Ladies who don’t like the president, and who can afford to skip a day of work—”paid or unpaid labor,” according to the organizers of January 21st’s Women’s March—aren’t showing up on Wednesday. It’s in alignment with a global labor strike, but the domestic “Day Without A Woman” is more closely a spin-off from the teeming post-Inaugural Women’s Marches spliced together with last month’s “A Day Without Immigrants,” when restaurant workers lost wages in protest of the newly seated president.
Marches and rallies will crop up, but skipping work is the big ticket item. Strategically, asking people to skip work in solidarity is probably a strong choice for the Resistance movement’s momentum-maintenance. Not showing up is easier than making yet another picket sign and joining the throng. Nobody’s ever been too bored with protesting to not show up someplace.
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