The strike remains one of the most powerful weapons that ordinary people have, and one feminist organization has decided to try and build on recent women's strikes in multiple countries to take a similar action in the U.S. I spoke with Erin Mahoney of National Women's Liberation:

We have got nearly 5,000 signatures so far and they are coming in by the hundreds every day, of women signing up to say that they will be striking from doing emotional labor in their household. They will be striking from their paying jobs. They will be striking from fake smiles, from making things run smoothly, from laundry to childcare—a whole host of different things that they are striking from. It is really moving to see the reasons why people are striking and also the breadth of work that they are striking from.

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