American Spring

A strike may be viable, though will be resisted by strike-breakers and scabs. Consensus should be gained through negotiation so as to limit problems stemming from impulsive decisions. Strikes however may be difficult to sustain until a favorable regieme change, so ideally should have a more specific goal and should be done in a way that garners sympathy from undecided citizens. Protest marches should also be organized.

If a union is not available, try to create one, or move to an environment where one exists. Reduce or eliminate business with those who strike-break, insofar as this is possible. This may be complicated by governments that provide both good and bad services: a reduction of tax revenue from your reduction of income will likely cause the good services to be defunded should the powers that be aim for war.

In that spring of victory, the soldiers of the Western Allies met the soldiers of Russia in the center of Europe. They were triumphant comrades in arms. Their peoples shared the joyous prospect of building, in honor of their dead, the only fitting monument -- an age of just peace. All these war-weary peoples shared too this concrete, decent purpose: to guard vigilantly against the domination ever again of any part of the world by a single, unbridled aggressive power.

— "Address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors". Dwight D. Eisenhower. 1953.

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When governance has strayed, for there may be some doubt that we have the "golden era of freedom and peace" that President Eisenhower had hoped for, other groups may be of service: co-ops, church groups who build affordable housing (but not those bent towards power, Mammon, Rapture), and so on. The local government may still be good, even as the head rots. In this governments and countries act more like plants than animals: the tree can still be fine even when the crown is broken.

Aaron Copland. "Appalachian Spring" with Alan Gilbert. NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra. Hamburg.