What is the Shutdown 315 Movement?
Edit: Because of the number of negative and discouraging comments that are counterproductive to the message of this post, I have decided to remove select comments that discourage organization. I apologize in advance if your comment is removed inadvertently.
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Can we stop making random calls like this on social media? We need actual organization and leadership to be directing this stuff.
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99% of people will never even know this is a thing. It’s going to have more negative impact on low wage earners who show up than anything else.
Maybe you should join the organization and let them know.
Take charge then.
Then contact your Democratic representatives and get the ball rolling.
As if Democrats actually do anything to stop Trump
Then try the DSA.
Every journey begins with the first step, put your shoes on.
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So, no one can protest for better living conditions, because you can’t? Sorry about your situation, but that is exactly why we are organizing. If you are not able to participate, that’s fine. You may be resigned to defeatism, but please don’t discourage others from wanting to improve the conditions in which we all live. If you have a better plan to resist, I’m sure others would like to hear it.
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Every time someone encourages action there’s always someone to step in and say “it won’t work.”
You sound like you have a lot of great ideas, you should try to link up with people and join in and try to help organize! A lot of it can be done whenever you have a bit of time, everyone is valuable and capable of contributing in someway.
People are freaking out right now, I bet there are social circles/groups in your town that are very concerned and would be open to setting up secure communications with like-minded people. It really is as easy as going to the local coffee shop or gay bar and leaving/reading a flyer, get involved.
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Man it’s going to be great when all 50 of us get fired from our jobs.
Wake me up when normies are on board. I’m not fucking up my life for nothing.
And then nothing ever changed
The end
This post is going nowhere because it doesn’t have realistic backing of anyone significant. So no, this post isn’t going to change anything, even if I decide to sacrifice my job for some rando trying to start a movement.
Wake me up when it gets any significant traction
sounds like you sleep all the time I doubt you’ll keep your job like this anyway
Look at the 50 protests in 50 states that just happened. A couple thousand people showed up out of hundreds of millions. And that’s much less of a sacrifice than risking your livelihood.
Wow look they’re all still in power and ripping shit apart.
Almost like they don’t fucking care if people stand around wirh signs.
Maybe we should try another strongly worded letter.
Oh i know, lets do a big petition in bold font!
Psyops: Let’s help the little people get it out of their systems… Let’s get them to stand around with signs just like the good old days and put up a few posts on social media to organise it. They’ll soon give up and learn to accept it.
I’m saying Americans are too lazy and domesticated to do what’s necessary when peaceful protests inevitably fail
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How would you organize?
Poorly because I have a family to take care of, and bills to pay.
This kind of organization doesn’t really work, you cant just set a day without a strong organized backing
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Then contact them and help them organize.
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The substack link for Shutdown 315 is at the bottom of the post.
You can always contact the organizers and constructively offer help, I’m sure they would welcome it.
Might be better off signing up here. They’re trying to get commitments for a general strike.
They document working on narrowing their demands more specifically once they hit certain goals.
I like the fact that they have a trigger-point based on historical effectiveness. No offense to absolutely anyone that is willing to protest or resist in any way, but this organization is focused on a results-based strike, not merely “sending a message”.
That looks like a lot more practical approach.
I signed up and asked about 20 people to sign it. ✊🏻
I’ll Post It.
One day isn’t enough, we need to make this a month long shutdown. These military and prison industry profiteers will use militarized violence to stop such a monumental effort and this will dissolve the facade of our liberal democracy for the class dictatorship it truly is which is the wake up cup of espresso this fucking country needs asap.
I agree. Hopefully, this is only the beginning
ITT: Losers whine about why they don’t want to get off their ass to improve their lives.
We’re all losing our jobs and becoming homeless if this shit continues
Quite frankly, I won’t try because it won’t get widespread enough outside select Internet communities. Unless unions get on board, which they won’t, it’s not going to have the momentum to get an actual effect, as much as I would love to try.
well, call the unions
Just a ray of sunshine 🌞
I am late to this thread, and intrigued and on board with Shutdown 315.
Mostly, though, I want to say THANK YOU to @TokenBoomer for the removals on this page. When someone’s trying to organize something, people popping in to say it’s futile and pointless are simply assholes, and assholes are counterproductive for organizing.
I regret doing it. It goes against my ethos of allowing open discussions. Thanks for understanding why it was necessary.
You’re entitled to disagree with both you and me (: but I’ll continue thinking you’ve done the right thing.
Flat Earthers who show up at meetings of the Planetary Society should be shown the door.
I changed my mind after experiencing the fallout. I don’t regret it.
Ya know eveytime I see these I wonder, “how did the Arabs do it?” They actually did something in Egypt. We can’t even agree to take the same day off.
materialist differences
Significant organizational differences, as well. Egypt has a much more nationalized economy. Also, a lot of these movements are managed at the grassroots level through networks of mosques.
Americans - particularly the terminally online liberals - hate religious organizations. They’re mostly corporate hacks or gig workers. And they think half the people in their social media channel are either cops or tankies or cops posing as tankies.
How do you organize on those grounds?
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Is this bigger than just a single image? Any actual orgs or anything? Just the Newspunch guys and a few social media tags?
I doubt any of the conservatives will be participating.
