[Org4j-announce] People’s Strike this week! – Call for your immediate support: Transform the crisis

[Organizing For Justice]

Please see the email below for three important notice about COVID-19
response as well as upcoming May Day actions


* This org4j-announce listserv has been having problems,
sometimes up to a few days delayed for some recipients --
Hopefully you'll receive this as we send it (Tuesday afternoon).


There is also a webinar at 3:30pm today
"*Rent Strike: Housing Activism in the Pandemic*
Join our livestream event about the rent strike and discuss with authors
and activists from Ottawa, Los Angeles, and the UK."
rentstrike.eventbrite.com or posted afterwards on Black Rose Books'
Facebook page and/or Youtube channel.



*A new local COVID-19 mutual aid response website, www.OttawaSupport.ca
<http://www.OttawaSupport.ca>*
has listings that include local Rent Strike organizing info, as well as
other advocacy
and has directories for a range of collective initiatives, services
provision, and information guides.


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This announcement is about the upcoming May Day People’s Strike actions and
the longer-term call Towards a General Strike:



This week, the fight for the future begins a new era.

April 28th (today) in the United Kingdom, a movement led by frontline
workers -- in health care, construction, and transit -- launch a widespread
and serious challenge to the government’s failed response to Coronavirus.

May 1st will see a coordinated series of actions and strikes across the
United States and the world, part of a new path forward through the COVID
crisis.

This builds on a diverse, growing set of labor actions that have been
taking place in response to these crisis conditions and the backdrop of an
already-unacceptable status quo.

This is your invitation to join us — and help this resistance become what
it needs to be.



May 1st is the Launch of a movement to end the systemic madness exposed
during this pandemic. We Call for Actions on the 1st of every month.

What We Are Fighting For:

People’s Strike is a growing coalition of workers, community, and political
organizations confronting the COVID-19 pandemic by struggling against inept
and corrupt government and the forces of capital (banks, corporations,
brokers, etc). that put profit before the people and the planet.



We urgently ask of you
Please take some minutes now, or later today, to

+ Learn More +
+ Signal Boost +
+ Plan Your Participation +



Learn More:

* LOOK AT THE WEBSITE: PeoplesStrike.org
  There’s the call and list of demands, a list of ways to take action, a
way to endorse the call and add details for local actions, and (coming
soon) a directory of actions in the US and international.

* TUNE IN WEDNESDAY (7PM EDT/ 4PM PDT) for the orientation webinar
Featuring a lineup of frontline organizers from across the USA.
https://www.facebook.com/events/532761784079278/


Signal Boost:

* PLEASE SHARE THIS EMAIL AS WIDELY AS POSSIBLE
Send it out to your organization’s email list, share it with all your
friends. We can’t stress this enough. In order for people to see this call
we have to overcome corporate social media algorithms. This means that tens
of thousands of people will need to see this call.

*  BE PART OF THE 3-DAY SOCIAL MEDIA PUSH on Twitter & Facebook

>From Tuesday to Thursday, each day precisely at 2pm eastern / 11am pacific
and all between.

- Use the hashtags #PeoplesStrike #GeneralStrike2020 #CoronaStrike
- On Twitter the accounts to follow and RT: @PeoplesStrike @corona_strike
@genstrike_2020
- More details with suggestions and sample texts,are included at the bottom
of this email

* INVITE PEOPLE ON FACEBOOK to Wednesday’s orientation webinar,(link above)



Plan Your Participation:

* CHECK OUT THE CALL TO ACTION, with suggested actions for Friday May 1st:
generalstrike.mayfirst.org/take-action/

* TUNE IN TO OUR FULL-DAY MAY 1ST ONLINE BROADCAST
Featuring live updates and guests from across the country


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A BIT MORE ABOUT WHAT THIS IS ABOUT

People's Strike: Building Networks of Resistance

We Are Fighting For Our Lives - Forging Our Future


See the Call Towards a General Strike, the List of Demands, and more:

People’s Strike website: www.PeoplesStrike.org
<http://www.peoplesstrike.org>Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/PeoplesStrike/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/PeoplesStrike

Collaborating websites
https://www.GenStrike.org/
<https://www.genstrike.org/>https://CoronaStrike.us
<https://coronastrike.us>
https://www.WorkforceMovement.org/act-now
<https://www.workforcemovement.org/act-now>

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** SOCIAL MEDIA BLITZ **

We need everyone to do this as close to the same time as possible. We’ll
need about 1,000 simultaneous tweets and posts to make this go viral. So set
an alarm right now!

Tuesday 4/28, Wednesday 4/29 & Thursday 4/30

at 2pm Eastern / 1pm Central / Noon Mountain / 11am Pacific; 19:00 GMT sharp


Sample Tweet / Post to send out:

Join the May Day 2020 People’s Strike in response to the Covid-19 crisis!
We demand people-centered solutions.
Sacrifice no one for landlords or the rich!

PeoplesStrike.org

#PeoplesStrike    #GeneralStrike2020     #CoronaStrike


In a second tweet, or comment on Facebook, tag five friends and invite them
to join for the next day.

And search out the hashtags and official accounts, and retweet what’s worth
RTing!

* The UK actions of April 28 - International Workers Day of Mourning for
those killed and injured on the job - has hashtags #PPEnow #ShutTheSites
#PAYEveryWorker and @ReelNewsLondon
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