I want to write a lengthy post on a topic because I haven't seen anyone raise this point on a massive scale.
WEEKDAYS ARE CLASSIST and we should not do them for national days. If States want to host events on weekdays, let them.
I know that historical dates are sexy and symbolic, but the fact of the matter is that the working and lower middle class don't often have the luxury of attending weekday protests. I believe the 50501 movement has a massive image problem of appearing too much as "2016 era Resistance Liberals" and while I've spoken to many state organizers I know this is not the case, weekday protests do not help this image problem. In particular doing a Mayday protest on a weekday is something that in my opinion plays very well to educated upper middle class people, but to working class people they think "it will cost me 140 dollars in lost wages to attend this protest".
The above image problem is not something that hosting weekday protests will fix immediately. It won't instantly cause the working class and lower middle class to flock to us in droves. But not addressing this will only worsen this problem and set this perception in stone if it is not addressed.
I want to write a lengthy post on a topic because I haven't seen anyone raise this point on a massive scale.
WEEKDAYS ARE CLASSIST and we should not do them for national days. If States want to host events on weekdays, let them.
I know that historical dates are sexy and symbolic, but the fact of the matter is that the working and lower middle class don't often have the luxury of attending weekday protests. I believe the 50501 movement has a massive image problem of appearing too much as "2016 era Resistance Liberals" and while I've spoken to many state organizers I know this is not the case, weekday protests do not help this image problem. In particular doing a Mayday protest on a weekday is something that in my opinion plays very well to educated upper middle class people, but to working class people they think "it will cost me 140 dollars in lost wages to attend this protest".
The above image problem is not something that hosting weekday protests will fix immediately. It won't instantly cause the working class and lower middle class to flock to us in droves. But not addressing this will only worsen this problem and set this perception in stone if it is not addressed.