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Sit Down to Stand Up! ✊ The General Strike is more than a #hashtag Support #RCV 🗳️ ✅ 🤟💜 & ☮️✌ linktr.ee/gsusresources www.uate.net bdsmovement.net/Guide-to-BDS-Boycott RankMiVote.org

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Bear M @bearfellow.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Been soaking in sunrises & sunsets as a new regular practice. All I can be is grateful in these moments 🌅🌿 "Grateful" song lyrics: youtu.be/086AkfcKoAQ?... This AM over a park lake:
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Bear M @bearfellow.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
baby bumble visit 🐝🌺
A baby bumblebee collecting nectar atop a pink zinnia with yellow disk florets
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Bear M @bearfellow.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
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Bear M @bearfellow.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
🔹💠4️⃣4️⃣4️⃣4️⃣4️⃣4️⃣💠🔹 "More and more, every day," Is how I respond when asked who is listening, who is ready. Sustainability mandates recovery cycles. Let the 4's in your day grant you a moment of reprieve and soft breath. Step by step #GSUS #StrikeCard #MoreAndMoreEveryday #AllPowerToThePeople
Screenshot of the General Strike US Strike Card counter.

*The General Strike*

444,444 committed

10,555,556 needed

Why do we need 11M strikers?

Research (hyperlinked: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world) shows that 3.5% of the population striking ensures serious political change.

https://generalstrikeus.com/strikecard
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Bear M @bearfellow.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
10/10 Sharing from the General Strike US discord Sign on and find your local chapter: linktr.ee/generalstrik... #BlackHistoryMonth #GeneralStrike
brown filtered background of gsus logo overlayed with image of protestors crowded together, on strike.

Text reads:

**The Lesson**

Black history reveals a consistent pattern:
 -Clarity about the system shapes strategy.
 -Strategry enables effective withdrawal.
 -Withdrawal requires survival infrastructure and long term vision.

Intercommunal understanding expanded the struggle beyond isolation toward collective power against empire.

What this informs:
A revolutionary general strike is not defined by the moment work stops but by whether the people can endure, govern, and build power after.

linktr.ee/generalstrikeus
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Bear M @bearfellow.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
9/10 Sharing from the General Strike US discord Sign on and find your local chapter: linktr.ee/generalstrik... #BlackHistoryMonth #GeneralStrike
brown filtered background of gsus logo overlayed with image of young black protestors walking and calling out, together.

Text reads:

**Repression Clarifies Intercommunalism**

COINTELPRO targeted Black movements because they were effective. Repression revealed the struggle wasn't isolated buy systemic and imperial.

Movements like the Panthers to articulate Intercommunalism. Innerstanding that oppressed peoples everywhere share a common relationship to colonial and imperial power.

What this informs:
A revolutionary general strike would not be confined to one community or sector. It would depend on intercommunal alignment amongst workers, colonized peoples, migrants, incarcerated, disabled, and dispossessed recognizing a shared enemy and shared stakes.

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Bear M @bearfellow.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
8/10 Sharing from the General Strike US discord Sign on and find your local chapter: linktr.ee/generalstrik... #BlackHistoryMonth #GeneralStrike
brown filtered background of gsus logo overlayed with image of protestors gathered under banner that reads: REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLE'S CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.

Text reads:

**Withdrawal Became Strategy**

Boycotts weren't just about buses or lunch counters.

They were about withholding money, labor, and legitimacy from systems that depended on Black participation. Participation was recognized as power and withdrawal as leverage.

What this informs:
A revolutionary general strike would be innerstood as layered withdrawal. Not only from work but from consumption, compliance, and consent, shifting the balance of dependence and social order.

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Bear M @bearfellow.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
7/10 Sharing from the General Strike US discord Sign on and find your local chapter: linktr.ee/generalstrik... #BlackHistoryMonth #GeneralStrike
brown filtered background of gsus logo overlayed with image of townspeople picking up free groceries from their local support van.

Text reads:

**Power Was Built Beyond the Workplace**

The Montgomery Bus Boycott succeeded because communities could feed, move, and care for themselves while resisting.

During the 1967 Detroit rebellion, Black neighborhoods organized food distribution, childcare, and mutual aid networks while resisting systemic oppression.

What this informs:
A general strike's sustainability would depend less on work stoppages alone and more on the ability of communities to absorb the pressure collectively.

