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General Strike US — Florida Chapter
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General Strike US (GSUS) is a decentralized strike network focused on community building and uniting 3.5% of the US population to act!

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Poster-style image with large bold text reading, “IF YOU’RE UNEMPLOYED IT’S NOT BECAUSE THERE ISN’T ANY WORK.” Beneath, smaller paragraphs explain that unmet needs like housing, education, and public health all require labor; the issue isn’t lack of work but an economy that ties employment to profit rather than social good. The final line reads “Storm is Coming.”
November 2, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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A grocery produce section displays colorful baskets of vegetables, including red and yellow bell peppers, lettuce, eggplant, okra, and green beans. In front of the photo, there’s a tweet overlay from user “brendannorth” that reads: “Repeat after me: Food is not a fucking weapon and any regime that weaponizes food is fascist.”
November 2, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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🥀Randall Gamboa died after being detained by ICE…

He was healthy, video-calling his family daily from detention. Then, communication was abruptly cut. Weeks later, ICE returned him to Costa Rica in a vegetative state. He never recovered. May he rest in power.

www.gofundme.com/f/help-randa...
screenshot of Reddit post): A Reddit post from the r/ICE_Raids subreddit describes the death of Randall Gamboa, a Costa Rican man who died after being detained by ICE. The post outlines how Randall was in daily contact with his family until all communication stopped suddenly in June 2025. His family was denied contact by ICE for six weeks before he was returned to Costa Rica in a vegetative state. He later died. The post ends with a GoFundMe link to help his family investigate the circumstances. Randall Gamboa stands strong and smiling on a mountaintop holding the Costa Rican flag, wearing a gray T-shirt and jeans. The background is foggy and surrounded by greenery. Text below reads: “Randall months before.” Before/After split image): Left side: Randall smiles with a woman (presumably his partner), both looking happy and healthy. Right side: Randall lies in a hospital bed in a frail, emaciated condition, hooked to oxygen with a blank stare. Caption underneath reads: “Before/After.”
October 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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🚨 🚨 🚨

Peter Giunta — Chair, New York State Young Republicans; formerly Chief of Staff for a New York Assemblymember 
• Bobby Walker — Former Vice Chair, New York State Young Republicans 
• Samuel (Sam) Douglass — Vermont State Senator 
Screenshot of a Facebook post by Martin Sostre Solidarity House sharing a post by Rachel Hurley. The post criticizes JD Vance’s response to the Young Republicans Telegram scandal, arguing it wasn’t college “banter” but involved adults in political power. It names Peter Giunta as the ringleader, who joked about Hitler and gas chambers, held multiple leadership positions in NY Republican politics, and was recognized as a rising star in 2019. Continuation of the post describing how these were not young college kids but established political figures. Messages included slurs, references to Hitler, praise of slavery, and threats of violence. Giunta made racist and antisemitic remarks and threatened violence against rivals at conventions. The post discusses how JD Vance deflected criticism by comparing the scandal to texts by Jay Jones, a Democrat, calling the comparison false. It explains how multiple state chapters (NY, KS, AZ, VT) were involved, and Vance’s associates supported the accused. Despite fallout and resignations, Vance didn’t condemn the scandal. Final panel contains commentary and a stylized cartoon. Hurley concludes this wasn’t a harmless college chat but a preview of future Republican leadership embracing extremist rhetoric. The cartoon depicts two panels: the first showing a child in an “ordinary group chat,” and the second showing an adult in a suit at a desk in a hate-filled online space with monitors reading “BAN THEM ALL,” “WHITE POWER,” and “HATE.” The adult has a briefcase, symbolizing political ambition.
October 15, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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A tweet by the Hampton Institute account reads: “Capitalists believe people exist to serve the market. If a person cannot serve the market in a profitable way, their life has no value. Socialists believe the market exists to serve people. If a market cannot serve the people in an equitable way, it has no value.” The tweet is timestamped 3:41 PM, 14 Jul 2019.
October 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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We see the pattern right?

Schools mirroring neglected, lice-infested carceral institutions while incentives are given to students in exchange for ignoring their health needs. Because attendance is a KPI warranting public funds…meanwhile parents working varying collar-colors of wage-slavery…
Screenshot from Reddit’s r/Teachers thread. Two users discuss schools requiring kids to return a day after testing positive for COVID. One user explains how incentives pressure sick kids to attend, while the other shares they had to take unpaid leave because their entire family lacks sick time.
October 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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When a life is on the line, capitalism still asks for your subscription 💳

