All I see out there are gay rights, trans rights, whatever parades.
And people actually show up. like wth. given that it’s 5% population max.
Where are the worker rights parades?
US workers are 80% of the population (sans elderly, kids and disabled).
Why is noone doing it? Why is noone organizing Jon Stewart’s “Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear”?
Why does US east coastline still owned by billionaires and we have to ask permission to walk on that sand?
Where is healthcare for all?
Where are bike lines?
Why dont we nationalize and own the oil fields in US?
Where are mandatory 1 month vacations? (even fucking China has them). ?
Lots of people would march for those demands.
Wt guys? just fucking why?
Labor Day.
As for pride, it’s because they were (still are) stigmatized, shoved into the closet, persecuted, beat up, and even killed. It’s a moment for them to say we’re here and we belong. Maybe we’ll get to the day when no one cares.
As for the rest of the list, I think you’re vastly overestimating how much political time (as in Congress and similar state) this gets. It’s a parade, it’s not trying to write new legislation.
They took International Workers’ Day (May Day) away from us and gave us red hot dogs and Labor Day that isn’t a paid holiday and most people don’t get off work.
I know you’re in the US so it’s probably a lot more difficult, but find union activists…
Unions fight for these exact rights, and the reason most developed countries have vacations and healthcare are thanks to union action. Of course, America has fought very hard to keep these down.
Also, no need to shoot others down while you’re at it. No one is free until we’re all free, and this has always been a class war.
Hey go be pro-labor without trivializing gay rights. There is absolutely no call for that bullshit.
5% of the population is probably the max that would be interested in a parade/march
There is tons of worker right protests/riots, it as a thing long before pride, and untilcapitalist culture turned pried from riot to business friendly music festival. The worker protest were way more popular. I know that US are an outlier, but I am sure that even American do protest.
Most “Minority rights” aren’t specific rights for minority but basic rights for everyone. If you can’t dress as you like or be rejected for a job due to ryour private life it impacts more than just LGBTQ+
We’ve been convinced to slap fight about identity politics, many times necessarily so because unfair pressure is being applied via abuse by those in power
This results in blocking any dialogues about class consciousness
At the same time there is propaganda that goes against class consciousness: labor unions have been utterly destroyed both literally and from an optics standpoint (many Americans distrust the concept), consumerism runs deep in our blood to push the idea that we need more capital and glorify excessive “baller” lifestyles, poor is pushed to be seen as a moral failing, etc
Read the news. There’s loads.
Oh, maybe you missed it but it’s because there’s an asshole in office.
We’ve been seeing the slow rebuilding of the American labor movement, but it is a shell of its old self.
A lot of the established unions have been resting on its laurels and only narrowly protecting its members while new unions are in building mode, trying to get unions established.
But now it should be so much simpler.
We have internet, we have social networks etc.I feel like there is 0 direction for labor rights
Lots of social-cultural issues make for great distractions from actual economic measures while also ensuring infighting among the population! so they get nothing done.
You ask a lot of legitimate questions there, causes that you and I could come to an agreement over. I would erase the starting point though. Pride movements and workers movements might both look like similar demonstrations. They are borne out of very different motivations. People might look down on manual laborers but you wouldn’t have to fear for your safety in certain parts of your city for being one. LGBTQ+ folks can’t say the same. Pride movements bring awareness that we have discriminated or are still discriminating against whole swaths of the population - mostly for silly reasons. That’s different from a disagreement about how exploitative capitalism should be permitted to be.
Another negative connotation is that this “why are there LGBTQ+ pride parades but not …?” is the leading question of people who think straight people need to have a pride parade as well. Like you couldn’t live a heteronormative life every day without fear of retribution. And I’m hoping that you don’t think along those lines and therefore would not want to be this close to that argumentative train of thought.
Feel free to start one.
I don’t have resources
Oh yes. And trans people are notoriously rich…
Just fucking do it. Post a coffee meeting on Facebook. Meet some people with similar ideas. Have them host some get together. Have a tiny protest in your town. Get more attention. Get more people. Wash rinse repeat.
You want worker representation? Do the fucking work.
Can I just do some violence? It seems a lot less stressful
I mean, resources can also include time, energy, contacts, social abilities, all of which are much more important than money when organizing a protest, especially a ‘small’ one. Ofc, your argument still stands that thz best way to get something is to work for it to be done, but it is reasonable to think that someone might miss resources in the broad sense as above, making it much more work relatively speaking.
Absolutely. But many hands make light work.
Feel free to organize one.
Then you will have insight into why there are few. Or you will kick off a whole thing.
Organizing things is hard. I am sure there are lots of reasons.
“Why isn’t someone doing it for me already? You all suck.”
—OP
There has to be an org doing it. As a private citizen I don’t have resources.
Main problem is there is no push in that direction. People need to voice this is what we care about.
Yes! Sadly, at least as near as I can figure, this is on purpose.
People with disposable income can organize businesses, demonstrations, and communities. They may threaten the status quo.
People that must work daily to not starve cannot organize anything. They may not even know their neighbours. They are exposed and vulnerable.
Remember how in the early 2000’s, it seemed we were on the cusp of a great turning point? More people, not nearly all people, had access to good paying jobs and disposable income? It seemed progress may finally start. Then 2008 wiped many people out. The new wealth was concentrated. (I am leaving a lot out.)
Anyway, there are not as many people that can organize as one may assume. There will not be until fewer people are financially vulnerable.
I don’t it’s connected to income.
There are parties like wfh - u just need to tell them what what we demand
Have you ever tried getting multiple leftists to agree to the time of day let alone actual concrete, feasible policy and a plan for implementing and enforcing it? More pertinent, have you ever tried getting multiple workers from different industries to agree to anything either?
The right is looking for the stinkiest turd and don’t care who gets nominated as long as they stink. The left is looking for a unicorn and will not compromise for a horse that will eventually grow a horn.
God forbid the left nominates candidates that do things one step at a time but are guaranteed success. Everything needs to be done correctly now.
The Nazis came after the communists and trade unionists before they came for the Jews. At least according to the original version of “first they came”.
There’s a specific order to how rights can be established. Workers’ rights are dismantled before minority rights, and minority rights are to be protected before workers’ rights can be protected.
I don’t know what is “first they came” . Is that some old book?
In all cases. I’m not talking about abandoning this issue, be my guess campaign on LGBT rights.
What I’m saying is that this is not important to 90% of Americans and people should campaign on issues important to more people first and leave this lgbt issue be secondary.
What I suspect is happening -> boh parties are in essence against working rights at core, so they choose to focus on narrow relatively unimportant issues.https://hmd.org.uk/resource/first-they-came-by-pastor-martin-niemoller/
The fascists already went for the communists and won, and took out the unions too. Now they’re going for the trans people. You have to put a strong effort on defence if you want to get to a position where people can afford to go on offence. You won’t gain ground by giving it up.
It’s such a haunting poem. It is engraved into a monument in my childhood hometown.