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Bear M @bearfellow.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
6/10 Sharing from the General Strike US discord Sign on and find your local chapter: linktr.ee/generalstrik... #BlackHistoryMonth #GeneralStrike
brown filtered background of gsus logo overlayed with image of protesters carrying banner that reads: SELF-DETERMINATION FOR THE AFRO-AMERICAN NATION! LEAGUE OF REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE(ML).

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**The Amerikkkan Dream Was Never the Horizon**

Black people were not immigrants seeking opportunity. We were brought to a stolen land as property and denied land, wages, or safety even after "freedom."

Movements like the Nation of Islam and Black Power explicitly rejected assimilation. Emphasizing self determination, autonomy, and collective control.

What this informs:
Revolutionary strike goals will not center inclusion into a broken system but the capacity to exist, survive, and decide collectively outside its promises.

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Bear M @bearfellow.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
5/10 Sharing from the General Strike US discord Sign on and find your local chapter: linktr.ee/generalstrik... #BlackHistoryMonth #GeneralStrike
brown filtered background of gsus logo overlayed with image of single-file protesters, walking down a street in the presence of pointed bayonets.

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**Labor & the Mode of Production Were Central**

Enslaved Africans resisted through slowdowns, sabotage, and escape.

Later, workers like the 1968 Memphis sanitation strike participants used mass withdrawals to show how dependent society was on their labor.

Exploitation clarified that our labor could be used as leverage.

What this informs:
A general strike will be innerstood not as protest but as interruption revealing how production and daily life rely on collective labor to function.

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Bear M @bearfellow.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
4/10 Sharing from the General Strike US discord Sign on and find your local chapter: linktr.ee/generalstrik... #BlackHistoryMonth #GeneralStrike
brown filtered background of gsus logo overlayed with image of community civilians with hands up in the presence of armed forces.

Text reads:

**Relationship to the State Was Understood**

From slave patrols to Jim Crow enforcement the state consistently appeared as an instrument of oppression and not protection.

The Black Panther Party, for example, organized community defense and survival programs because they could not rely on police or local government. Strategy followed reality.

What this informs:
Any mass withdrawal must be shaped by an innerstanding of the state as an active participant in preserving order and not a neutral referee.

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Bear M @bearfellow.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
3/10 Sharing from the General Strike US discord Sign on and find your local chapter: linktr.ee/generalstrik... #BlackHistoryMonth #GeneralStrike
brown filtered background of gsus logo overlayed with image looking upwards at public speaker.

Text reads:

**Clarity Shapes Strategy**

During Reconstruction the Black Struggle focused on land, labor, and political autonomy.

As the system resisted or co-opted demands, tactics evolved from petitions to boycotts to armed self defense in some cases.

This evolution shows that strategy is inseparable from a clear understanding of structural constraints.

What this informs:
Strike strategy must be shaped by clarity about limits, what institutions can absorb, ignore, or repress rather than assumptions about goodwill or reform.

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Bear M @bearfellow.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
2/10 Sharing from the General Strike US discord Sign on and find your local chapter: linktr.ee/generalstrik... #BlackHistoryMonth #GeneralStrike
brown filtered background of gsus logo overlayed with image of communal carpooling.

Text reads:

**Struggle Is a Process Not a Moment**

The Montgomery Bus Boycott didn't start in 1955 it was built over years.

Black organizers had already developed carpool systems, churches as hubs, and political education.

The "event" was possible because the groundwork already existed.

What this informs:
A general strike would not be an isolated moment but the visible phase of long term preparation. Meaning relationships, shared analysis, and survival capacity built beforehand.

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Bear M @bearfellow.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
1/10 Sharing from the General Strike US discord Sign on and find your local chapter: linktr.ee/generalstrik... #BlackHistoryMonth #GeneralStrike
brown filtered background of gsus logo overlayed with image of communal food sharing.

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*Black History Month & Conditions for a General Strike*

Black history is not a story of protest, it's a study in how people learned to survive, refuse, and endure inside an exploitative system.

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Bear M @bearfellow.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Commenting additional solidarity: @ mods Followers of this acct do not consider this *critical* data spam. Gun violence at a frequency worth being flagged spam is another entire conversation. Enough with the propagandist censorship.
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Bear M @bearfellow.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Accessibility/safety concerns with standing up? General Strike Welcome: Read along supplied by @tempestori.bsky.social (ty!!) #WeThePeople means doing what you can, where you can. #GSUS is working tangible steps towards a rational, safe society - an easy sign on. #havearealconversation this week
General Strike Open Letter:

"Open Letter in Support of a

General Strike
✊🏽 💰 🌏 🌱
We, the undersigned organizations, represent millions of people across the United States united in the fights for racial justice, economic justice, climate justice, gender justice, and LGBTQ+ liberation. Our memberships span every generation, race, gender, and geography—but one thing is clear: the systems we are fighting are not separate. They are one.

