My dear Comrades, sometimes something is so perfectly written there is no need to repurpose and rework it for the sophisticated readers of The People's Cube. In such cases where Life imitates The Cube like this, I simply offer it up with no other explanation. Without further ado, I give you, the Olympia OWS General Strike notice.


On Tuesday, the occupiers of Oakland, California courageously faced off against a monstrous deployment of riot police. The police, armed to the teeth and swarming in from 15 different jurisdictions, violently evicted and brutally beat occupiers, denying them entry to Oscar Grant Plaza. The following day, while we in Olympia were occupying Heritage Park in solidarity with our comrades around the world, our comrades in Oakland were victoriously tearing down the fences that had barred them from their occupation site and, once again, reclaiming the Plaza. That evening, the Oakland General Assembly, attended by over 2,000 in high spirits, approved (by 96.9%) a November 2nd General Strike and Mass Day of Action.

We in Olympia stand with Oakland as they initiate the first citywide general strike in the United States since 1946. In so doing, Oakland has joined millions in Egypt, Greece, Spain, and elsewhere who have launched waves of General Strikes to shut their economies down in the struggle against the global capitalist system. We in Olympia are fighting against the same system. And, sooner or later, massive strike actions are sure to explode here in our city. This is not a speculation, it's a guarantee. The same has happened in every place hit by the global economic crisis. It has followed each of the occupations with which occupy Olympia is inspired and in solidarity – Tahrir, Syntagma, Barcelona, and now Oakland.

So what does it mean to have a General Strike in our city? It is a mass refusal across multiple sectors of the economy in a city or region, and it is one of our strongest weapons against capitalism. “General Strike” means nobody and nothing works. It means that we refuse the demands of our bosses and re-appropriate our activity toward our own desires. It can last for one day, for a week, or for as long as we make it. No money is exchanged during a General Strike – Everything is for Everyone.

Or, as those in the Oakland General Assembly put it, the General Strike means that we liberate our city and ourselves by shutting down the profits of the ruling class.

November 2nd, 2011 General Strike

In solidarity with the general strike in Oakland, let us:
Call in sick to work
Walk out of school
Find and create egalitarian ways of sharing
Organize marches and actions
Do whatever we want for the day

Olympia will not have a successful general strike on November 2nd unless tens of thousands join us. Yet every empty desk, every unpunched time card, and every sick call is a strike against global capitalism. And rest assured, they will feel it.


Everything for Everyone//General Strike November 2nd// Liberate Your Desires

(this text has been lovingly adopted from an Occupy Seattle pamphlet and approved by the Olympia General Assembly)

This is as good as anything I've read on the Cube. Best of all, it's for real !

[img]images/clipart/Prog_Off.gif[/img] It appears that the Comrade Laika's signal is effectively reaching the western coast of the United States.

I'd bet real money that the author of this " stirring call to socialism " is a professional student who's only job experience is that of requesting government grant applications to keep his sorry butt in school.

As far as real-world knowledge is concerned..... well, let's put it this way........

If you handed him a globe, he couldn't find the Pacific.

( But he undoubtedly could draw you a detailed map of where all the head-shops are in Olympia.)

Comrades,

I am confused. How does one strike when one doesn't have a job?

I remain,
Dr. Chicago

"It means that we refuse the demands of our bosses and re-appropriate our activity toward our own desires."

Does this mean we don't have to protest today?
It is hard work ya-know.

Police brutality! Police are pigs! Police are suppressing our free speech rights and sending professional poor to steal our free stuff when there should be government programs to provide them with their own free stuff!

We also can't wait for the Republican Congress to act! Pass Obama's jobs bill now, so we can put thousands of police back to work doing the only thing they're good for--standing in groups behind Obama or Biden while they make speeches about how more money is needed to pay the cops to stand behind them.

Now let us march--maybe a good march will help us figure out just what the hell we stand for.

Do the professional poor have any training or certifications, or is there a merit based promotion program from amateur poor to professional? Who pays their membership fees in professional associations if they are poor? And what of the UNPROFESSIONAL POOR?

" The Unprofessional Poor "

Now I finally have a classification !!!


( Sure beats " gutter trash ". )

Stop work now, it is the Christian thing to do.

Comrades, perchance it would well be to demonstrate the what a real strike by the true achievers of the kollective would entail.

Just imagine a true general strike by the inventors, entrepreneurs, doctors, engineers, investors, Businessmen.

A strike by the men of the mind and industry – a strike that would mean a reduction in the Tax output of such men.


Perhaps the first place said strike should commence would be with the small businesses proximate to the OWS mob – they don't like “Corporate Greed” then they shouldn't like Corporate Bathroom facilities.

Comrade Sterpin ... ever heard of " Atlas Shrugged "?

ThePeoplesComrade wrote:Stop work now, it is the Christian thing to do.

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Jesus was the original Socialist and Community Organizer. He started the first Occupy movement with Occupy Jerusalem Temple, protesting the fatcat moneychangers and corporate chariot owners. He gave Hope to the masses by telling them that in order to Win The Future (and thus remain competitive with Rome), all they had to do was give up all they had to him so he could redistribute it for their sins.

