him? Yes, there are contemporaneous sources showing him to be real. Is there anything, outside of the gospels, recount him meeting Jesus in any capacity let alone a whole trial and execution? No, there's nothing like that. The whole scenario of Jesus' life as chronicled by the gospels doesn't hold up to scrutiny... sure, some of the people and many of the places do exist, but just because New York exists it doesn't mean Spiderman is real.
As for the early church, even Paul doesn't claim to have known a historic Jesus but rather only recounts experiences of visions of Jesus and angels.
If the USA were to have a general strike, it's more than likely that the UAW would be the ones calling for it. They're a very large union of which most Americans are aware and likely have a very high approval amongst average people.
I'd urge you to organize your workplace and form a union. You can contact organizers at the AFL-CIO (a kind of union of unions in the US) and find which union is right for your workplace. If you don't work but are still able to do physical or intellectual labor, start getting as involved in your local community as possible... volunteer at food banks, after school programs, nursing homes, etc. The more people you can reach out to and help or with whom you can organize the better. If you cannot do those things due to personal issues (disability, etc), do what you can in encouraging others to take these steps. You have a voice here on the internet (at the very least), educate yourself as best as you can on how folks can help one another and encourage others to take these steps.
A massive action like a general strike isn't just organized over night by total strangers... it takes communities with common cause and familiarity with one another. Realistically, if anyone is calling a general strike, odds are it'll be like the United Auto Workers kicking shit off. Maybe the railroad folks or the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, but more than likely the UAW will lead the charge.
You're on the right track asking "how to" and that's great! Organizing is a rough road, but it's vital and worth it... the more people doing it the better in any capacity. United we bargain, divided we beg.
If they can't get other countries to play ball and the tariffs continue, they'll forge ahead with getting rid of income tax... that's the plan. Income from tariffs to replace income tax; it's a super regressive tax on the workers and small businesses, but the billionaire class will only soar to higher heights.
Yep. Most companies are being huge fucks about labor relations; bigger than they've been in quite a while. The post-WWII "gentlemen's agreement" between labor and capital (as pathetic as it was) has been completely abandoned. They're back on some gilded age bullshit... sounds likely we're gonna have to do a general strike.
Yeah, was gonna say, this is 100% Anti-Union Tactics 101. Literally get warned about this kind of stuff while organizing and there's a history of it dating back to the beginnings of labor organizing.
The trap is laid out thusly: promise unionizing workers a pay rise without a collective bargaining contact. The workers reject unionization because the wages are "fair." A year to two years later, after all talk of unionization has died down and they've had a chance to fire or layoff the organizers, the company will then walk back all wage hikes citing "needed" cost cutting measures and the workers get screwed.
Remember folks, you have a right to collectively bargain and unionize (at least right now; who knows what Trump and this SCOTUS might do over the next four years)... without a legally binding labor contract, every benefit and every red cent of your pay is at the whim of the company (and lobbyist addicted politicians). Companies only have one directive: profit. They'll do anything (including taking a wash on twelve to eighteen months of wage hikes) to ensure profits. Do not ever forget that united we bargain, divided we beg.
Some of my neighbors have them and I hate walking down the street. I know it's a public sidewalk, but hearing all the little pings and "some one is at the front door" it creeps me out. I live in a single party consent state so there's not like anything I can do but now there's a database with a record of when I go to/come back from work. I don't like that. Thankfully, when signing the lease, my landlord forbid in the contact the installation on those. He also owns the houses on either side of mine... a little strip of privacy in a sea of surveillance.