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Bill, I like the idea of a strike, but alas, college students are vulnerable since they have to pay for their education, often with loans, and their loans keep accumulating interest whether they are in class or on the picket line. It would be a great thing to see, though!

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Good point. But I was actually thinking of a K -12 strike. Parents and kids. Hand in hand. Signs that shout "Enough!".

"Ban Personal WMDs!"

Israel could inspire us...

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I thought the same thing this morning,every parent in America should jump up and down and SCREAM,perhaps at least100 million petitions would be effective.

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I agree Ruth, and thatтАЩs another thing we need to take on, the cost of further education. But first we need to make getting an education safe.

I had a student loan that took me over twenty years to pay off. The same money would have bought a house back then. So I do understand.

College students went on strike all the time to protest the war in the sixties. This is a war. ItтАЩs a war on unarmed children. ItтАЩs a matter of solidarity, strength in numbers.

This is all a big ask and will take major planning. ItтАЩs in the germination stage but please everyone, be thinking on it.

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There is an article in todays Washington Post

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2023/ar-15-damage-to-human-body/

sorry IтАЩm using my phone and cut myself off. This article is a must read.IтАЩm hoping there isnтАЩt a paywall. IтАЩm seriously starting to work out the strike plans. ThereтАЩs much to be done, anyone have any thoughts? Please if you possibly can check out the WaPo link.

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Susan: The French left has been a master of this for decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_68

I see that Daniel Cohn-Bendit is still alive.

Also, last night I watched "The Movement and the Madman" on "American Experience" on PBS... about the organizing of the 1969 Vietnam Moratorium and how it prevented Nixon from carrying out his plan to nuke Vietnam. It's a graduate class in grassroots organizing. Makes me proud I was there. (Saw a few old comrades in the video!)

A major take-home from the experience was said to be that even though it seemed like nothing was changing in Nixon's policies, but the impact of the movement - even that early - was enormous. The participants never knew that until years later when the full history was revealed.

I highly recommend it, Keep your eye out for it, or look for it on PBS Passport.

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Another technique that was crucial to building the early anti-war movement among students (which I was at the time) were the Teach-Ins that proliferated across hundreds of campuses in the late '60s.

Of course, the murders at Kent State and Jackson State did more to galvanize the student movement than anything else. Nowadays, sadly, it seems like it takes a lot more bodies to get politicians' attention.

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