cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/18476518
The day to buy nothing, to make the corporations and governments experience our power. ☮️
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28th FEB 2025
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this post was submitted on 16 Feb 2025
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How does "no school" fit into this exactly?
SO MUCH commerce surrounds a day at school. You disrupt that along with everything else.
If Mom doesn't have to go to work, she doesn't have to stop for that Starbucks on the way in and fill the gas tank. She doesn't have to pay to park or feed the meter. If she's not taking the kid to school, she doesn't have to drop them off early at early day care and doesn't have to give them lunch money to spend. If you're not at work, you wouldn't eat that shitty Subway at lunch and wouldn't have to go to that gathering at TGI Fridays after work. Little things that add up. Point is to show them that there is a light switch. You turn it off for a day to tell them you could turn it off longer if needed .
Its simple if you have to go to school you dont go.
I meant how is not going to school a protest exactly? They're already dismantling education, this kinda plays to their favor. Not buying anything and messing with the economy makes sense, but avoiding school shouldn't bother them in the least.
Unless I'm missing something else, which is what I was trying to get at.
Its a total blackout day. If your kid doesnt go to school and pay for the Cisco shitlunch then this also takes a stab at the economy. Its less useful as the rest unless you are in college. But what it really demonstrates is WE have the power. WE can stop everything, not you, Mr President. Its a power play relying on unity and cooperation.
Sounds more like a pack your own lunch kinda thing.
I get the sentiment tho.
Sure, or you could deprive every physical location of the bodies that give them purpose.