(2023-09-16). Auto Workers Strike Plants At All Three Of The Big Three. popularresistance.org Tick, tock. At midnight the clock ran out, and auto workers massed on picket lines. | The first-ever simultaneous strike at the Big 3 automakers—General Motors, Ford, Stellantis—started September 15 with 13,000 workers walking out of three assembly plants in Michigan, Ohio, and Missouri. There are 146,000 Auto Workers (UAW) members at the Big 3. | The UAW is calling its strategy the "stand-up strike," a nod to the Flint sit-down strike of 1936-1937 that helped establish the union. | The shot across the bow came two hours shy of midnight via a very short Facebook Live video where UAW President Shawn Fa…
(2023-09-16). Meet The Shadowy Network Vilifying Climate Protestors. popularresistance.org Earlier this year, news footage began making the rounds on social media of young activists from the German climate organization Letzte Generation (Last Generation) being assaulted by their fellow citizens as they obstructed streets in an effort to draw attention to the German government's inaction on climate. A young woman, with her hand glued to a road was ripped off the road by her hair; a young man was run over by a truck driver; a passerby punched the protestors and was cheered on. A few months later, German police raided the homes of Last Generation activists and seized their bank accounts. It all seemed lik…