For the monopolists, it’s profit over people every time.
A Twitter exchange between a user named Palm and Team YouTube. Palm jokes, “maybe don’t put ads before first aid vids? I don’t have time to watch a Red Lobster ad when my grandma is choking on a fish bone.” Team YouTube replies with a tone-deaf promotion of YouTube Premium for an ad-free experience.
October 14, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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Screenshot of a tweet by Brian Allen (@allenanalysis) that reads: “Chaos erupted at a DeSantis event when a protester screamed: ‘Is that your fcking legacy? You bow down to a fcking pedophile! You’re a f*cking pedophile!’ The Epstein fallout isn’t fading. It’s detonating and DeSantis just got dragged into the blast radius.” Below the tweet is an image of Ron DeSantis at a podium in front of American and Florida state flags.
October 13, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Honor the first stewards of the Earth across continents, cultures, and generations. Their resistance is survival. Their wisdom is the future. 🌱
Illustration of an Indigenous woman with long dark hair and a feather in her hairpiece, standing in profile with eyes closed in peaceful reflection. The warm-toned background features rolling hills, a stylized orange sun, and soft clouds. Overlaid text reads: “October 13, 2025 Happy Indigenous Peoples Day — Kanipawit Maskwa” Artwork is credited to © StandingBearNetwork.
October 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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The facts speak for themselves. Florida’s public schools are being gutted, educators underpaid, truth-telling punished, unions attacked.

You don’t need to “tough it out” or “suck it up” to be a teacher. You need LEVERAGE.

Organize!! 📢🗣️🪧

portal.floridaea.org/fasttrack/217
Slide titled “Florida’s Educational Landscape” with bullet points and key facts highlighted in yellow. The slide states that Florida spends nearly 30% less on public education today than before the Great Recession, ranks last in average teacher pay, and 48th in education funding effort. It also notes that average teacher salaries have decreased by 11% over the last decade (adjusted for inflation), and that many classrooms lack staff. The slide criticizes state policies that divert funds from public to private schools and highlights ongoing attacks on educators.
October 11, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Word. Tell your local scab, centrist, or neolib shill. 😅
Black and white photograph of political theorist Hannah Arendt, shown in profile, looking pensively to the side. Above her is a quote: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exist.” — Hannah Arendt.
October 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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A tweet from Hampton Institute (@HamptonThink) reads: “It’s important to understand the US has never had a left-wing party. Liberalism is a center-right ideology. Liberals deradicalized unions, interned citizens, squashed liberation movements, escalated wars & championed mass incarceration, all in the name of capitalism/imperialism.” The image includes a circular graphic of a raised fist labeled “Bury Capitalism.”
October 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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If you witness an ICE encounter, protect your community! SALUTE helps you document safely. This is how we keep each other safe in a carceral state built on silence.
📢 🗣️🚨 🚫🧊
An illustrated infographic shows a melting bag of ice labeled “See ICE?” with instructions to “Call + Report and Blow a Whistle.” It explains whistle codes: a short burst means ICE is nearby, a long continuous one means ICE is detaining someone. To the right, an acronym “SALUTE” is broken down to guide reporting: Size/Strength, Actions/Activity, Location, Uniform, Time/Date, Equipment. The bottom of the image says, “Form a Crowd! Stay Loud!” The artist’s name, Alyse Ruriani, appears at the bottom.
October 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Reading US foreign relations textbooks be like “Page 40 out of 600, and the US has already proposed and violated 5 treaties!” 🤡🦅🇺🇸
A tweet from @enchantinglyah reads: “reminder that the ‘migrant crisis’ in america is due to U.S. interventionism in other countries’ resources/politics that destroyed their economies and left these people with nothing but a false american dream to seek from the very perpetrators that enacted their economic collapse.”
October 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Funny how capitalism only “works” when socialism foots the bill. The bourgeois state props up its own contradictions with IMF lifelines and military might. 🇺🇸 🌎 💸 ❌
A sarcastic post by Robert R. Raymond reads: “socialism doesn’t work, that’s why we had to sanction venezuela’s economy. but libertarian capitalism works just fine, that’s why we had to bail out argentina 👍”
October 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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A screenshot combining two social media posts. The top post, from ML Corvidelle, quotes a comrade stating that U.S. fascism is not new, referencing figures like Fred Hampton, Malcolm X, and Kwame Ture, who warned in the 1960s that fascists such as Hitler and Mussolini modeled their regimes after U.S. policy. The bottom post, by @ChaosIsCrying, emphatically declares: “This is not stage whatever of fascism. The USA is the mother of fascists. I need everyone to come to terms with that.”
October 5, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Quick google searches have a lot of mainstream coverage that is helpful for setting the progression of the strikes/actions organized and enacted by USB and others thus far. Here is some anecdotal/subjective info (more like it abound) from international travelers. Will let you know if we contact…
A screenshot from Reddit shows a video of a large pro-Palestinian rally taking place indoors, with people waving Palestinian flags and banners. The caption in the video reads “@europe.palestine.network.” Below the video are Reddit comments tracking European solidarity actions. The top comment by u/anAlgerianAbroad reports that rallies are spreading across Europe in support of the Gaza flotilla, specifically listing Greece, Berlin, Rome, Brussels, Barcelona, Istanbul, and France. A reply by u/Brilliant-Tip9445 adds Milan, and lists other Italian cities joining the rallies: Naples, Genoa, Turin, Florence, Pisa, Livorno, Pistoia, Siena, and La Spezia. The commenter also notes that a general strike has been called for Friday the 3rd.
October 2, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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A tweet from Nina Turner reads: “Reminder: if every McDonald’s cook decided to not show up to work tomorrow, they wouldn’t sell a thing. If their CEO decides to take tomorrow off, their bottom line won’t be impacted at all.” White text on a black background reads: “Imagine telling multiple entire generations that they have to work full-time in order to never own a home, never own a car, never take a single paid vacation, no health insurance, zero sick days, no benefits, no OT, no paid lunch breaks, no groceries, no savings, no retirement, no children, no future, and then complaining that they don’t wanna work.”
September 30, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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Florida wants to spend $83M of conservation funds to reward a DeSantis donor $20M/acre for a 4-acre Destin parcel. Conservation funds are for nature, not backroom deals where private interests engulf public and protected land! Tell them to vote NO

