your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

this is the kind of meme that pisses me off for it’s lack of one huge piece of evidence: DATE

today's #AltTxt #yaddayadda is about the historic FEBRUARY 12 2026 #GeneralStrike in #India
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/02/20/anatomy-of-a-general-strike-how-workers-in-the-indian-state-of-karnataka-shut-down-production/

❝ 300 million workers just shut down India.

The largest strike in human history, and most of the Western media barely whispered it. That silence is complicity in Modi’s war on workers’ rights.

India’s general strike is the future that the billionaires and ruling class fears most ❞ 🧵…

Feb 21 at 4:34pmWeb
Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Feb 21

Thursday and Friday of this week (19-20th February 2026) another historic 24hr #generalStrike happened in #Argentina; and of course #USA media downplayed the fact more than 400 commercial airline flights had to be cancelled because “dozens” or workers protested on the streets and "a few thousands" stayed at home to protest Milei’s evisceration of labor protections.

Argentina's biggest unions call nationwide strike with Milei in Washington for Trump's Board of Peace https://fortune.com/2026/02/19/argentina-strike-nationwide-largest-labor-unions-milei-trump-washington-board-peace/

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Argentina’s biggest unions call nationwide strike with Milei in Washington for Trump’s Board of Peace

The strike occurred at an inopportune time as the Argentine president attempts to overhaul the country's national labor law.

Fortune
Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Feb 21

and let’s not forget that, on 23 January 2026, Minnesota also had a 24hr #generalStrike

❝ The history and meaning behind Minnesota's general strike and economic blackout | MPR News - https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/23/the-history-and-meaning-behind-minnesotas-general-strike-and-economic-blackout

❝ With Twin Cities Under Siege by ICE, Minnesota Moves Toward a General Strike | Truthout - https://truthout.org/articles/with-twin-cities-under-siege-by-ice-minnesota-moves-toward-a-general-strike/

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Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Feb 21

here’s more on the #India #generalStrike, and what i found significant:

1. they got the blessing from the Indian Congress
2. the millions of NON-UNIONIZED workers that joined in, including the banking & finance sectors and working class shop owners.

❝ CITU congratulates people of India for making the General Strike historic http://citucentre.org/journals/working-class/939-citu-congratulates-people-of-india-for-making-the-general-strike-historic-in-true-sense

❝ Bharat bandh: Congress backs nationwide strike, slams Centre over labour codes, US trade deal - https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2026/Feb/12/bharat-bandh-congress-backs-nationwide-strike-slams-centre-over-labour-codes-us-trade-deal

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CITU congratulates people of India for making the General Strike historic in true sense

The Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) congratulates the workers, farmers and agricultural workers who made the 12 February 2026 All India General Strike a historic and resounding success. Reports received up to 3:00 PM from across the country indicate that several crores of people participated in...

Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Feb 21

here’s more on the 24hr #generalStrike and now #slowdown happening in #Argentina

❝ Milei's Cost-Cutting Labor Reform Passes in Senate: 12-Hour Workdays, Strike Restrictions, and Union Assembly Limits Approved - https://www.elciudadano.com/en/mileis-cost-cutting-labor-reform-passes-in-senate-12-hour-workdays-strike-restrictions-and-union-assembly-limits-approved/02/12/

❝ Trenes, vuelos y buses paralizados en Argentina durante la huelga general contra la reforma laboral de Javier Milei - https://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/latinoamerica/trenes-vuelos-y-buses-paralizados-en-argentina-durante-la-huelga-general-contra-la-reforma-laboral-de-javier-milei-3533725

❝ Striking Argentine workers clash with police in protest over labor reforms https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260219-general-strike-to-protest-milei-s-labor-reforms-starts-in-argentina

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Milei’s Cost-Cutting Labor Reform Passes in Senate: 12-Hour Workdays, Strike Restrictions, and Union Assembly Limits Approved

Original article: La motosierra de Milei llega al trabajo: Senado aprueba reforma que habilita jornadas de 12 horas, limita huelgas y restringe asambleas

El Ciudadano
Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Feb 21

here’s the thing:

a 24-hour #generalStrike is only good for the organizing experience; of finding out who are your allies. rarely do 24 hour strikes effect change.

we need sustained striking, slowing down, wildcatting and protesting to effect change.

#France’s #Mai68 May 1968 protests and strike ―which spread across the world― are still one of the most successful examples of shutting shit down:

May 68 - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_68

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May 68 - Wikipedia

Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Feb 21

that’s why Puerto Ricans flexed our centuries long history of anticolonialist and anticapitalist resistance and shut shit down en La Isla for 2 weeks during the summer of 2019

https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/112208331867673411

and what is most significant about the #RickyRenuncia protests is that

🗣 THE VAST MAJORITY OF PUERTO RICANS PROTESTING WHERE NOT UNIONIZED

a 24-hour strike won’t change anything. sustained disruption & protest will.

