Ep 74: The Strike Wave and Socialism
The crisis continues but a lot of people are not taking it quietly, I cover the call for a general strike and the various strikes occurring across the country; Providing context, bashing the American dream, my experience and my rejection of it along the way. I wrap up with a call for a what else, socialism.
A message from Ben Shapiro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV88BlZ_eas
call for general strike
observer.com/2020/03/coronavirus-general-strike-notdying4wallstreet-american-economy
Banks get bailed out, we get sold out
hamptonthink.org/read/everyones-a-socialist-in-a-crisis
Amazon and whole food strikers
citizentruth.org/the-strike-wave-is-in-full-swing-amazon-whole-foods-workers-walk-off-job-to-protest-unjust-and-unsafe-labor-practices
Instacart Strike
vice.com/en_us/article/4agmvd/instacarts-gig-workers-are-planning-a-massive-nationwide-strike
Reports on Strike Wave
itsgoingdown.org/workers-walk-off-job-coronavirus
Rent strike in Chicago, I believe I skipped some part
chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-re-coronavirus-rent-strike
GE workers protest not making needed stuff.
www.vice.com/en_ca/article/y3mjxg/general-electric-workers-walk-off-the-job-demand-to-make-ventilators
Call for democratically planned economics, aka socialism
rampantmag.com/2020/03/24/capitalism-has-failed-we-need-a-planned-economy