📞 DeSantis: 850-717-9337
📞 Ingoglia: 850-413-2850
Aerial view of the Florida coastline near Destin, with emerald-green waters and a thin strip of sandy land. Overlaid white text reads: “Tell DeSantis and the Florida Cabinet: Stop the $83 million Destin land giveaway!” Sierra Club logo appears in the bottom right.
September 30, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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A red fabric patch with small white flowers features an embroidered quote by Clarissa Pinkola Estés. The text, stitched in black on white strips, reads: “Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.” In the lower left corner is a circular logo reading “Lei Pua Ala: Queer Histories of Hawaii.”
September 29, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Italy’s general strike didn’t ask nicely—it DEMANDED action. Profits froze, pressure mounted, and now a warship is backing Gaza aid.

Power concedes nothing without disruption. STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE USA! 🗣️✊🏼🪧
A tweet by Boots Riley states that despite Italy’s right-wing prime minister, the country is responding to a general strike that effectively disrupted profits. Riley emphasizes that strikes are powerful tools to force policy changes, referencing a follow-up tweet from Ashok Kumar noting Italy’s navy is now escorting a Gaza aid flotilla as a direct result of the strike.
September 26, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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A social media post by Francesca Albanese (@FranceskAlbs) reads: “🚨BREAKING 🇮🇹 | In Italy, the general strike has shut down train lines, ports, highways, schools & shops. With a genocide ongoing, there can be NO business as usual. 🙏 Stay peaceful, everyone. Do not react to any provocation. Freedom for all allows no mistakes.” Timestamp: 5:20 AM · 9/22/25 · 430K Views.
September 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Institutional Racism IS alive and well here in the Sunshine State. The FL capital city is selling land holding a burial site to private buyers at a fraction of its value after breaking promises to commemorate the site. Black legacy is being erased and public lands are being gifted to private parties
A Facebook post of Tallahassee Commissioner David O’Keefe’s statement opposing the sale of a historically significant public golf course to a private club. O’Keefe explains that the land was originally leased in 1956 to circumvent desegregation policies and that the 7th hole is believed to sit atop the unmarked graves of enslaved people. The collage of articles below the post includes headlines and excerpts confirming this history, including the use of $1-per-year leases, references to plantation origins, and multiple news pieces calling attention to slave burial grounds at the site.
September 19, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Corporate landlords hike rent while we pawn off our belongings and skip meals.

We won’t starve in silence. We won’t sell our lives to make theirs richer. Housing is a HUMAN RIGHT, not a luxury. 🏠✊🏼
A tweet from @unusual_whales stating that Gen Z renters are skipping meals, avoiding doctor visits, selling belongings, and delaying medical care just to afford rent. Cites a Redfin report, with percentages for each hardship (22% skipping meals/selling belongings, 19% delaying care).
September 16, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Enter the 4 horsemen of excuse-making for a system that was never built for our safety. Gen Z isn’t buying in to copaganda, and neither should anyone who’s been hungry, raided, profiled, or left to fend for themselves in danger.

We do NOT accept state violence just because it comes in blue. 🚫🚔
A graphic listing and describing four types of police apologists: (1) The Family Member, Relative, Friend Bias; (2) Normalcy Bias & the Authority Worshipper; (3) Can’t Beat ’Em, Join ’Em Mentality; and (4) Do Nothing Wrong, Nothing to Worry About Type. Each section critiques these mindsets as dismissive of systemic violence, uncritical of law enforcement’s institutional role, and complicit in upholding unjust power structures.
September 16, 2025 at 5:52 PM