Monday, January 27, 2014

Socialists Organizing a Major "Week of Action" in the US

They are going to tie it in with a call for a $15 minimum wage. Although a higher minimum wage will only increase unemployment, the economically clueless youth in America may go for this. It is a very clever strategy by the socialists, led by Kshama Sawant, the socialist who was recently elected to the city council in Seattle.

This is from the Socialist Alternative web site:
Call for a National Week of Action March 7th to 15th and Mass Demonstrations on May Day.
Across the country there is a groundswell of momentum of protests, strikes, and electoral initiatives for a $15/hour minimum wage.  The question of income inequality – the divide between the 1% and the 99% – has become a central question dominating political discussions from the federal to state and city levels.
The fight for $15 has captured the imagination of hundreds of thousands of low-wage workers, young people, and occupy and union activists.
Now is the time to step up this struggle.  We have an historic opportunity.  The fight for $15 has the potential to be a catalyst for turning back the decades-long corporate assault on working people.
15 Now, a new grassroots campaign arising from the fight for a $15 in Seattle, is appealing to all Fight for $15 groups, young people, Occupy activists, unions, and low wage workers to come together this spring for two rounds of coordinated national actions:
1) A week of action from March 7th to 15th to demand a raise in the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $15.  These actions can range from organizing a public meeting or town hall, to a picket line outside a McDonald’s, to a major demonstration, and anything in between.
2) The week of action in March could set the stage for massive demonstrations across the country on May 1, 2014 and would send a clear message to the capitalist establishment that workers are no longer willing to stand idly by as our wages and benefits get cut while the 1% get richer and richer.  Let’s unite to make May Day 2014 a historic demonstration of support for both $15 and immigrant rights which can re-kindle the traditions of May Day as a day of international working-class solidarity and struggle!
Where possible these rallies should be organized directly around the demands for $15 and immigrant rights, but elsewhere supporters of $15 can organize $15 contingents as part of the larger May 1 rallies.
We ask all individuals, fast food and low-wage groups, activists, and unions to discuss these ideas. If you are part of an organization, please bring these proposals to your trade union, organization, and other activists. If you are not part of an organization, please get in touch with us and we can help you start a 15 Now group in your area.

11 comments:

  1. Yes, let's fight over a dying dollar that will be taxed to blow up more brown people and to keep us enslaved!

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  2. WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE for more continually debased banker cabal controlled fiat currency! We demand more table scraps!

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  3. A higher minimum wage would mean a raise for many workers. It would not "only" mean more unemployment. Quite silly to suggest that it would not help a significant number of people.

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    1. No one argues that increasing minimum wage won't help anyone, just that it won't help in sum, on net. Ditto with unions pushing wages past market rates, etc...

      The seen vs. unseen, blah blah blah

      Jerry is a troll, blah blah blah

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    2. Right! Who cares if other people get screwed over if some get ahead. Quite cruel of you to not care about those that get the shaft. But I get it, some people are always expendable for the perceived collective good.

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    3. Just like if i went around robbing people at gunpoint, i would experience a raise in my income. The raise for many workers would come at the expense of many other workers.

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  4. An the funny thing is. Socialism is why we have such a bad income inequality problem.

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    1. Well, remember RN it's always more fun to spend other people's money. That's why socialism is so popular among parasites. They're feeders not producers.

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  5. So glad I don't own a business that employs people at the lower economic scale. Its funny, socialists never talk about actually starting a business and running it according to their beliefs. Nope, its always about exploiting what others have done that they themselves apparently are incapable of doing. What is quite ironic is that without a capitalist host upon which to feed, the socialist economic model has nothing to offer the people.

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  6. Why stop at $15? They'll be wanting $20 or $25 in a few years, so let's go them one better and push for $30 or $40 now, then it will equal the 40 hour hourly return for a currently unemployed person (with all of their benefits), and we'll double the number of unemployed people so Federal Reserve can go back to $80 billion a month giveaway.

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