We are living under a corporate oligarchy that has rigged our economy and our democracy to serve the ultra-wealthy, while working people, poor communities, and the planet are pushed toward collapse. From the violent deportations of American immigrants, to the stripping of trans rights, from the climate catastrophe to our constitutional crisis — these are not isolated crises. They are symptoms of a system that puts profit over people, control over freedom, and fascism over democracy.

We believe that the only way to confront this system is together. And the most powerful tool we have is the withdrawal of our labor.

That is why we declare our public support for a General Strike.

We believe it is time for a mass mobilization of working-class people across this country—not only to demand better wages and safer workplaces, but to build a new system rooted in justice, care, and collective power. A general strike is how we say: you cannot run this country without us.

We know that organizing a general strike is not simple. It will require courage, coordination, and strategy. It will require education and risk. But history shows us that no liberation has ever been granted without mass resistance. Now is our time to rise.

We call on labor unions, grassroots movements, student groups, tenant associations, and every person who believes a better world is possible to join us by signing onto this letter.

Let us build together. Let us strike together. Let us rise together for the world we all deserve."

https://generalstrikeus.com/openletter9-item GSUS Phase 2 Example Demands:

"**Here’s an example of how the finalized demands might look:**
*1. Economic Justice:*
Transition to a universal basic resource economy and establish land and worker owned cooperatives.

*2. Reparations:*
Provide reparations for descendants of slavery and indigenous peoples affected by colonization.

*3. Free Housing:*
Guarantee housing as a human right with immediate action on homelessness.

*4. Climate Action:*
End fossil fuel subsidies and implement a just transition to 100% renewable energy by 2030.

*5. Human Rights:*
Legal protections and equity for marginalized communities LGBTQIA+, women.

*6. Land Back:*
Return stolen lands to indigenous communities and respect their sovereignty.

*7. Technological Justice:*
Establish open source platforms, ethical production of electronics and ethical AI governance.
End exploitative labor practices in the mining and production of technological resources (cobalt and coltan mining in the Congo, used in batteries and electronics).

*8. Healthcare and Education:*
Guarantee free, universal healthcare and education for all.

*9. Divestment:*
Redirect military and police budgets toward social programs and climate
resilience. The U.S. government must immediately cease all military, economic, and political support for Israel's occupation of Palestine and commit to supporting Palestinian self determination, human rights, and compliance with international law."

https://linktr.ee/generalstrikeus
>ACCESS RESOURCES
 >Resources >Phase 2 Crafting Demands .pdf
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Bear M @bearfellow.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
I see no reason Why gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot #fuckice #j6 #fdt #gsus #GeneralStrike #mutualaid #sitdownstandup #theconservativepromise #bluewave #remember,remember #massnonviolenceiseffective #electedfelonscommitcrimes #epstein #epstein #esptein
V for Vendetta monologue in image format on the right. Text is bold caps in black with V's in red. V silhouette with Guy Fawkes mask right of text.
monologue listed: 

Voilà!

In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition.

The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous.

Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it is my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.
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Bear M @bearfellow.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Round 2. This is bigger than a single day performance. This is boots in US homes, blood by US hands. We are conscious beings - nonviolence is our responsibility. #sitdownstandup #gsus #GeneralStrike #30days #massnonviolenceiseffective #ihavefriendseverywhere #soundslikeawhisper #sign&share
Figure in black hood holds firmly protest sign with large QR code linking passerbys to the General Strike Card
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Bear M @bearfellow.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Beautiful words from #JaneGoodall Reminds me of the lines of prose that came to me this morning while sirens scream through the night, each night #awarenesswithoutactionisignorance #complicitgenocide #massnonviolenceiseffective #gsus #sitdownstandup
Prose:

"Don't blame me for the ICE, Jesus,
I never did a thing
I sent a righteous prayer of faith
Whenever sirens sing

Don't blame me for the blood, Jesus,
I never raised the temp
Forgave the boots and troops and suits
And tithed my ten percent"
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Bear M @bearfellow.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
#youwouldntvisiteastberlinduringww2
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Bear M @bearfellow.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Get educated. Get moving. linktr.ee/gsusresources
Figure in black hood holds firmly protest sign with large QR code linking passerbys to the General Strike Card
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