Political power flows from the barrel of a gun. They will put us in chains and work us as slaves if we don't defend ourselves. The option will be work or torture. And indeed, that is literally what they are trying to do by charging protesters with felonies, they want to put them into prison-slavery. I don't think work stoppages alone will be enough under current conditions. There is an ongoing war of aggression being waged by capitalist militarized police against the workers in the streets of most major cities right now. Thousands have been arrested with the end goal there being to make them literal state-owned slaves.

Expecting an unarmed strike to turn the tide seems like wishful thinking at this point. The striking workers will just all be arrested, charged with felonies (right-wing states have already passed oppressive new anti-protesting felonies) -- they can't be stuffed into the already overcrowded prisons, they will have to build literal camps to house them. Shit gets ugly quick. There is some hope here for jury nullification, but it's still a grueling process. No chance a 6-3 supreme court is going to side with the protesters.

If you can organize 20 million people to be class conscious then might as well take the last step and organize a full revolution.