Hi, friends,

Today has been pretty strange and frustrating for me, and I think for other people, too. Personally, I was gone all weekend and my husband was gone all weekend, and it snowed and then started raining on the snow, and I came home and drove through the slush into the garage, and then he came home and drove through the slush into the garage, and then it froze overnight so now we've got a solid 4-5 inches of hard ice frozen onto the driveway with two sets of narrow tracks through them. We're literally frozen in.

And the rest of the day has felt like that, with very little progress made on any fronts. I keep hitting walls wherever I turn, and even work that's usually simple for me has been frozen. (Yes, I'm working today. The only current president I acknowledge is Brie cheese.)

I have been thinking a lot about the fact that there are so very many of us who do not want what is happening now, and that there's a problem with the country being so big, because we could all be out in the streets protesting, but since we're so spread out it wouldn't look like much and wouldn't affect anyone who can stop this. So the idea of a strike, in which we don't work and don't spend any money, becomes more appealing. I've read the number that a strike of 3.5% of the population is the magic number at which the government becomes affected and something must be done. 3.5% of the US population is 11 million people. I think we can do it, but the logistics seemed tough. So someone just decided to step forward and organize. They're taking pledges, in which you put in your name and email and phone number and promise to strike when we hit 11 million committed. They're calling it a strike card. I signed up, and I urge you to sign up and then ask you friends to sign up. If we can push this out and hit more than 11 million, that's putting our shoulders to the wheel, which is about all I can think to do right now.

Sign up here, at generalstrikeus.com (there's an option if you're scared to put in your phone number until there are more people committed, too*). There are more people who've turned in their strike cards now than there were when I started writing this paragraph. We're gaining steam. There's a list of partner orgs on the general strike website and a link to join their Discord to become an organizer.

Things are frozen, but we just need to thaw out a little bit at a time, and chip away at the corner of the ice bit by bit. In no time we'll be able to get out again.

252 million of us didn't vote for this.

Love,

Magda

*I didn't hestitate to put in my email address and phone number because even if this doesn't work I still want to have tried, and I receive emails and texts asking for money from the Democrats all the time so I'm not revealing anything sensitive that isn't already known.

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