cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/79433
From the site:
Alright you redeemers, rebels and radicals out there,
Take Two.
Ten years after Occupy Wall Street one thing has become painfully clear: the people in charge of our global system have run it aground.
Ecosystems are crashing, financial markets teetering, climate wars breaking out. Suddenly humanity is in a Code-Red Emergency and our world leaders haven’t got a clue about how to get us out of it.
It’s time for another global uprising — OWS 2.0.
But this one will be a little different. Instead of marching in the streets and commandeering parks, we’re calling for a Worldwide General Strike — A Day of Rage Against World Leaders.
On September 17th, everything simply … stops.
Since there are some skeptical voices here, let me explain a bit why I think this is a good idea.
This week for example there was a nation-wide survey in Germany for their upcoming federal election where they asked if “climate related questions affecting the younger generations” are a factor for their upcoming election decisions. Pretty broad question, but I think people understood the intent correctly.
Yet a staggering 58% of the people above 65 years old answered “not at all” and the slightly younger generations were not much better. And given the age demographics in much of the western countries, these are the group of people deciding who become our leaders (and most of the leaders are from that age-group as well).
I know this sounds like some anti-boomer rhetoric, but it is us the Millenials and the GenZ that need to show these people who really runs this society (aka the workers) and this general strike is a first step.