Minnesota’s General Strike builds on 10 global civil disobedience movements

Day of Truth and Freedom

Minnesota’s General Strike isn't happening in a vacuum. Discover how this movement builds on the legacy of 10 iconic peaceful civil disobedience movements from around the globe.

• Minnesota’s General Strike builds on the legacy of 10 major worldwide movements
• Across Minnesota, businesses are closed. People are not shopping. Workers have stayed home or called in sick. Work stoppages. An economic blackout.
• It could be a model for what the nation as a whole does to repudiate the Trump dictatorship. - Robert Reich
• “Thoreau was the first American to define and use civil disobedience as a means of protest”. He began the tradition of non-violent protest that Martin Luther King Jr. built upon" - Smithsonian

Learn from other civil disobedience movements

This is what democracy looks like

From the Salt March to the Twin Cities: explore the 10 global non-violent movements fueling the strategy behind the Minnesota General Strike. See history repeat itself in MN.

TakeAway: Change begins with peaceful civil disobedience like Minnesota Day of Truth and Freedom.

Deepak
DemLabs

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