Protesting with a sign and snarky message doesn’t do much. Everyone agreeing to do one simple (non violent) thing would work much better. It has to be just one thing though. The “don’t buy anything” day is ineffective and confusing.
“No kings” day should be more like “No Kings & uninstall Twitter/X” day. At rallies, people could give advice on how to delete their accounts on that platform.
Then at the next rally, it’s cancel Amazon Prime.
Snarky signs still welcome of course.
That is precisely what union strike funds are for, which is what union dues go toward building up so there’s a war chest of money so union members can afford to strike, which is what gives them their power
It’s why unionizing your workplace is so important for workers to have any kind of leverage against capital and the state, as without them workers are beholden to whatever their bosses demand, since they are financially trapped without the workers banding together.