It’s not impossible. If you focused solely on economic concerns.
Good luck, he would probably win another election today. Cant save a democracy where the electorate is stupid.
How do you think fascism arose in Germany? Was it a complex process set forth by the treaty of Versailles, embarrassment after WWI, rapid technological advancement by Germany, instability from the great depression, instability in the Weimar republic, etc…
Or do you really think fascism just comes out of the aether when somehow millions of voters become “stupid” all of a sudden?
We should probably try though, because of the implications.
Everyone bickering in this thread needs to just repost this image somewhere and shut up. That’s how these things spread, via small communities. The only reason I saw it was this post, the only reason someone else might learn about it is my post. Unless you already have a better idea, and are organizing and trying to promote it, the least you can do is try and spread the word. The only way we win is together, so either bring a better solution to the table or get in line and help us fight.
Thank you.
On a Saturday? Really going to slow those wheels.
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We protested Wednesday, and people complained that it wasn’t a weekend. I’m beginning to think some people don’t think there’s ever a good time to protest.
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“You can’t pick a weekday, the poors can’t risk missing a day off from their second job!”
Low-wage workers work on weekdays too. And they will often get fired for missing work for any reason, not just protesting.
Listen to what? What are the demands?
Yeah, I mean look at what happened to Occupy Wall Street. You need clear concise demands, and shit that actually possible. And a general strike without major collaboration between unions and shite? Has there been any communication about this at all?
They have nothing to do with the image but Workers Strike Back is having a conference to organize into a body that can make demands and negotiate in a general strike situation. They’re getting major Union leaders to attend (Amazon, UAW, etc) so the resulting org should actually have sway. But the conference is open to anyone and they’re welcoming anyone to join them. Info here: https://www.workersstrikeback.org/events/feb-2025-organizing-conference
We need to use our momentum from getting out the vote for Jill Stein’s antiwar pro-worker campaign to fight the rich and their two parties.
Yeah no thanks.
I’m not jazzed about that part either. I’m trying to support this simply for the potential it has for general strike. Nothing else.
Thank you for sharing. Know that at least one person has signed up for the livestream thanks to this :)
Here are the demands from the site as of when I accessed it:
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Protection and permanent guarantee of civil rights for all
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Total government reform
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Publicly funded health care
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Adequate and accessible disability support and services
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A permanent solution to Homelessness, hunger and the housing crisis
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Respect and support for tribal Sovereignty and involvement with indigenous leadership for environmental action
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Enhanced enforcement of constitutional rights
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More power to american voters
Personally, I believe these are not specific enough. If I may be so bold, I’ll rewrite them:
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Improved laws at the municipal, state, and federal levels to include LGBTQ persons as protected classes under anti-discrimination law, including explicit punishments for owners and minimum damages award amounts
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Replacing district-based voting with proportional representation for representatives at state and federal levels, first-past-the-post voting with either ranked choice voting or approval voting at municipal and state levels, and your state joining or better advertising if already joined the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact
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Single-payer healthcare at the federal level, including coverage of preventative treatment and protection for pre-existing conditions
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Clarified laws around enforcement of disability support, including failure modes to prevent dropping compliance and punishments scaling to the wealth of the offender, at the state level for physical locations and services and at the federal level for online services
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Funding and development of government housing and support for the unhoused, including mental health services, training for entering the workforce, training in financial hygiene, and addiction treatment, be it chemical (e.g. drugs) or behavioral (e.g. gambling)
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Clarified and improved enforcement of laws at the federal level for ensuring the sovereignty and support of indigenous peoples, including environmental protections in line with their beliefs, punishments for private entities including corporations that violate their sovereignty, and failsafes to prevent intentional lack of enforcement by government entities
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Incorporating government ethical norms into the US Constitution, closing loopholes that enable abuse of power, strengthening ethics review committees’ power to remove individuals using government power unethical, creating federal and state level departmental entities enshrined in law to ensure constitutionally granted rights
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Explicitly excluding corporations and similar non-individual entities from contributing campaign funds to political candidates, outlawing lobbying, drastically increasing public political campaign funding based on a metric that scales with the economy, further limiting private funding for political campaign funding based on a metric that scales with the economy, defining independent entities for auditing and pursuing legal action against tampering with voting mechanisms including voters registration methods, ballot submission methods, and voter tampering methods - all via constitutional amendment
People can fix my grammar/typos. Yes, I know more specific demands are more difficult to acquire alignment on from broader audiences, but I think these would be palatable up most Americans.
However, I am realizing that my points above are too verbose for quick consumption. Via web media, maybe they could be hidden as expandable sections beneath the original bullet points
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My friend, maybe edit the original post to include this? A lot of us remember how much support and visibility Occupy Wallstreet got and how ineffective it was due to lack of direction.
It’s only my intuition, but I think it may be easier to get people onboard by listing demands/goals, even if they’re only tentative.
With these kinds of things, we’re asking people to do a lot of work. The lower we can make the initial barriers to entry, the more likely people are to consume enough info that they become more willing to put in effort. This means prioritizing headline information well, making graphics appealing, etc
All this said, I haven’t organized this kind of stuff. I defer to those with demonstrable success in these things
Keep fighting the good fight <3
Thanks, I’ll do that.
