LA General Strike Meeting & Some General Strikes Over Last Century December 18th, 2011 A committee to explore a General Strike for May Day 2012, as part of Occupy LA met Sunday Dec. 18. from 11 am to 2 pm. There will be subcommittee meetings on Tuesday night after Christmas and New Years, at 7:30 in room 9 of the La Placita - Our Lady Queen of Angels Church across from Union Station in LA. There will be a general meeting for anyone interested in the General Strike on Jan. 7th, at 2 PM at a location to be determined.
Subcommittees were formed on Outreach, Labor Outreach, Student Outreach, Media Outreach, Logistics and Demands were put off until we get a better idea as to what other people want. One committee was formed for researching General Strikes. There was a rather heated discussion of whether to include anti-imperialism as part of the general statement. It was watered down to "peace" as a temporary expedient. One guy says Americans need to be tricked, others disagree, one insists on stronger words. Most of us didn't want to argue over the subject. Another dispute occurred over the term `immigrant rights' vs. `migration reform,' we agreed on immigrant rights. There was some discussion as to the nature of a general strike, some called it a political action others called it an economic action. There was no agreement although I proposed we call it "political economy." I mentioned that the general strikes of 1934 and 1946 were economic to begin with. Someone else stated that in 2006 the General Strike was political. Another person brought up the fact that that was in response to the threat of deportation from a specific law, it was a response to that law. It was not political in a general sense of striking for general ideals. Another person said that the Strike in San Francisco and Minneapolis in 1934 were both economic actions, for the right to form unions and to protest police breaking up a picket line. Another person mentioned that there was an organized unemployed workers movement in the 1930's. Someone else brought up the fact that in 1946 the Oakland strike became a street party with jukeboxes in the street and beer being the only thing served because all the other businesses were closed. I noted that we need to have specific demands that relate to bread and butter issues that affect all people. Another person contradicted that saying that he thought people could be inspired by political goals. The end result we agreed to do further research but the General Assembly of LA had authorized a General Strike after the Occupy the Ports, as a next step. There was more discussion about formal structure of the committee and meeting times. A lot of talk was about the outreach, and the decision was for everyone to reach out to their respective communities and report back. A final decision on the Strike Aims might be ready by the Jan. 7 meeting, but someone said the unions would not be ready by then. Others said the union leaderships will be opposed to the General Strike. But then they were opposed to shutting down the port. Occupy Oakland General Strike action http://www.occupyoakland.org/2011/10/general-strike-mass-day-of-action/ All India General Strike 2010 http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/10231 http://www.inthesetimes.com/working/entry/6404/unionized_bank_ workers_in_india_strike_agaist_government_initiatives/ Greek General Strikes October 2011 http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/oct/05/general-strike-in-greece http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article2360 Italian General Strike Sept. 2011 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2011/0906/breaking40.html http://www.epsu.org/a/7915 Spanish General Strike 2010 http://www.barcelonareporter.com/index.php?/news/comments/general_strike _in_spain_29_09_2010_teachers_demand_dignity_and_protection/ http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-28/spain-girds-for-first-general-strike-in-8-years-to-protest-zapatero-cuts.html French General Strike Sept. & Oct. 2010 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11204528 http://libcom.org/news/general-strike-france-13102010 Argentine General Strike 2010 http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/oct2010/arge-o25.shtml Mexican General Strike 2009 http://labornotes.org/2009/11/national-work-stoppage-demands-reversal-mexican-power-takeover http://luxemburgism.forumr.net/t495-call-for-general-strike-in-mexico?highlight=mexico LA General Strike May Day 2006 http://www.apfn.net/messageboard/05-02-06/discussion.cgi.134.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_American_Boycott Argentine General Strike 2001 http://www.themilitant.com/2001/6530/653001.html France 1968 General Strike http://libcom.org/library/general-strike-france-1968-factory-factory-account http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/may2008/may1-m28.shtml Oakland General Strike 1946 http://museumca.org/exhibit/exhi_called_work_holiday.html http://libcom.org/library/oakland-general-strike-stan-weir Saigon General Strike Sept. 1945 http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/sr189/newsinger.htm http://www.thefreeresource.com/vietnam-war-1945-1960-timeline-facts-and-resources 1942 Luxemborugian General Strike against Nazi's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1942_Luxembourgian_general_strike http://libcom.org/library/1942-luxembourg-post-office-strike San Francisco General Strike 1934 http://newdeal.feri.org/survey/34405.htm http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist/thursday.html Minneapolis General Strike 1934 http://www.mnhs.org/library/tips/history_topics/81truckersstrike.html http://libcom.org/history/1934-minneapolis-teamsters-strike British General Strike 1926 http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TUgeneral.htm http://www.marxists.org/history/england/general-strike/index.htm Winnipeg General Strike 1919 http://libcom.org/history/1919-winnipeg-general-strike http://umanitoba.ca/cm/vol7/no4/onstrike.html Argentine General Strike 1919 http://www.blackwellreference.com/public/tocnode?id=g9781405184649_yr2011_chunk_g9781405184649122 Barcelona General Strike 1919 http://libcom.org/history/1919-la-canadiense-and-barcelona-general-strike http://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/barcelona-workers-general-strike-economic-justice-1919 Seattle General Strike 1919 http://depts.washington.edu/labhist/strike/ http://libcom.org/history/seattle-general-strike-1919 German General Strike Nov. 1918 http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/66505317 http://en.internationalism.org/wr/2009/321/german-revolution Austro-Hungarian and German General Strikes Jan. 1918 http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/January+General+Strike+of+1918 http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/workers-prepare-to-strike-in-germany Mexican General Strikes 1916 http://libcom.org/library/revolutionary-syndicalism-mexico-john-m-hart http://struggle.ws/mexico/history/anarchism_1910.html ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:la...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! 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