OpEdNews - Diary: Now Here's an Action Website: GENERAL STRIKE

Check this out, a website with some teeth, GENERAL STRIKE, with the strategy of bringing America back to its senses by hitting corporations where it hurts: in the pocketbook.

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Now this impresses me. Go to http://votestrike.com/ to read the homepage declaration and sign up.

This is from: http://votestrike.com/shut_em_down
SHUT 'EM DOWN! “Hit the Streets.” But why spend our time protesting in DC to be ignored? Unless we get in the streets outside our rep.s personal residences- who is going to care?
We need to mobilize locally- & demand national action. Few of us could go to Washington, DC- but many of us- can go to our city halls or state legislatures- or local Congressional offices.
Congress & the president have failed to come up with an exit stategy for our troops. THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE. Constant redeployments, lack of equipment or medical leave, destroying families & creating thousands of widows & orphans on both sides, etc. MUST STOP & NOW.
Here is our EXIT STRATEGY until every troop comes home. And we have a hero's welcome home parade for our brave sons & daughters:
1. ECONOMIC STRIKE STARTS NOW
Immediate Consumer Fast from all non essentials.
                  It is the only thing that will make a change. Look what happened to GMC
                 when for the last few weeks SUV sales dropped- they have shut down                   four plants. Best example to predict what a movement like this will do.
2. GENERAL STRIKE STARTS 9/11/08


                     Shut It Down
                                      They Won't Listen Any Other Way...
                                 When Bush says to shop, WE MUST STOP!
Congress has borrowed trillions of dollars on top of our outrageous debt to hand out tax rebates to folks that don't even pay taxes. Why? To save the New World Order. This is our time to STRIKE BACK!
I've been told that people would be reluctant to take time off during an economic downturn BUT that is when you strike. When the BEAST is weak. Now is the time, the only time that a few days of empty Wal Marts & theatres will send the economy reeling & give this strike the bite that it needs to succeed.
Bring them to their knees. STRIKE today, strike everyday. Only buy what you absolutely need.
The Founding Fathers protested the Stamp Tax, poured tea into the harbor, etc.
CONSUMER FAST until Impeachment. Tell your reps in Congress you will not spend one more dime on non-essentials- Cut gas and energy consumption, buy local, reduce your FEDERAL INCOME TAXES via 40lk's and Roths...DIVEST out of stocks!! When Bush says shop, we have to stop !!
Moving all your banking assets to SMALL banks...
Those banks with names of your town, or county, or credit union...or next town over..
People should do ALL their banking at local banks....Nothing at banks that are nationally known. If you got the ball rolling on this---it would be bigger than any strike---it would effect everything. (Example: When we got companies to divest out of South Africa, Apartheid finally came to an end. Who was the largest investor /supportor of Apartheid? Bank of America.)
Starve 'em out.
MEDIA STRIKE!
MC DONALD'S STRIKE!
GAS STRIKE!
VOTE STRIKE!
WALLET STRIKE!
GENERAL STRIKE!