And lo, the people gave all for their sins so he wouldn't have to.

Or was that Obama? I always get those two mixed up.

It is too bad that Representative Rosa DeLauro's DIAPER act hasn't passed yet--it provides free diapers to day-care centers lest prole women miss working in the fields or in a regulator's office. Just as Social Security has metastasized into an omnium gatherum for every social handout, there is no reason that the DIAPER act cannot be broadened to give clothing to OWS protestors.Or perhaps just the diapers will do.

With some 40,000 recently released or ordered to be released from California prisons, is it any surprise that Oakland turned a little violent? Dear Leader described Egypt's riots as peaceful demostrations so why can't Oakland be described the same way?

When are we having the real riots? Where are the rest of the left-wing professors urging street violence?

The USSA will not become the People's Republic until there are riots in the streets with the shopkeepers and the bankers and the merchants dragged through the streets by a hook in their heels.

By the rioters who are not getting treated for STDs.

Theo,
If wholesale rioting in the streets is required,
may I suggest that we infiltrate and sabotage U.S. coffee supply sources
and distribution lines ?

The World of Next Tuesday would start on Friday !

We could also encourage rioting by having this progressive beauty come join the forces: Her dulcet tones would no doubt encourage all the Faithful to greater and greater heights of exertion.
Imagine having her leading the charge. Imagine inspecting her for an STD. Imagine her whelping. Why, she'd whelp the Prog That Will Come!

Damn Rethuglikkans: I can make links but never to the right page.

https://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog ... t3762.html

Comrades,

I once knew General Strike, he only has 5 years left to finish his sentence.

People call "strike" in stadiums across the country with large crowds, the word general has been deleted to shorten games and save airtime for commercials.

The woman shown above is raising her hand to ask "Which way to the showers"?

You are lucky that her blouse obscured her armpit. It writhes.

As, Father Theo, do various other portions of her anatomy; I have no doubt whatsoever.

As someone I know is wont to say, "Ew ew ew!!!"

As an interesting aside, if one googles "General strike Olympia" this page is the second in search engine listings, above even the page I redistributed this information from. Most glorious!

It seems that we must make the General Strike more general. Didn't the Brits do that some 70 years ago?

I recall when there was a government shutdown in the 90s. It was horrible--there is no such thing as too much government; I consider a concentration camp to be lenient. Except for Made Progs, who sit in the watch towers with guns.

I once had an acquaintance, whom I've since recycled into his fundamental atoms, who said that he never felt safer than when the government wasn't working.

We need to make sure that people know that the General Strike is for important people: people with grievances which they polish like le Duc de Saint-Simon. Ah, there was a Proto Prog who spent all his time making sure that no one put a foot on his throat while he put his feet on every throat possible.

Unimportant people like teachers who respect the Constitution, math and physics professors, and those "sciences" which are quantifiable, must be depreciated. Their input is always qualified by something nasty called reality.

And I, as Father Prog Theocritus, do hereby rule that reality is for the short-sighted. Because with enough attitude and force, you can keep marching and marching, with you head held high, right off the cliff.

General Strike?

I knew that guy when he was just a Major! I thought he had retired as a Colonel.

Congratulations, General Strike!

Father Prog Theocritus wrote:And I, as Father Prog Theocritus, do hereby rule that reality is for the short-sighted. Because with enough attitude and force, you can keep marching and marching, with you head held high, right off the cliff.

But, my Dear Theo...

We ARE the Ruling Class. Why, even now the Obama Administration, by executive order shall repeal the laws of gravity!

Colonel 7.62 wrote: ...Do whatever we want for the day...Liberate Your Desires
(this text has been lovingly adopted from an Occupy Seattle pamphlet and approved by the Olympia General Assembly)

Hmmmm... Do whatever I want? Liberate my desires?

I desire to Nape the 99!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=p ... dEXpw#t=1s

Hey! You said! Whatever I want..and now you dare to question the unintended consequences?

Raum wrote:We ARE the Ruling Class. Why, even now the Obama Administration, by executive order shall repeal the laws of gravity!

A good idea, My dear Raum, a good idea. But there is a limit to power, unfortunately. A few years ago I tired of watching our Many Titted Empress drop a pen and it go into orbit around her ass.

As Father Prog I repealed the Law of Gravity, which looked back at me as though to say, "With an ass like one of Jupiter's moons, you think I'm going away?"

So we've tried, insofar as our MTE goes. And it doesn't work for Michael Moore either.

Just a thought here...
As being the quintessential " Made Prog ", endowed with an innate capacity for displaying powerful posterior illuminations, have you given any thoughts as to marketing yourself as a floor lamp ?

Krasnodar, I could be a floor land only in the Theatre of the Absurd. A Made Prog never by design illuminates; we make unctuous, soothing noises as we pat the prole's heads and tsk-tsk at them.

Any time that I make a statement which Explains Everything, please know that I've by design obfuscated everything quite beyond any hope of anyone making any sense of it.

If, however, a Made Prog like Elizabeth Warren says, "Government is what we decide to do together," she made a horrible mistake because she actually said the truth.

That is why she must not be allowed to succeed. Whenever a prog says the truth, all is lost.