Puerto Rico 2019 is a blueprint of what’s possible against gringo tyranny /🧵

Show threadAaronFeb 21

@blogdiva
This is an important point. I think a lot of people in the USA need to think more about what highly effective actions will have to look like, and what was effective or less effective about actions after they take place.

I do think 24 hour strikes can contribute to effecting change. They show both sides potential strength which can change the actions of the target. Here in Minneapolis I think because there has been extremely strong organizing for rapid response and mutual aid, the 24 hour strike helped show even further untapped organizing potential that helped bring change. But especially on their own, 24 hour strikes do not force change very effectively.

Show threadgrechawFeb 21
@blogdiva yep this is the regime T bailed out.
Show threadHermannus StegemanFeb 21
@blogdiva why do you think all the billionaires target unions? Every single one. With Bezos and Musk up front
Show threadBen RamseyFeb 21
@blogdiva Where does the 300 million number come from? The linked article says 600k.
Show threadBen RamseyFeb 21
@blogdiva I should clarify that 600k is still amazing, but 300 million would be a group the size of almost the full population of the US and 20% the population of India.
Show threadNina KalininaFeb 21
@ramsey @blogdiva multiple English sources I could find quote 30 crore Which, unless I misunderstood the meaning, is 300 million: https://m.economictimes.com/news/india/nationwide-strike-on-thursday-to-see-30-crore-workers-participation-trade-unions/articleshow/128116652.cms
Nationwide strike on Thursday to see 30 crore workers participation: Trade Unions

A nationwide general strike is confirmed for February 12. Over 30 crore workers are expected to participate. This protest aims to resist government policies affecting workers and farmers. The strike will impact 600 districts. Farmers' groups and agricultural workers' unions are supporting the call. Key demands include scrapping labour codes and specific bills.

Economic Times
Show threadnobodyFeb 21
@ramsey @blogdiva I believe that 600k is from just one state, state of karnataka.
Show threadNanana_Na!Feb 21

@ramsey @blogdiva https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/bharat-bandh-nationwide-strike-trade-union-farmer-employees-live-updates-february-12/article70622572.ece

Other sources from India discount the claim and report much smaller numbers in different locations.

Also, a nationwide strike doesn't seem to be super unusual in India. If you search for the relevant local term "Bharat Bandh" plus any year, a number of news articles will come up

Bharat Bandh LIVE: Central trade unions observe nationwide strike against Centre’s ‘anti-worker’ policies

Bharat Bandh LIVE updates: Follow The Hindu's live blog on Bharat Bandh as trade unions go on strike in different parts of the country against several policies of the central government on February 12.

The Hindu
Show threadAlex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UKFeb 21

@coatilex @ramsey @blogdiva

the article mentions 30 crore (300 million) workers were contacted by their trade unions about the strike - the adult population of India is about 1 billion (or 100 crore).

Is likely a smaller portion of them actually took part in the strike(s) and the impact was relatively minor (due to the sheer size of the population), but strikes and protests definitely did happen..

Show thread🕯️Curious Magpie 🕯️Feb 21
@ramsey 300 million is correct, and as you can see from many replies you were incorrect. Have you apologized to @blogdiva yet?
Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Feb 21
@CuriousMagpie @ramsey please, don't do this. there’s no need for drama.
Show thread🕯️Curious Magpie 🕯️Feb 21
@blogdiva sorry - high pain day makes me touchy about others being belittled. @ramsey
Show threadBen RamseyFeb 21
@CuriousMagpie @blogdiva I don’t think I said anything belittling, but if that’s how it came across, I apologize. It was not my intent.
Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Feb 21

just for the record:

next time, back up your comments with as many sources as i give. don’t sit their and tear down not only the work of women and PoC on here, but the activism of a whole fucking country of people that don't look like you.

compared to Indians, Puerto Ricans, and Argentinians, white americans look like entitled cowards. so as a representative of your people, don't go questioning the activism of the Global South when you got nothing to show.

@ramsey @CuriousMagpie

Show threadBen RamseyFeb 21
@blogdiva @CuriousMagpie I’m very sorry for the way this came across. It was not my intent to rebut your post, and I wasn’t saying or implying that you were wrong in any way. I wasn’t trying to debate you.
Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Feb 21
@ramsey @CuriousMagpie thank you.
Show threadAnne OminousFeb 27

@blogdiva

AP has a brief article on this if people wanted more info --

#India #strike #news

https://apnews.com/article/india-modi-protest-trade-deal-us-farmers-90746ddd26679ba11a180aa36a4612c5

India unions and farmers stage strike over US trade deal

A broad coalition of unions and farmers in India has held a one-day national strike against an interim trade deal with the United States. The strike Thursday disrupted some public services and factory work. Protest leaders say the pact harms small farmers, workers and local businesses. Opposition lawmakers in parliament demanded the deal be scrapped. Union leaders say the deal opens India to subsidized American farm products. They also condemn privatization and new labor codes. The government defends the pact and says it protects farmers. U.S. and Indian officials say the framework lowers tariffs and deepens ties.

AP News