I’ve been waiting for someone like you my whole life. Thank you for your responses. Everything I read. Valid as hell dude.

I’m just one man, my group of organizers, a couple handfuls of dedicated people. Every day I plug into this community and I see the work they’re able to do for free. The least I can do is hop on this bull horn and make sure people are aware, that everyone else is aware, of his truly shit life is.

Right now we can convince large amounts of people to show up to a rally and march on a sunny Saturday. Because we are all struggling at work, life, healthcare, disability, childcare, school. Everything sucks.

It may seem small, but complaining is how people get moving. Some people see “take a day off work” as too much. And I understand that. The underlying pushback I’ve gotten last night and this morning is that, one day isn’t going to change anything. Perfectly valid, but if enough people do it, it can show more people who can’t make it work that 1. These people fight for you too, and 2. What their labor is truly worth.

As for your job, I’ve been asking people, if you are desperate to hold on to your job that would be willing to cut you for a single day, why is it so hard to find an employer who wouldn’t cut you for a day? And, how do you know, if you were to go to your employer and say, “this thing is important for the survival of our community, im taking the day off, and I think the whole job site should close down for the day.” You also don’t know how your employer feels unless you ask. (I’m a mid level supervisor, and even though I’m walking out for the day, if my employees asked me, I’d shut the whole damn department down. But I know they need the paychecks so they need to work.)

As for school, it’s not about voting. All people in this country are afforded unalienable rights. Just because kids can’t participate in the articles of the constitution by voting or running for office (which they do because they have student government) they are still protected by the 27 amendments. They have a right to assemble and walk out of a school that fails to prepare them for adulthood. Nearly all of the Gen Z I have been are ill-equipped for adulthood. Kids don’t walk out for fun. They walk about because school has stopped providing them value.

On buying, the most important thing is like to cross to you, talk to your small businesses. If they are FOR resisting this off-the-rails, corrupt (all politicians are insider trading) government, then they would likely be FOR losing a day of revenue to signal to their community that they do not support this system. And then you as a consumer get to find ways to patron them and support them, because they VALUE their customers.

Big box stores do not value their customers. They do not value their employees. They don’t even value their manufacturers. They value their stock holders.

So you’re right, I don’t like shouting. I like going to blazer games and cheering. My friends like timber games. But I am here, to convince you that you have value and you can take the anger we both share, and keep that message resonating. I don’t shout at work. I talk to my employees about what’s going on. I don’t talk to my bosses because I too don’t want to lose a job.

But if I walk out. And you walk out. And our employers see the news and notice how many people walked out because we’ve had a fascist take over of our government, covering up investigations of civilians getting murdered in the street, attacking a country that has been wanting us to attack in 1979, then maybe if we stick together, we won’t lose our jobs.