I'm saying it right the fuck now.
Healthcare staff need to go on strike, consequences be damned. Imagine how fucking fast Washington would have to act if several state hospitals suddenly had to shut down because of major staff strikes. They would have to IMMEDIATELY stop what they were doing and address the crisis. They would have to buckle down.
The alternative would be a worst case scenario that would be dangerous even for Washington, and it would especially piss off or scare the Administrators of these for-profit hospitals.
Strikes are extremely effective. The pro-corporate side of America doesn't want people to realize that, but they are. Corporations are scared to death of people using their right to protest unlivable conditions that endangered people's lives because it pressures the politicians to do something. Elections go on and on. Even regardless of elections, we know some would be shamed or shaken up outside in the public space.
I think it's never been more important that the healthcare staff send this message NOW before there is no one left to care for the sick. They deserve better.
https://reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/k9nizs/the_worst_disaster_in_us_history_is_about_to/
What does this mean?
I don't understand how people are deciding which of these events are spontaneous self-organized responses and which are "organized by the Left." Are those one and the same?
It means that the people carrying out these actions are Leftists.
That should be blatantly obvious from symbols & language they have been using, both in media correspondence & on signs surrounding the barricade.
There's no centralized Left-wing project in the country, so these are functionally the same thing.
Gotcha. I hear a lot of complaining in some leftist circles about any action that wasn't "organized" enough for their tastes being "anarchist lifestylism" or "commie larping" so I'm curious where people on here land.
Personally, I feel we're still in the early days of cultivating anti-capitalist sentiment and I'll take any kind of liberatory action I can get. As we have more successes like the one at the Red House we inspire more people to recognize both where they stand in relation to capital and the power they can wield with their neighbors and comrades.
The Red House project is good. They are clearly fighting for peoples' immediate material needs, and they are demonstrating to the neighborhood whose side they are on.
This is much better than, say, CHOP - which I would call "anarchist lifestyleism" and "commie larping."