Thoughts on a general strike...

Instead of focusing on trying to organize a NATIONAL General Strike... why not just help get as much of the Washington DC work force to go on strike as possible instead then work from there?

I've been seeing a lot of talk online lately about organizing a huge nationwide general strike, and while that would be awesome in theory, my fear is that any attempts at a general strike will be far too scattered to get the immediate result we desperately need right now considering the Supreme Court is stripping away rights one by one while most major Democratic leaders are doing nothing besides acting shocked and appalled, singing, reading poems, then asking for donations while screaming to just “vote harder!”

The biggest reason being money. There are millions of people living paycheck to paycheck, and I really doubt a lot of people would be willing to risk their jobs or livelihood over something that might not work. For a general strike to work it can't just be one day, it would need to be a week at LEAST, ideally more. Simply building a fund to reimburse people for even a week is extremely unrealistic as well, as the money that would be required to do so would total in the BILLIONS.

But do we really need a NATIONWIDE General Strike? I've been thinking about it over the past few days and I was thinking, instead of spending the effort trying to organize a strike with millions of people across 50 states, why not just centralize the effort into one area where it will affect the people in power the most?

Like for example, Washington DC Custodians. Imagine what would happen if the entire janitoral staff just stopped cleaning the Supreme Court building for a month, or even a week. Imagine they stopped cleaning the Capitol Building too. Could you imagine how dirty and unsanitary these old buildings would get? Now lets think about what would happen if cooks, servers, entire restaurants and other food stores in DC just shut down? How would these people get their food? I have a feeling a lot of these people don't know how to cook, and wouldn't know where to get food except order take out from out of town.

Can you imagine how much these people would lose their shit and struggle to function at their jobs if the entirety of Washington DC just shut down?

As stated earlier, putting their financial stability at risk might make a lot of people there hesitant on going on strike, but that can be solved if someone could get a HUGE fundraiser going, I'm talking, millions of people putting money into this, and getting enough to fund at least one or two industries where it will inconvenience the congressmen/women and supreme court justices the most. According to this article https://does.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/does/publication/attachments/DOES_Guidebook_Hospitality_060906v2bFINAL.pdf, the total amount of food service workers in Washington DC totaled “approx-imately 45,000 workers, with a projection of 49,000 workers in 2016 “ Now, assuming the average pay is 15 bucks an hour (you know, what should have been minimum wage years ago), and assuming none of them work more then 30 hours on average (because lol imagine food industry/retail companies actually giving their workers full time positions), then that would mean on average each worker makes about 450 a week on average. If we assume the projection above is correct and the amount of workers grew at the same rate every year since then, that would mean there are around 73000 food service workers in Washington DC right now. If we wanted to give every one of them a week's vacation:

		$450 x 73000 workers = $32,850,000

we would need almost 33 million to fund every one of them for just a week. A month and we would need 131.4 million. I couldn't find a number for Custodians yet but I imagine the numbers would be very similar, so the goal would just double at that point (DC Janitors even organized their own union in 2019! https://prospect.org/labor/threatening-to-disrupt-dc-janitors-win-better-working-conditions/). That might sound like a lot but as of January 1st, 2022 the US Population is over 332 million.  If we even got 10% of the US population to chip in 1 dollar food service workers alone would already be funded for a week. And I'm sure at this point there's a LOOOT of people who are fed up enough that they would be more then willing to do something so simple to stick it to the man right now.

I definitely am not qualified to organize or fundraise any of this on my own for obvious reasons so I will be trying to spread the word around to various outlets and organizations like DSA and Shut Down DC. If anyone has any suggestions of people or organizations I should relay my idea too then feel free to let me know through twitter http://twitter.com/madtaz64! Otherwise any retweets or help spreading the word would be really helpful!