WinLink and VARA are pretty cool, really gives you an appreciation for how little bandwidth is really available in HF bands.

A general strike would be the end game. To get there you have to do community organizing, set up mutual aid groups, unionize workforces, engage in union solidarity, etc etc. When you lay all that groundwork then you can start thinking about a general strike. Expecting normal, everyday people with kids, mortgages, sick family members, and no class consciousness to rise up spontaneously, risking their jobs and livelihood, is unrealistic to say the least. They need ways to feed their families, care for their children, and maintain their communities without the help of corporate/oligarchic systems, all set up in advance. And then you need to understand that a strike with a schedule is a lost cause as well; you have to be able to strike indefinitely for those in power to get the message. Otherwise they will just wait it out.

If you pay them they’ll publish anything. Half the stuff on Spectrum is sponsored content or barely disguised ads now