Shut It Down October 17, 2007:
It starts down here with us, not some monied org with a sidebar agenda. We don’t need to go anywhere. We don’t need to spend anything. Just stay home. We believe that October 17th would be a great day. The 25th Anniversary of The Solidarity Movement protests and strikes that shut down Poland, and brought down Communist/Soviet rule. We all need a day off… why not take it off together?
Out here in the Soviet of Washington, it will be interesting to see what traction this gets. The risk for members of my old union, the SEIU, will be pretty high: the UW, bastion of liberalism, may not look kindly on a one-day worker outage.